I am really sick of people making fun of BSOD. Ever try to run a screwed up driver on *nix? it just reboots/shutdown. Now when you are a bios developer on engineering sample board... it really gets on your nerv!
the airport errors... come on, if i get my hands on those, I'd do something stupid as well:)
actually, that might means they have no patience... hackers without patience? I wouldnt call that good.
Moving along, contest is to see who can solve the problems in x amount of time. from the table listed, we cannot be sure how fast #1 took to solve the first 7 problems. They might solve the first 7 806 to solve the last question. hence, that argument you proposed earlier does not hold true
By Taiwan companies that have factories in China... they can do whatever the heck they want. If we want to go even lower, since the chip level designs are hacked by EE engineers everywhere, whoever get their product on the market can hack it!
This has been in practice in Asia for quite sometimes already. Basically, you can buy it out of box, but no warranty. Since in Asia, they are not used to the concept of "return purchased product" or "service", it really isn't a problem for people there. Personally, I would rather pay extra $50 to buy a HDD that lasted my box's life cycle (for me it's about 4~5 years).
one reason that it is not practiced in North America because users tends to return "crap" back to the manufacturers. To these serviceless companies, it really it's a pain! it really is a give and take. Devices passed the tests might just be lucky that it did. Devices did not pass the tests might just be unlucky. you can still buy defective product after all those intensive tests. or you might buy a less product that never fail after that test run.
If crimes is committed in a country, that country has the right to charge that person if he/she is IN that country. If he/she is outside that country, the country has the right to charge that person. However, depends on the consequences, the country might just restrict he/she's enterance into the country.
Here's an example that I know. A friend of mine in Canada collected over 100k of signatures to partition against China's human rights policy on "Fulan"... So he went to China, and was arrested in the Airport right after he landed. Was in Jail for 2 months without trial until Canadian government decided to save him. He probably will never land his foot in China again.
To most of us, we think what's the big deal? it's just partition. But to China, he's a political prisoner...
I do agree on your opinion that Apple was THE Evil company, more evil than MS. In terms that they try to seize control of all their innovative products, or products they invested heavily in.
"Apple is just another wannabe monopolist", actually, they were the monopolist! except they lost in a big way. The way against the trend, the way against the general public.
I also want to provide another alternative point of view. some company wants to survive. some company wants to take risk. I don't think any company will say no to make more money. with financial consideration in mind, securing company's investment is very important. IP are important in that it can product maker's rights.
In most money-making business: -if you are the leader, you want to be able to maintin your edge while gaining new grounds. -if you are the second place or... nth place, you just want a piece of the pie and move closer to become the major player.
what separates evil monopolist from business who tries to be responsible to the investors is what we should consider at hand.
about Bsod, in my humble opinion, think it's not entirely MS' fault. a line screw up in bios can easily cause this. and don't argue "it doesn't happen to *nix". well, it doesn't happen cuz it just crash/shutdown.
I know... I've been there... thanks to ATI's demo chipsets...
Intel is looking elsewhere than BIOS. Intel and Windows are forming an alliance called "Framework" (this is not related to.net framework). The intension is to eliminate problems that might be caused by BIOS, among other reasons.
Where AMD, award&phoenix are not invited obviously... this is to keep intel's edge over this strategy Hence, this openBIOS is not in the best interest of Intel.
I was just an engineer doing what our client (HP) told us to do. We don't ask why. But from what these Taiwanese company are capable of... I am sure HP and other companies wants certain amount of control. (Heck, why do you think Intel created Portability CPU the first place... and why it is terminated now)
For people don't know. Portability CPU is a class cpu that's closer to Desktop cpu speed. Has certain power-states enabled. Cost between Mobility and desktop cpu.
This is still being performed. One of the reason is to prevent OEM/ODM use invalid parts. (I know cuz I used to work for one, Compal Electronic, Inc, Second Largest laptop manufacturer OEM/ODM). And it just happen that I was a BIOS enigineer for HP products) Cheers!
Enabling technology is far more important than enhance security. The complication of business is very money driven. Targets must be met, so on and so forth. When you have time issue with completing the project. They'd rather complete the project than have a incompleted yet Excellent coded project. This is one major difference between 'engineering' and 'science'. Though security should be in consideration as a good business practice.
This is really just a scam from Intel. Purpose to confuse consumers that Centrino is doing well.
when #1 and #2 laptop manufacturers that accounts for 60-65% worlds laptops rarely develops with Centrino AND they want to keep this up, you know Centrino is not doing so well.
when you said big boys Nvidia and ATI... sort of made me giggle. they are the leaders of high end graphics cards, but you are missing out the real big leader (in terms of market share), intel pretty much owns graphics end:D
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While the rest will compete for low price. SMIC has all the fabs that rest of the semiconductor manufacturing fabs are going to suffer
well... if you are:
BIOS engineer
embedded system engineer
you'd need to know asm pretty well...
Maybe I am too old... but before the MS era, APPLE was much much more eviler than MS.
f! close system!
if you pay, you can get ms source...
of course, you gotta be IN the industry
i totally agree.
