In my opinion, Gator is a virus. It is attached to the software installations for other products, and it usually installs itself on user's systems without their permission. When you try to remove it, it creates a copy of itself so it is not deleted.
It also interferes with the running of your computer. When I go to a website, I want to see that website, and view the ads that paid for that website. Gator changes that, and thus in effect is altering content without my permission. It uses up my computer's cycles and bandwidth to alter the contents of my computer's memory.
So is Gator only legal because it is a company, and has corporates paying them? Gator does appear to be a protection racket as well - pay us money, or we will take away your business (by showing competitor's ads on your page).
Christ, someone set the FBI onto this company. IMHO, of course.
The iPaq already runs on an ARM processor, a 206MHz StrongARM. Handspring will soon be releasing a 45MHz Palm 4 based PDA though.
This Be thing is not going to be for PalmOS5, but of PalmOS6. First, the kernel and multimedia API's need to be ported to the ARM, and then the Palm OS 5 interface and API needs to be able to run on top of this.
Expect 400MHz+ XScale Palm PDA's running BePalmOS6 within 2 years. I hope.
For A Linux box or a Windows box, go through the same list and realize that it's the administrator that matters. Not the OS! Really. A windows box can be just as secure as linux box if the administrator knows what he is doing. An admin for a win2k box is cheaper than a linux admin. There's more of them. So the cost of the OS takes itself out.
Oooohh, the total cost of ownership argument rears its ugly head again!:)
As I said, most MCSE's don't know left from right. They may be cheap, but there is a reason for that! You gets what you pays for.
Linux does get security holes, although a well configured install should have less opportunity. If the box is only running sshd, httpd and a database, then you cut down the options for attack immediately. If you run OpenBSD you will be pretty safe out of the box!
Windows appears to get a major security hole several times a year, and people just don't learn. This isn't about a webserver, it is about the future of your data and personal information, because that is what Microsoft wants to manage via Passport.
My post you quoted was a joke, although it got a couple of informatives (?!) as well. Code Red has proved that most admins for windows system don't patch their machines, possibly because MS patches tend to mess things up like Exchange so they don't work. So to use MS, you need a duplicate setup of your servers just to test out these patches and check they will work when used on production equipment. That is expensive, even if the hardware is old, the software needs licenses.
The fact that Code Red has infected so many home users suggests a big piracy problem to me. No wonder MS have WPA in XP. I bet that WPA won't make people buy Windows though, they will stick with what they have, and eventually be forced to check out an alternative OS.
Of course, for some applications, MS will be the right choice..NET looks like it will be very good, however MS want to fix it up in patents to prevent interoperability and keep it to themselves and their friends. Linux/BSD/etc does not need a.NET clone, it needs its own system that works like.NET, but using open, free software and algorithms, all managable from a single command line and GUI tool. Easy to set up, easy to configure, cross platform and easy to interoperate with other vendors. I call it "The Unix Business Platform"...:)
1) Pick a platform that is difficult to administer remotely
2) Pick a platform that is insecure
3) Pick a platform that can't handle the amount of customers you have
4) Pick a platform that costs a tonne of money
5) Pick a platform that requires a person with a dodgy qualification to run it, who doesn't know left from right, and demands more money than they are worth
6) Pick a platform that is proprietary
7) Pick a platform that runs on low-end server hardware or worse only
8) Pick a platform that you will have to lease by the year or per billion processor cycles within the next 3 years
9) Pick a platform with a database server that "loses" data given certain queries
10) Pick a platform that is forever morphing, changing technology, and has a history of instability
11) Pick a platform which would get you the sack if management had a clue
Sorry for letting you get into a flame conversation. When I said "KDE is easier" I meant it not as a fact, hard driven into pure stone, but because at a management level they would choose KDE over Gnome every time because they would see it as easier, quicker and more professional.
I have programmed Gnome in Perl, and it was fun. I have not programmed KDE/QT, so I cannot comment there at all. Glade is a great GTK+ GUI creation tool which I have had fun with as well.
