I think the big problem is that it cannot run x86 software very quickly.
Yeah, that is why semi trailers don't get respect like Dodge Neons. They use diesel fuel instead of unleaded!
My point is that if your buying a 64bit system that is fast in order to run your old 32bit programs slowly. Wrong tool for the job.
I've got 65 Itanium processors downstairs. They are fast and reliable for high memory bandwidth floating point calculations, which is what we use them for. They may be a disappointment with running IE or Outlook, but for crunching numbers they are great. I have yet to of tried an Opteron but will in the next couple of weeks. From what I understand those too have become great at high memory bandwidth number crunching, but I'll wait for the numbers vs marketing speak. Now, Itaniums do suck in the power consumption and heat dissipation department.
Itaniums get such a bad rep here on Slashdot because its cool to do so. Itaniums are made by the "big guy", Intel. If they were made by AMD they would not get the same rap as they do.
The other big thing against the Itaniums is market need. A generic x86 that you can throw in the trash and replace for about $1k if there are any problems are sufficient for 99% of the servers out there. If not even preferred. Now, what other market would want a fast 64bit architecture with high memory bandwidth -- databases. Sun and Oracle fill this void. Well except for the fast and high memory bandwidth part, but Oracle+Sun is a proven combination with years of experience. Solaris does not run on Itaniums. Linux does (flawlessly), but even Oracle+Linux is not that widely adopted. I have no clue about Windows state on an Itanium. I see no real use to run Windows on an Itanium, but someone else might, but I doubt its very common.
Although Intel has some more to go with the low-voltage Itaniums because they are capped at 1.3GHz, but they are working on that. Also, Intel has dropped the price of these guys considerably. This too was an issue with Itaniums, but they have dropped by about 1/2 the price over the years.
IMHO, Intel should continue on the power management issues and price and market these chips more for number crunching. Their performance on the top500 site is impressive, but even if all of the top 500 computers used 4,000 Itanium processors each, that would only be 2,000,000 processors total, and a super computer that size is not purchased very frequently.
Ability to provide processors in time at the volume needed.
Ability to provide processors with a clear and reliable performance roadmap.
Personally, I believe the biggest drawback is the bullet:
Running Windows apps in Mac OSX becomes much more feasible since they can now do virtualization instead of emulation. Dual booting between Mac OSX and Windows will now be a possibility as well.
If anything, 3rd party software vendors saying, screw a native OS X port, just let them run it though an emulator, could kill OS X. If OS X simply becomes a shell to run windows apps, none of the benefits of having a Mac or OS X will be available to the user. If the user exits OS X, and boots into Windows, well that is why Walmart sells cheap PCs with network cards.
No, I would say it makes the case for Intel stronger.
Intel won the Apple contract on merit simply because they were able to provide the performance they wanted _in the quantities_ that Apple needs. AMD simply does not have the fabrication capabilities to have such an exclusive contract.
Doesn't the choice to change processor basically give Apple and their users more options? If Apple release hardware that can run not only their own much loved OSX operating system, but also Windows, Linux and *BSD that it removes one of the major arguments about getting an Apple.
Only to a slashdotter does it make sense to buy a nice Apple computer so that it can run non-Mac programs and other operating systems like you can on a cheap PC.
To other people, Apples are nice because they have a mature robust operating system thats integrated with top of the line hardware and applications to match.
Case in point, recently I hooked my powerbook up to my iMac with a single ethernet cable (not a crossover cable, no switch or whatever) and transfered 50 Gigs of data in about 1/2 an hour over a gigabit connection that took me less than a minute to set up. Its hard to believe that in 2005 that only Apple has thought of making something so useful and trivial both possible and easy to do. To my knowledge, this is not even possible on any other equipment without 1st having a gigabit switch lying around, or take an order of magnitude hit in performance with a 100mbit switch, and 2 ethernet cables, and then trying to coerce the OS to share over the newly established link (probably accompanied by a few reboots if using Windows).
