Why do I get the feeling this is just a cheap attempt to cash in on the industry?
Ummm... Capitalism is about cashing in.
The video game industry has already 'cashed in', as they rake in more than the domestic box office every year. It is huge. This is the next logical step (the fingers in the pie that are the Xbox was one of the first).
I'm assuming that this will remove the "analog hole" since there will now be encrypted digital signal right into the TV, correct? Does that mean recordings can only be performed in analog?
In that case, go pick up a few HDTV tuner cards for the PC before they lock those down. Currently, you can time shift and record the full HDTV stream. But its only a matter of time before those are regulated.
Or will they change the standard such that these will become obselete? The article isn't clear on this but this would also mean screwing over current HDTV customers, since they do not have an integral decoder...
I'm not an expert in encryption, but I have had serveral security related dongles and all of them were a pain in the arse.
Which is why most users would just leave the dongle next to the PC with the sticky note that has all of their passwords on it.
User's need to be in the habit of locking the workstation when they leave it. A good IT department will audit this (at least for the users that reside in the office... that goes for plain-view passwords, etc) and penalize users who do not (give them a slow POS or something with a ton of dead pixels). Soon, it will be a subconscious task that is performed before the PC is left. Add a hard drive password (laptop only?) or a drive encryption mechanism (like Safeguard and the data is more secure than it would be with a dongle.
Yesterday, I needed to do a side job for a friend and instead of running CAT5, I used some of the new powerline ethernet stuff. What has me impressed is that this stuff was *dead reliable* and quite compact for its first iteration. What happens when it shrinks and we see this stuff built into TVs and alarm clocks?
Aside from your toaster manufacturer snooping your toasting habbits, your alarm clock will be able to pull MP3s from the home server. Your TV will pull the funniest commercials (ala the late adcritic.com) from the Tivo ranking database. Create a standard for it all, and you've got some remarkable integration.
With this, it hopefully will not be called "DirectHOME" or something like that...
For some reason I thought this story was going to be about Slashdot.
Actually... When I read, "Life confirmed at extreme depths", I was actually thinking of the previous article on SMP support for OpenBSD. Someone get those guys an extension cord... or a flashlight...
If you get your tires changed at any reasonably large tire vendor, then you are paying for tire disposal. Look at your receipt. This happened to me on Monday at Wal Mart. They would not allow me to dispose of the tires on my own, nor did they want to remove the charge, which they had not disclosed. I told them to put my old tires back on the car and refund my money.
They gladly refunded the money at that point (actually, I hadn't even paid yet). PC disposal needs to be taken care of up front - since disposal is already paid for, there is no need to "dump it" somewhere. Just take it into an authorized disposal center and drop it off for free. Tires should be this way too...
"I was gonna clean my apartment, but then I got.. wrote a piece for Greplaw..."
No... I don't think that was it...
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At first they will be expensive, then they will be in the $599 desktops. Why wouldn't you use them?
Because 32-bit processors will have evolved into low-power, high-performance, integrated solutions being sold in $199 desktops. 64-bits will flop on the desktop for the same reason the Pentium4 has had so much success - clock speed. Certainly - there will be a 32-bit x86 core on there for backward compatibility, but the extra cruft of the 64-bits will cause much lower clock speeds so, sales will be lower until there are more native 64-bit [desktop] apps. There will be less support for 64-bit apps because sales are low.
In the meantime, the x86 32-bit core will make huge leaps in speed and integration. Low power, fanless desktops are the future. Wireless network booting and the other nine yards...
Microsoft did challenge hackers to break into a Windows system, didn't they?
They did but the box was effectively DoS'ed by the participation so there was no benefit. Plus there was no cash incentive for people who found bugs/exploits.
So we are left to test the production OS. And just as it starts to mature, Microsoft drops support and releases another version. In 2005 when MS drops support for Win2K, it will likely be the most secure Windows OS available at that time. But then they shoot themselves in the foot and remove it from the product catalog. All for the love of money.
This is where the DOJ needs to intervene. It is too bad that MS owns the DOJ, unfortunately.
When it goes production, it will be free but you'll need to submit $20 in order to submit a bug report.;)
Sigh...
This is one of those things that really gets me. If Sun was really worried about stability and security, they'd be giving it away for the masses to put through the ringer. Hell, they could even put up a few boxes on the internet for a "compromise the box and win a prize" type of test. The dollar value of different exploits could grow daily. Eventually, they'd have *proof* of the level of security available.