But the best thing for a developer is to not have to cut and paste hundreds of lines of C to emulate C++ classes. Also QT is cross platform, so developing in QT using KDevelop will have more benefits than developing in Glade + gIDE etc.
reading through all the posts, I can see a definite trend:
1) Dells have dodgy serial ports (not related, but still interesting)
2) Palm V's have problems because of metal case and cradle and buildup of static charge
3) Static buildup zaps motherboard somehow, when hotsink button is pressed
4) Motherboard isn't grounded, hence charge just dissipates into the components, killing one of them
5) Hence user error - probably using a non-grounded power cable to the PC.
In whatever case, it appears that the problem is not with the Palm, but with either the motherboard being defective, or the user being defective. As people have said, it takes a damn lightning strike to kill a motherboard, or even the serial port on the motherboard. There is no way someone could build up that amount of static, even if their surname was "Nylon" and they work in a balloon rubbing factory...:)
The EV6 bus tops out at 3.2GB/s in the specification. AMD have decided to only implement the 1.6GB/s and 2.1GB/s version of it (100MHz and 133MHz DDR). However people have overclocked the bus significantly to 2.4GB/s or even 2.7GB/s already. I expect that Barton might work with a 166MHz DDR FSB anyway, as the next AMD chipset will support PC2700 DDR memory, and AMD's chipsets are alway synchronous with the FSB speed and memory bus speed.
The P4's bus is quite bandwidth hungry if I remember correctly. It isn't as efficient as the EV6. Anyway, the P4 is slowed down badly by high RDRAM latency.
Of course, the P4's FSB will be updated to be 533MHz (133x4) next year, thus getting over 4GB/s bandwidth, with faster RDRAM with more bandwidth. However DDR ram then will be faster and have even lower latencies. Imagine a dual channel DDR chipset for the Athlon that support PC2700, aka nForce 2 coming next year. A total of 5.4GB/s of bandwidth between memory and the system.
I am not surprised that patents for one bus technology are reused in another bus. But that does not make the second bus a variant of the first bus. It makes sense to reuse good ideas!
EV6 IS NOT the same bus as HyperTransport. They are not even similar, except maybe for some low-level things.
EV6 does not use LVDS.
EV6 is not a bidirectional (full duplex) bus (X data lines one way, and Y data lines the other way), instead all of the data lines are use for communications in both directions (half-duplex).
EV6 is a processor (Alpha or Athlon/Duron) to northbridge bus. Hypertransport is a chip interconnection technology for the future.
EV6 is not packet driven, unlike HyperTransport.
EV6 is a point-to-point bus. Hypertransport can have 32 devices on a single bus, via a hub architecture (i.e., you could say it is a lot of point-to-point busses connected together, but the addressing allows for 32 devices)
and there are such a lot of other things that are different.
You're so far off base it's incredible. And you have the specifications? Have you thought of reading them? If your job requires you to work with these busses, and you do not even know the difference between them, then I feel sorry for your employers.
EV6 is a 64-bit wide point-to-point processor bus used to connect Athlons and Durons to compatible Northbridges. It was developed by Alpha, and it can scale up to 200MHz DDR (400MHz effective). It can currently transfer either 1600MB/s or 2100MB/s.
Hypertransport is a variable width, bi-directional bus. It can transfer up to 12GB/s. It can be used for many things - CPU - Northbridge (as it will be used for the upcoming Hammer CPUs), Northbridge - SOuthbridge, Northbridge - RAM, GPU - RAM, Southbridge - RAID controller, etc.
Hypertransport is packeted. EV6 isn't. AMD license EV6 from Alpha, AMD designed Hypertransport.
Is this enough to convince you that EV6 and Hypertransport are different?
Hypertransport has nothing to do with the EV6 bus that is used by the Athlon and Duron.
Hypertransport is an interconnect technology for on-board components. PCI (2|3) can do this, but also has a physical interface definition, the "PCI slot".
Hypertransport is better than PCI2.x by a mile and more...
