From the article, China only lost a minor copyright issue. China refused to recognized copyrights for articles that are "unconstitutional or immoral." The WTO said they needed to. All of the other complaints were dismissed.
After Apple made a joke about this, during the Mac OS X Leopard release, I would think Microsoft would reduce the versions to at most a home and a business edition.
It was so funny when Jobs said there would be multiple versions... just like Windows, then after a while, he said that the price for each was $129. He said that most people would pick the Ultimate version for $129;-)
Wouldn't it make more sense to watch the live video on a TV leaving the computer free to look things up? This allows computer use without interfering with the video.
Firewire is not 3200 Mbps, Firewire 400 is 400 Mbps and Firewire 800 is 800 Mbps, USB 2.0 is 480 Mbps.... all the speeds are in BITS per second. Although 400 is less than 480, due to protocol overhead, Firewire 400 typically outperforms USB.
If you don't see problems with high motion video (like football games), then you really should have your eyes checked. I can not stand to watch football in high-def since gets SO sharp when there is no motion, then becomes a bunch of blobs when the play starts.
I complained about the "HD" TV quality last September: prev message
Ran into the same issue with an ECS motherboard about 2 years ago... It was in a combo deal at Fry's for basically the same price as just the CPU. I just needed a really basic system and for the price it looked like a good deal, but was a nightmare trying to get it to work.
And the submitter must also be an iPhone lover... The three things the submitter claims that 'edge' has the advantage is BS.
First 'processor speed' - that's not determined by the network, but the mobile vendor. Faster processors are not reserved for Edge. The article stated one example of a slower UMTS phone, and the submitter generalized it to all Edge phones have faster processors than UMTS phones.
Second 'latency' - the article does not state that Edge has an advantage here, it just states that wireless latency sucks. So the article's argument was that since wireless latencies suck, bandwidth is not a factor in loading web pages so...
The result: loading Web pages on a 3G phone may actually take about the same amount of time as a phone loading those pages over an EDGE network because all the network time is spent setting up and tearing down connections, not actually sending big amounts of data. And so far, most carriers have preferred to optimize bandwidth at the expense of latency. Why? Because it's more marketable (see erroneous analyst quote above).
The problem here is that the HSDPA addition to UMTS, has drastically cut latencies. He also does not state the typical round-trip delays for each of the technologies, they may be similar, but most likely not.
Third, error rates - the article makes the claim that 'higher speeds' translate to 'higher error rates'. He provides no evidence that is in fact the case. It would be like a company that just put out a 2400 baud modem stating that the other 9600 baud modems out there is not going to improve your download speeds because there will just be more errors on the line. In fact, Edge and UMTS transmissions are very different with UMTS using significantly more spectrum than Edge. So, Edge may have higher error rates, but without some actual data, none of us can make either claim.
Overall, a really bad article submission to accept...
For fast-motion scenes, I'd prefer to watch analog. With a good signal, I'd probably rate it about a 7 or 8 (out of 10). For digital, when there is no motion, I'd rate it at 10. Once significant motion starts, I'd rate it about a 2 or 3. I'd much rather have a consistent and slightly lower quality than wildly varying quality...
And for my previous, Troll?? nice moderating skills:-D
Over-the-air HD looks like crap anyway. They are not using enough bandwidth and/or the codecs are not good enough to handle LARGE amount of change in a scene. Watch any football game, when the scene is still, like on a player/coach or just before the ball snaps, it looks incredible. But once 22 people moving along with the camera angle, the clarity and sharpness are gone until the scene settles down. No, it's not motion blur, it's insufficient bandwidth to accurately decode the scene. You can also see in the first 1/8 or 1/4 second when a scene changes, everything is blocky, then comes into sharp focus. Or watch as logos fly across the screen, you'll see the blocky artifacts there too. I'm just surprised that more people are not complaining about the quality.
Freedom has already been lost with Linux, that is what Stallman is trying to fix. Look at all the new versions of firmware that many different people have created for the Linksys WRT54G Router. That was the intent behind GPL, allow people the ability to control their own products. Linksys did the right thing and this is how it should work.
