Thanks for pointing that out. Wow I never knew how many people just read the summary. When I wrote that summary I covered that this was already available. That the abilities are not that new but have been around for a while on system using IPMI, and what chip sets supported it. I left out that it was encrypted front to back because I actually thought that everyone and their dog would just assume that it was or read the article if they didn't bother to watch the video. You know I really made an effort to write a none inflammatory, informative, and factual summary. Oh well maybe next time.
"Yes, I didn't glean that. Google never releases the source until well after an update. Questionable, but at least they do release, I have recanted elsewhere." Not questionable at all since the code they don't release right away isn't under the GPL but instead under apache. If the Apache license is not free enough why no outcry from RMS on using Apache? Because that wouldn't get published.
"Oh and about Linux not having an NSA backdoor? How do you know? Have you checked every source file?
Of course not, but someone has." Who? Since I love to stoke paranoids into catatonic states let me tell you who. The NSA that is who. The NSA looks at the sources with team of experts, they do not put in exploits they just find them and keep them for future use. Then they remove them for their own Linux servers and since they are the end user and they have the code all is well under the GPL. So they now have a list of exploits for your machine and they know that you are worried about them spying on you. Keep an eye out for that UPS truck that is packed with Wifi scanners, that guy working on your street light is planting a wifi intercept device as well. Everything that you do is now being monitored. Your only way to be free is to unplug and join a NeoAmish group in Montana.
RMS is a great coder but also a crank. He has done so much good but makes too much effort at attacking the least threatening folks. People like Tivo and now Google/Android. Let us not even get into the silliness of GNU/Linux. What is your OS? GNU/X.org/TrollTech/Samba/OpenSSH/Linux thank you.
Wasted space is wasted space. Most of that code has been moved into microcode but why even bother with it all? Yes your Xeon will not run DOS apps but who cares. Where they really need to do this is on the Atom line.
Think of the jobs. First you have the people that make the paper. Then you have the people that sell and fix the printers, then you have the people that make and sell the ink, then you have the people that do the print runs, then you have the people that deliver the printout, then you have the people that collect the print outs, and then you have the paper recycling. It will never fly. They will just add iPads as an option and still do all the printing. If you don't believe me let me just put this in as proof. Nimrod AEW, Nimrod MRA4, and A400m Sir Humphrey: You see minister if we provide iPads and the printed records we shall have all the advantages of portability and the accountability of a paper audit. PM: Do we want accountability? Sir Humphrey: We like to say so. PM: So we get all the advantages of increased efficiency with no job loss? Sir Humphrey: Precisely Minister and paper is cheap just a few pennies a sheet and you can not put a price on accountability. PM: Well that sound prefect. Sir Humphrey: Yes Prime Minister. Bernard: Sir Humphrey we spend three hundred million Euros a year on printing, supplies, paper, and personal. That does to be lot more than mere pennies. Sir Humphrey: I never said how many pennies where in a mere.
The EU decides that all cell phones should use a MicroUSB connector for charging. The MicroUSB port really wasn't meant for constant plugging and unplugging. Phones break when the ports fail. Like that isn't scary. I tend to plug my phone in 6 times a day I wonder how long the connector will last?
Wow? Well first off in this context you are completely wrong. Microsoft release zero source code of WP7 == completely bad.
As to your problems with Android who knows. Some of the phones really do suck. I had a Samsung Moment and it was terrible. I latter found out that if I rooted and ROMed it that it was a pretty good phone. I now have an Evo which works great for me and my wife just got the Epic Touch which in all honesty is a great phone.
RMS "freedom means doing it my way". I think we have seen greenwashing now once more RMS gives us "free turfing". Google didn't release the source for Android 3.x because it was a stop gap release. Maybe they are using some code that bought to get it out sooner. That happens in business. Some times you have to get it on the market now. Oh and you do not use 3.x on phones it is for tablets. The next version of Android will include a source release. This is RMS just trying to grab the spotlight. Oh and about Linux not having an NSA backdoor? How do you know? Have you checked every source file? What about utilities that maybe running as root? You build your own kernel or do you use a Distro? Of course the funniest thing is that anybody worries about the NSA having a back door on their OS. What level of self delusion must one have to think that the NSA would care enough to spy on them.
