All Motorola phones have flexcodes to customize the phone for certain vendors. Trust me, Motorola is not pissed at Verizon because Motorola cooperated in configuring the product, for Verizon, at the time of manufacture.
Uh, carriers dictate to manufacturers all kinds of firmware related things....don't kid yourself.
Of course carriers ask the manufacturer to implement certain features. Just like any manufacturer listens to its customers (which in this case is really the carriers and not necessarily the end user). However Verizon does not develop its own firmware as the first sentence of Slashdot's entry would indicate.
Verizon does not develop firmware for Motorola phones. However Motorola provides lots of internal software configuration options to allow service providers to customize features to suit their business model.
It's false reasoning to say that Word takes only 2 seconds. It takes 2 seconds plus whatever time it added to the boot sequence. And if the first application you run isn't Word then there is a good chance that the preloaded Word will be swapped to disk anyway, making the next instance of Word take significantly longer than 2 seconds.
Word running on CrossOver Wine, on Linux, loads quicker than OpenOffice (but slightly longer than 2s). Is Linux loading part of MS Office when it boots too?
I love Python. But I've shot myself in the foot enough times, with dynamic typing, to realize that strong typing is better for many things including code that must be correct and fully debugged.
Scalable to > 100 processors out-of-the-box. I don't need some tricked out kernel build from the folks building special 512-processor Linux machines.
Compatibility with 64-bit apps written 10 years ago.
A decent threading model that has been in place for years. Last time I checked there were 2 competing proposals for a new Linux threading system
CC-NUMA memory allocation.
Hot-swappable CPUs and consolidation. I can dynamically split single Solaris instance, running on 128 processors, to N instances each running on 128/N processors.
Mature user/kernel profiling tools.
Stable device driver model. Drivers from Solaris 2.6 will work fine in Solaris 10. Meanwhile any Linux kernel patch that changes task_struct will require rebuilds of certain Linux device drivers. Yes...not a problem with all open-source drivers, but the world isn't all open-source (ask nVidia)
The kernel is more modular. I can swap in a different scheduler.
yet Intel still have more marketshare than they did in 2000 (and holding steady), and have remained profitable. Maybe AMD needs to start hurting bad so they'll turn a profit a few years in a row.
Funny how that works. McDonald's may not make the best burger, but they sure sell the most!
Intel has been, in reality, behind AMD for at least two years. Now it just gets confirmed.
Intel has been publishing some phenemonal research on new processor architectures recently. For example, "Continual Flow Pipelines" appearing in ASPLOS of this year shows some awesome potential. It is a novel new technique for a superscaler out-of-order processor that does not use things like reorder buffers which don't scale well with instruction window size. Surely Intel has patented this technique before publishing in an academic conference.
This sounds like nothing more than a degree from a Technical College. Yes, very useful, however a college education is much more than learning specific skills. It is about becoming a more well-rounded, educated person.
The reason? The License. While BSD License really is the most free, it would allow IBM to put a lot of effort into it, and then have MS swope in, modify it, and sell with a sorts of closed APIs, etc.
In essence, the BSD license would allow the creation of another Unix model where the core is identical or just similar, but the APIs would be used to lock users in. How would that solve IBM's problem? Or for that matter any Hardware vendors problem? It would not.
Finally an answer that doesn't involve ranting and raving about GPL/freedom/blah blah blah. Thanks for the simple common-sense answer to this question I wondered myself.
Damn that is extremely fast but here in rural south east Ohio I would settle for just 1Mbps. I'm currently stuck at 28.8k and thats on a good day with my USR V.Everything Courier modem sigh...
Ha! Even if I lived in a Stepford (with real non-evil people), I would pack my bags immediately if I had to surf at 28.8k!
Please, there is no such "intuitive" and there is nothing intuitive about Apples products. If you are used to the products of Apple, then yes, the controls will seem familiar to you. But they will not be intuitive. You will not have the knowledge of button placement encoded into your DNA. It will merely be consistent with expected behavior.
Go read the classic book titled "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". You will learn about the meaning of a concept called quality.
PostgreSQL needs fair amounts of shared memory, but being process driven will likely scale better under Linux.
You are confusing application and OS scalability. Vanilla linux will croak on 64 processors. The scheduler and mutex can't handle the amount of real-time clock interrupts and other reasons for invoking the OS. Process A wants to spawn a kernel thread? Ah schucks, I have to wait for Process C-Z to serialize on the spinlock protecting the task structures.
It matters because in 5 years, your desktop computer may have a microprocessor that is capable of running 16 threads. A higher-powered workstation will have 32+ threads.
Linux 2.4.x definitely does not scale well past 4-8 (especially for workloads that are kernel or IO intensive). I'm not sure about 2.6.x.
It seems that if they pull this off one of the dtrongholds of solaris (namely massivly parralell computing) will have been conqurered by linux. I wonder how sun are feeling at the moment?
Solaris scales to hundreds of processors out-of-the-box. Until the vanilla Linux kernel accepts these changes and scale, Solaris still has a big edge in this area.