Actually, MS is the company with the money to do something like this. Can you imagine if they paid the world to hack/bug test the next version of Windows for a year prior to public release? And I'm not talking chump change. Pay the people well for documenting exploits and you'll have a secure OS. That might take a little longer with a Windows OS, but with $40 Billion USD in the bank, I'm sure that it could be arranged.
This won't be ready for prime time until someone builds a set top box DVD player that will plug into a router and do this automatically (with minimal configuration). The AOL of movies, if you will...
Gnome/KDE are irrelevant to the issue of server apps, so your comment that BSD "on my servers" has better documentation because of the consistency of interfaces doesn't make any sense to me. I'm not trying to argue that it does or doesn't have better documentation. I'm trying to argue that the kde/gnome inconsistency can't possibly have anything to do with it.
I wasn't clear...
What I should have said is:
BSD appears to be better documented as a result of the lack of multiple roll-your-own-distro type-documentation out there. With Linux, there could be several wrong ways to do something, or several right ways, depending on the distro. With BSD, you can just RTFM (which resides, in entirety, at a single location). Plus BSD is so much more...
Lightweight... I'm not much of a geek when it comes to the innards of an OS, but, after fiddling with Linux, I downloaded FreeBSD one day and the experience was empowering. In one week, I learned more than I had in 6 months of Linux.
Most of the net and probably most corporate and military servers runs apache and sendmail
Linux on the server is mainstream but...
I think what he is trying to ask is:
Will Joe User ever be able to sit down at a given open source workstation (i.e. - Linux on the desktop) and find enough consistency with every other open source workstation such that he/she can get something done without spending countless hours reading HOWTOs, message boards, distribution-specific documentation and performing mind-numbing tweaking at the four corners of the operating system?
I had the day off today so I installed Redhat 8.0 (SURPRISE!) and tried to get Mozilla 1.2 up and running with anti-aliased fonts. I wasted the whole day and I am glad to be back on Win2K (call me stupid or whatever... half the font stuff made me feel like a criminal - why isn't it *on* by default? I'll pay big bucks for that...). Linux is shooting itself in the foot with that respect. Everybody hears so much about Linux so they install it only to be disappointed to such an extreme that they'd never want to bother again (I know that I do not).
WTF?
I would be GLAD to give several hundred dollars to any company that can make a consistent, user-friendly, non-MS OS for my x86 hardware (all of it, not just some). Is this possible? Apple - where are you?
Linux will be ready for the desktop when Gnome or KDE drop dead (I can't wait) and some consistency settles in. Until then, I'll run BSD on my servers (the documentation is much better as a result of the consistency) and Windows on the desktop.
As for mothballing, moth ball away... given the current economic trend of the world, the space program makes little sense anyways. Things have to be fixed down here before they can be sent up, IMHO.
For those who didn't make it through all 14 pages (just asking for a whoopin')... This card has nothing to do with GeforceFX capabilities:
Conclusions The Xabre600's pixel shaders give it an obvious edge over the Geforce4 MX in a feature category that will only become more important as time goes on. Sure the GeForce4 MX 460 is faster now, but it may not support all the new eye candy in future DirectX 8.1 titles.
Against the Radeon 9000 Pro, the Xabre600 starts to look a lot worse. Here the DirectX compatibility playing field is level, but the Radeon 9000 Pro's pixel shader performance is much better, as is its performance in real world applications. Even if the Xabre600 is able to achieve price parity with the Radeon 9000 Pro, ATI's value offering is still going to be a better deal.
Let's not even get into how the Xabre600 compares with the GeForce4 Ti 4200, because it really doesn't. The GeForce4 Ti 4200 is likely to be the most expensive of the Xabre600's closest competitors, anyway.
The fact that the Xabre600's performance can't keep up with the competition doesn't mean that there isn't value to the part. That SiS is able to produce the chip on a 0.13-micron process is impressive in itself, and I'm happy to see that the new drivers have fixed all the compatibility problems. With the improved compatibility of the latest drivers, SiS at least has a DirectX 8-class graphics chip with the Xabre600, even if it's not the most competitive one.
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If the article gets slashdotted, you can find it on Kazaa with the search query, Fuck Holywood.
Why do I get the feeling this is just a cheap attempt to cash in on the industry?
Ummm... Capitalism is about cashing in.
The video game industry has already 'cashed in', as they rake in more than the domestic box office every year. It is huge. This is the next logical step (the fingers in the pie that are the Xbox was one of the first).
I'm assuming that this will remove the "analog hole" since there will now be encrypted digital signal right into the TV, correct? Does that mean recordings can only be performed in analog?
