AMD chips also have a reputation for being significantly less reliable than Intel chips. I think I've only ever seen one Intel chip burn out, but I I think almost every AMD chip I've come across I've eventually seen go toasty. Most hardcore overclockers I know will tell you to buy an Intel chip over an AMD, since the AMD chip comes pre-overclocked.
Until AMD does something about this reliability issue (either real or just perceived), a lot of people will continue to avoid AMD chips.
Darwin awards don't have to be awarded posthumously- the simple requirement is that you remove yourself from the gene pool. Killing yourself is one way, but anything that sterilises you is also okay.
Eww, sourceforge! Actually, there's not even a webpage- waste of time until there's something I'm willing to put up.;)
But there are about seventy-five pages of analysis of Domino and Notes in real-world settings, some design documents and a few prototypes of critical components (probably about 200-300h of work so far). I like doing things the right way, which takes time.
Things like Domino and Exchange can be pretty effective if used well, but frankley they're not very smart. My personal research interest is managing the complexity of business and research processes, and I've found that Domino and Exchange don't really help the problems much: they don't help manage the complexities, they simply space-shift them. There's a lot of really interesting and hard problems when you start trying to solve the failings of these two systems.:)
I'm working on a system to replace Exchange (well, Lotus Domino, actually - BTW, Notes must die!). It will not be protocol compatible with either, and it isn't near a release yet.
So never fear! There are some people working on the problem.;-)
It is an X thing - X is what provides the basic drawing primitives that applications are supposed to use. So Enlightenment sidesteps X and uses OpenGL for rendering- Enlightenment is just a single program, and does not provide drawing functionality to the other X clients: they're still stuck out in the cold.
'We didn't know they were infringing on our patents until now'
You have one set of people at SGI who know about the patents in question. You have another set of people who know that Linux is implemented using those techniques (but not that they are patented). You have another set of people who would care if about Linux's infringement of the patents.
I've no clue how large the sets are, but if there was no intersection of the three (which is very believable), then this could be the first time that there are people at SGI who a) know about the patents b) know about Linux's use and c) give a damn.
That being said, it would be hard to argue that the improved VM code of linux lowered the selling price or sold volume of Irix.
By improving the quality of Linux's VM, it created less of an incentive for commercial renderhouses to use IRIX, and consequently SGI's hardware. Why buy an expensive SGI box when you can put together a cheap little Linux renderfarm on commodity hardware? For example, see this.
Depending on how important the patented bits of code are (and from the looks of it, they're quite important), I'd say that on the surface SGI could make quite a case that the infringement of its patents has had an appreciable affect on its bottom line.
OpenGL isn't 'so much cleaner' than D3D, and hasn't been since D3D v3. In the six versions since then, it's been cleaned up a lot - even John Carmack admits to that.
Namely, the fact that OSX actually renders its GUI in 3D (w/ hw accel).
No, it doesn't. What the new version of Quartz - the one shippning in Jaguar, a.k.a OS X.II (well, X.2:) - does is let developers create composite objects, which are then sent to the graphics card to actually render. It's using the graphics card, but it's not doing 3D acceleration (OS X does not have a 3Dwm, last I checked); still, it's a good thing since it does free up CPU time for other tasks. At this point I'm obliged to mention that Windows does the same thing with GDI+, and has been doing so since the initial release of Windows XP; obviously you need a driver which supports this, but almost all video card drivers currently do.
Jaguar should have been the real release of OS X - it finally delivers everything Apple promised - it's too bad they released it a year early (and in shoddy condition) just to get it out the door ahead of XP. Well, you know Steve Jobs and his ego.
I am further obliged to mention the fact that I think Berlin/Fresco might be doing if you're running it on the OpenGL graphics driver. Of course, XFree86 doesn't. When even Berlin supports something, you know X is behind the curve.:-P
Perhaps by stating their claims so heavily, both sides have too much to lose if they are found to be wrong.
Actually, the RIAA has a lot to gain if they're wrong. If the RIAA is wrong, then file sharing isn't harming their sales, and perhaps the claims that it helps record sales are correct. In which case they might be able to actually use filesharing to help them regain their lost profits.
Of course, the music biz is like every other fat-cat American industry; top-heavy, complacent and unwilling to change to adapt to new conditions or open up new markets. This is the fundamental reason why their profits are dropping.
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This is a nitpick, but an oligopoly != a monopoly. Oligopoly dynamics are incredibly hard to model, and frankly you can't predict it; they can be as bad (or worse) than a monopoly if there's lots of collusion, or you can have extreme levels of competition that nearly puts them all out of business, before they call a truce.