:P
though i love doom3 so much. john carmack is god. as to the developers for hl/ut i dont even know your name
I am really sick of people making fun of BSOD. Ever try to run a screwed up driver on *nix? it just reboots/shutdown. Now when you are a bios developer on engineering sample board... it really gets on your nerv!
:)
the airport errors... come on, if i get my hands on those, I'd do something stupid as well
If you are a developer, you will know why prescott is far more better!
At least you dont need to worry about amd messed up their cpuid!! (Apparently, we received a 5.4ghz cpu in cpu string...which obviously runs at 2x00xp
actually, that might means they have no patience ... hackers without patience? I wouldnt call that good.
Moving along, contest is to see who can solve the problems in x amount of time. from the table listed, we cannot be sure how fast #1 took to solve the first 7 problems. They might solve the first 7 806 to solve the last question. hence, that argument you proposed earlier does not hold true
By Taiwan companies that have factories in China... they can do whatever the heck they want. If we want to go even lower, since the chip level designs are hacked by EE engineers everywhere, whoever get their product on the market can hack it!
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This has been in practice in Asia for quite sometimes already. Basically, you can buy it out of box, but no warranty. Since in Asia, they are not used to the concept of "return purchased product" or "service", it really isn't a problem for people there. Personally, I would rather pay extra $50 to buy a HDD that lasted my box's life cycle (for me it's about 4~5 years).
one reason that it is not practiced in North America because users tends to return "crap" back to the manufacturers. To these serviceless companies, it really it's a pain! it really is a give and take. Devices passed the tests might just be lucky that it did. Devices did not pass the tests might just be unlucky. you can still buy defective product after all those intensive tests. or you might buy a less product that never fail after that test run.
just my 3c
Actually, it should be like this.
If crimes is committed in a country, that country has the right to charge that person if he/she is IN that country. If he/she is outside that country, the country has the right to charge that person. However, depends on the consequences, the country might just restrict he/she's enterance into the country.
Here's an example that I know. A friend of mine in Canada collected over 100k of signatures to partition against China's human rights policy on "Fulan"... So he went to China, and was arrested in the Airport right after he landed. Was in Jail for 2 months without trial until Canadian government decided to save him. He probably will never land his foot in China again.
To most of us, we think what's the big deal? it's just partition. But to China, he's a political prisoner...
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I do agree on your opinion that Apple was THE Evil company, more evil than MS. In terms that they try to seize control of all their innovative products, or products they invested heavily in.
"Apple is just another wannabe monopolist", actually, they were the monopolist! except they lost in a big way. The way against the trend, the way against the general public.
I also want to provide another alternative point of view. some company wants to survive. some company wants to take risk. I don't think any company will say no to make more money. with financial consideration in mind, securing company's investment is very important. IP are important in that it can product maker's rights.
In most money-making business:
-if you are the leader, you want to be able to maintin your edge while gaining new grounds.
-if you are the second place or... nth place, you just want a piece of the pie and move closer to become the major player.
what separates evil monopolist from business who tries to be responsible to the investors is what we should consider at hand.
just my 3cents
Looks like Sony Aibo got a friendly competition
about Bsod, in my humble opinion, think it's not entirely MS' fault. a line screw up in bios can easily cause this. and don't argue "it doesn't happen to *nix". well, it doesn't happen cuz it just crash/shutdown.
I know... I've been there... thanks to ATI's demo chipsets...
Intel is looking elsewhere than BIOS. Intel and Windows are forming an alliance called "Framework" (this is not related to .net framework). The intension is to eliminate problems that might be caused by BIOS, among other reasons.
Where AMD, award&phoenix are not invited obviously... this is to keep intel's edge over this strategy Hence, this openBIOS is not in the best interest of Intel.
I was just an engineer doing what our client (HP) told us to do. We don't ask why. But from what these Taiwanese company are capable of... I am sure HP and other companies wants certain amount of control. (Heck, why do you think Intel created Portability CPU the first place... and why it is terminated now)
For people don't know. Portability CPU is a class cpu that's closer to Desktop cpu speed. Has certain power-states enabled. Cost between Mobility and desktop cpu.
This is still being performed. One of the reason is to prevent OEM/ODM use invalid parts. (I know cuz I used to work for one, Compal Electronic, Inc, Second Largest laptop manufacturer OEM/ODM). And it just happen that I was a BIOS enigineer for HP products) Cheers!
Enabling technology is far more important than enhance security. The complication of business is very money driven. Targets must be met, so on and so forth. When you have time issue with completing the project. They'd rather complete the project than have a incompleted yet Excellent coded project. This is one major difference between 'engineering' and 'science'. Though security should be in consideration as a good business practice.
Centrino is an Intel Pentium M series. it is considered a "Pentium M"
This is really just a scam from Intel. Purpose to confuse consumers that Centrino is doing well.
when #1 and #2 laptop manufacturers that accounts for 60-65% worlds laptops rarely develops with Centrino AND they want to keep this up, you know Centrino is not doing so well.
when you said big boys Nvidia and ATI... sort of made me giggle. they are the leaders of high end graphics cards, but you are missing out the real big leader (in terms of market share), intel pretty much owns graphics end :D