So do I wish I had BSD, Linux or Windows on any of my Macs? Nope.
If I were a customer and found out you "tricked" me, as it were, you'd lose a customer.
I would guess that most users, especially the clueless ones, would prefer to be tricked into using a different browser than tricked by using IE and getting loaded with adware, spyware, and viruses.
In other words, you do what the hell you like, and if it happens to be legal, well, that's just lovely.
Don't dress selfishness up as something grander than it really is.
Hey, lets bring back the good laws like slavery, prohibition, and company.
Laws are made by falable people, therefore laws are falable as well. Its not any more selfish to use common sense than not.
I too follow whichever laws I feel like, and ignore the others. When governments disgrace their own integrity by passing and trying to enforce rediculous laws, then how can they then be upset when people don't follow the laws or respect their authority?
Someone stole my bike, the police didn't even care. Are you telling me that music is more important than my transportation which cost me several hundred dollars?
And how much money do you kick back to the government and police for the priveledge of owning a bike?
Um, sorry to bother you with facts, but Condi is bad because she was really bad at her job as National Security Advisor.
Example 1: 9/11, and intelligence agencies not playing well together. That's her job. Example 2: Ignoring Richard Clarke. Example 3: No WMDs in Iraq. Example 4: Allowing DoD to ignore State's reconstruction plans, completely screwing up the postwar.
Um, do you think that she was appointed by accident?
I believe that all 4 of those examples are why she is _good_ at her job (according to Bush, et al).
How much controversy or stir could a black woman in the US cause at that level? I'm not saying that to be racist or sexist, but I'm saying that a white male would feel a little bit more comfortable going against the status quo than she is.
After those 14 years, anyone could freely create the drug. So initially, prices would be high, but after 14 years they would probably hit rock bottom when other companies can undercut the price and get in on the action.
Your obviously not an American. Here, we buy our drugs from Canada and other places because the price is lower, and even then they are not "rock bottom".
As for your question, I think the country-code TLDs are important (i.e..ca,.fr,.de) and can make a lot of sense, especially for non-English sites. Actually, even corporate-owned sites can benefit from the different TLDs to put the proper locale spin on their sites.
Yes. I'm a firm believer in country TLDs because they mean something. I wish they were universally used, even in the United States. Its frustrating searching for something and getting English pound prices from a company in england. Its more frustrating when they have a.com TLD.
There's no doubt that.com is a desirable domain. But there's also the fact that it's hard to find a good, short.com domain (witness mine!) these days.
So, that is why you opted for the short non.com domain eh?
Having the same name on different TLDs does nothing for clarity or understanding for people at all. In fact, its very common for people to buy all of the common TLDs that goes with their.com.
A more comprehensive and coherent discussion of these new TLDs can be found here.
This guy appears to be one of a few that agrees with me about the uselessness of these TLDs.
I've been saying for quite some time now that TLDs besides.com are useless. If you don't have a.com, you have for the rest of your life explaining to people what your email or web address is for the rest of the time that you own the domain. Or at least until you do like slashdot did early on and buy the corresponding.com and redirect it or do something useful with it.
Besides classic examples like whitehouse.com vs whitehouse.gov, can anyone give me an example of where there is a meaningful difference between a domain name with different TLDs (aside from cybersquating, which is basically what the whitehouse was)?
Actually, domain names are pretty irrelevant in general. The only thing that matters to me is the first 2 or so characters before the whole domain pops up in my browser, and if I havn't been there before, I use google. Google seems to be able to figure out the.com or whatever clever extension that they use better than I can make an assumption.
In other words, this ruling doesn't say "Grokster is responsible for the infringing acts of their customers". It says "If a company promotes a product for infringing use, the Betamax decision doesn't give them a free pass". It's up to the lower court to determine if Grokster actually crossed the line.
Yes, exactly. Very informative.