Now take Netgear, around the same time, they had a router that also ran Linux, WGT-634U. It had several advantages over the WRT54G, it was twice as fast (108Mbps Super G), has a USB port which supports both external drives and printers. They had the source available for download, just like Linksys, and after a few emails back-and-forth to the netgear 'open source' rep, and getting close to building a driver, I decided to buy the router since it was on sale at Fry's. My next email to netgear was along the lines of 'ok, I have the build tools, it looks like everything is compiling, but I don't see the firmware file that I can load on my router, is there another step I need to do or did I miss it'. Their response just blew me away - (paraphrasing since it was about two year) - 'We don't allow you to build the firmware image, the format is proprietary, the html control pages are copyrighted.' So even though I own the hardware, I have the source, I have (some of) the tools, - I am not able to change and use the program on the hardware I OWN. All because netgear chose to lock it, but they were still able to use Linux to make their product and they were compliant with GPL v2.
Linus does not care about this issue, Stallman does.
I think some people have finally been successful in reverse-engineering the format, load process, but this should not be required.
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It's very doubtful that the issue had anything to do with DNS unless their DNS servers were BADLY configured, most likely the tax return processing servers just couldn't load. The DNS system scales nicely... Each ISP has their own set of DNS servers that will cache 'the name to IP address mapping' and not bother the authoritative DNS server until the cache expires which is typically 24 hours. So once one of the ISP's customer does the lookup, all the lookups for that IP from all the ISP's other customers will not bother the authoritative DNS server until the cache has expired and then it will only do one lookup again.
I doubt if there's a single county in the Verizon empire in which more than a thousand homes have FIOS as an option.
Well that is definitely wrong. Just about the entire city of Plano, TX has FIOS service available. According to this article, back in April, about 22,000 of the 65,000 households even had a FIOS TV option:
And within the last few months the service has expanded for most of the rest of Plano (verizon territory - not the corner of Plano which is serviced by the new AT&T). The way it was rolled out here in Plano was Internet first, then TV. I ordered each as soon as it was available, and had them for about 3 months and 2 months, respectively.
There are probably other areas like this, but I've only followed this one.
Why wait until them gather in crowds? With all the wiretapping the government is doing, I'm sure they can just find the people that are opposed to this, and use it on them.
First all, I do think employers have no right to look at your credit report, but it doesn't appear as if this person has ever even seen a credit report:
Prospective employer # 1 : "Gee, look at this. That last woman we interviewed, Mary Roe, the one we want to go with? Says here her name used to be Mike Row. Forget "it". Next!"
Yes, this one could show up.
Prospective employer # 2 : "Gee, look at this. It says here that Joe Blow maxed out his credit cards last year for chemo for his wife. We don't want him raising our health insurance premiums. Next!"
Your credit report would NOT have any information about what the credit cards were used for. But it could show direct liabilities at doctors and medical facilities that could reveal a problem.
Prospective employer # 3 : "Gee, look at this. The credit report lists Janet James as having a dependent child, but no husband. We don't need sinners like that here. Next!"
You credit report does NOT list dependants, it's not your tax return (that's what they will probably be asking for next. Of course your new employer should be able to check the last 3 years of your taxes to see if you lied about your salary history [sarcasm]).
Prospective employer # 4 : "Gee, look at this. This credit report lists that Wilma Flinstone is claiming Betty Rubble as her spouse. Do we really want a lez in the office? Next!"
The credit report does NOT list the spouse.
Prospective employer # 5 : "Gee, look at this. This credit report lists that Fred Flinstone is claiming Barney Rubble as his "domestic partner". Credit card bills show they were married at Stoney Creeek Lodge last year. I don't want some guy looking at my ass. Next!"
The credit report does NOT list the spouse.
Prospective employer # 6 : "Gee, look at this. The credit report says that the reason for Nancy Crow's falling behind for a few months was she quit her job and sued her previous employer for sexual harrassment. She's probably a butch anyway. Next!"