Maybe that should be Intel's "next big thing". A Xeon that just supports the x64 instruction set drop real mode, drop segments, drop 286, drop the I/O instructions and make a pure 64bit ISA.
Hey there is so much valid discussion one could do about Star Trek as far as their culture. Take for instance, "The Prime Directive". What a load of manure that is. It is better to let a culture die, suffer, and struggle than to help them because it might go bad? Really? What really cowardly attitude to have. So if they showed up to day they wouldn't give us Fusion technology, or cure Cancer, AIDs, Malaria, or any number of other problems we have? Because we could do what destroy ourselves? What a classic "White Man's burden" attitude. The you have the idea of claiming interstellar space? The Federation has boundaries what about the worlds that are inside those boundaries that do not want to join the Federation? Sure I can see claiming star systems and if unpopulated colonizing them but shouldn't the space in between the stars be like the open seas of earth. Why shouldn't a Romulan ship have the right to go to any none Federation world even if they are in the Federation boundaries. If you are a world in Federation space you are cut off from help and left to struggle on your own until the Federation decides that you are ready for contact. It looks like your choice is then to become a member of the federation or be walled in by them. You do not seem to have the option to make an alliance with other advanced races. Maybe you like the idea being part of the Romulan Empire or becoming Borg. Those options are not open to you if you happen to be one of the lesser breeds. Heck even after you join they do not give you all the technology because they feel you are not ready for it. I mean when you actually look at the Federation it is kind of creepy.
One man's asshole is another man's protester, activist, original thinker, and or progressive. Sucks when you are not the man that chooses. I guess you would be happy to be fixed so as to not respond with profanity on message boards. After all no one on STOS would every lower themselves to use such language their society has evolved past the need to use crass language.
Really? Yea I guess you are right because if you where LBGT in the Star Trek universe they would just fix you. They would see that you where going to have these problems latter in life with a scan and then would treat you so you where not different. Crimes are insanity and are treated like a desease. If you are unhappy in their prefect world then you must also be insane. At least in the first series and the early parts of TNG. Of if they federation thought that being gay was okay then they would allow it but then maybe their are no gay humans in the Federation. They have all been fixed. Sorry but DS9 became my favorite Trek because it showed that while a really good place to live the members of the federation where to use our term, human. They where not perfect little robots.
The society shown in ST, and early STNG is as much a fantasy as anything in the universe. The truth is that society would fall apart. Everybody would be locked in their Holodecks living in their personal dream world and eating replicated cup cakes until they died. I will not go into what those ideal worlds would be like but my guess for a lot of people Ms Portman would be in a lot of them.
Notice that in later episodes, DS9, and Voyager Things like money, wealth, corruption, cruelty, poverty, and even civil unrest showed back up in the oh so perfect Federation. I am a Star Trek fan but the society that Rodenberry showed was down right oppressive in so many ways. You conformed or they fixed you to conform.
The federation used fighters in DS9 when they attacked Cardasia during the Dominon war. The big question I see is numbers. The Federation is pretty small when compared with the Empire. As to Voyager well it was way past refit and had not had any yard service re resupply for years. It was running on rubber bands and paper clips by that time. And I can not believe that we are having this conversation.
Yes but it runs in more than one of those other cores. This also support SSE which may help a lot for some benchmarks as well. Of course you do not get a linar increase with cores but this may be in the range of possible with some specific benchmarks.
Okay I live in FL and most homes are concrete here. A lot of block but a growing number are cast. You do not leave bare concrete and you do insulate them. My many of my schools where also CBS and they where not damp or cold.
Wow you want to make a print head that sprays out a super think layer of steel? They do metal rapid prototyping but they use laser sintering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_melting Not really the best solution for building indoors. The funny thing is the example they gave. Well we do that now. They are called hollow columns. I do love the idea but it is very iffy.
