Note that one item on the list of things you'll need is "[a] programmer that will program a PIC16C84 or 16F84 microprocessor." Often you can find these inside broken VCRs.
I'm sure not the programmer but the PIC16C84 itself, right?
I've been day-dreaming about bandwidth ever since I received a letter from the city of Palo Alto that I could participate in a trail, called Fiber To The Home.
Can you imagine receiving a letter which says you can get a 100Mbit/sec Fiber link straight to your house for $190,-?
What if there was never a crash with a privately owned 747? Then you wouldn't see any individuals right?
I did notice that it said: "Listing of all accidents in which the aircraft involved was damaged beyond repair:"
I work in this industry and have a bit of an idea of how many privately owned _large_ aircraft there are. Let's say that the sky isn't crowded with privately owned 747's.
I don't think aircraft in-flight have significant extra available electric generator power
Yes, actually they do. To give you an idea of In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) Systems out there, their power requirements range roughly from 7.500 to 35.000 Watts for a 300 seat installation (with individual displays).
I don't want to go into the details of IFE systems, because I am biased (I work for the one and only, tha best!;)) but it's pretty DAMN crazy.
I do have to say that it's painful to finally have an article about our industry on/. right before the annual show (WAEA). Don't you guys understand we (the engineers) are all working our balls off to get the equipment ready for the show!
Well, I'd hate to damage the business of a couple of people trying to do something in which they believe. And it's true that a couple of Photoshop'd pictures should not be conclusive evidence. Much larger companies have sold products based on some computer generated renderings.
Whether it's fake or not, is up to you to decide. Read the article (or rather the comments at +4) about the board itself, and you'll find other arguments on why this is probably a hoax.
The main argument that I have, without refering to the pictures is regarding multiple PCI boards in one system. Their explanation on why this is NOT possible does not make sense from a technical point of view. But to be honest, it's not impossible that that is caused by a misunderstanding within the marketing or translating dept.
There is however one more thing that caught my attention: the download section. It contains no software to download from the company's site itself whatsoever. No drivers, no Linux source, no nothing. All links take you to external sites.
Anyways, I would think twice before I would submit my credit card details to a Ukrainien based company that wants to sell me a product that a) defeats its own purpose and b) has some serious technical questions to answer (and mine aren't the more serious ones...).
I'm posting this with my +1 Bonus in the hope that it will cause people to notice your post
Sjeez, you could have looked at his user info first (fortunately this is possible, because he did not post AC, even though he stated that), and look at his posting history. Hardly the kind of person worth listening too, right?!
I guess this will make me a karma whore, but there's no need for you to override the moderators. Now you are abusing the system to draw attention to the post of a person who's proven to be a troller, racist and so on.
Yes, maybe the/. crew should read at least the highest moderated posts before cross-linking.
Anyways, OT: to continue the arguments as to why this is a hoax, I can add the following:
As the picture shows, there's no seperate PCI interface chip, so the PCI interface would have to be implemented inside the CPU.
Although possible, I doubt that the army would be surplussing CPU's with integrated PCI bus interfaces. These would be pretty new devices, especially in army terms (like, they are still using leading edge 386's a lot)
Any PCI board designer knows that you can have only two PCI devices per board maximum, if they are directly glued to the PCI bus. So the board with six devices would require a PCI bridge of some sort. Which does not appear in the picture.
The FAQ states that only one PCI board is supported per system. It is pretty much impossible to design a board that can not work when an identical board sits in a different PCI slot. That's just the way the bus is designed. It's like saying that you can not have two systems with the board in the same house.
The only reason why you couldn't have two boards would be driver related, which is not the reason they give, and could be easily solved.
If any of the following apply to you, you are not affected by this vulnerability:
- You are running a default installation of Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 1. - You are running a default installation of Internet Explorer 5.5 on any system except Windows 2000. - You are using Outlook and it's configured to use only MAPI
If none of the above apply to you, you are affected by the vulnerability.
-- So all you Linux users, beware.:)
Anyways, it's this kind of warped logic that caused the bug in the first place.
The exact quote is "what do you get when you multiply six by nine?"