The credit report does NOT list any reasons for any missed payments.
It's a bad idea, but not for most of the reasons listed above.
Also make sure you already have the two great audio successors to CDs... you already have a Super Audio-CDs (SA-CDs) and a DVD-Audio player, right? Plus if you were an early adopter of rewritable DVDs, you have both and original DVD+R/RW and one that only does DVD-R/RW...
Duplication is so nice for the bank account (the company's bank account).
The original intent for the GPLv2, was that if someone provided you with software that was based on the GPL, you would be able to make changes to that code and actually use it. Certain companies such as Tivo and Netgear skirted the original intent by refusing to allow any modified programs work on their hardware. I personally ran into this issue with Netgear, I purchased their WGT634U router specifically because it ran Linux and I was able to get the source code. Communication with Netgear was going fine until I asked about making a firmware image so that I could run any changes that I made on that hardware. The response was basically along the lines of: Our firmware format is proprietary, the HTML pages on the router are not part of the code and thus are copyrighted. So I had the code that they used to make the router, I was able to make changes to that code, but I was not allowed to put the code back onto the hardware that I own. From my understanding of the changes in the new GPLv3, this is exactly the issue they are trying to solve. The FREEDOM to actually run the program that you have modified on the hardware that ran the original program.
The transistor count is only limited by process. If you go for simpler cores (like in the article, FOR INSTANCE), you'll get more cores with the same transistor budget.
Did you even read the article?
While system performance in the Wintel world often lags behind theoretical microprocessor performance gains, Sellers believes that "it's a safe bet" that actual system performance for the next-generation Azul appliances will be more than twice current speeds thanks to the extra cores, faster clock speeds and new instructions. This, he says, gives Azul a good shot at being chosen over traditional non-uniform memory access (Numa) server architectures for consolidating workloads.
If they are adding new instructions, the cores are not being simplified. Although, I didn't find where/if they stated the transistor count for the first chip with wording like: "squeezing in 812 million transistors", I'm sure they are adding to the transistor count.
But it would seem to me, that for the same sized chip, regardless of number of cores, the process (90 nm in this case) limits the number of transistors.
Correct, that would set the upper limit if everything was constant. But the article does not state what process was used in the first-generation chip:
The first-generation Vega processor it designed has 24 cores but the firm expects to double that level of integration in systems generally available next year with the Vega 2, built on TSMC's 90nm process and squeezing in 812 million transistors.
The way I read this statement is that they are moving to the 90nm process and will be able to squeeze more transistors on the chip because of that. The word 'squeezing' implies to me that they are using more transistors than the first chip. Also, the article does not state that the size of the chip would not increase. The actual silicon of most chips are much smaller than the package size, thus even if the silicon increased, the packaging can remain the same.
So if you don't know CPU internals, why make these statements:
It would seem to me, that a CPU's workload is roughly limited by the number of transistors it has multiplied by it's MHz speed.
- NO, number of transistors has nothing to do with it.
No matter how many cores one has, the transistor count should remain roughly the same for a 1-core, 2-core, 8-core chip of the same nm process and is limited by that process (90 nm in this case).
- NO, transistor count WILL increase with the increase of the number of cores.
I would suppose (but am not sure) extra cores reduce the number of transistors being idle at any one moment.
- NO, more transisters will be idle since each core will have it's own set of idle transistors to add to the total number of idle ones.
The downside would seem that each extra core reduces the capability to process highly sequential problems in favor of highly paralell problems.
- NO, not for the individual core, only if the cores are competing for shared resources such as the memory or some I/O bus.
I know extra cores are nice to an extent, but isn't there a point where the paralellized gains aren't worth reduction in individual core capability?
- Hardware-wise, NO, each core will have the same capabilities, although as stated above may have to compete with other cores for shared resources.
So these chips may be great for networks (routers, etcetera) but not so nice in desktops.
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From the article, China only lost a minor copyright issue. China refused to recognized copyrights for articles that are "unconstitutional or immoral." The WTO said they needed to. All of the other complaints were dismissed.