Also, this does not make or test or change any new laws. So, what this ruling actually means is nothing. Nothing is different than it was before this ruling except that Grokster and MGM must go back to court again. Anybody can sue anybody:) And the blur from legal to illegal does not seem anymore clear than it was before this case.
What MGM is suing here is for liability not legality. If a jury says that Grokster is liable to MGM for $10, then they have to pay the $10, and its over. This does not mean that Grokster has to do a single thing more, nor does it mean that they have to close their doors (unless $10 hurts them that bad). Now, I'm not sure how the law reads for an individual suing another again for an already awarded settlement from before. I would guess (and hope) that it is OK to keep suing.
For all telco law experts out there, what would it take for the telcos to refute their "common carrier" status?
Where I live they do it through being very slow and unresponsive for opening up ports to other carriers (or any other cooperation that is necessary to comply with the law). Most people like me will refuse to go too many months without phone service, and then just go back to the monopolistic one.
Been there, done that.
Why is it a worldwide conspiracy against people having a decently affordable means of communicating with people (aside internet, shouting, ham radio, etc)?
By my estimates, every American pays something like $50 to $80 or more a month for the privilege to use the phone ("long" distance gets even more interesting). I pay $40 a month for complete worldwide access to the internet that can even do telephone via VOIP. I currently pay something like $17 a month just on fees and taxes to have a dialtone to my house. I would have to pay another fee just for the privilege to dial more than 30 or 40 miles from my house, even if I don't use it.
Oh. Its those people that consider their phone conversations and giggles with their friends more important than paying attention to what they are doing while driving. Gotcha.
Well, we are making progress. I can buy a phone instead of leasing one every month. Now that was a slick scam.
In the case of fraud, the person whose SSN has been copied still has his SSN, they have not lost anything.
Tell that to those that lost all means of credit, and lost time, money, and if your even enough of a victim according to the SSN people, they will give you a new SSN.
Walks like a slug, talks like a slug, odds are its theft.
I've never done too much research into defrauding the system, but I have been unemployed once.
I had to have some notification from my employer (that paid my unemployment insurance) that I was laid off and not fired nor that I quit. I also had to phone in like 3 places that I submitted applications. I also was at the very tip top of the unemployment pay scale (about $200 a week), and I only had unemployment for something like 16 weeks.
For someone to come up with that much documentation and whatever to make odds are less than my maximum of $200 a week is not worth anybody's time.
I am all for increasing space exploration, and by all means the more people (or countries) at the party the better, but has there been any coverage of how they plan to pay for this effort?
They had serious problems meeting their obligations for the ISS, they operated MIR on a shoestring, the economy is improving but do they have the cash for it?
I hope they do. I hope the US shakes more money loose from the trees for our own programs as well.
All you have to do is convince the people that terrorists are no longer a problem, its the comm^H^H^H^HRussians and we can't have the Russians beat us at something right?
Worked the other way around in the 60's. But then again, we didn't have terrorists then. And besides, the American people would never fall for the same trick twice.
'We don't necessarily have issues with open source, we just have an issue with open-source technology that competes with and beats us in the marketplace.'
Open source software is not in the marketplace for making money off of lawsuits and stock scams (at least not universally).
so you don't have to login twice, which would make some people suspicious
Nah, just forward the assumed correct information to yourself and forward known incorrect info to the real server. That way the (l)user just assumed they did a typo on their password, and will have no problem reinputting the information.
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I think the big problem is that it cannot run x86 software very quickly.
Yeah, that is why semi trailers don't get respect like Dodge Neons. They use diesel fuel instead of unleaded!
My point is that if your buying a 64bit system that is fast in order to run your old 32bit programs slowly. Wrong tool for the job.
I've got 65 Itanium processors downstairs. They are fast and reliable for high memory bandwidth floating point calculations, which is what we use them for. They may be a disappointment with running IE or Outlook, but for crunching numbers they are great. I have yet to of tried an Opteron but will in the next couple of weeks. From what I understand those too have become great at high memory bandwidth number crunching, but I'll wait for the numbers vs marketing speak. Now, Itaniums do suck in the power consumption and heat dissipation department.