That's right. But I always thought that the joke was that they pulled a perfectly valid question out of the bag randomly, but that the actually calculation was wrong (at least in Base 10).
As if it was under direct influence of the Improbability Drive.:o)
It's called IWebBrowser and a newer interface called IWebBrowser2.
As M$ describes it here it may sound like it's IE specific, but there's a Mozilla version available here.
This is what Real should have used.
If any program wanted a web widget, it would just call the general API and get back whatever browser was set as the default tool
Of course one of the drawbacks of this is that if you have for example an HTML based help system that uses JavaScript, you don't know that the browser that you load actually supports it.
Then there are heaps of places. Not all have dual CPU support but still. An article like this seem almost like advertisement. The board is really not that unique.
Well, that should give an idea and there's lots more out there.
Breace.
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Don't wonder. This is an exerpt from the fnwire website:
The FNwire offers an unprecedented, in-depth, and untrue account of business and technology news from the future. Our expert reporters span the globe to uncover the news as it's going to have been. We then sort through the problems with verb tense and deliver fresh, readable satire every other week.
In other words, the interview is fake. BUT, it's still pretty funny if you don't know that.
Bruce worked it out with Be AFTER the appearance on technocrat &/. and changed his website AFTER some of the people (like myself) commented on the article on/..
You can even see his comment about it here for yourself. You will also see that the previous poster was incorrectly saying that Bruce signed a release. He hasn't signed anything yet.
why did Mr. Perens not contact Be? He obviously hasn't, or he would have mentioned this in his article instead of guessing the cause of this misshap.
So is this the best way to deal with (possibly unintentional) GPL infringement? Get it right on Slashdot saying that BeOS is violating the GPL before even contacting the violater?
Seems more like an intention to give BeOS a bad name. Let's all bash BeOS!
I totally understand the need for protecting software that falls under GPL, but I've seen people dealing with these kind of issues a bit more delicately...
Transmeta would be great, but Pentiums are not as bad as some people believe here. To give an example: a 166Mhz mobile MMX runs at about 2.3 Watt.
I know that's not the 1 Watt Transmeta talks about, but they are talking about 5 Watts for their newer CPU's. However, the Mobile Pentium you can buy right now, at least less vapor as Transmeta.
In your 'hyperbook' about your idea of a software market I noticed that you say that Open Source Evangelists should support your movement because it will be (quote) A way for your next team to be rewarded for their creative work if it turns into sendmail, apache, or linux.
I assume (from reading other parts) that you are talking about a monetary reward. My question is (and this is not meant as a flame by any means), do you really think that that's what the Open Source community is after, after all? Do you think that people like Torvalds or RMS are unhappy for not being rewarded enough?
If the OS community doesn't care about monetary rewards, is there an other benefit in having your proposed Software Market?
BUT, we are talking 1.5 Mb/s here. That's not trivial. I think the Sorenson codec works better for lower bitrates.
I've never seen Quicktime stuff that matched 1.5Mb/s MPEG-1 in quality, but that's probably because it's all lower bitrate stuff.
It would be nice to know at which bitrate there is a cross-over point, e.g. when Sorenson becomes better quality than MPEG-1.
For example, I think MPEG-2 becomes better quality than MPEG-1 for bitrates higher then around 3 Mb/s.
With regards to tools: MPEG-1 is a shitty standard to work with, that's why almost all editing packages use MPEG-2,- it's easier to deal with, editing wise.
I dunno, there's no indication on the unit it seems. However, their website sayes: 'shipped after March 20, 2000'
So basically their statement is wrong. Whether they are actually making a mod to the board, well, we'll have to find out. Considering their track-record, it's probably BS.
Macrovision is a copy protection method that takes advantaged of the AGC (Automatic Gain Control) in a VCR. They make the VCR think that the Gain need be adjusted all the time and hence a bad recording.
Devices like scan converters recreate the video signal (without Macrovision) and are not sensitive to the AGC themselves.
In other words, this is not a problem with the PS2. This trick works with any Macrovision encoded video (like from any DVD player). It's known and people have been doing this for years.