After Apple made a joke about this, during the Mac OS X Leopard release, I would think Microsoft would reduce the versions to at most a home and a business edition. It was so funny when Jobs said there would be multiple versions... just like Windows, then after a while, he said that the price for each was $129. He said that most people would pick the Ultimate version for $129 ;-)
Wouldn't it make more sense to watch the live video on a TV leaving the computer free to look things up? This allows computer use without interfering with the video.
Firewire is not 3200 Mbps, Firewire 400 is 400 Mbps and Firewire 800 is 800 Mbps, USB 2.0 is 480 Mbps.... all the speeds are in BITS per second. Although 400 is less than 480, due to protocol overhead, Firewire 400 typically outperforms USB.
If you don't see problems with high motion video (like football games), then you really should have your eyes checked. I can not stand to watch football in high-def since gets SO sharp when there is no motion, then becomes a bunch of blobs when the play starts.
I complained about the "HD" TV quality last September: prev message
Ran into the same issue with an ECS motherboard about 2 years ago... It was in a combo deal at Fry's for basically the same price as just the CPU. I just needed a really basic system and for the price it looked like a good deal, but was a nightmare trying to get it to work.
First 'processor speed' - that's not determined by the network, but the mobile vendor. Faster processors are not reserved for Edge. The article stated one example of a slower UMTS phone, and the submitter generalized it to all Edge phones have faster processors than UMTS phones.
Second 'latency' - the article does not state that Edge has an advantage here, it just states that wireless latency sucks. So the article's argument was that since wireless latencies suck, bandwidth is not a factor in loading web pages so...
The problem here is that the HSDPA addition to UMTS, has drastically cut latencies. He also does not state the typical round-trip delays for each of the technologies, they may be similar, but most likely not.Third, error rates - the article makes the claim that 'higher speeds' translate to 'higher error rates'. He provides no evidence that is in fact the case. It would be like a company that just put out a 2400 baud modem stating that the other 9600 baud modems out there is not going to improve your download speeds because there will just be more errors on the line. In fact, Edge and UMTS transmissions are very different with UMTS using significantly more spectrum than Edge. So, Edge may have higher error rates, but without some actual data, none of us can make either claim.
Overall, a really bad article submission to accept...
Maybe she is really back by the RIAA... Setup a case where they know they will win... take it to trial... scare everyone else... hmmmm....
The first thing I thought of was the Saturday Night Live Skit with "PAT".
And for my previous, Troll?? nice moderating skills :-D
Over-the-air HD looks like crap anyway. They are not using enough bandwidth and/or the codecs are not good enough to handle LARGE amount of change in a scene. Watch any football game, when the scene is still, like on a player/coach or just before the ball snaps, it looks incredible. But once 22 people moving along with the camera angle, the clarity and sharpness are gone until the scene settles down. No, it's not motion blur, it's insufficient bandwidth to accurately decode the scene. You can also see in the first 1/8 or 1/4 second when a scene changes, everything is blocky, then comes into sharp focus. Or watch as logos fly across the screen, you'll see the blocky artifacts there too. I'm just surprised that more people are not complaining about the quality.
Now take Netgear, around the same time, they had a router that also ran Linux, WGT-634U. It had several advantages over the WRT54G, it was twice as fast (108Mbps Super G), has a USB port which supports both external drives and printers. They had the source available for download, just like Linksys, and after a few emails back-and-forth to the netgear 'open source' rep, and getting close to building a driver, I decided to buy the router since it was on sale at Fry's. My next email to netgear was along the lines of 'ok, I have the build tools, it looks like everything is compiling, but I don't see the firmware file that I can load on my router, is there another step I need to do or did I miss it'. Their response just blew me away - (paraphrasing since it was about two year) - 'We don't allow you to build the firmware image, the format is proprietary, the html control pages are copyrighted.' So even though I own the hardware, I have the source, I have (some of) the tools, - I am not able to change and use the program on the hardware I OWN. All because netgear chose to lock it, but they were still able to use Linux to make their product and they were compliant with GPL v2.
Linus does not care about this issue, Stallman does.