Itaniums get such a bad rep here on Slashdot because its cool to do so. Itaniums are made by the "big guy", Intel. If they were made by AMD they would not get the same rap as they do.
The other big thing against the Itaniums is market need. A generic x86 that you can throw in the trash and replace for about $1k if there are any problems are sufficient for 99% of the servers out there. If not even preferred. Now, what other market would want a fast 64bit architecture with high memory bandwidth -- databases. Sun and Oracle fill this void. Well except for the fast and high memory bandwidth part, but Oracle+Sun is a proven combination with years of experience. Solaris does not run on Itaniums. Linux does (flawlessly), but even Oracle+Linux is not that widely adopted. I have no clue about Windows state on an Itanium. I see no real use to run Windows on an Itanium, but someone else might, but I doubt its very common.
Although Intel has some more to go with the low-voltage Itaniums because they are capped at 1.3GHz, but they are working on that. Also, Intel has dropped the price of these guys considerably. This too was an issue with Itaniums, but they have dropped by about 1/2 the price over the years.
IMHO, Intel should continue on the power management issues and price and market these chips more for number crunching. Their performance on the top500 site is impressive, but even if all of the top 500 computers used 4,000 Itanium processors each, that would only be 2,000,000 processors total, and a super computer that size is not purchased very frequently.
Ability to provide processors in time at the volume needed.
Ability to provide processors with a clear and reliable performance roadmap.
Personally, I believe the biggest drawback is the bullet:
Running Windows apps in Mac OSX becomes much more feasible since they can now do virtualization instead of emulation. Dual booting between Mac OSX and Windows will now be a possibility as well.
If anything, 3rd party software vendors saying, screw a native OS X port, just let them run it though an emulator, could kill OS X. If OS X simply becomes a shell to run windows apps, none of the benefits of having a Mac or OS X will be available to the user. If the user exits OS X, and boots into Windows, well that is why Walmart sells cheap PCs with network cards.
No, I would say it makes the case for Intel stronger.
Intel won the Apple contract on merit simply because they were able to provide the performance they wanted _in the quantities_ that Apple needs. AMD simply does not have the fabrication capabilities to have such an exclusive contract.
Doesn't the choice to change processor basically give Apple and their users more options? If Apple release hardware that can run not only their own much loved OSX operating system, but also Windows, Linux and *BSD that it removes one of the major arguments about getting an Apple.
Only to a slashdotter does it make sense to buy a nice Apple computer so that it can run non-Mac programs and other operating systems like you can on a cheap PC.
To other people, Apples are nice because they have a mature robust operating system thats integrated with top of the line hardware and applications to match.
Case in point, recently I hooked my powerbook up to my iMac with a single ethernet cable (not a crossover cable, no switch or whatever) and transfered 50 Gigs of data in about 1/2 an hour over a gigabit connection that took me less than a minute to set up. Its hard to believe that in 2005 that only Apple has thought of making something so useful and trivial both possible and easy to do. To my knowledge, this is not even possible on any other equipment without 1st having a gigabit switch lying around, or take an order of magnitude hit in performance with a 100mbit switch, and 2 ethernet cables, and then trying to coerce the OS to share over the newly established link (probably accompanied by a few reboots if using Windows).
So do I wish I had BSD, Linux or Windows on any of my Macs? Nope.
If I were a customer and found out you "tricked" me, as it were, you'd lose a customer.
I would guess that most users, especially the clueless ones, would prefer to be tricked into using a different browser than tricked by using IE and getting loaded with adware, spyware, and viruses.
In other words, you do what the hell you like, and if it happens to be legal, well, that's just lovely.
Don't dress selfishness up as something grander than it really is.
Hey, lets bring back the good laws like slavery, prohibition, and company.
