Intel is the same company that put 1MB of L2 onto the PIII CPU that is in the Centrino chipset so that they'd get acceptable performance at a low clock.
I don't know of any Intel like that. The Intel I know of added 1MB of L2 cache, partitioned it into 32K slabs for maximum perfomance and power efficiency and then proceeded to rework the pipeline of the more efficient P3 core, introduced micro-ops fusion, dynamically change the clock of the FSB and generally sqeezed as much as they could out of every clock cycle.
Centrino has finally given the mobile world what they wanted; A chip that would finally deserve to take the place of the ULV P3-M as well as meeting or beating the performance of most Pentium 4-Ms.
Hell, if the 1.6GHz Pentium-M was cheap enough I'd want one in my desktop.
There has been a boon of cut-price, unlimited dial-up and DSL accounts through a wholesaler called Comindico.
You basically set up an account with them, order so many lines at each pop and they place lines at each pop on a nationwide number or local number.
The VISPs can then value-add to that service (news, webspace, email) or sell it as ultra cheap internet access (as low as US$8.95/month in some areas).
While the quality varies from ISP to ISP, they are usually fairly reliable so long as your ISP has ordered enough lines.
Killing off NT4 and its old Microsoft LAN Manager "networking" was like killing off the 9x line. It had to be done and it'll hurt now and months later you'll be wondering what exactly the fuss was again.
Can you come up with a reasonable collection of Microsoft software that costs $950 per machine (on average)? I can't
I can. Office XP, Client Access Licenses for servers, support contracts would put the price well over $950/machine.
Adding in the price for servers using Windows 2K3 enterprise/datacentre edition, exchange server and all the other software that may need to be licensed and I wouldn't be suprised if the US Army was getting a damn good buy.
Thats good because the standard allows consumers to "access and share digital content" which presumably includes WMA along with MP3 and probably AAC.
The reason I think Microsoft is involved is because of one thing. If theres a definate standard it allows Microsoft to easily build support into its OS or Media Player of the month. Look at the Camera and Scanner wizard found in Windows XP and tell me with a straight face that Microsoft isn't planning some easy to use Wireless Media Wizard.
Now storing the meta data in a database, which is essentially what WinFS and such are doing, is not as clear a benfit. Personally I can imagine that it would be a very practiacal FS for keeping movies and MP3's on. I don't really see the benefits of running the OS files on that FS though. A lot of unneccesary overhead. (I don't search for files in my OS partition very often.)
BeOS used a metadata enabled fully journaled multithreaded filesystem and it was the bomb.
Mail client? What mail client? You email inbox was a directory in the OS with all the email metadata attributes enabled in the file manager. Mail filters literally became shell scripts. Want to index your MP3s according to artist, album, etc all at the same time? Use the shell scripting and metadata, Luke!
It also does away with the stupid limitation of extensions. When all your data is stored as a datatype in the metadata listing, who needs them?
I think that Microsoft are going a little overboard embedding a database into the filesystem, proper meatdata enabled filesystems are a GOOD thing in my book.
Even though IBM may not have a perfect past, they do have a long history of creating things, and that history deserves a little bit of admiration.
One word: ALPHAWORKS.
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so batteries will probably get larger (and would have to do so even if we stayed with 12v) so the size and price of batteries will probably increase somewhat.
Tell me about it. When the inspector came to do the warranty inspection on my g/f's car he showed me the rating of the battery (somewhat obscured by the coupling).
500 CCA. I just looked at him and stuttered the words "my dad's truck only has a 350 CCA battery". He just nodded and said back to me "it's all the electrical shit this thing has to drive".
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The application layer is layer 7 but application layer and an application-level gateway are two seperate things.
Protocols such as HTTP and FTP usually start at the session layer (layer 5) which is what application-level gateways are working on. For you to manipulate sessions transparently you need to hijack the connection at the session layer otherwise you'd need special support for proxy servers.
That said, many applications usually include support for proxy servers anyway since transparent proxies are not particularly easy things to setup.
The in game movies actually looked better on console because they didn't have to compress so aggressively.
Game movies always look better on a TV screen. The nice low resolution display gives it a little bit of poor man's interpolation. Meanwhile, the crisp hi-res display of the PC means you can see every artifact in its ugly glory.
Here is a screen shot for people that want that sort of thing. It's about 46k I'm afraid.
Worried about 46K for a screen shot? We're not using 14.4 modems in 1993 anymore. I'm sure most people's connections could download that file in under 10 seconds and a significat portion would do it in under one.
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Higher quality sometimes demands higher price.
Damn straight. After using the Mach3, going back to ordinary razors just didn't cut it.
Intel is the same company that put 1MB of L2 onto the PIII CPU that is in the Centrino chipset so that they'd get acceptable performance at a low clock.
I don't know of any Intel like that. The Intel I know of added 1MB of L2 cache, partitioned it into 32K slabs for maximum perfomance and power efficiency and then proceeded to rework the pipeline of the more efficient P3 core, introduced micro-ops fusion, dynamically change the clock of the FSB and generally sqeezed as much as they could out of every clock cycle.
Centrino has finally given the mobile world what they wanted; A chip that would finally deserve to take the place of the ULV P3-M as well as meeting or beating the performance of most Pentium 4-Ms.
Hell, if the 1.6GHz Pentium-M was cheap enough I'd want one in my desktop.
I've been looking for a program like this for over 3 years.
Thank you so much for pointing it out to me.
