It's not just the 'raw' technology but the application of it. Intel has a lot invested in chip sets that are well groomed for notebooks. Power management is key here. Now before the Transmeta crusoe threat, (well scare really) one could reasonably argue that Intel was lacking in motivation to make good notebook chip sets, regardless of how they got there, here we are..
There just is not a big enough market for IBM to justify the expense of developing a polished G5 note book chip set. Mind you I am not saying IBM is a crappy company or anything like that. They easily have the technical resources to do it, it just is not in their business interest to spend the kind of bucks it would take.
If I was in charge of Intel I don't think I would pursue this either. Intel makes in money form selling chips. What benefit is this to Intel ??
I think the main market of this in the US would be a better fit for Fisher Price.
Now on the other hand Micro$oft would benefit from this in terms of it being widely introduce into "3rd" World countries, like Inda for example. More children exposed to computers might produce more programmers thus further reducing their wages giving Bill more bucks in his pocket.
An existing product for underprivileged children. It is about one inch thick and roughly the size of a piece of paper, has a screen in the center, a red (usually) border and two very ergonomic rotational controls at the bottom right and left corners. It has advanced security features and is erased by shaking.
I guess no one gives a shit for technical development / opportunity in rural Amerika. Just don't teach any of that dammed Monkey science...
"Good thing Windows, Office and Server divisions make a pile of cash to underwrite these follies."
It doesn't matter if Micro$oft is "Selling The Hook" or not. They can afford it. M$ will just squeeze more out of whoever needs to use office and the rest of their portfolio of "fine" products.
Personally I am waiting for the M$ activation code to become a valid credit card number
From TFA "The specified OpenCable architecture allows for multiple DRM systems to be used in the device and ensures content providers of protected delivery of content to the PC. Microsoft(R) Windows Media Digital Rights Management is the first major DRM system to complete the due diligence necessary for approval by CableLabs."
We are just getting over the SONY fiasco, bringing on the call of the "SONY boycott." Micro$oft now tries to get in bed to implement some more DRM crap ( not like this is any kind of surprise). I wonder how many PS2P and XBOX 360's will be under the Xmas tree this year. My guess is way to fucking many.
DRM (just recently referred to as "Digital Restriction Management") is a continuing issue, it is reported a lot and harped on quite often, recently there was an article that I wish I could find where some honcho of the music media was referring to consumers need to get use to "renting" content and not purchasing it..
This is not about DCMA or any other horse shit. It is about some one who wrote some proprietary code for a company, got pissed off about a new boss and quit in a fashion similar to pissing on one's desk.
This was a frivolous law suite by this asshole. I wonder who financed it.
From the courts decision : " In 1996, Krause and Titleserv began negotiating Krause's assignment of the copyright in his programs to Titleserv in exchange for a five-year consulting agreement. On July 10, 1996, before any agreement was reached, Krause terminated his relationship with Titleserv after learning that Titleserv intended that he take direction from its new Director of Information Technology. When Krause left, he took his notebook computer, which contained the only copies of the source code for two of the programs. He left copies of the source code for the other six disputed programs on the Titleserv file servers because Titleserv had backup tapes, so that in Krause's words, "removing the source from the file servers would have been a meaningless gesture." Krause left executable versions of all eight programs at issue on Titleserv's file servers, but locked them with a command, which prevented a popular decompiler from converting the executable code back into source code."
"locked them with a command" WTFIT ?? can you say time bomb ???
TV in the USA basically sucks. I watch PBS and a FEW other shows. I have given up on cable and dish or any other pay service (out side of a DSL line and a news server subscription, I will get to that later). If you have an alcoholic in your family one way to help is to try to control their drinking, the other is to let them reach bottom and hopefully they will be ready to look for help. I suggest that we encourage every stupid limiting/controlling idea and let the dead market fix itself. Remember DIVIX pay per view DVD-s? that product did well. I wonder what sap has disks they can no longer watch? We need a hard lesson for the American consumer. The MPAA may be able to provide it. There are some British shows that I watch (from news gropes, thank GOD for DivX). If they were available I would pay for that!. A lot of new stuff I like I think is from "chanel4". So for now I will just use my news subscription, when that gets turned off I guess I will read old books from garage sales.
Like any thing else it depends on ones paranoia factor...