Of course, the RIAA are all colluding bastards, so it's safe to say they're as bad as a monopoly, but you shouldn't automatically make the assumption that oligopoly == monopoly, since it won't always be true.
Of course, speaking of collusion, isn't that illegal? It's too bad it's almost impossible to prosecute, I wouldn't mind seeing the RIAA get screwed over for artificially inflating prices.
Microsoft don't need to be evil anymore, they can just sit back and let the competition screw it up on their own.
Congratulations, you've discovered Microsoft's most successfull business plan: 'sit on your ass while everyone around you screws up'.
I guess we can add Palm to the list of stupid Microsoft competitors. It joins the esteemed company of IBM (OS/2), WordPerfect (WordPerfect), Lotus (123), Novell (NetWare), Be (BeOS) and Netscape (Netscape).
I wonder who's going to join the list next. Sun? Sony/Nintendo? The computer industry has reached the point where I just wait for everyone to fsckup and then get driven into the ground.
Instead of going to the expense of laying a few thousand miles of fibre, why not just adapt RFC 1149 to the local conditions? In addition to a huge cost-saving, it's a Linux friendly solution!
You might want to look at Serial ATA, then. And yes, Intel is one of the designers of the spec.
CPU performance will be a factor again within a couple of years. Software developers just have to get used to the headroom and realise the true implications of what they can do now. I'm working on some software right now (planning to release it under a BSD license now, but I have plans for a commercial release at some point in the future) which would heavily tax a modern CPU. And yes, it actually provides some *gasp* value. And no, it has nothing to do with video editing.:P
Be patient! We'll find something to do with your excess clock cycles soon enough.
'I will answer you from the mouth of my canon' - Le Marquis de Montecalm to General James Wolfe
Intel releases their 2.8ghz chip next week. The speed battle trundles on.
Of course, it's getting boring now; Intel has mostly reclaimed the performance crown from the usurper AMD, and the Athlon core is showing its age, and AMD is facing new problems with clockspeed. The previous Thoroughbred core had problems increasing clock speed due to signal propagation issues and AMD had to add another metal layer to optimise the wiring layout. Think about it, at 2 billion clock cycles every second, there isn't a lot of time for a signal to get from one side of the CPU to the other, and unlike NetBurst(the P4 core) the Athlon core really isn't designed to take signal propagation issues into account - hence why Intel is rapidly scaling up the clock speed while AMD is struggling (I calculate the P4 can probably hit at least 7-8ghz before signal propagation becomes a problem again). AMD has managed to stretch out the life of the Athlon core, but I'm not sure what they're going to do next; signal propagation speed isn't easy to solve without a complete redesign of the core. Although the TB can hit 2.4ghz, beyond that I can't see the processor continuing to increase in speed. For AMD's sake, I hope that lasts them until they can get Hammer based chips on the market.
Still, it doesn't keep me up at night. Intel is ramping up clock speed as regularly as clockwork, AMD is keeping up (for now). Wake me up when something interesting happens.
Actually, I am looking forward to the 3ghz since I've heard, well, rumours that Intel is enabling SMT on it. Finally, an innovation! Seriously though, SMT is pretty cool, it gives the processor the ability to run two threads at once. The main thread is slightly slower than it would be if the chip didn't do SMT (a couple of percentage points), but the CPU can use its unused resources to run a second thread at about 15-20% of full speed.
So look back in December/January. Intel's releasing SMT chip, and AMD might be releasing Hammers. Until then the Intel vs. AMD battle will continue to be boring!
Uh, the theoretical maximum for ADSL is 8mbps, and that's only achievable over short distances. To get 12mbps you need HDSL or VDSL, but those are even shorter ranged.
Perhaps you're thinking of something else? Or maybe you're getting scammed?:)
Joe Sixpack in the good ol' US of A doesn't care about region-free DVD players, since if you're in Region 1, who cares? Playing non-region 1 content is pretty niche. If you go over to Europe though, you'll find a lot of people who are much more aware of DVD regions, since it has an appreciable impact on them. European consumers are much more aware of the issue and very often will buy players that make bypassing regions easy,
The same thing will happen over here when DRM starts directly impacting on the average consumer. If it has an impact on the average person, people will become aware of it, and they will spend their money on technology that minimises the impact of DRM. Of course, this is what legislation like the DMCA is supposed to prevent, but when there's a big enough profit motive, people will find ways around it (they've been doing it for years with other laws... like tax laws).
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AMD chips also have a reputation for being significantly less reliable than Intel chips. I think I've only ever seen one Intel chip burn out, but I I think almost every AMD chip I've come across I've eventually seen go toasty. Most hardcore overclockers I know will tell you to buy an Intel chip over an AMD, since the AMD chip comes pre-overclocked.