Gnome vs. KDE for commercial development
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The $1500 fee might be OK, but as long as it's possible to run GNOME apps on most Linux desktops (even if the main desktop is KDE), anyone looking to write commericial software is most likely going to stick to the LGPL-ed GNOME
I think that most companies would pay the $1500 and use software libraries that do not have GPL anywhere in them, just to be safe. Also if it takes 3 more days to develop in Gnome than KDE because KDE is easier (KDevelop, Kylix, etc) then that $1500 has been made back anyway.
Darned two minute limti on postings. Slashdot it crap like that. I hope that the new version of the code on that overwhelped server will fix all of the problems. Oggn, it is 20 seconds now is it? Hmmmmm/yoda
It is after Frisday night, nso forgive the typos:, and I got it all messes up as well, oh forgive me oh great 68000 in heaven.
AOL - compete for the internet w/ MS
Ho, that woudl be funny. But unlikely.
Sony - continued support for the eVilla
Yes, I can see that defoniteluy, but they may dump the eVillage soon, no real reason for existance, see?
Palm - compete w/ WinCE for the PDA market
Palm going ARM. Be not ARM. Palm have ARM workng now, need to rewrite apps. Palm give no fuckl; about Be.
IBM - no idea what IBM would want w/ BeOS
Same here. Maybe a multimedia OS for their Power architecture (god, that was hard to spell).
Nokia - multimedia cell phones
They have SYmbian for that. Communicator 9200.
EPOC/Symbian - same as above
THey have their own OS now competely. THey don't care.
Compaq - something to run on alpha???
Alpha is dead - Intels little whore to mess with and get a bastard child from Itanium
QNX - add more multimedia capabilities
This is a possiblilty. Doubt it, but just maybe...
Sun - compete for the desktop w/ MS
Sun don't want a desktop OS. They want a platfrom.
Microsoft - final nail in a competitor's coffin
Be never threatened
Gobe - compete w/ MS for the office suite market
Ho ho ho ho
Amiga - bring AmigaOS back to life
They have plans and not much money. be is not for them.
Urgh. wine and beer fdont mix well. forgive me fellow sinners in life. coffee coming.
AOL - compete for the internet w/ MS
Sony - continued support for the eVilla
Palm - compete w/ WinCE for the PDA market
It is after Frisday night, nso forgive the typos:
IBM - no idea what IBM would want w/ BeOS
Same here. Maybe a multimedia OS for their Power architecture (god, that was hard to spell).
Nokia - multimedia cell phones
They have SYmbian for that. Communicator 9200.
EPOC/Symbian - same as above
THey have their own OS now competely. THey don't care.
Compaq - something to run on alpha???
Alpha is dead - Intels little whore to mess with and get a bastard child from Itanium
QNX - add more multimedia capabilities
This is a possiblilty. Doubt it, but just maybe...
Sun - compete for the desktop w/ MS
Sun don't want a desktop OS. They want a platfrom.
Microsoft - final nail in a competitor's coffin
Be never threatened
Gobe - compete w/ MS for the office suite market
Ho ho ho ho
Amiga - bring AmigaOS back to life
They have plans and not much money. be is not for them.
Urgh. wine and beer fdont mix well. forgive me fellow sinners in life. coffee coming.
The software might very well be able to copy a voice, but how does it copy emotion? Can it whisper? Can it shout? Can it sound happy or sad? Can it sing?
Do we have a more enhanced vocal technology, or a real voice? Considering where the Amiga was in 1985 with synthesised voices, I would have hoped that a lot could have happened in the 16 years since...
So you intend to limit IPv6 to 32 interplanetary bodies?
Where is your forward thinking?:)
On the other hand, I do agree with you regarding the heirarchical designation, however it appears that ARIN want to give everyone a/48 address by default (that is 2^80 addresses per person). Only 1/8th of the IPv6 address space will be available (001 designation) by default, allowing 2^45 entities to have up to 2^80 addresses.