I seldom have old personal hard drives to dispose of that have any value. Being a bit of a pack rat I keep things past their useful lifetime. The last batch of hard drives I junked I think the biggest was 10 Gig. I just put them in the drill press and run a 3/8 drill bit through the whole thing about half way of the centerline of the spindle. I am going through another in house upgrade and will probably wind up with 3 or 4 80 gig drives in the junk box. They will probably just sit around in a drawer (with the 16 MB parity memory stick that I paid $500 for ) until I get over it and junk them also.
I have built systems for a few poor friends with old parts including drives from my junk box, I usually just format them and then copy an image onto it. These systems will probably get trashed from viruses / worms / mal-ware in a few months anyway. (Windows)
I had a drive die and sent it back to the manufacture. I just had to choose between my investment and the possibility of an intrusion of my personal privacy..I guess nothing is free.
"..against unreasonable searches and seizures.. ", What unreasonable is has been argued in front of courts ever since the ink dried on the constitution in the first place. Hover it is a dividing line. If I worked in a Automotive repair shop and vacuumed every crevice of each car, taking the contents of my vacuum cleaner and analyzing it in a Gas Chromatograph looking for illicit substances, no matter what I found it would most likely not be usable in a court of law. However If a customer brings in a car and there is blood dripping from the trunk and I hear moaning, I would be negligent as a citizen of our great nation not to act.
Now What I don't know is exactly what happened at Gateway. Did the technician randomly search lots of files, deleted files etc. Or did the idiot owner bring in a locked up computer when restored booted with some real vile picture set as his desk top Windowz wall paper.
In the end the EFF (and others) are looking for cases that will some day wind up in front of 9 old? men? to define just what kind of privacy one gets with their computer. This is going to take a wile.. how long ? you are not going to like it..
"You're free to speak your mind my friend As long as you agree with me Don't criticize the father land Or those who shape your destiny 'Cause if you do You'll lose your job your mind and all the friends you knew We'll send out all our boys in blue They'll find a way to silence you"
I agree, as I to am dyslexic. I have a Technician License and might consider HF if the code restriction was removed. However the thing that I am sad about is that Morse code is now considered so un-cool. This is rather unfortunate. A long time ago it was in the domain of Geeks...For those who can, Morse is a very robust and efficient means of commutation. With Q signals one can communicate across language barriers. Morse will work with the most primitive systems and in very harsh conditions. When the story started floating around that Morse was faster than cell phone text messaging and a bit later Jay Leno did a 'Skit' on it I had misguided hopes that the youngins' might get intrigued by it.
"Yes some uncompleted people still believe this myth.."
"But We in the vastness of the future know that the past was different"
"Before the beginning there were hot lumps. Cold and lonely, they floated noiselessly thru the black holes of space...."...............The Firesign Theatre
Not an exact quote I guess I will have to find my vinyl of "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus" and try to transcribe it..Funny as hell stuff...
Politics should be used to solve every thing and when that fails one can always pick up arms.
Being that I was a telemetry technician on the tracking ship USNS Vanguard at time of launch (for Voyager 1 and 2), it would be sad to see the program end. However at the distances of these probes one would have to believe that the data rate is now very slow. I wonder what kind of a burden these are to operate on the DSN (Deep Space Network)??
Does the new USB 3.0 specification include legacy support for the Fairchild WOM chip? I know the part is real old. Used P-channel (?). Needed a bunch of different power rails..( like 115 VAC, ANDED with chip destruct).
One possible bad outcome from this is that the FCC does not have the authority to regulate any of it.... and the Phone company ( was one big one, then baby bells and now...) and the cable companies and do what ever they want.....the courts are going more and more big bisness..
I know I am older that the majority of/. Readers. What we have here is the last of the court rulings in favor of freedom and the limiting of special interest paid for by cash. Mickey mouse inc will fill the cash trough in Washington DC ( the whole hill will come to feed) and will get what ever copyright legislation passed they want. I am afraid that we are screwed. BTW did you vote in the last election?? I did.
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It's not just the 'raw' technology but the application of it. Intel has a lot invested in chip sets that are well groomed for notebooks. Power management is key here. ..
Now before the Transmeta crusoe threat, (well scare really) one could reasonably argue that Intel was lacking in motivation to make good notebook chip sets, regardless of how they got there, here we are
There just is not a big enough market for IBM to justify the expense of developing a polished G5 note book chip set. Mind you I am not saying IBM is a crappy company or anything like that. They easily have the technical resources to do it, it just is not in their business interest to spend the kind of bucks it would take.