Lame analogy: many people have demonstrated that they can hack their Honda Civic to outperform a Corvette, however I can walk into a dealership and purchase the latter which performs quite well without mods.
Embedded Systems usually do not have many issues with backwards compatibility. Switching to another core is not a big deal. Of course this doesn't apply with things like Palm Pilots where users load their own software
I used to work on a high-volume embedded product. The first generation used a popular Motorola chip, the 2nd used one based on ARM. Most of our C-code remained unchanged when we switched cores. Just some hardware-abstraction layer stuff, and that was less than 5% of the code.
Konica-Minolta recently merged and before, Minolta was behind in the digital game. It is likely that they had a lot of R&D going on, but due to the merger, things were unclear and it took time to get things settled and to get products out the door (with the new name).
i don't know about you guys, but my old motorola brick was less laggy and had better sound (i know... digital is better) than my brand new siemens.
If you old Motorola brick was analog (AMPS), then that probably explains it. Your digital cellphone compresses a voice stream into a measly 9600 or 14400 bps. Yeah, its great in a car because the codec also gets rid of noise, but I think overall voice quality stinks and relish the days of AMPS with occasional static. Second, your call is dropped if you hit a momentary dead area and lose too many packets to recover. On the otherhand, analog will just drop out (or go static) and usually recover (unless you are dead for more than a second).
I am well aware that many countries were involved in WWII.
U571 is a lousy movie and I am well aware that the mission for which the movie was based on was carried out by the British.
Saving Private Ryan depicted the landing at Omaha Beach which was entirely American. Turns out the British and Canadians suffered less losses at other beaches partly because of luck, partially because of skill, and a lot because they used innovated landing machines that the Americans scoffed at and ridiculed.
Absolutely. I should have said "defeated the German army on the Western front". The Russians had a huge role in the overall victory. You should and do have a lot of pride in them
The French had some underground operations that contributed to the success, however I can point you to stories...like how the French generals insisted on being the "liberators" of Paris while our Army stopped their advance to wait.
We've never surrendered period (unless you count the civil war). Our military is the one thing we have that currently dominates the rest of the world.
Touchy? Sure. On the other hand, a large fraction of Frenchmen still believe that they defeated the German army with just a little help from the rest of the Allies. This is an insult to my grandparents who were there.
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No. Verizon does not own or develop any firmware.
All Motorola phones have flexcodes to customize the phone for certain vendors. Trust me, Motorola is not pissed at Verizon because Motorola cooperated in configuring the product, for Verizon, at the time of manufacture.
Uh, carriers dictate to manufacturers all kinds of firmware related things....don't kid yourself.
Of course carriers ask the manufacturer to implement certain features. Just like any manufacturer listens to its customers (which in this case is really the carriers and not necessarily the end user). However Verizon does not develop its own firmware as the first sentence of Slashdot's entry would indicate.
Verizon does not develop firmware for Motorola phones. However Motorola provides lots of internal software configuration options to allow service providers to customize features to suit their business model.
It's false reasoning to say that Word takes only 2 seconds. It takes 2 seconds plus whatever time it added to the boot sequence. And if the first application you run isn't Word then there is a good chance that the preloaded Word will be swapped to disk anyway, making the next instance of Word take significantly longer than 2 seconds.
Word running on CrossOver Wine, on Linux, loads quicker than OpenOffice (but slightly longer than 2s). Is Linux loading part of MS Office when it boots too?
Google has no lockin power as the switching cost for consumers is zero
Its the type-checking stupid.
I love Python. But I've shot myself in the foot enough times, with dynamic typing, to realize that strong typing is better for many things including code that must be correct and fully debugged.
Scalable to > 100 processors out-of-the-box. I don't need some tricked out kernel build from the folks building special 512-processor Linux machines.
Compatibility with 64-bit apps written 10 years ago.
A decent threading model that has been in place for years. Last time I checked there were 2 competing proposals for a new Linux threading system
CC-NUMA memory allocation.
Hot-swappable CPUs and consolidation. I can dynamically split single Solaris instance, running on 128 processors, to N instances each running on 128/N processors.
Mature user/kernel profiling tools.
Stable device driver model. Drivers from Solaris 2.6 will work fine in Solaris 10. Meanwhile any Linux kernel patch that changes task_struct will require rebuilds of certain Linux device drivers. Yes...not a problem with all open-source drivers, but the world isn't all open-source (ask nVidia)
The kernel is more modular. I can swap in a different scheduler.
Trusted Solaris is available if needed
yet Intel still have more marketshare than they did in 2000 (and holding steady), and have remained profitable. Maybe AMD needs to start hurting bad so they'll turn a profit a few years in a row.
Funny how that works. McDonald's may not make the best burger, but they sure sell the most!
Intel has been, in reality, behind AMD for at least two years. Now it just gets confirmed.
Intel has been publishing some phenemonal research on new processor architectures recently. For example, "Continual Flow Pipelines" appearing in ASPLOS of this year shows some awesome potential. It is a novel new technique for a superscaler out-of-order processor that does not use things like reorder buffers which don't scale well with instruction window size. Surely Intel has patented this technique before publishing in an academic conference.
Intel will catch up rather quickly.