Actually, a better way to get DVD's to a VHS is to use a PC based DVD decoder and disable the Macrovision on there. For at least a few hardware decoders I've seen software and/or hardware patches that allow disabling the Macrovision encoding. That way you don't have to go throught the scan-converter which will undoubtly degrade the video quality a little.
There are some interesting things about the NP service.
First of all, the device comes with a little book which says: "Netpliance will provide you with the first month's service at no charge,..."
Secondly, although you may have indicated that you wanted the monthly service, you never stated WHEN you wanted it to start. In my case that will be NEVER. (at least for the ones ordered the day that the/. article appeared)
I think they will have a hard time charging for nothing. They would have to explain that to the bank because that's who you and I should call if our MasterCard (or Visa) is charged for something that we did not agree to.
The fact that their website does not contain any sort of 'terms of agreement' or that you never get noticed about anything like that during ordering is not going to help them.
I personally don't care bout the 20 bucks, but I ain't paying it though. I just think their management is a bunch of fuckups to leave this all so unclear. It's a nice product and I think perfect for my Mom. The/. effect (a different meaning of the word) will have it's positive side by making so much more people aware of the product.
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No worries there, I've built PIC programmers, but I prefer the Scenix chip these days.
;)
I was just wondering exactly _where_ you would find a programmer in a VCR, and how you would hook that up. And, yes, I was sarcastic...
Note that one item on the list of things you'll need is "[a] programmer that will program a PIC16C84 or 16F84 microprocessor." Often you can find these inside broken VCRs.
I'm sure not the programmer but the PIC16C84 itself, right?
I've been day-dreaming about bandwidth ever since I received a letter from the city of Palo Alto that I could participate in a trail, called Fiber To The Home.
Can you imagine receiving a letter which says you can get a 100Mbit/sec Fiber link straight to your house for $190,-?
You can read more about it here: http://www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/u til ities/fth/
However unfortunately my area was not selected for the trail, and the project seems to be delayed (what a surprise).
What if there was never a crash with a privately owned 747? Then you wouldn't see any individuals right?
I did notice that it said: "Listing of all accidents in which the aircraft involved was damaged beyond repair:"
I work in this industry and have a bit of an idea of how many privately owned _large_ aircraft there are. Let's say that the sky isn't crowded with privately owned 747's.
I don't think aircraft in-flight have significant extra available electric generator power
;)) but it's pretty DAMN crazy.
/. right before the annual show (WAEA). Don't you guys understand we (the engineers) are all working our balls off to get the equipment ready for the show!
:)
Yes, actually they do. To give you an idea of In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) Systems out there, their power requirements range roughly from 7.500 to 35.000 Watts for a 300 seat installation (with individual displays).
I don't want to go into the details of IFE systems, because I am biased (I work for the one and only, tha best!
I do have to say that it's painful to finally have an article about our industry on
Gotta run (some wires tween aircraft seats
Breace
I think you are full of shit. Here's a list of all 747's taken out of service, and (for most) the reason why:
http://aviation-safety.net/datab ase/type/104.shtml
You tell me which the other two are.
these waves move very rapidly in an essentially one-dimensional direction
Wow, I wonder how that works, moving in one dimension.
To me that's as likely as me being drunk moving in one direction. It just ain't happening.
I always thought that a position would require at least three dimensions, and since movement implies time, would require at least four...
Breace
Have you even LOOKED at his user info?
Have you seen all the trolling, racist, anti-gay and what not comments? I don't think I'm the one that's poisoning something.
I am merely stating that this kind of person does not deserve some sort of extra attention,- the moderators will sort out how relevant his message is.
Breace
Well, I'd hate to damage the business of a couple of people trying to do something in which they believe. And it's true that a couple of Photoshop'd pictures should not be conclusive evidence. Much larger companies have sold products based on some computer generated renderings.
Whether it's fake or not, is up to you to decide. Read the article (or rather the comments at +4) about the board itself, and you'll find other arguments on why this is probably a hoax.
The main argument that I have, without refering to the pictures is regarding multiple PCI boards in one system. Their explanation on why this is NOT possible does not make sense from a technical point of view. But to be honest, it's not impossible that that is caused by a misunderstanding within the marketing or translating dept.