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If I was in charge of Intel I don't think I would pursue this either. Intel makes in money form selling chips. What benefit is this to Intel ??
I think the main market of this in the US would be a better fit for Fisher Price.
Now on the other hand Micro$oft would benefit from this in terms of it being widely introduce into "3rd" World countries, like Inda for example. More children exposed to computers might produce more programmers thus further reducing their wages giving Bill more bucks in his pocket.
An existing product for underprivileged children. It is about one inch thick and roughly the size of a piece of paper, has a screen in the center, a red (usually) border and two very ergonomic rotational controls at the bottom right and left corners. It has advanced security features and is erased by shaking.
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I guess no one gives a shit for technical development / opportunity in rural Amerika. Just don't teach any of that dammed Monkey science
"Good thing Windows, Office and Server divisions make a pile of cash to underwrite these follies."
It doesn't matter if Micro$oft is "Selling The Hook" or not. They can afford it. M$ will just squeeze more out of whoever needs to use office and the rest of their portfolio of "fine" products.
Personally I am waiting for the M$ activation code to become a valid credit card number
From TFA
"The specified OpenCable architecture allows for multiple DRM systems to be used in the device and ensures content providers of protected delivery of content to the PC. Microsoft(R) Windows Media Digital Rights Management is the first major DRM system to complete the due diligence necessary for approval by CableLabs."
We are just getting over the SONY fiasco, bringing on the call of the "SONY boycott." Micro$oft now tries to get in bed to implement some more DRM crap ( not like this is any kind of surprise). I wonder how many PS2P and XBOX 360's will be under the Xmas tree this year. My guess is way to fucking many.
DRM (just recently referred to as "Digital Restriction Management") is a continuing issue, it is reported a lot and harped on quite often, recently there was an article that I wish I could find where some honcho of the music media was referring to consumers need to get use to "renting" content and not purchasing it..
BTW I still play vinyl at home.
This is not about DCMA or any other horse shit. It is about some one who wrote some proprietary code for a company, got pissed off about a new boss and quit in a fashion similar to pissing on one's desk.
This was a frivolous law suite by this asshole. I wonder who financed it.
From the courts decision : " In 1996, Krause and Titleserv began negotiating Krause's assignment of the copyright in his programs to Titleserv in exchange for a five-year consulting agreement. On July 10, 1996, before any agreement was reached, Krause terminated his relationship with Titleserv after learning that Titleserv intended that he take direction from its new Director of Information Technology. When Krause left, he took his notebook computer, which contained the only copies of the source code for two of the programs. He left copies of the source code for the other six disputed programs on the Titleserv file servers because Titleserv had backup tapes, so that in Krause's words, "removing the source from the file servers would have been a meaningless gesture." Krause left executable versions of all eight programs at issue on Titleserv's file servers, but locked them with a command, which prevented a popular decompiler from converting the executable code back into source code."
"locked them with a command" WTFIT ?? can you say time bomb ???
can you sat DICK ???
"cooler European climates" really? I think the Kubelwagen helped Rommel's Afrika Korps get the hell out of El Alamein.
TV in the USA basically sucks. I watch PBS and a FEW other shows. I have given up on cable and dish or any other pay service (out side of a DSL line and a news server subscription, I will get to that later).
If you have an alcoholic in your family one way to help is to try to control their drinking, the other is to let them reach bottom and hopefully they will be ready to look for help.
I suggest that we encourage every stupid limiting/controlling idea and let the dead market fix itself. Remember DIVIX pay per view DVD-s? that product did well. I wonder what sap has disks they can no longer watch? We need a hard lesson for the American consumer. The MPAA may be able to provide it.
There are some British shows that I watch (from news gropes, thank GOD for DivX). If they were available I would pay for that!. A lot of new stuff I like I think is from "chanel4".
So for now I will just use my news subscription, when that gets turned off I guess I will read old books from garage sales.
Like any thing else it depends on ones paranoia factor ...
I seldom have old personal hard drives to dispose of that have any value. Being a bit of a pack rat I keep things past their useful lifetime. The last batch of hard drives I junked I think the biggest was 10 Gig. I just put them in the drill press and run a 3/8 drill bit through the whole thing about half way of the centerline of the spindle. I am going through another in house upgrade and will probably wind up with 3 or 4 80 gig drives in the junk box. They will probably just sit around in a drawer (with the 16 MB parity memory stick that I paid $500 for ) until I get over it and junk them also.