Laws are made by falable people, therefore laws are falable as well. Its not any more selfish to use common sense than not.
I too follow whichever laws I feel like, and ignore the others. When governments disgrace their own integrity by passing and trying to enforce rediculous laws, then how can they then be upset when people don't follow the laws or respect their authority?
Someone stole my bike, the police didn't even care. Are you telling me that music is more important than my transportation which cost me several hundred dollars?
And how much money do you kick back to the government and police for the priveledge of owning a bike?
Um, sorry to bother you with facts, but Condi is bad because she was really bad at her job as National Security Advisor.
Example 1: 9/11, and intelligence agencies not playing well together. That's her job. Example 2: Ignoring Richard Clarke. Example 3: No WMDs in Iraq. Example 4: Allowing DoD to ignore State's reconstruction plans, completely screwing up the postwar.
Um, do you think that she was appointed by accident?
I believe that all 4 of those examples are why she is _good_ at her job (according to Bush, et al).
How much controversy or stir could a black woman in the US cause at that level? I'm not saying that to be racist or sexist, but I'm saying that a white male would feel a little bit more comfortable going against the status quo than she is.
After those 14 years, anyone could freely create the drug. So initially, prices would be high, but after 14 years they would probably hit rock bottom when other companies can undercut the price and get in on the action.
Your obviously not an American. Here, we buy our drugs from Canada and other places because the price is lower, and even then they are not "rock bottom".
As for your question, I think the country-code TLDs are important (i.e. .ca, .fr, .de) and can make a lot of sense, especially for non-English sites. Actually, even corporate-owned sites can benefit from the different TLDs to put the proper locale spin on their sites.
.com TLD.
.com is a desirable domain. But there's also the fact that it's hard to find a good, short .com domain (witness mine!) these days.
.com domain eh?
.com.
Yes. I'm a firm believer in country TLDs because they mean something. I wish they were universally used, even in the United States. Its frustrating searching for something and getting English pound prices from a company in england. Its more frustrating when they have a
There's no doubt that
So, that is why you opted for the short non
Having the same name on different TLDs does nothing for clarity or understanding for people at all. In fact, its very common for people to buy all of the common TLDs that goes with their
A more comprehensive and coherent discussion of these new TLDs can be found here.
This guy appears to be one of a few that agrees with me about the uselessness of these TLDs.
I've been saying for quite some time now that TLDs besides
Besides classic examples like whitehouse.com vs whitehouse.gov, can anyone give me an example of where there is a meaningful difference between a domain name with different TLDs (aside from cybersquating, which is basically what the whitehouse was)?
Actually, domain names are pretty irrelevant in general. The only thing that matters to me is the first 2 or so characters before the whole domain pops up in my browser, and if I havn't been there before, I use google. Google seems to be able to figure out the
congressmen... pride... apathy towards real science and research... sad
Yeah, think of what we could have done with those Nazi scientists and engineers from the V2 program...
Hey, now if someone's sentenced to multiple death sentences, you can kill him, revive him, and kill him all over again.
...
Talk about extreme punishment
Its not too bad if you have enough resources for n+1 revives, where n is the number of death sentences.
The Russians did the same thing in 1940.
Yeah, but these guys now own the copyright and they can renew and resell this to people for ever. Its not who does it first, its who owns it now.
In other words, this ruling doesn't say "Grokster is responsible for the infringing acts of their customers". It says "If a company promotes a product for infringing use, the Betamax decision doesn't give them a free pass". It's up to the lower court to determine if Grokster actually crossed the line.
:) And the blur from legal to illegal does not seem anymore clear than it was before this case.
Yes, exactly. Very informative.
Also, this does not make or test or change any new laws. So, what this ruling actually means is nothing. Nothing is different than it was before this ruling except that Grokster and MGM must go back to court again. Anybody can sue anybody
What MGM is suing here is for liability not legality. If a jury says that Grokster is liable to MGM for $10, then they have to pay the $10, and its over. This does not mean that Grokster has to do a single thing more, nor does it mean that they have to close their doors (unless $10 hurts them that bad). Now, I'm not sure how the law reads for an individual suing another again for an already awarded settlement from before. I would guess (and hope) that it is OK to keep suing.