The paper says that there will be 10billion people on the Earth by 2050. I bet IPv6 will last until 2100 at least though, and you shouldn't design upgrades into the system for something anyway, so assume that it will last forever...
In 3000, the Interplanetary Confederation will have 10 trillion people under its finger, and 100 billion companies (imagine giving each of those a unique name to avoid.com naming problems!). 2^45 is more than the sum of these (2^35), so even then IPv6 will be fine. I assume that the average person will not have more than 2^80 IPv6 addressable elements on or within their body though. I think this is reasonable... !
not until lower cost Athalon MP boards are available
Such as the Tyan Tiger Athlon MP motherboard for $250. Without video, SCSI and NICs though, but it does have IDE RAID.
Better than the $500 for the fully features Tyan Thunder...
I just hope that AMD get a move on with their southbridge redesign to make it more relevant (SuperIO on board, NIC, USB2, etc), with decent NB-SB interconnect speeds, etc.
Re:Is better TV definition needed ?
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many many less than the masses who have sub-30' TVs
Yeah, I only have a 25' TV. Takes up my entire wall...
At that size, you would need more than 625 lines - hell you would need more than 1024 lines, non-interlaced!
HDTV will happen in countries with space restrictions - smaller living areas, hence people sit closer to the TV, hence they will detect lower resolutions. Namely - Japan. PCs have high resolution - you sit 1' away from them. TVs have low resolution - you sit 10' away from them.
At least HDTV will make those Internet boxes and everything worthwhile. No more 640x512 smudgy interface...
ANd for the 99% of users without Cable/DSL? That 6 MB download is 40 minutes+. Yeah right.
Luckily most OEMs etc will eventually install the Sun Java VM and plugin on all boxes they sell, and if not, I bet that many magazines will just stick it on their cover CDs anyway at some point or another.
SELECT count(*) FROM table WHERE {conditions} ORDER BY {ordering};
and look at the difference in numbers?
Does SQL Server work with SELECT count(*)'s and ORDER BY's, but not with SELECT {data}... ORDER BY's?
Money wasn't down the drain... IMO
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People always say that it is money down the drain, but to be honest, it was just a redistribution of money from rich venture capitalists to dodgy.com companies, and then onto computer supply companies, people via wages, and other places (red light districts?).
Sure, there might have been a few.coms that literally burnt money, but...
Also, on F*ckedCompany during the last month, the hardest hit companies are online metal companies. Yes, people selling iron, aluminium, nickel and whatnot. Maybe this is because people who buy metal (do you?) just kept on using their local scrapyard?
It is the blue OLEDs, and the can last 2000 hours. Red can last ages, as can green.
So if you played on the GBA for 2 hours a day on average, then the device would last 3 years, however I imagine that the blue deteriorates over time, it doesn't just stop working at 2000 hours, so the half life of a GBA would be 1.5 years in this case.
When 240x160 OLED displays cost $5 and can be slot-in replaced, then the screen is a non-issue in my opinion, and OLED should be used. Until that time, use a technology that is proven to work.
Performance increases in final code?
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Has anyone done any performance metrics using code generated by the "all new singing dancing x86/PPC/ARM backends"?
The GeForce 2 MX can barely handle 800x600 in 32-bit mode, according to the review.
So you are stuck with 16-bit graphics if you want 1024x768, which any person is going to want because this is a performance chipset at heart, for workstations and the like.
Why can't someone integrate a KyroII into the northbridge?
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In my opinion, Gator is a virus. It is attached to the software installations for other products, and it usually installs itself on user's systems without their permission. When you try to remove it, it creates a copy of itself so it is not deleted.
It also interferes with the running of your computer. When I go to a website, I want to see that website, and view the ads that paid for that website. Gator changes that, and thus in effect is altering content without my permission. It uses up my computer's cycles and bandwidth to alter the contents of my computer's memory.
So is Gator only legal because it is a company, and has corporates paying them? Gator does appear to be a protection racket as well - pay us money, or we will take away your business (by showing competitor's ads on your page).