8 cores X 2 threads per core =16X Since the cores are also running the OS, Browser and goodness knows what else 15 X could be possible with more cores. Sort of like like your 40 megabyte program getting a massive speed up when you go from 512Mb of RAM to 2 Gb of RAM. PCs today are not like computers back in the day. They are often running a lot of other code besides your application. That is one reason that DOS is still popular for some tasks. Once your code is running pretty much that is all that is running.
Did they do anything illegal? I agree with you that they did not. Did they do anything stupid? Wow are they ever. They bought Palm and then shipped the produces that Palm was working on at the time of the purchase late. Really? They are the biggest PC maker and they say that they may or may not be selling that part off or they may or may not spin it off. If anything they are telling people too much too soon because they haven't really decided on anything yet. The problem I see is that these big companies go outside of the company to get a CEO. Sometimes that can be a good thing because it brings new ideas but these days it seems like they try to make the company that hired them into the company that left. Look at Nokia. The CEO worked at Microsoft and now Nokia is dumping their own OS for WP7 which frankly is not setting the world on fire and Mango looks to be only as good as what Apple and Google are shipping.
Except no one wants to have extra computers. Okay well some people do but they don't want a bunch of single use computers. Microsoft is in the same position as DEC, Control Data, and Data General where in the late 70s and early 90s. DEC could have created a cheap PDP-11 for around the same price or less than the IBM/PC and shipped it at the same time. The reason they didn't was that they where still making too much money on PDP-11s and didn't want to have to compete with themselves. Microsoft does not want to have to drop their margins so they will do everything they can to keep ARM and x86 as two different worlds. In other words they want to sell you every program twice.
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Umm... I think not http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2439254&cid=37470742
Sorry but I doubt that any news channel would not show 10,000 protesters on Wall Street. Since the food committee only has $14000 that comes to a buck forty per person. https://www.wepay.com/donate/99275
Yea sure there is this massive secret protest going on.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/ doesn't even see it worth covering. I found a few news stores about it. Let me sum it up for you. Tiny, fringe, crackpot, protest.
well at least you know a joke when you see one.
Your Ip address has been recorded, your location found, thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
No you are wrong.
Thanks for pointing that out. Wow I never knew how many people just read the summary. When I wrote that summary I covered that this was already available. That the abilities are not that new but have been around for a while on system using IPMI, and what chip sets supported it. I left out that it was encrypted front to back because I actually thought that everyone and their dog would just assume that it was or read the article if they didn't bother to watch the video.
You know I really made an effort to write a none inflammatory, informative, and factual summary. Oh well maybe next time.
They do and they don't sort how they use metric.
"Yes, I didn't glean that. Google never releases the source until well after an update. Questionable, but at least they do release, I have recanted elsewhere."
Not questionable at all since the code they don't release right away isn't under the GPL but instead under apache.
If the Apache license is not free enough why no outcry from RMS on using Apache? Because that wouldn't get published.
"Oh and about Linux not having an NSA backdoor? How do you know? Have you checked every source file?
Of course not, but someone has."
Who? Since I love to stoke paranoids into catatonic states let me tell you who. The NSA that is who. The NSA looks at the sources with team of experts, they do not put in exploits they just find them and keep them for future use. Then they remove them for their own Linux servers and since they are the end user and they have the code all is well under the GPL. So they now have a list of exploits for your machine and they know that you are worried about them spying on you. Keep an eye out for that UPS truck that is packed with Wifi scanners, that guy working on your street light is planting a wifi intercept device as well. Everything that you do is now being monitored. Your only way to be free is to unplug and join a NeoAmish group in Montana.
RMS is a great coder but also a crank. He has done so much good but makes too much effort at attacking the least threatening folks. People like Tivo and now Google/Android.
Let us not even get into the silliness of GNU/Linux. What is your OS? GNU/X.org/TrollTech/Samba/OpenSSH/Linux thank you.
Wasted space is wasted space. Most of that code has been moved into microcode but why even bother with it all? Yes your Xeon will not run DOS apps but who cares.