This sounds like nothing more than a degree from a Technical College. Yes, very useful, however a college education is much more than learning specific skills. It is about becoming a more well-rounded, educated person.
The reason? The License. While BSD License really is the most free, it would allow IBM to put a lot of effort into it, and then have MS swope in, modify it, and sell with a sorts of closed APIs, etc.
In essence, the BSD license would allow the creation of another Unix model where the core is identical or just similar, but the APIs would be used to lock users in. How would that solve IBM's problem? Or for that matter any Hardware vendors problem? It would not.
Finally an answer that doesn't involve ranting and raving about GPL/freedom/blah blah blah. Thanks for the simple common-sense answer to this question I wondered myself.
Damn that is extremely fast but here in rural south east Ohio I would settle for just 1Mbps. I'm currently stuck at 28.8k and thats on a good day with my USR V.Everything Courier modem sigh...
Ha! Even if I lived in a Stepford (with real non-evil people), I would pack my bags immediately if I had to surf at 28.8k!
Please, there is no such "intuitive" and there is nothing intuitive about Apples products. If you are used to the products of Apple, then yes, the controls will seem familiar to you. But they will not be intuitive. You will not have the knowledge of button placement encoded into your DNA. It will merely be consistent with expected behavior.
Go read the classic book titled "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". You will learn about the meaning of a concept called quality.
People upgrading due to Doom3 requirements will cause no more than a tiny blip on the radar of memory manufacturers.
PC gamers represent a tiny fraction of machines (compared to businesses and normal consumers), and most hard-core gamers likely already have 384MB.
The only thing this requirement will cause is a lot of disappointed 13-year olds whose computer that Ma and Pa just bought him is not up to snuff.
PostgreSQL needs fair amounts of shared memory, but being process driven will likely scale better under Linux.
You are confusing application and OS scalability. Vanilla linux will croak on 64 processors. The scheduler and mutex can't handle the amount of real-time clock interrupts and other reasons for invoking the OS. Process A wants to spawn a kernel thread? Ah schucks, I have to wait for Process C-Z to serialize on the spinlock protecting the task structures.
It matters because in 5 years, your desktop computer may have a microprocessor that is capable of running 16 threads. A higher-powered workstation will have 32+ threads.
Linux 2.4.x definitely does not scale well past 4-8 (especially for workloads that are kernel or IO intensive). I'm not sure about 2.6.x.
It seems that if they pull this off one of the dtrongholds of solaris (namely massivly parralell computing) will have been conqurered by linux. I wonder how sun are feeling at the moment?
Solaris scales to hundreds of processors out-of-the-box. Until the vanilla Linux kernel accepts these changes and scale, Solaris still has a big edge in this area.
Lame analogy: many people have demonstrated that they can hack their Honda Civic to outperform a Corvette, however I can walk into a dealership and purchase the latter which performs quite well without mods.
Embedded Systems usually do not have many issues with backwards compatibility. Switching to another core is not a big deal. Of course this doesn't apply with things like Palm Pilots where users load their own software
I used to work on a high-volume embedded product. The first generation used a popular Motorola chip, the 2nd used one based on ARM. Most of our C-code remained unchanged when we switched cores. Just some hardware-abstraction layer stuff, and that was less than 5% of the code.
Is it a coincidence that Tom Ridge announced yesterday that terrorist are planning an attack?
Right in the middle of the vote?
I always wondered why they didn't call the new company "Monica".
Konica-Minolta recently merged and before, Minolta was behind in the digital game. It is likely that they had a lot of R&D going on, but due to the merger, things were unclear and it took time to get things settled and to get products out the door (with the new name).
i don't know about you guys, but my old motorola brick was less laggy and had better sound (i know... digital is better) than my brand new siemens.
If you old Motorola brick was analog (AMPS), then that probably explains it. Your digital cellphone compresses a voice stream into a measly 9600 or 14400 bps. Yeah, its great in a car because the codec also gets rid of noise, but I think overall voice quality stinks and relish the days of AMPS with occasional static. Second, your call is dropped if you hit a momentary dead area and lose too many packets to recover. On the otherhand, analog will just drop out (or go static) and usually recover (unless you are dead for more than a second).
I am well aware that many countries were involved in WWII.
U571 is a lousy movie and I am well aware that the mission for which the movie was based on was carried out by the British.
Saving Private Ryan depicted the landing at Omaha Beach which was entirely American. Turns out the British and Canadians suffered less losses at other beaches partly because of luck, partially because of skill, and a lot because they used innovated landing machines that the Americans scoffed at and ridiculed.
Absolutely. I should have said "defeated the German army on the Western front". The Russians had a huge role in the overall victory. You should and do have a lot of pride in them
The French had some underground operations that contributed to the success, however I can point you to stories...like how the French generals insisted on being the "liberators" of Paris while our Army stopped their advance to wait.
We've never surrendered period (unless you count the civil war). Our military is the one thing we have that currently dominates the rest of the world.
Touchy? Sure. On the other hand, a large fraction of Frenchmen still believe that they defeated the German army with just a little help from the rest of the Allies. This is an insult to my grandparents who were there.