Christ, someone set the FBI onto this company. IMHO, of course.
This Be thing is not going to be for PalmOS5, but of PalmOS6. First, the kernel and multimedia API's need to be ported to the ARM, and then the Palm OS 5 interface and API needs to be able to run on top of this.
Expect 400MHz+ XScale Palm PDA's running BePalmOS6 within 2 years. I hope.
Oooohh, the total cost of ownership argument rears its ugly head again! :)
As I said, most MCSE's don't know left from right. They may be cheap, but there is a reason for that! You gets what you pays for.
Linux does get security holes, although a well configured install should have less opportunity. If the box is only running sshd, httpd and a database, then you cut down the options for attack immediately. If you run OpenBSD you will be pretty safe out of the box!
Windows appears to get a major security hole several times a year, and people just don't learn. This isn't about a webserver, it is about the future of your data and personal information, because that is what Microsoft wants to manage via Passport.
My post you quoted was a joke, although it got a couple of informatives (?!) as well. Code Red has proved that most admins for windows system don't patch their machines, possibly because MS patches tend to mess things up like Exchange so they don't work. So to use MS, you need a duplicate setup of your servers just to test out these patches and check they will work when used on production equipment. That is expensive, even if the hardware is old, the software needs licenses.
The fact that Code Red has infected so many home users suggests a big piracy problem to me. No wonder MS have WPA in XP. I bet that WPA won't make people buy Windows though, they will stick with what they have, and eventually be forced to check out an alternative OS.
Of course, for some applications, MS will be the right choice. .NET looks like it will be very good, however MS want to fix it up in patents to prevent interoperability and keep it to themselves and their friends. Linux/BSD/etc does not need a .NET clone, it needs its own system that works like .NET, but using open, free software and algorithms, all managable from a single command line and GUI tool. Easy to set up, easy to configure, cross platform and easy to interoperate with other vendors. I call it "The Unix Business Platform"... :)
2) Pick a platform that is insecure
3) Pick a platform that can't handle the amount of customers you have
4) Pick a platform that costs a tonne of money
5) Pick a platform that requires a person with a dodgy qualification to run it, who doesn't know left from right, and demands more money than they are worth
6) Pick a platform that is proprietary
7) Pick a platform that runs on low-end server hardware or worse only
8) Pick a platform that you will have to lease by the year or per billion processor cycles within the next 3 years
9) Pick a platform with a database server that "loses" data given certain queries
10) Pick a platform that is forever morphing, changing technology, and has a history of instability
11) Pick a platform which would get you the sack if management had a clue
I have programmed Gnome in Perl, and it was fun. I have not programmed KDE/QT, so I cannot comment there at all. Glade is a great GTK+ GUI creation tool which I have had fun with as well.
But the best thing for a developer is to not have to cut and paste hundreds of lines of C to emulate C++ classes. Also QT is cross platform, so developing in QT using KDevelop will have more benefits than developing in Glade + gIDE etc.
Still, each to his own. :)
1) Dells have dodgy serial ports (not related, but still interesting)
2) Palm V's have problems because of metal case and cradle and buildup of static charge
3) Static buildup zaps motherboard somehow, when hotsink button is pressed
4) Motherboard isn't grounded, hence charge just dissipates into the components, killing one of them
5) Hence user error - probably using a non-grounded power cable to the PC.
In whatever case, it appears that the problem is not with the Palm, but with either the motherboard being defective, or the user being defective. As people have said, it takes a damn lightning strike to kill a motherboard, or even the serial port on the motherboard. There is no way someone could build up that amount of static, even if their surname was "Nylon" and they work in a balloon rubbing factory... :)
The P4's bus is quite bandwidth hungry if I remember correctly. It isn't as efficient as the EV6. Anyway, the P4 is slowed down badly by high RDRAM latency.
Of course, the P4's FSB will be updated to be 533MHz (133x4) next year, thus getting over 4GB/s bandwidth, with faster RDRAM with more bandwidth. However DDR ram then will be faster and have even lower latencies. Imagine a dual channel DDR chipset for the Athlon that support PC2700, aka nForce 2 coming next year. A total of 5.4GB/s of bandwidth between memory and the system.