I think some people have finally been successful in reverse-engineering the format, load process, but this should not be required.
FROM GOOGLE:
Results 1 - 10 of about 39,400 for netgear router linux wgt634u
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,980,000 for linksys router linux wrt54g
It's very doubtful that the issue had anything to do with DNS unless their DNS servers were BADLY configured, most likely the tax return processing servers just couldn't load. The DNS system scales nicely... Each ISP has their own set of DNS servers that will cache 'the name to IP address mapping' and not bother the authoritative DNS server until the cache expires which is typically 24 hours. So once one of the ISP's customer does the lookup, all the lookups for that IP from all the ISP's other customers will not bother the authoritative DNS server until the cache has expired and then it will only do one lookup again.
Well that is definitely wrong. Just about the entire city of Plano, TX has FIOS service available. According to this article, back in April, about 22,000 of the 65,000 households even had a FIOS TV option:
http://www.cedmagazine.com/article/CA6325716.html
And within the last few months the service has expanded for most of the rest of Plano (verizon territory - not the corner of Plano which is serviced by the new AT&T). The way it was rolled out here in Plano was Internet first, then TV. I ordered each as soon as it was available, and had them for about 3 months and 2 months, respectively.
There are probably other areas like this, but I've only followed this one.
Why wait until them gather in crowds? With all the wiretapping the government is doing, I'm sure they can just find the people that are opposed to this, and use it on them.
Yes, this one could show up.
Your credit report would NOT have any information about what the credit cards were used for. But it could show direct liabilities at doctors and medical facilities that could reveal a problem.
You credit report does NOT list dependants, it's not your tax return (that's what they will probably be asking for next. Of course your new employer should be able to check the last 3 years of your taxes to see if you lied about your salary history [sarcasm]).
The credit report does NOT list the spouse.
The credit report does NOT list the spouse.
The credit report does NOT list any reasons for any missed payments.
It's a bad idea, but not for most of the reasons listed above.
Also make sure you already have the two great audio successors to CDs... you already have a Super Audio-CDs (SA-CDs) and a DVD-Audio player, right? Plus if you were an early adopter of rewritable DVDs, you have both and original DVD+R/RW and one that only does DVD-R/RW...
Duplication is so nice for the bank account (the company's bank account).
If there was only one "incident", it could be explained away as an accident... That gets alittle harder when there 4 "incidents".
Don't all fly on the same plane, ride in the same car, or use the same elevator... It's better to lose 1 than all 4 ;-)
The original intent for the GPLv2, was that if someone provided you with software that was based on the GPL, you would be able to make changes to that code and actually use it. Certain companies such as Tivo and Netgear skirted the original intent by refusing to allow any modified programs work on their hardware. I personally ran into this issue with Netgear, I purchased their WGT634U router specifically because it ran Linux and I was able to get the source code. Communication with Netgear was going fine until I asked about making a firmware image so that I could run any changes that I made on that hardware. The response was basically along the lines of: Our firmware format is proprietary, the HTML pages on the router are not part of the code and thus are copyrighted. So I had the code that they used to make the router, I was able to make changes to that code, but I was not allowed to put the code back onto the hardware that I own. From my understanding of the changes in the new GPLv3, this is exactly the issue they are trying to solve. The FREEDOM to actually run the program that you have modified on the hardware that ran the original program.
Because it's no where near the blood stream. This one is subdermal (just under the skin) not into a vein. For the vein, it would be an IV.
The first-generation Vega processor it designed has 24 cores but the firm expects to double that level of integration in systems generally available next year with the Vega 2, built on TSMC's 90nm process and squeezing in 812 million transistors.
The way I read this statement is that they are moving to the 90nm process and will be able to squeeze more transistors on the chip because of that. The word 'squeezing' implies to me that they are using more transistors than the first chip. Also, the article does not state that the size of the chip would not increase. The actual silicon of most chips are much smaller than the package size, thus even if the silicon increased, the packaging can remain the same.
Apparently, this guy didn't grow there... or they are having a problem with their crops...