Couldn't they have used a slightly more open format like MPEG or Divx or xVid?
BitTorrent is hugely helpful for small content developers who want to distribute their work, especially if they become popular.
I thought one of the reasons the *AAs were trying to shut down P2P was because they risk becoming irrelevant in this new digital world.
There has been a boon of cut-price, unlimited dial-up and DSL accounts through a wholesaler called Comindico.
You basically set up an account with them, order so many lines at each pop and they place lines at each pop on a nationwide number or local number.
The VISPs can then value-add to that service (news, webspace, email) or sell it as ultra cheap internet access (as low as US$8.95/month in some areas).
While the quality varies from ISP to ISP, they are usually fairly reliable so long as your ISP has ordered enough lines.
Killing off NT4 and its old Microsoft LAN Manager "networking" was like killing off the 9x line. It had to be done and it'll hurt now and months later you'll be wondering what exactly the fuss was again.
Can you come up with a reasonable collection of Microsoft software that costs $950 per machine (on average)? I can't
I can. Office XP, Client Access Licenses for servers, support contracts would put the price well over $950/machine.
Adding in the price for servers using Windows 2K3 enterprise/datacentre edition, exchange server and all the other software that may need to be licensed and I wouldn't be suprised if the US Army was getting a damn good buy.
My guess is that they're probably paying more for the support contract than the actual software.
This reasoning would explain why the US Army is going through a reseller rather than using their "buying power" to buy direct through Microsoft.
Double negatives as emphatic?
That is sooooo 1598.
Considering the draconian download limits placed on high speed connections in Australia, it'll probably be as big as a postage stamp.
No I think the million dollar question for this place is whether the f#@&*ing IE for PocketPC 2K3 supports PNGs with alpha channels properly yet.
Thats good because the standard allows consumers to "access and share digital content" which presumably includes WMA along with MP3 and probably AAC.
The reason I think Microsoft is involved is because of one thing. If theres a definate standard it allows Microsoft to easily build support into its OS or Media Player of the month. Look at the Camera and Scanner wizard found in Windows XP and tell me with a straight face that Microsoft isn't planning some easy to use Wireless Media Wizard.
Missing the point - in this case, all the logging is done on client machines, outside the direct control of the support staff
Errr... Junction Points?
Think symbolic links for network resources under Windows 2000 and upwards.
Transparent, invisible logging to the server.
Now storing the meta data in a database, which is essentially what WinFS and such are doing, is not as clear a benfit. Personally I can imagine that it would be a very practiacal FS for keeping movies and MP3's on. I don't really see the benefits of running the OS files on that FS though. A lot of unneccesary overhead. (I don't search for files in my OS partition very often.)
BeOS used a metadata enabled fully journaled multithreaded filesystem and it was the bomb.
Mail client? What mail client? You email inbox was a directory in the OS with all the email metadata attributes enabled in the file manager. Mail filters literally became shell scripts. Want to index your MP3s according to artist, album, etc all at the same time? Use the shell scripting and metadata, Luke!
It also does away with the stupid limitation of extensions. When all your data is stored as a datatype in the metadata listing, who needs them?
I think that Microsoft are going a little overboard embedding a database into the filesystem, proper meatdata enabled filesystems are a GOOD thing in my book.
If it;'s your home machine, you can do what you want with it. If it's not, then you have to go with the company policy.
And thats why nobody is going be sorry about seeing your ass go.
Even though IBM may not have a perfect past, they do have a long history of creating things, and that history deserves a little bit of admiration.
One word: ALPHAWORKS.
so batteries will probably get larger (and would have to do so even if we stayed with 12v) so the size and price of batteries will probably increase somewhat.
Tell me about it. When the inspector came to do the warranty inspection on my g/f's car he showed me the rating of the battery (somewhat obscured by the coupling).
500 CCA. I just looked at him and stuttered the words "my dad's truck only has a 350 CCA battery". He just nodded and said back to me "it's all the electrical shit this thing has to drive".
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The application layer is layer 7 but application layer and an application-level gateway are two seperate things.
Protocols such as HTTP and FTP usually start at the session layer (layer 5) which is what application-level gateways are working on. For you to manipulate sessions transparently you need to hijack the connection at the session layer otherwise you'd need special support for proxy servers.
That said, many applications usually include support for proxy servers anyway since transparent proxies are not particularly easy things to setup.
Well in terms of MS charging only 50US for an OS in contrast to the regular 299 USD is definitely price dumping.
Competition is starting to bring down the price of operating systems and all you can complain about is "price dumping".
Do you people actually stop complaining?
The in game movies actually looked better on console because they didn't have to compress so aggressively.
Game movies always look better on a TV screen. The nice low resolution display gives it a little bit of poor man's interpolation. Meanwhile, the crisp hi-res display of the PC means you can see every artifact in its ugly glory.
Speaking of bloat. From the site:
Here is a screen shot for people that want that sort of thing. It's about 46k I'm afraid.
Worried about 46K for a screen shot? We're not using 14.4 modems in 1993 anymore. I'm sure most people's connections could download that file in under 10 seconds and a significat portion would do it in under one.
Maybe it's just me, but I would trust a driver's license MORE than a signature with nothing to compare it too.
You mean all this time I couldn't compare the signature on the receipt to the signature on the back of the card?
Holy shit... I must be responsible for millions in credit card fraud alone.
The klaxornifwig galaxy are running out of IPv6 address space!
Apparently they were only allocated 215,723,018,759,102 addresses and almost all of them have dried up!