I am not surprised that patents for one bus technology are reused in another bus. But that does not make the second bus a variant of the first bus. It makes sense to reuse good ideas!
EV6 IS NOT the same bus as HyperTransport. They are not even similar, except maybe for some low-level things.
EV6 does not use LVDS.
EV6 is not a bidirectional (full duplex) bus (X data lines one way, and Y data lines the other way), instead all of the data lines are use for communications in both directions (half-duplex).
EV6 is a processor (Alpha or Athlon/Duron) to northbridge bus. Hypertransport is a chip interconnection technology for the future.
EV6 is not packet driven, unlike HyperTransport.
EV6 is a point-to-point bus. Hypertransport can have 32 devices on a single bus, via a hub architecture (i.e., you could say it is a lot of point-to-point busses connected together, but the addressing allows for 32 devices)
and there are such a lot of other things that are different.
You're so far off base it's incredible. And you have the specifications? Have you thought of reading them? If your job requires you to work with these busses, and you do not even know the difference between them, then I feel sorry for your employers.
Now I call that a chair. Built in A/C as well! DOes it come with a cooler for beer, and a built in coffee machine?
Hypertransport is a variable width, bi-directional bus. It can transfer up to 12GB/s. It can be used for many things - CPU - Northbridge (as it will be used for the upcoming Hammer CPUs), Northbridge - SOuthbridge, Northbridge - RAM, GPU - RAM, Southbridge - RAID controller, etc.
Hypertransport is packeted. EV6 isn't. AMD license EV6 from Alpha, AMD designed Hypertransport.
Is this enough to convince you that EV6 and Hypertransport are different?
Hypertransport has nothing to do with the EV6 bus that is used by the Athlon and Duron. Hypertransport is an interconnect technology for on-board components. PCI (2|3) can do this, but also has a physical interface definition, the "PCI slot". Hypertransport is better than PCI2.x by a mile and more...
I think that most companies would pay the $1500 and use software libraries that do not have GPL anywhere in them, just to be safe. Also if it takes 3 more days to develop in Gnome than KDE because KDE is easier (KDevelop, Kylix, etc) then that $1500 has been made back anyway.
It is after Frisday night, nso forgive the typos:, and I got it all messes up as well, oh forgive me oh great 68000 in heaven.
AOL - compete for the internet w/ MS
Ho, that woudl be funny. But unlikely.
Sony - continued support for the eVilla
Yes, I can see that defoniteluy, but they may dump the eVillage soon, no real reason for existance, see?
Palm - compete w/ WinCE for the PDA market
Palm going ARM. Be not ARM. Palm have ARM workng now, need to rewrite apps. Palm give no fuckl; about Be.
IBM - no idea what IBM would want w/ BeOS
Same here. Maybe a multimedia OS for their Power architecture (god, that was hard to spell).
Nokia - multimedia cell phones
They have SYmbian for that. Communicator 9200.
EPOC/Symbian - same as above
THey have their own OS now competely. THey don't care.
Compaq - something to run on alpha???
Alpha is dead - Intels little whore to mess with and get a bastard child from Itanium
QNX - add more multimedia capabilities
This is a possiblilty. Doubt it, but just maybe...
Sun - compete for the desktop w/ MS
Sun don't want a desktop OS. They want a platfrom.
Microsoft - final nail in a competitor's coffin
Be never threatened
Gobe - compete w/ MS for the office suite market
Ho ho ho ho
Amiga - bring AmigaOS back to life
They have plans and not much money. be is not for them.
Urgh. wine and beer fdont mix well. forgive me fellow sinners in life. coffee coming.
IBM - no idea what IBM would want w/ BeOS
Same here. Maybe a multimedia OS for their Power architecture (god, that was hard to spell).
Nokia - multimedia cell phones
They have SYmbian for that. Communicator 9200.
