I really don't see where the need to overclock comes from anymore. Today's speeds are pretty darn fast and I'd assume that if you actually have a real need for more processing power, that you should be able to come up with the couple hundred bucks for another socket/proc.
Lately I've been undervolting to build silent systems. The latest AMD Brisbane processors at 2.1GHz can be undervolted to 1.05V and still pass my stress tests at speed, and stay below 40C with the 'silent' fan modes.
I very recently moved to Seoul and finally setup the internet yesterday. First thing I did was to test the speeds and here are the results.
Speed test in Korea: 94.7Mb down - 11.4Mb up Speed test to Japan: 11.4Mb down - 7.8Mb up Speed test to USA: 2.7Mb down - 0.9Mb up
My DSL in the US is working at ~630Kb up (have ATT which promises between 512Kb - 764Kb up). So even if I upgraded the service, my slingbox would barely perform better.....
A private company would kept them going to milk as much value out of the rovers as possible and to raise their chances of winning the bid for the next project.
Google has screwed itself with this then
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IANAL, but I do know a bit about how far NDA's can extend in the US. Here courts will only enforce them for around 1 year, maybe 2 if you were very senior level and the NDA was tailored to exclusive points regarding your job. Courts will also not enforce NDAs that cover too much information (let alone everything). The NDA has to be limited in the information considered to be protected.
In cases where companies made over extended NDAs, the courts generally view them as being too broad and unenforceable. A company can not limit an employee from competing against them for too long or limit the employee too much in what they can say/do in the limited restricted period.
The courts in the US when faced with similar NDAs, have simply stated they are too broad and as a result nothing is enforceable. These NDAs are useless and you are free to do what you want even if you signed one. Have fun.
Whaaa.... I love the iPhone! How dare you people point out flaws in it. Whaaa!!! Well you are all wrong, see I've created a list of illogical arguements that proves the iPhone is superior in every single way to everything else in the world. Whaaa!!!!
My favorite statement from the article was that the iPhone is not priced too high because other phones that have not been released yet are going to be priced higher. Does this guy work for segway marketing?
In addition to this main result, we were also surprised to find that piracy may end up increasing Microsoft's profits. To understand why, notice that there are two types of pirates: those who would not have bought Windows in the first place because it is too expensive, and those who would have bought Windows but now decide to pirate it. The first category increases Windows' installed base without affecting sales. As a consequence, this group increases the value of Windows. And thanks to these pirates, Microsoft is able to set higher prices in the future (because the value of the system goes up). In addition, having these pirates means that Linux's installed base does not grow as much as it would have if piracy weren't there. The second type of pirates (those who in the absence of piracy would have bought Windows) reduces Windows' sales and profit. Thus, if the proportion of first-type pirates is sufficiently large, Microsoft's profits will increase with piracy.
Cause then IBM is going to sue the whole management team for liable and billions of dollars of lost sales. This will see to it that no one tries this crap again.
Microsoft's research division now assumes the mantle of America's #1 industrial laboratory
Microsoft the #1 research lab? I think not.
IBM is far and beyond the #1 spender world wide on R&D and the purely scientific level. Last year they spent $5.8 billion on R&D. They have been granted more patents than any other company for 10 year running. And are granted more patents then the next 7 competitors.
I thought web browsers and web servers were suppose to take care of this without having a separate address.
For example, if a cell phones does an http GET from www.cnn.com, the cell phone sends a header stating that it is a mobile device, the server then adjusts to content to make it appropiate for the cell phone. Is this right?
Also, why the hell are they making a separate registry for this? It is just a different protocall and the internet was designed so different registries were not needed for different protocalls. Shouldn't it be:
mobi.cnn.com
Instead of www.cnn.mobi
That is what is done with other protocalls such as ftp, etc. Thats why you see 'ftp.yoursite.com' instead of 'www.yoursite.ftp'. Whats next a different registry for every device/protocall combination?
I have been curious to find out how the process is working and if there are plans to build more plants else where. Since they are near you, do of any news sources with information on how they have been doing and how much oil they're outputing.
The following national geographic article describes a company that started this type of thing years ago. They built a plant next to a turkey farm to convert byproducts to oil. My understand is it worked, but was not as efficient as they hoped.
What some people on slashdot should be interesting to know is Bush proposed some tax credits for this company in 2004 to help with R&D. It got shot down by the Democrates who literally made fun of Bush and called them "Turkey Credits".
From the limited pieces of info I've seen, the case seems to focus on pricing.
Basically Intel had capacity to supply over 90% of the market. They would price the first 80% of the chips high and then use "volume discounts" for the last 10% of chips sold, taking them from 80% to 90% market share. Normally this is legal.
However, the end result was that the "volume discounts" priced the chips between 80% and 90% market share at below the cost to produce them.
In order for AMD to get more than 10% market share, they had to compete with Intel on this 80% to 90% market share area. But since Intel priced these below cost to manufacture, AMD could not compete.