I have built systems for a few poor friends with old parts including drives from my junk box, I usually just format them and then copy an image onto it. These systems will probably get trashed from viruses / worms / mal-ware in a few months anyway. (Windows)
I had a drive die and sent it back to the manufacture. I just had to choose between my investment and the possibility of an intrusion of my personal privacy..I guess nothing is free.
This is a Fourth Amendment Case...
.. how long ? you are not going to like it ..
"..against unreasonable searches and seizures.. ", What unreasonable is has been argued in front of courts ever since the ink dried on the constitution in the first place. Hover it is a dividing line. If I worked in a Automotive repair shop and vacuumed every crevice of each car, taking the contents of my vacuum cleaner and analyzing it in a Gas Chromatograph looking for illicit substances, no matter what I found it would most likely not be usable in a court of law. However If a customer brings in a car and there is blood dripping from the trunk and I hear moaning, I would be negligent as a citizen of our great nation not to act.
Now What I don't know is exactly what happened at Gateway. Did the technician randomly search lots of files, deleted files etc. Or did the idiot owner bring in a locked up computer when restored booted with some real vile picture set as his desk top Windowz wall paper.
In the end the EFF (and others) are looking for cases that will some day wind up in front of 9 old? men? to define just what kind of privacy one gets with their computer. This is going to take a wile
Band - Steppenwolf
...
Song Title - The Ostrich
"You're free to speak your mind my friend
As long as you agree with me
Don't criticize the father land
Or those who shape your destiny
'Cause if you do
You'll lose your job your mind and all the friends you knew
We'll send out all our boys in blue
They'll find a way to silence you"
Still relevant today
I want to patent tax collection .. then sue the federal government for patent infringement ..
The scarrrry part is that that is not all that much more stupid than some patent applications that we are seeing.
I agree, as I to am dyslexic. I have a Technician License and might consider HF if the code restriction was removed. ...For those who can, Morse is a very robust and efficient means of commutation. With Q signals one can communicate across language barriers. Morse will work with the most primitive systems and in very harsh conditions.
However the thing that I am sad about is that Morse code is now considered so un-cool. This is rather unfortunate. A long time ago it was in the domain of Geeks
When the story started floating around that Morse was faster than cell phone text messaging and a bit later Jay Leno did a 'Skit' on it I had misguided hopes that the youngins' might get intrigued by it.
The people (guess Who) that paid for that report got the report that they want. Just what is new about that.
"In the beginning there was this turtle.."
...............The Firesign Theatre
..Funny as hell stuff...
"Yes some uncompleted people still believe this myth.."
"But We in the vastness of the future know that the past was different"
"Before the beginning there were hot lumps. Cold and lonely, they floated noiselessly thru the black holes of space...."
Not an exact quote I guess I will have to find my vinyl of "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus" and try to transcribe it
Politics should be used to solve every thing and when that fails one can always pick up arms.
Well I guess I was wondering if other projects would compete for the "spare time" ? The DSN must be a finite resource.
Being that I was a telemetry technician on the tracking ship USNS Vanguard at time of launch (for Voyager 1 and 2), it would be sad to see the program end. However at the distances of these probes one would have to believe that the data rate is now very slow. I wonder what kind of a burden these are to operate on the DSN (Deep Space Network)??
If we get lucky, there would be no more tides, and the whole monthly lunar cycle would go away... maybe this would cure PMS ....??
Does the new USB 3.0 specification include legacy support for the Fairchild WOM chip? I know the part is real old. Used P-channel (?). Needed a bunch of different power rails..( like 115 VAC, ANDED with chip destruct).
One possible bad outcome from this is that the FCC does not have the authority to regulate any of it. ... and the Phone company ( was one big one, then baby bells and now ...) and the cable companies and do what ever they want .....the courts are going more and more big bisness..
Maybe he won the power ball lotto and left such a small detail out ...
I know I am older that the majority of /. Readers. What we have here is the last of the court rulings in favor of freedom and the limiting of special interest paid for by cash. Mickey mouse inc will fill the cash trough in Washington DC ( the whole hill will come to feed) and will get what ever copyright legislation passed they want. I am afraid that we are screwed. BTW did you vote in the last election?? I did.