Transmeta's design is not only superior and on average more likely to use less electrical power (and consequently generate less heat), but is also easier on the processor (preserving lifetime, not that that matters anymore), and in general provides for a "nicer" interface between the CPU and other components (for example, a processor that is running slower, but is nevertheless always on, responds to external interrupts better and more reliably).
Of course this is why Intel will win and Transmeta won't. People like to struggle. Either with a kludgy GUI or Hardware hot enough to burn your skin. If it's easy and elegant, it isn't a real computer.
This is precisely what happened with toll-free phone numbers. When the 800's ran out, the telcos offered 888. But everyone with an 800-xxx-xxxx number grabbed 888-xxx-xxxx instantly to prevent a competitor from having it. So, 877 numbers were openned and the same thing happened again. Let's face it, until NSI (or whoever) forces each registrant to justify the need for a domain name, it won't matter what comes after the dot.
Let's circumvent this entire issue. Let's lobby the MPAA and the RIAA to set-up a program that allows the consumer to legally copy DVDs and CDs. If the only thing standing in the way of my copying a DVD to tape, etc. is a licensing agreement, then let me buy a license to copy. I'd pay an additional dollar, or two, to be allowed to copy a DVD or CD for personal use. This would take away the perceived consumer pirate market (as opposed to the professional pirates) and the artist should benefit from this type of agreement.
If the MPAA continues to push there draconian control of the after-market access to their product, then new media will be developed. Consumers do not like to be oppressed and bullied. If they did, all cars would come in one color: black.
If reverse engineering were not legal, then IBM would own the PC market to this day. The clean room reverse engineering of the BIOS is one of the factors that led to the explosion of the PC market. There were specific procedures anyone reverse engineering a BIOS needed to observe to prevent a lawsuit, but I don't see Compaq, Dell, Gateway, etc. having a problem.
If this case is found in favor of the plantiffs (MPAA), we are just postponing another monoply trial. MPAA: we control the movies being made, we control the movie releases, we control the media movies are released on, we control the players for the movies. The first time the MPAA or the DVD-CCA locks a DVD player manufacturer out will cause a revisitation to the issues contained within this case.
I would not want to be a DVD player manufacturer. If the MPAA decided to black-ball a DVD player manufacturer, they could enforce this by removing that company from the keys list. Whoops, all the new movies released on DVDs won't play on your player.
If I were to pirate movies, I'd buy the DVD release and copy it to VHS from the video out. Double or triple the price of the blank tape and you'd make money in no time. The master (DVD) wouldn't wear out and you wouldn't need to pay for DVD-R disks.
Eventhough the MPAA is protecting their markets with all of these lawsuits and lobbying for copyright legislation, they are fast removing any choice from the consumer. I think the license that defines the consumers' rights after a movie (in any release format) is purchased need to be revisited.
The problem with all certification processes is that the goal becomes the certificate and not continuing knowledge. The people I've been associated with who knew their sh*t, kept learning and exploring the technology. The ones that gave certificates a bad name were the people who stopped attempting to learn after they received the certificate.
I am so glad I'm not a student anymore. Not only would I be classified ADD and drugged out of my right mind, but now a potential killer. All because the school couldn't move fast enough or wasn't interesting enough. But the guys that used to pick fights with me in the locker room would be model citizens.
The most interesting argument I've heard about not converting to metric is that the metric system is based on an earth distance: one metre is a fraction (division of ten) from the pole to the equator. As the argument goes, this makes the metric system, albeit stanardized and easy to use, difficult to conceptualize. The English system of units is based [mostly] on human proportions (i.e., foot, yard, hand). The proposal is that English unit system is much more transportable beyond the Earth. It's much easier to conceptualize an inch, a span, a foot, a yard, or a fathom with a finger, a hand, a foot, an outstretched arm or two outstreched arms than it is to transport a fractional unit of the Earth. Just an interesting reverse perspective on the English v. Metric argument.
Ice with salt was the coldest substance (with a constant controlable temperature) that was available to Fahrenheit. His temperature scale was/is based on two very reproducible extremes: the boiling point of water and the freezing point of water with the addition of salt.
The one premise that has kept modern science respectable is peer-review for all work before it is published. Beyond the political problems inherant in any field, this prevents false and/or misleading information from being mistaken as fact. Every scientific scandal (e.g., polywater, cold fusion, base metal transmutation) has been the result of untested, unsubstantiated prelimary results being released as fact without peer review. It is important to remember than scientists were among the first to collaborate on projects via e-mail and later the web. Scientific projects do not occur in the vacuum of a single lab: there is most often communication of preliminary results to other labs around the world is the norm. In many ways the current development process of the Linux kernel, etc. is very similar to any scientific research project. The Brookhaven National labs established the Protein Data Bank in 1967. Every protein structure that has been determined, and published, has been place in the PDB for public access. This is the scientific version of open source.
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Does this mean that the RIAA will relinquish the tax on all recordable CD media???
Yeah, right.
Disk on Key from M-Systems has up to 32 Mb 'keys' now and plans up to a 512 Mb USB device this year. They claim to work with Win, Mac, and Linux.
...those I'm with stupid ----> t-shirts?