Until AMD does something about this reliability issue (either real or just perceived), a lot of people will continue to avoid AMD chips.
Darwin awards don't have to be awarded posthumously- the simple requirement is that you remove yourself from the gene pool. Killing yourself is one way, but anything that sterilises you is also okay.
Eww, sourceforge! Actually, there's not even a webpage- waste of time until there's something I'm willing to put up. ;)
But there are about seventy-five pages of analysis of Domino and Notes in real-world settings, some design documents and a few prototypes of critical components (probably about 200-300h of work so far). I like doing things the right way, which takes time.
Things like Domino and Exchange can be pretty effective if used well, but frankley they're not very smart. My personal research interest is managing the complexity of business and research processes, and I've found that Domino and Exchange don't really help the problems much: they don't help manage the complexities, they simply space-shift them. There's a lot of really interesting and hard problems when you start trying to solve the failings of these two systems. :)
I'm working on a system to replace Exchange (well, Lotus Domino, actually - BTW, Notes must die!). It will not be protocol compatible with either, and it isn't near a release yet.
So never fear! There are some people working on the problem. ;-)
It is an X thing - X is what provides the basic drawing primitives that applications are supposed to use. So Enlightenment sidesteps X and uses OpenGL for rendering- Enlightenment is just a single program, and does not provide drawing functionality to the other X clients: they're still stuck out in the cold.
'We didn't know they were infringing on our patents until now'
You have one set of people at SGI who know about the patents in question. You have another set of people who know that Linux is implemented using those techniques (but not that they are patented). You have another set of people who would care if about Linux's infringement of the patents.
I've no clue how large the sets are, but if there was no intersection of the three (which is very believable), then this could be the first time that there are people at SGI who a) know about the patents b) know about Linux's use and c) give a damn.
That being said, it would be hard to argue that the improved VM code of linux lowered the selling price or sold volume of Irix.
By improving the quality of Linux's VM, it created less of an incentive for commercial renderhouses to use IRIX, and consequently SGI's hardware. Why buy an expensive SGI box when you can put together a cheap little Linux renderfarm on commodity hardware? For example, see this.
Depending on how important the patented bits of code are (and from the looks of it, they're quite important), I'd say that on the surface SGI could make quite a case that the infringement of its patents has had an appreciable affect on its bottom line.
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Ever heard of OpenGL extensions? You know, those proprietary, incomptable things ATi and nVidia were notorious for releasing?
OpenGL isn't 'so much cleaner' than D3D, and hasn't been since D3D v3. In the six versions since then, it's been cleaned up a lot - even John Carmack admits to that.
Namely, the fact that OSX actually renders its GUI in 3D (w/ hw accel).
No, it doesn't. What the new version of Quartz - the one shippning in Jaguar, a.k.a OS X.II (well, X.2:) - does is let developers create composite objects, which are then sent to the graphics card to actually render. It's using the graphics card, but it's not doing 3D acceleration (OS X does not have a 3Dwm, last I checked); still, it's a good thing since it does free up CPU time for other tasks. At this point I'm obliged to mention that Windows does the same thing with GDI+, and has been doing so since the initial release of Windows XP; obviously you need a driver which supports this, but almost all video card drivers currently do.
Jaguar should have been the real release of OS X - it finally delivers everything Apple promised - it's too bad they released it a year early (and in shoddy condition) just to get it out the door ahead of XP. Well, you know Steve Jobs and his ego.
I am further obliged to mention the fact that I think Berlin/Fresco might be doing if you're running it on the OpenGL graphics driver. Of course, XFree86 doesn't. When even Berlin supports something, you know X is behind the curve. :-P
Perhaps by stating their claims so heavily, both sides have too much to lose if they are found to be wrong.
Actually, the RIAA has a lot to gain if they're wrong. If the RIAA is wrong, then file sharing isn't harming their sales, and perhaps the claims that it helps record sales are correct. In which case they might be able to actually use filesharing to help them regain their lost profits.
Of course, the music biz is like every other fat-cat American industry; top-heavy, complacent and unwilling to change to adapt to new conditions or open up new markets. This is the fundamental reason why their profits are dropping.
This is a nitpick, but an oligopoly != a monopoly. Oligopoly dynamics are incredibly hard to model, and frankly you can't predict it; they can be as bad (or worse) than a monopoly if there's lots of collusion, or you can have extreme levels of competition that nearly puts them all out of business, before they call a truce.
Of course, the RIAA are all colluding bastards, so it's safe to say they're as bad as a monopoly, but you shouldn't automatically make the assumption that oligopoly == monopoly, since it won't always be true.