EPOC/Symbian - same as above
THey have their own OS now competely. THey don't care.
Compaq - something to run on alpha???
Alpha is dead - Intels little whore to mess with and get a bastard child from Itanium
QNX - add more multimedia capabilities
This is a possiblilty. Doubt it, but just maybe...
Sun - compete for the desktop w/ MS
Sun don't want a desktop OS. They want a platfrom.
Microsoft - final nail in a competitor's coffin
Be never threatened
Gobe - compete w/ MS for the office suite market
Ho ho ho ho
Amiga - bring AmigaOS back to life
They have plans and not much money. be is not for them.
Urgh. wine and beer fdont mix well. forgive me fellow sinners in life. coffee coming.
Do we have a more enhanced vocal technology, or a real voice? Considering where the Amiga was in 1985 with synthesised voices, I would have hoped that a lot could have happened in the 16 years since...
Where is your forward thinking? :)
On the other hand, I do agree with you regarding the heirarchical designation, however it appears that ARIN want to give everyone a /48 address by default (that is 2^80 addresses per person). Only 1/8th of the IPv6 address space will be available (001 designation) by default, allowing 2^45 entities to have up to 2^80 addresses.
The paper says that there will be 10billion people on the Earth by 2050. I bet IPv6 will last until 2100 at least though, and you shouldn't design upgrades into the system for something anyway, so assume that it will last forever...
In 3000, the Interplanetary Confederation will have 10 trillion people under its finger, and 100 billion companies (imagine giving each of those a unique name to avoid .com naming problems!). 2^45 is more than the sum of these (2^35), so even then IPv6 will be fine. I assume that the average person will not have more than 2^80 IPv6 addressable elements on or within their body though. I think this is reasonable... !
Such as the Tyan Tiger Athlon MP motherboard for $250. Without video, SCSI and NICs though, but it does have IDE RAID.
Better than the $500 for the fully features Tyan Thunder...
I just hope that AMD get a move on with their southbridge redesign to make it more relevant (SuperIO on board, NIC, USB2, etc), with decent NB-SB interconnect speeds, etc.
Yeah, I only have a 25' TV. Takes up my entire wall...
At that size, you would need more than 625 lines - hell you would need more than 1024 lines, non-interlaced!
HDTV will happen in countries with space restrictions - smaller living areas, hence people sit closer to the TV, hence they will detect lower resolutions. Namely - Japan. PCs have high resolution - you sit 1' away from them. TVs have low resolution - you sit 10' away from them.
At least HDTV will make those Internet boxes and everything worthwhile. No more 640x512 smudgy interface...
Is a pedabyte file server a file server for pedophiles?
Luckily most OEMs etc will eventually install the Sun Java VM and plugin on all boxes they sell, and if not, I bet that many magazines will just stick it on their cover CDs anyway at some point or another.
SELECT count(*) FROM table WHERE {conditions};
SELECT count(*) FROM table WHERE {conditions} ORDER BY {ordering};
and look at the difference in numbers?
Does SQL Server work with SELECT count(*)'s and ORDER BY's, but not with SELECT {data} ... ORDER BY's?
Sure, there might have been a few .coms that literally burnt money, but...
Also, on F*ckedCompany during the last month, the hardest hit companies are online metal companies. Yes, people selling iron, aluminium, nickel and whatnot. Maybe this is because people who buy metal (do you?) just kept on using their local scrapyard?
So if you played on the GBA for 2 hours a day on average, then the device would last 3 years, however I imagine that the blue deteriorates over time, it doesn't just stop working at 2000 hours, so the half life of a GBA would be 1.5 years in this case.
When 240x160 OLED displays cost $5 and can be slot-in replaced, then the screen is a non-issue in my opinion, and OLED should be used. Until that time, use a technology that is proven to work.
So you are stuck with 16-bit graphics if you want 1024x768, which any person is going to want because this is a performance chipset at heart, for workstations and the like.
Why can't someone integrate a KyroII into the northbridge?