In that case, go pick up a few HDTV tuner cards for the PC before they lock those down. Currently, you can time shift and record the full HDTV stream. But its only a matter of time before those are regulated.
Or will they change the standard such that these will become obselete? The article isn't clear on this but this would also mean screwing over current HDTV customers, since they do not have an integral decoder...
Maybe here?
They have an exhibit already. I wouldn't be surprised if they added this robocoaster to the bill...
I'm not an expert in encryption, but I have had serveral security related dongles and all of them were a pain in the arse.
Which is why most users would just leave the dongle next to the PC with the sticky note that has all of their passwords on it.
User's need to be in the habit of locking the workstation when they leave it. A good IT department will audit this (at least for the users that reside in the office... that goes for plain-view passwords, etc) and penalize users who do not (give them a slow POS or something with a ton of dead pixels). Soon, it will be a subconscious task that is performed before the PC is left. Add a hard drive password (laptop only?) or a drive encryption mechanism (like Safeguard and the data is more secure than it would be with a dongle.
OK,
Yesterday, I needed to do a side job for a friend and instead of running CAT5, I used some of the new powerline ethernet stuff. What has me impressed is that this stuff was *dead reliable* and quite compact for its first iteration. What happens when it shrinks and we see this stuff built into TVs and alarm clocks?
Aside from your toaster manufacturer snooping your toasting habbits, your alarm clock will be able to pull MP3s from the home server. Your TV will pull the funniest commercials (ala the late adcritic.com) from the Tivo ranking database. Create a standard for it all, and you've got some remarkable integration.
With this, it hopefully will not be called "DirectHOME" or something like that...
No one wants to stop buying from their favorite artist, who is most likely distributed through the RIAA.
If they are distributed through the RIAA, then they are also distributed through Kazaa!
127.0.0.1 criminals.doubleclick.net
I was waiting for the commemorative Pentium XT running at 4.77GHz.
Soviet Bell Turns the Public into Payphone Hotspots.
For some reason I thought this story was going to be about Slashdot.
Actually... When I read, "Life confirmed at extreme depths", I was actually thinking of the previous article on SMP support for OpenBSD. Someone get those guys an extension cord... or a flashlight...
And what about my worn out tires...
If you get your tires changed at any reasonably large tire vendor, then you are paying for tire disposal. Look at your receipt. This happened to me on Monday at Wal Mart. They would not allow me to dispose of the tires on my own, nor did they want to remove the charge, which they had not disclosed. I told them to put my old tires back on the car and refund my money.
They gladly refunded the money at that point (actually, I hadn't even paid yet). PC disposal needs to be taken care of up front - since disposal is already paid for, there is no need to "dump it" somewhere. Just take it into an authorized disposal center and drop it off for free. Tires should be this way too...
"I was gonna clean my apartment, but then I got.. wrote a piece for Greplaw..."
No... I don't think that was it...
At first they will be expensive, then they will be in the $599 desktops. Why wouldn't you use them?
Because 32-bit processors will have evolved into low-power, high-performance, integrated solutions being sold in $199 desktops. 64-bits will flop on the desktop for the same reason the Pentium4 has had so much success - clock speed. Certainly - there will be a 32-bit x86 core on there for backward compatibility, but the extra cruft of the 64-bits will cause much lower clock speeds so, sales will be lower until there are more native 64-bit [desktop] apps. There will be less support for 64-bit apps because sales are low.
In the meantime, the x86 32-bit core will make huge leaps in speed and integration. Low power, fanless desktops are the future. Wireless network booting and the other nine yards...
You'd think that Virginia would want a piece of them too...
Microsoft did challenge hackers to break into a Windows system, didn't they?
They did but the box was effectively DoS'ed by the participation so there was no benefit. Plus there was no cash incentive for people who found bugs/exploits.
So we are left to test the production OS. And just as it starts to mature, Microsoft drops support and releases another version. In 2005 when MS drops support for Win2K, it will likely be the most secure Windows OS available at that time. But then they shoot themselves in the foot and remove it from the product catalog. All for the love of money.
This is where the DOJ needs to intervene. It is too bad that MS owns the DOJ, unfortunately.
When it goes production, it will be free but you'll need to submit $20 in order to submit a bug report. ;)
Sigh...
This is one of those things that really gets me. If Sun was really worried about stability and security, they'd be giving it away for the masses to put through the ringer. Hell, they could even put up a few boxes on the internet for a "compromise the box and win a prize" type of test. The dollar value of different exploits could grow daily. Eventually, they'd have *proof* of the level of security available.