Of course, speaking of collusion, isn't that illegal? It's too bad it's almost impossible to prosecute, I wouldn't mind seeing the RIAA get screwed over for artificially inflating prices.
Congratulations, you've discovered Microsoft's most successfull business plan: 'sit on your ass while everyone around you screws up'.
I guess we can add Palm to the list of stupid Microsoft competitors. It joins the esteemed company of IBM (OS/2), WordPerfect (WordPerfect), Lotus (123), Novell (NetWare), Be (BeOS) and Netscape (Netscape).
I wonder who's going to join the list next. Sun? Sony/Nintendo? The computer industry has reached the point where I just wait for everyone to fsckup and then get driven into the ground.
Instead of going to the expense of laying a few thousand miles of fibre, why not just adapt RFC 1149 to the local conditions? In addition to a huge cost-saving, it's a Linux friendly solution!
Hmm. Maybe that explains why that big ice-field broke off, it was tux playing TuxRacer on his Athlon.
Then buy a 10kRPM drive instead of a 7200 RPM drive.
Out of interest, what's wrong ith AMD producing the new chip at AMD's plans? :)
See subject.
You might want to look at Serial ATA, then. And yes, Intel is one of the designers of the spec.
CPU performance will be a factor again within a couple of years. Software developers just have to get used to the headroom and realise the true implications of what they can do now. I'm working on some software right now (planning to release it under a BSD license now, but I have plans for a commercial release at some point in the future) which would heavily tax a modern CPU. And yes, it actually provides some *gasp* value. And no, it has nothing to do with video editing. :P
Be patient! We'll find something to do with your excess clock cycles soon enough.
'I will answer you from the mouth of my canon' - Le Marquis de Montecalm to General James Wolfe
Intel releases their 2.8ghz chip next week. The speed battle trundles on.
Of course, it's getting boring now; Intel has mostly reclaimed the performance crown from the usurper AMD, and the Athlon core is showing its age, and AMD is facing new problems with clockspeed. The previous Thoroughbred core had problems increasing clock speed due to signal propagation issues and AMD had to add another metal layer to optimise the wiring layout. Think about it, at 2 billion clock cycles every second, there isn't a lot of time for a signal to get from one side of the CPU to the other, and unlike NetBurst(the P4 core) the Athlon core really isn't designed to take signal propagation issues into account - hence why Intel is rapidly scaling up the clock speed while AMD is struggling (I calculate the P4 can probably hit at least 7-8ghz before signal propagation becomes a problem again). AMD has managed to stretch out the life of the Athlon core, but I'm not sure what they're going to do next; signal propagation speed isn't easy to solve without a complete redesign of the core. Although the TB can hit 2.4ghz, beyond that I can't see the processor continuing to increase in speed. For AMD's sake, I hope that lasts them until they can get Hammer based chips on the market.
Still, it doesn't keep me up at night. Intel is ramping up clock speed as regularly as clockwork, AMD is keeping up (for now). Wake me up when something interesting happens.
Actually, I am looking forward to the 3ghz since I've heard, well, rumours that Intel is enabling SMT on it. Finally, an innovation! Seriously though, SMT is pretty cool, it gives the processor the ability to run two threads at once. The main thread is slightly slower than it would be if the chip didn't do SMT (a couple of percentage points), but the CPU can use its unused resources to run a second thread at about 15-20% of full speed.
So look back in December/January. Intel's releasing SMT chip, and AMD might be releasing Hammers. Until then the Intel vs. AMD battle will continue to be boring!
See subject.
Fast ADSL, 11.something MBps.
You'd still have to pay them a monthly fee to rent the dry pair.
Uh, the theoretical maximum for ADSL is 8mbps, and that's only achievable over short distances. To get 12mbps you need HDSL or VDSL, but those are even shorter ranged.
Perhaps you're thinking of something else? Or maybe you're getting scammed? :)
Joe Sixpack in the good ol' US of A doesn't care about region-free DVD players, since if you're in Region 1, who cares? Playing non-region 1 content is pretty niche. If you go over to Europe though, you'll find a lot of people who are much more aware of DVD regions, since it has an appreciable impact on them. European consumers are much more aware of the issue and very often will buy players that make bypassing regions easy,
The same thing will happen over here when DRM starts directly impacting on the average consumer. If it has an impact on the average person, people will become aware of it, and they will spend their money on technology that minimises the impact of DRM. Of course, this is what legislation like the DMCA is supposed to prevent, but when there's a big enough profit motive, people will find ways around it (they've been doing it for years with other laws... like tax laws).