Transmeta's design is not only superior and on average more likely to use less electrical power (and consequently generate
less heat), but is also easier on the processor (preserving lifetime, not that that matters anymore), and in general provides
for a "nicer" interface between the CPU and other components (for example, a processor that is running slower, but is
nevertheless always on, responds to external interrupts better and more reliably).
Of course this is why Intel will win and Transmeta won't. People like to struggle. Either with a kludgy GUI or Hardware hot enough to burn your skin. If it's easy and elegant, it isn't a real computer.
This is precisely what happened with toll-free phone numbers. When the 800's ran out, the telcos offered 888. But everyone with an 800-xxx-xxxx number grabbed 888-xxx-xxxx instantly to prevent a competitor from having it. So, 877 numbers were openned and the same thing happened again. Let's face it, until NSI (or whoever) forces each registrant to justify the need for a domain name, it won't matter what comes after the dot.
I admit it. I needed it to decipher my tax forms.
Count me in!!
Let's circumvent this entire issue. Let's lobby the MPAA and the RIAA to set-up a program that allows the consumer to legally copy DVDs and CDs. If the only thing standing in the way of my copying a DVD to tape, etc. is a licensing agreement, then let me buy a license to copy. I'd pay an additional dollar, or two, to be allowed to copy a DVD or CD for personal use. This would take away the perceived consumer pirate market (as opposed to the professional pirates) and the artist should benefit from this type of agreement.
If the MPAA continues to push there draconian control of the after-market access to their product, then new media will be developed. Consumers do not like to be oppressed and bullied. If they did, all cars would come in one color: black.
If reverse engineering were not legal , then IBM would own the PC market to this day. The clean room reverse engineering of the BIOS is one of the factors that led to the explosion of the PC market. There were specific procedures anyone reverse engineering a BIOS needed to observe to prevent a lawsuit, but I don't see Compaq, Dell, Gateway, etc. having a problem.
If this case is found in favor of the plantiffs (MPAA), we are just postponing another monoply trial. MPAA: we control the movies being made, we control the movie releases, we control the media movies are released on, we control the players for the movies. The first time the MPAA or the DVD-CCA locks a DVD player manufacturer out will cause a revisitation to the issues contained within this case.
Where AOL's network model (i.e., private not public) provides a better security model for corporate web site. More spam, but DoS?
I would not want to be a DVD player manufacturer. If the MPAA decided to black-ball a DVD player manufacturer, they could enforce this by removing that company from the keys list. Whoops, all the new movies released on DVDs won't play on your player.
If I were to pirate movies, I'd buy the DVD release and copy it to VHS from the video out. Double or triple the price of the blank tape and you'd make money in no time. The master (DVD) wouldn't wear out and you wouldn't need to pay for DVD-R disks.
Eventhough the MPAA is protecting their markets with all of these lawsuits and lobbying for copyright legislation, they are fast removing any choice from the consumer. I think the license that defines the consumers' rights after a movie (in any release format) is purchased need to be revisited.
The problem with all certification processes is that the goal becomes the certificate and not continuing knowledge. The people I've been associated with who knew their sh*t, kept learning and exploring the technology. The ones that gave certificates a bad name were the people who stopped attempting to learn after they received the certificate.
I am so glad I'm not a student anymore. Not only would I be classified ADD and drugged out of my right mind, but now a potential killer. All because the school couldn't move fast enough or wasn't interesting enough. But the guys that used to pick fights with me in the locker room would be model citizens.
Screw Y2K! This is the end of common sense.
Actually Dover buys the rights to out-of-print books. The copyrights on all of Dover's books are still in effect.
The most interesting argument I've heard about not converting to metric is that the metric system is based on an earth distance: one metre is a fraction (division of ten) from the pole to the equator. As the argument goes, this makes the metric system, albeit stanardized and easy to use, difficult to conceptualize. The English system of units is based [mostly] on human proportions (i.e., foot, yard, hand). The proposal is that English unit system is much more transportable beyond the Earth. It's much easier to conceptualize an inch, a span, a foot, a yard, or a fathom with a finger, a hand, a foot, an outstretched arm or two outstreched arms than it is to transport a fractional unit of the Earth. Just an interesting reverse perspective on the English v. Metric argument.
Ice with salt was the coldest substance (with a constant controlable temperature) that was available to Fahrenheit. His temperature scale was/is based on two very reproducible extremes: the boiling point of water and the freezing point of water with the addition of salt.
The one premise that has kept modern science respectable is peer-review for all work before it is published. Beyond the political problems inherant in any field, this prevents false and/or misleading information from being mistaken as fact. Every scientific scandal (e.g., polywater, cold fusion, base metal transmutation) has been the result of untested, unsubstantiated prelimary results being released as fact without peer review. It is important to remember than scientists were among the first to collaborate on projects via e-mail and later the web. Scientific projects do not occur in the vacuum of a single lab: there is most often communication of preliminary results to other labs around the world is the norm. In many ways the current development process of the Linux kernel, etc. is very similar to any scientific research project. The Brookhaven National labs established the Protein Data Bank in 1967. Every protein structure that has been determined, and published, has been place in the PDB for public access. This is the scientific version of open source.