Where they really need to do this is on the Atom line.
Think of the jobs.
First you have the people that make the paper. Then you have the people that sell and fix the printers, then you have the people that make and sell the ink, then you have the people that do the print runs, then you have the people that deliver the printout, then you have the people that collect the print outs, and then you have the paper recycling.
It will never fly. They will just add iPads as an option and still do all the printing.
If you don't believe me let me just put this in as proof.
Nimrod AEW, Nimrod MRA4, and A400m
Sir Humphrey: You see minister if we provide iPads and the printed records we shall have all the advantages of portability and the accountability of a paper audit.
PM: Do we want accountability?
Sir Humphrey: We like to say so.
PM: So we get all the advantages of increased efficiency with no job loss?
Sir Humphrey: Precisely Minister and paper is cheap just a few pennies a sheet and you can not put a price on accountability.
PM: Well that sound prefect.
Sir Humphrey: Yes Prime Minister.
Bernard: Sir Humphrey we spend three hundred million Euros a year on printing, supplies, paper, and personal. That does to be lot more than mere pennies.
Sir Humphrey: I never said how many pennies where in a mere.
The EU decides that all cell phones should use a MicroUSB connector for charging. The MicroUSB port really wasn't meant for constant plugging and unplugging.
Phones break when the ports fail.
Like that isn't scary. I tend to plug my phone in 6 times a day I wonder how long the connector will last?
Wow?
Well first off in this context you are completely wrong.
Microsoft release zero source code of WP7 == completely bad.
As to your problems with Android who knows. Some of the phones really do suck. I had a Samsung Moment and it was terrible. I latter found out that if I rooted and ROMed it that it was a pretty good phone.
I now have an Evo which works great for me and my wife just got the Epic Touch which in all honesty is a great phone.
RMS "freedom means doing it my way". I think we have seen greenwashing now once more RMS gives us "free turfing".
Google didn't release the source for Android 3.x because it was a stop gap release. Maybe they are using some code that bought to get it out sooner. That happens in business. Some times you have to get it on the market now. Oh and you do not use 3.x on phones it is for tablets. The next version of Android will include a source release. This is RMS just trying to grab the spotlight.
Oh and about Linux not having an NSA backdoor? How do you know? Have you checked every source file? What about utilities that maybe running as root? You build your own kernel or do you use a Distro?
Of course the funniest thing is that anybody worries about the NSA having a back door on their OS. What level of self delusion must one have to think that the NSA would care enough to spy on them.
Maybe that should be Intel's "next big thing". A Xeon that just supports the x64 instruction set drop real mode, drop segments, drop 286, drop the I/O instructions and make a pure 64bit ISA.
Hey there is so much valid discussion one could do about Star Trek as far as their culture.
Take for instance, "The Prime Directive". What a load of manure that is.
It is better to let a culture die, suffer, and struggle than to help them because it might go bad?
Really?
What really cowardly attitude to have. So if they showed up to day they wouldn't give us Fusion technology, or cure Cancer, AIDs, Malaria, or any number of other problems we have? Because we could do what destroy ourselves? What a classic "White Man's burden" attitude.
The you have the idea of claiming interstellar space? The Federation has boundaries what about the worlds that are inside those boundaries that do not want to join the Federation? Sure I can see claiming star systems and if unpopulated colonizing them but shouldn't the space in between the stars be like the open seas of earth. Why shouldn't a Romulan ship have the right to go to any none Federation world even if they are in the Federation boundaries.
If you are a world in Federation space you are cut off from help and left to struggle on your own until the Federation decides that you are ready for contact. It looks like your choice is then to become a member of the federation or be walled in by them. You do not seem to have the option to make an alliance with other advanced races. Maybe you like the idea being part of the Romulan Empire or becoming Borg. Those options are not open to you if you happen to be one of the lesser breeds. Heck even after you join they do not give you all the technology because they feel you are not ready for it.
I mean when you actually look at the Federation it is kind of creepy.