From what I've seen Intel could be in serious trouble if this holds up because AMD could claim damages on the revenues of 10% market share over 10 years.
that this article represent why people won't change. It assumes open office suits everyone's needs and is good enough, which just isn't true.
There is no object analysis of what is holding people back and what the driver would be for people to switch and assumes that everyone else is ignorant and lazy. I know linux and every year try open office and am always disappointed with it. It many ways it is inferior and I prefer to pay MS $100+ than only use open office for free.
They are just changing brand names. They are dropping the Pentium brand name because it is 10+ years old and switching to a brand name that highlights only how many cores each processor has. The underlying tech is the exact same.
Thought slashdot editors were nerds and would know this.
What they are doing here is encrypting each frame with a different key where the key is sent using quantum states so that any eaves dropping will be discovered. Their stated reason is that decrypting each frame is much more difficult than if the entire stream was encrypted with a single key.
Basically what they are saying is their system has several thousand keys instead of just one. But that does not make the underlying transmission any more secure. If it is possible to brute force one key, it is possible to brute force many keys.
All they are doing is making it less pratical to use a brute force attack. I'd classify this as being closer to a "security through obscurity" technique rather than a real advancement.
Now if they sent the entire data stream using quatum bits, that would be something different.
I just do full weekly images of my system. I've got two 160Gig Seagates. On one of them there's Win2K and Gentoo installs. About once a week I just boot up a linux floopy and dd either the whole 160G image or whatever partitions changed.
What I like about this is if I always have a week ago fall back if I mess something up. Or if the original drive fails I just swap the backup in less than 1 min.
And yes I also do select daily data backups (email, etc.)
Intel likes to say they are going to have dual-core processors for both the desktop and server segments in 2005, but this is very misleading. They are only planning dual-core Intaniums for 2005 and use this to say they have the server segment covered.
The reality is most of the server market is their Xeon line and the dual-core Xeons are currently planned for 2006 and maybe even later.
I really have not figured out why the LCD/Rear Projection TVs have taken off the way they have. The picture on the High Def regular old tubes is absolutely amazing. In fact they are so much better that in stores like Best Buy you'll never see the High Def Tubes near the LCD/DLP/Rear Projection TVs. The difference in picture quality is just too much.
The 36" Sony high def TV is some something like $1500 at Best Buy now. When it hits a grand I'll probably cave in....
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I really don't see where the need to overclock comes from anymore. Today's speeds are pretty darn fast and I'd assume that if you actually have a real need for more processing power, that you should be able to come up with the couple hundred bucks for another socket/proc.
Lately I've been undervolting to build silent systems. The latest AMD Brisbane processors at 2.1GHz can be undervolted to 1.05V and still pass my stress tests at speed, and stay below 40C with the 'silent' fan modes.
I very recently moved to Seoul and finally setup the internet yesterday. First thing I did was to test the speeds and here are the results.
Speed test in Korea: 94.7Mb down - 11.4Mb up
Speed test to Japan: 11.4Mb down - 7.8Mb up
Speed test to USA: 2.7Mb down - 0.9Mb up
My DSL in the US is working at ~630Kb up (have ATT which promises between 512Kb - 764Kb up). So even if I upgraded the service, my slingbox would barely perform better.....
Seriously, this got modded up? Really?
A private company would kept them going to milk as much value out of the rovers as possible and to raise their chances of winning the bid for the next project.
IANAL, but I do know a bit about how far NDA's can extend in the US. Here courts will only enforce them for around 1 year, maybe 2 if you were very senior level and the NDA was tailored to exclusive points regarding your job. Courts will also not enforce NDAs that cover too much information (let alone everything). The NDA has to be limited in the information considered to be protected.
In cases where companies made over extended NDAs, the courts generally view them as being too broad and unenforceable. A company can not limit an employee from competing against them for too long or limit the employee too much in what they can say/do in the limited restricted period.
The courts in the US when faced with similar NDAs, have simply stated they are too broad and as a result nothing is enforceable. These NDAs are useless and you are free to do what you want even if you signed one. Have fun.
Whaaa.... I love the iPhone! How dare you people point out flaws in it. Whaaa!!! Well you are all wrong, see I've created a list of illogical arguements that proves the iPhone is superior in every single way to everything else in the world. Whaaa!!!!
My favorite statement from the article was that the iPhone is not priced too high because other phones that have not been released yet are going to be priced higher. Does this guy work for segway marketing?
That outing gay repulicans is good because they are all evil.
Outing anyone else though is a hate crime and the democrates will see to it that you will go to jail if you do so.