There is however one more thing that caught my attention: the download section. It contains no software to download from the company's site itself whatsoever. No drivers, no Linux source, no nothing. All links take you to external sites.
Anyways, I would think twice before I would submit my credit card details to a Ukrainien based company that wants to sell me a product that a) defeats its own purpose and b) has some serious technical questions to answer (and mine aren't the more serious ones...).
Breace
I'm posting this with my +1 Bonus in the hope that it will cause people to notice your post
Sjeez, you could have looked at his user info first (fortunately this is possible, because he did not post AC, even though he stated that), and look at his posting history. Hardly the kind of person worth listening too, right?!
I guess this will make me a karma whore, but there's no need for you to override the moderators. Now you are abusing the system to draw attention to the post of a person who's proven to be a troller, racist and so on.
Breace
Yes, maybe the /. crew should read at least the highest moderated posts before cross-linking.
Anyways,
OT:
to continue the arguments as to why this is a hoax, I can add the following:
As the picture shows, there's no seperate PCI interface chip, so the PCI interface would have to be implemented inside the CPU.
Although possible, I doubt that the army would be surplussing CPU's with integrated PCI bus interfaces. These would be pretty new devices, especially in army terms (like, they are still using leading edge 386's a lot)
Any PCI board designer knows that you can have only two PCI devices per board maximum, if they are directly glued to the PCI bus. So the board with six devices would require a PCI bridge of some sort. Which does not appear in the picture.
The FAQ states that only one PCI board is supported per system. It is pretty much impossible to design a board that can not work when an identical board sits in a different PCI slot. That's just the way the bus is designed. It's like saying that you can not have two systems with the board in the same house.
The only reason why you couldn't have two boards would be driver related, which is not the reason they give, and could be easily solved.
Breace
From http://www.microsof t.com/technet/security/bulletin/fq00-043.asp:
:)
How can I tell if I'm vulnerable to this issue?
If any of the following apply to you, you are not affected by this vulnerability:
- You are running a default installation of Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 1.
- You are running a default installation of Internet Explorer 5.5 on any system except Windows 2000.
- You are using Outlook and it's configured to use only MAPI
If none of the above apply to you, you are affected by the vulnerability.
--
So all you Linux users, beware.
Anyways, it's this kind of warped logic that caused the bug in the first place.
Breace
I never believed CmdrTaco was Rob's real name.
Breace (33955)
The exact quote is "what do you get when you multiply six by nine?"
:o)
That's right. But I always thought that the joke was that they pulled a perfectly valid question out of the bag randomly, but that the actually calculation was wrong (at least in Base 10).
As if it was under direct influence of the Improbability Drive.
Breace.
Uhm... Microsoft has done that.
It's called IWebBrowser and a newer interface called IWebBrowser2.
As M$ describes it here it may sound like it's IE specific, but there's a Mozilla version available here.
This is what Real should have used.
If any program wanted a web widget, it would just call the general API and get back whatever browser was set as the default tool
Of course one of the drawbacks of this is that if you have for example an HTML based help system that uses JavaScript, you don't know that the browser that you load actually supports it.
Breace.
Then there are heaps of places. Not all have dual CPU support but still. An article like this seem almost like advertisement. The board is really not that unique.
So, to level that out, here's a few links:
Dual Xeon board at http://www.mycomp-tmc.com/htm/xd6gx.htm
This company has dual CPU's boards and other nifty _really_ small boards at http://www.nexcom.com.tw/
Bunch of small boards at
http://www.tme-inc.com/html/produ cts/prodinfo.htm
A _really_ small Pentium board at http://www.cts.com/browse/adlogic/msm p5s.html
Well, that should give an idea and there's lots more out there.
Breace.
Don't wonder. This is an exerpt from the fnwire website:
The FNwire offers an unprecedented, in-depth, and untrue account of business and technology news from the future. Our expert reporters span the globe to uncover the news as it's going to have been. We then sort through the problems with verb tense and deliver fresh, readable satire every other week.
In other words, the interview is fake. BUT, it's still pretty funny if you don't know that.
Breace.
Did you ever consider that websites are dynamic?
/. and changed his website AFTER some of the people (like myself) commented on the article on /..