One man's asshole is another man's protester, activist, original thinker, and or progressive. Sucks when you are not the man that chooses. I guess you would be happy to be fixed so as to not respond with profanity on message boards. After all no one on STOS would every lower themselves to use such language their society has evolved past the need to use crass language.
Really? Yea I guess you are right because if you where LBGT in the Star Trek universe they would just fix you. They would see that you where going to have these problems latter in life with a scan and then would treat you so you where not different. Crimes are insanity and are treated like a desease. If you are unhappy in their prefect world then you must also be insane. At least in the first series and the early parts of TNG. Of if they federation thought that being gay was okay then they would allow it but then maybe their are no gay humans in the Federation. They have all been fixed.
Sorry but DS9 became my favorite Trek because it showed that while a really good place to live the members of the federation where to use our term, human. They where not perfect little robots.
The society shown in ST, and early STNG is as much a fantasy as anything in the universe. The truth is that society would fall apart. Everybody would be locked in their Holodecks living in their personal dream world and eating replicated cup cakes until they died. I will not go into what those ideal worlds would be like but my guess for a lot of people Ms Portman would be in a lot of them.
Notice that in later episodes, DS9, and Voyager Things like money, wealth, corruption, cruelty, poverty, and even civil unrest showed back up in the oh so perfect Federation.
I am a Star Trek fan but the society that Rodenberry showed was down right oppressive in so many ways. You conformed or they fixed you to conform.
The federation used fighters in DS9 when they attacked Cardasia during the Dominon war. The big question I see is numbers. The Federation is pretty small when compared with the Empire. As to Voyager well it was way past refit and had not had any yard service re resupply for years. It was running on rubber bands and paper clips by that time.
And I can not believe that we are having this conversation.
Yes but it runs in more than one of those other cores. This also support SSE which may help a lot for some benchmarks as well. Of course you do not get a linar increase with cores but this may be in the range of possible with some specific benchmarks.
I was thinking that foam or plastic could do the job with a weather proof shell on the outside.
Okay I live in FL and most homes are concrete here. A lot of block but a growing number are cast.
You do not leave bare concrete and you do insulate them. My many of my schools where also CBS and they where not damp or cold.
Wow you want to make a print head that sprays out a super think layer of steel? They do metal rapid prototyping but they use laser sintering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_melting Not really the best solution for building indoors.
The funny thing is the example they gave. Well we do that now. They are called hollow columns.
I do love the idea but it is very iffy.
8 cores X 2 threads per core =16X
Since the cores are also running the OS, Browser and goodness knows what else 15 X could be possible with more cores. Sort of like like your 40 megabyte program getting a massive speed up when you go from 512Mb of RAM to 2 Gb of RAM. PCs today are not like computers back in the day. They are often running a lot of other code besides your application. That is one reason that DOS is still popular for some tasks. Once your code is running pretty much that is all that is running.
Did they do anything illegal? I agree with you that they did not. Did they do anything stupid? Wow are they ever. They bought Palm and then shipped the produces that Palm was working on at the time of the purchase late. Really? They are the biggest PC maker and they say that they may or may not be selling that part off or they may or may not spin it off.
If anything they are telling people too much too soon because they haven't really decided on anything yet.
The problem I see is that these big companies go outside of the company to get a CEO. Sometimes that can be a good thing because it brings new ideas but these days it seems like they try to make the company that hired them into the company that left.
Look at Nokia. The CEO worked at Microsoft and now Nokia is dumping their own OS for WP7 which frankly is not setting the world on fire and Mango looks to be only as good as what Apple and Google are shipping.
Except no one wants to have extra computers. Okay well some people do but they don't want a bunch of single use computers.
Microsoft is in the same position as DEC, Control Data, and Data General where in the late 70s and early 90s.
DEC could have created a cheap PDP-11 for around the same price or less than the IBM/PC and shipped it at the same time. The reason they didn't was that they where still making too much money on PDP-11s and didn't want to have to compete with themselves.
Microsoft does not want to have to drop their margins so they will do everything they can to keep ARM and x86 as two different worlds.
In other words they want to sell you every program twice.