Interesting paragraph from TFA
In addition to this main result, we were also surprised to find that piracy may end up increasing Microsoft's profits. To understand why, notice that there are two types of pirates: those who would not have bought Windows in the first place because it is too expensive, and those who would have bought Windows but now decide to pirate it. The first category increases Windows' installed base without affecting sales. As a consequence, this group increases the value of Windows. And thanks to these pirates, Microsoft is able to set higher prices in the future (because the value of the system goes up). In addition, having these pirates means that Linux's installed base does not grow as much as it would have if piracy weren't there. The second type of pirates (those who in the absence of piracy would have bought Windows) reduces Windows' sales and profit. Thus, if the proportion of first-type pirates is sufficiently large, Microsoft's profits will increase with piracy.
Cause then IBM is going to sue the whole management team for liable and billions of dollars of lost sales. This will see to it that no one tries this crap again.
The editors comment that there are no new 10 top US based computers is an odd comment. The US has 6 out of the top 10. Thats hardly doing poorly.
And hypocrites are the worst kind of evil
Microsoft's research division now assumes the mantle of America's #1 industrial laboratory
Microsoft the #1 research lab? I think not.
IBM is far and beyond the #1 spender world wide on R&D and the purely scientific level. Last year they spent $5.8 billion on R&D. They have been granted more patents than any other company for 10 year running. And are granted more patents then the next 7 competitors.
Thanks, but I'll check my spelling only after Slashdot editors do.
I thought web browsers and web servers were suppose to take care of this without having a separate address.
For example, if a cell phones does an http GET from www.cnn.com, the cell phone sends a header stating that it is a mobile device, the server then adjusts to content to make it appropiate for the cell phone. Is this right?
Also, why the hell are they making a separate registry for this? It is just a different protocall and the internet was designed so different registries were not needed for different protocalls. Shouldn't it be:
mobi.cnn.com
Instead of www.cnn.mobi
That is what is done with other protocalls such as ftp, etc. Thats why you see 'ftp.yoursite.com' instead of 'www.yoursite.ftp'. Whats next a different registry for every device/protocall combination?
I have been curious to find out how the process is working and if there are plans to build more plants else where. Since they are near you, do of any news sources with information on how they have been doing and how much oil they're outputing.
The following national geographic article describes a company that started this type of thing years ago. They built a plant next to a turkey farm to convert byproducts to oil. My understand is it worked, but was not as efficient as they hoped.
1 25_031125_turkeyoil.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1
What some people on slashdot should be interesting to know is Bush proposed some tax credits for this company in 2004 to help with R&D. It got shot down by the Democrates who literally made fun of Bush and called them "Turkey Credits".
From the limited pieces of info I've seen, the case seems to focus on pricing.
Basically Intel had capacity to supply over 90% of the market. They would price the first 80% of the chips high and then use "volume discounts" for the last 10% of chips sold, taking them from 80% to 90% market share. Normally this is legal.
However, the end result was that the "volume discounts" priced the chips between 80% and 90% market share at below the cost to produce them.
In order for AMD to get more than 10% market share, they had to compete with Intel on this 80% to 90% market share area. But since Intel priced these below cost to manufacture, AMD could not compete.
From what I've seen Intel could be in serious trouble if this holds up because AMD could claim damages on the revenues of 10% market share over 10 years.
Apparently IE is not supported at all, any version of it. Doesn't that strike people as an unnecessary limitation?
that this article represent why people won't change. It assumes open office suits everyone's needs and is good enough, which just isn't true.
There is no object analysis of what is holding people back and what the driver would be for people to switch and assumes that everyone else is ignorant and lazy. I know linux and every year try open office and am always disappointed with it. It many ways it is inferior and I prefer to pay MS $100+ than only use open office for free.
But I must be stupid and lazy.
They are just changing brand names. They are dropping the Pentium brand name because it is 10+ years old and switching to a brand name that highlights only how many cores each processor has. The underlying tech is the exact same.
Thought slashdot editors were nerds and would know this.
This is slashdot, there can be nothing useful or beneficial about any of Microsoft's products.
What they are doing here is encrypting each frame with a different key where the key is sent using quantum states so that any eaves dropping will be discovered. Their stated reason is that decrypting each frame is much more difficult than if the entire stream was encrypted with a single key.
Basically what they are saying is their system has several thousand keys instead of just one. But that does not make the underlying transmission any more secure. If it is possible to brute force one key, it is possible to brute force many keys.
All they are doing is making it less pratical to use a brute force attack. I'd classify this as being closer to a "security through obscurity" technique rather than a real advancement.
Now if they sent the entire data stream using quatum bits, that would be something different.
What I like about this is if I always have a week ago fall back if I mess something up. Or if the original drive fails I just swap the backup in less than 1 min.
And yes I also do select daily data backups (email, etc.)
The reality is most of the server market is their Xeon line and the dual-core Xeons are currently planned for 2006 and maybe even later.
The 36" Sony high def TV is some something like $1500 at Best Buy now. When it hits a grand I'll probably cave in....
Intel is sitting on a record +3 Billion in inventory. If they have a shortage anywhere it means their managment have lost their minds.