Bruce worked it out with Be AFTER the appearance on technocrat &
You can even see his comment about it here for yourself. You will also see that the previous poster was incorrectly saying that Bruce signed a release. He hasn't signed anything yet.
Breace
why did Mr. Perens not contact Be? He obviously hasn't, or he would have mentioned this in his article instead of guessing the cause of this misshap.
So is this the best way to deal with (possibly unintentional) GPL infringement? Get it right on Slashdot saying that BeOS is violating the GPL before even contacting the violater?
Seems more like an intention to give BeOS a bad name. Let's all bash BeOS!
I totally understand the need for protecting software that falls under GPL, but I've seen people dealing with these kind of issues a bit more delicately...
Breace
Transmeta would be great, but Pentiums are not as bad as some people believe here. To give an example: a 166Mhz mobile MMX runs at about 2.3 Watt.
I know that's not the 1 Watt Transmeta talks about, but they are talking about 5 Watts for their newer CPU's. However, the Mobile Pentium you can buy right now, at least less vapor as Transmeta.
Breace.
In your 'hyperbook' about your idea of a software market I noticed that you say that Open Source Evangelists should support your movement because it will be (quote) A way for your next team to be rewarded for their creative work if it turns into sendmail, apache, or linux.
I assume (from reading other parts) that you are talking about a monetary reward. My question is (and this is not meant as a flame by any means), do you really think that that's what the Open Source community is after, after all? Do you think that people like Torvalds or RMS are unhappy for not being rewarded enough?
If the OS community doesn't care about monetary rewards, is there an other benefit in having your proposed Software Market?
Regards, Breace
I totally agree.
BUT, we are talking 1.5 Mb/s here. That's not trivial. I think the Sorenson codec works better for lower bitrates.
I've never seen Quicktime stuff that matched 1.5Mb/s MPEG-1 in quality, but that's probably because it's all lower bitrate stuff.
It would be nice to know at which bitrate there is a cross-over point, e.g. when Sorenson becomes better quality than MPEG-1.
For example, I think MPEG-2 becomes better quality than MPEG-1 for bitrates higher then around 3 Mb/s.
With regards to tools: MPEG-1 is a shitty standard to work with, that's why almost all editing packages use MPEG-2,- it's easier to deal with, editing wise.
Breace.
I dunno, there's no indication on the unit it seems. However, their website sayes:
'shipped after March 20, 2000'
So basically their statement is wrong. Whether they are actually making a mod to the board, well, we'll have to find out. Considering their track-record, it's probably BS.
Breace.
because they can't/don't have to.
Macrovision is a copy protection method that takes advantaged of the AGC (Automatic Gain Control) in a VCR. They make the VCR think that the Gain need be adjusted all the time and hence a bad recording.
Devices like scan converters recreate the video signal (without Macrovision) and are not sensitive to the AGC themselves.
In other words, this is not a problem with the PS2. This trick works with any Macrovision encoded video (like from any DVD player). It's known and people have been doing this for years.
Actually, a better way to get DVD's to a VHS is to use a PC based DVD decoder and disable the Macrovision on there. For at least a few hardware decoders I've seen software and/or hardware patches that allow disabling the Macrovision encoding. That way you don't have to go throught the scan-converter which will undoubtly degrade the video quality a little.
Breace.
There are some interesting things about the NP service.
..."
/. article appeared)
/. effect (a different meaning of the word) will have it's positive side by making so much more people aware of the product.
First of all, the device comes with a little book which says: "Netpliance will provide you with the first month's service at no charge,
Secondly, although you may have indicated that you wanted the monthly service, you never stated WHEN you wanted it to start. In my case that will be NEVER. (at least for the ones ordered the day that the
I think they will have a hard time charging for nothing. They would have to explain that to the bank because that's who you and I should call if our MasterCard (or Visa) is charged for something that we did not agree to.
The fact that their website does not contain any sort of 'terms of agreement' or that you never get noticed about anything like that during ordering is not going to help them.
I personally don't care bout the 20 bucks, but I ain't paying it though. I just think their management is a bunch of fuckups to leave this all so unclear. It's a nice product and I think perfect for my Mom. The
Breace.