For all telco law experts out there, what would it take for the telcos to refute their "common carrier" status?
Where I live they do it through being very slow and unresponsive for opening up ports to other carriers (or any other cooperation that is necessary to comply with the law). Most people like me will refuse to go too many months without phone service, and then just go back to the monopolistic one.
Been there, done that.
Why is it a worldwide conspiracy against people having a decently affordable means of communicating with people (aside internet, shouting, ham radio, etc)?
By my estimates, every American pays something like $50 to $80 or more a month for the privilege to use the phone ("long" distance gets even more interesting). I pay $40 a month for complete worldwide access to the internet that can even do telephone via VOIP. I currently pay something like $17 a month just on fees and taxes to have a dialtone to my house. I would have to pay another fee just for the privilege to dial more than 30 or 40 miles from my house, even if I don't use it.
Oh. Its those people that consider their phone conversations and giggles with their friends more important than paying attention to what they are doing while driving. Gotcha.
Well, we are making progress. I can buy a phone instead of leasing one every month. Now that was a slick scam.
I wonder how long it will take for someone to put together a quick script to take the book list and put the same collection out of Gutenberg?
Much, much longer than paying $8k for the books.
Think about all the time in printing, binding and putting the books on the shelves after downloading all of the text.
Maybe Iranians have different values than us, and they want the good stuff that technology provides, but not the bad.
Dead people don't have values, and living people often change theirs.
Can anyone tell me how liberal became a derogatory term in the U.S. ?
There is a difference between the connotation and denotation of a word.
You supplied the denotation. Those do not change, and are fairly neutral emotionally.
Connotations are based upon the irrationality of the human emotional association of a word.
Neither are necessarily correct. However, connotations are earned, denotations just come about.
In the case of fraud, the person whose SSN has been copied still has his SSN, they have not lost anything.
Tell that to those that lost all means of credit, and lost time, money, and if your even enough of a victim according to the SSN people, they will give you a new SSN.
Walks like a slug, talks like a slug, odds are its theft.
I've never done too much research into defrauding the system, but I have been unemployed once.
I had to have some notification from my employer (that paid my unemployment insurance) that I was laid off and not fired nor that I quit. I also had to phone in like 3 places that I submitted applications. I also was at the very tip top of the unemployment pay scale (about $200 a week), and I only had unemployment for something like 16 weeks.
For someone to come up with that much documentation and whatever to make odds are less than my maximum of $200 a week is not worth anybody's time.
I am all for increasing space exploration, and by all means the more people (or countries) at the party the better, but has there been any coverage of how they plan to pay for this effort?
They had serious problems meeting their obligations for the ISS, they operated MIR on a shoestring, the economy is improving but do they have the cash for it?
I hope they do. I hope the US shakes more money loose from the trees for our own programs as well.
All you have to do is convince the people that terrorists are no longer a problem, its the comm^H^H^H^HRussians and we can't have the Russians beat us at something right?
Worked the other way around in the 60's. But then again, we didn't have terrorists then. And besides, the American people would never fall for the same trick twice.
'We don't necessarily have issues with open source, we just have an issue with open-source technology that competes with and beats us in the marketplace.'
Open source software is not in the marketplace for making money off of lawsuits and stock scams (at least not universally).
What did you "really" mean?
And without JS, you couldn't have neat stuff like this. (Login is test, test)
I didn't look at it too carefully, but that page crashed my browser (Safari).
I'm not sure what the real purpose of that page is, but buyer beware...
so you don't have to login twice, which would make some people suspicious
Nah, just forward the assumed correct information to yourself and forward known incorrect info to the real server. That way the (l)user just assumed they did a typo on their password, and will have no problem reinputting the information.