Actually, MS is the company with the money to do something like this. Can you imagine if they paid the world to hack/bug test the next version of Windows for a year prior to public release? And I'm not talking chump change. Pay the people well for documenting exploits and you'll have a secure OS. That might take a little longer with a Windows OS, but with $40 Billion USD in the bank, I'm sure that it could be arranged.
Today's "Big Hack" exploit is up to $90,000 USD.
This won't be ready for prime time until someone builds a set top box DVD player that will plug into a router and do this automatically (with minimal configuration). The AOL of movies, if you will...
A good application for MiniITX and LinuxBIOS?
Gnome/KDE are irrelevant to the issue of server apps, so your comment that BSD "on my servers" has better documentation because of the consistency of interfaces doesn't make any sense to me. I'm not trying to argue that it does or doesn't have better documentation. I'm trying to argue that the kde/gnome inconsistency can't possibly have anything to do with it.
I wasn't clear...
What I should have said is:
BSD appears to be better documented as a result of the lack of multiple roll-your-own-distro type-documentation out there. With Linux, there could be several wrong ways to do something, or several right ways, depending on the distro. With BSD, you can just RTFM (which resides, in entirety, at a single location). Plus BSD is so much more...
Lightweight... I'm not much of a geek when it comes to the innards of an OS, but, after fiddling with Linux, I downloaded FreeBSD one day and the experience was empowering. In one week, I learned more than I had in 6 months of Linux.
Most of the net and probably most corporate and military servers runs apache and sendmail
Linux on the server is mainstream but...
I think what he is trying to ask is:
Will Joe User ever be able to sit down at a given open source workstation (i.e. - Linux on the desktop) and find enough consistency with every other open source workstation such that he/she can get something done without spending countless hours reading HOWTOs, message boards, distribution-specific documentation and performing mind-numbing tweaking at the four corners of the operating system?
I had the day off today so I installed Redhat 8.0 (SURPRISE!) and tried to get Mozilla 1.2 up and running with anti-aliased fonts. I wasted the whole day and I am glad to be back on Win2K (call me stupid or whatever... half the font stuff made me feel like a criminal - why isn't it *on* by default? I'll pay big bucks for that...). Linux is shooting itself in the foot with that respect. Everybody hears so much about Linux so they install it only to be disappointed to such an extreme that they'd never want to bother again (I know that I do not).
WTF?
I would be GLAD to give several hundred dollars to any company that can make a consistent, user-friendly, non-MS OS for my x86 hardware (all of it, not just some). Is this possible? Apple - where are you?
Linux will be ready for the desktop when Gnome or KDE drop dead (I can't wait) and some consistency settles in. Until then, I'll run BSD on my servers (the documentation is much better as a result of the consistency) and Windows on the desktop.
Cheetos!
As for mothballing, moth ball away... given the current economic trend of the world, the space program makes little sense anyways. Things have to be fixed down here before they can be sent up, IMHO.
Yeah... Israel needs more US taxpayer money. They are much more important than any space program.
Sigh...
For those who didn't make it through all 14 pages (just asking for a whoopin')... This card has nothing to do with GeforceFX capabilities:
Conclusions
The Xabre600's pixel shaders give it an obvious edge over the Geforce4 MX in a feature category that will only become more important as time goes on. Sure the GeForce4 MX 460 is faster now, but it may not support all the new eye candy in future DirectX 8.1 titles.
Against the Radeon 9000 Pro, the Xabre600 starts to look a lot worse. Here the DirectX compatibility playing field is level, but the Radeon 9000 Pro's pixel shader performance is much better, as is its performance in real world applications. Even if the Xabre600 is able to achieve price parity with the Radeon 9000 Pro, ATI's value offering is still going to be a better deal.
Let's not even get into how the Xabre600 compares with the GeForce4 Ti 4200, because it really doesn't. The GeForce4 Ti 4200 is likely to be the most expensive of the Xabre600's closest competitors, anyway.
The fact that the Xabre600's performance can't keep up with the competition doesn't mean that there isn't value to the part. That SiS is able to produce the chip on a 0.13-micron process is impressive in itself, and I'm happy to see that the new drivers have fixed all the compatibility problems. With the improved compatibility of the latest drivers, SiS at least has a DirectX 8-class graphics chip with the Xabre600, even if it's not the most competitive one.
Read the FIRST POST! by myself in this story...
It's a trick
Get an axe!
Wow!
NumaFLEX... And to think... All that AMD could come up with was Athlon 64.
You'da thunk that they'd at least stuck a period or an 'e' on there somewhere...
eAthlon.64?