The larger carrier can get away with slightly higher rates by touting two important services, larger nationwide coverage area and bigger mobile-to-mobile pool. Because America is so large it is VERY expensive to roll out a nationwide network. Because carriers offer free calls within their networks (because the marginal cost is very near zero) having more customers is an advantage. I don't see any new wireless carriers becoming national concerns unless they ride on existing infrastructure (so call virtual carriers who lease capacity from the big boys) so continued consolidation isn't necessarily a good thing, as natural barriers to enty become large the competitive pricing pressure lessens.
Uhh, AT&T will not controll cellular at ALL. To raise cash as the long distance market was disintegrating AT&T spun off AT&T Wireless into a seperate company. That seperate company was aquired by Cingular and now operates under that name.
The interesting thing to me that in two out of the three cases an additional click gets you to a RED link. Shouldn't 5% coverage require more than 2 degrees of seperation on average?
You can't patch the OS because CPUID isn't a system call, it's a CPU instruction. Calling CPUID puts the CPU info into a number of registers. I GUESS you could trap the call and fill the registers with Intel data, but it's MUCH easier to simply noop the check.
Ion thrusters at a great distance would allow you to change the orbit by the degree or fraction of a degree needed to hit the earth. I'm pretty sure that the mechanics of landing something in space in a specific spot on earth are fairly well understood, we do it all the time with returning astronauts.
I'm not sure how they can claim that their service is broadband if it doesn't have enough bandwidth for VoIP. G711 uLaw only requires 107Kbps including all overhead
source (pdf file).
Protein folding. Proteonics makes the human genome project seem like an insignificant ant next to a Boing, both in terms of required CPU power and in regards to potential benifit to the human race.
I'm talking about the private key which is what is needed to sign a driver. If you don't have the private key then having the source does you no good because you can't install the compiled/modified code.
Trusted Computing Platform. It's the black box that makes hardware DRM and hardware crypto key management on Intel platform work. IBM has shipped millions (10 million by early 2004) of computers with TCP chips and the world hasn't come to an end yet =)
WTF hardware are you running that has 9TB cache? Netapp 980 tops out at only 16GB, Sun StorEdge 9990 System tops out at 128GB, IBM DS8300 tops out at 256GB, Hitachi TagmaStore tops out at 256GB, and EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 tops out at 512GB. If there's a SAN player I'm not aware of that has 38 times the capacity of EMC's biggest box I would be VERY suprised.
Yes, lots of places make laptop 5400RPM SATA drives, just type those three terms into google would tell you that. Given that the Technical Specifications sheet lists 5400RPM I would say that is the speed until several people have them in their hands and confirm 7200RPM.
If installed on a TCP enabled board it will be tied to that TCP chip for those keys which are stored in the TCP chip. On every TCP implementation I have seen the TCP chip is removable so it can be move in case of a dead motherboard (I haven't seen a TCP chip failure though I suppose it is possible). Vista wouldn't boot if you had a dead TCP chip and had used the whole disk encryption but otherwise only protected content which is tied to a key stored in the TCP should be unavailable.
No, no they won't. In order to install a driver on the shipping version of Vista the driver will have to have a software publishers certificate from Verisign, and I can pretty much guarentee that no freeware developer or OSS project can or will support a $500/year certificate that has to remain secret or be revoked.
The iPod was the first pocketable high capacity mp3 player, that was definitly innovative. Beyond that the user interface was 10x better than anything else on the market so I would call it innovative. So, other than the two most important things about the iPod it's not innovative =)
Correct, a really good crypto system would be continuously transmitting a constant stream of jibberish and would have a preshared library of start and stop keywords to allow good data to be picked out by automatic means. This would allow a strong cryptographic system to also be resistant to traffic analysis. However the German enigma setup was anything but good.
Yep, but there has to be a serious profit motive for the network providers because they will have to do a LOT of work to get multicast working reliably across their entire network.
Nope, it's not just a high bitrate mp4 file, it uses a different compression technology completely. See the wiki entry. Note that there is a cleanroom open source implementation which means it should always be playable.
eh, the problem is on the mastering end. When producing 95+% of albums the engineer takes the nice clean studio sound he has recorded and mixed with and then applies a bunch of post production filters and compression techniques to the sound for the final cut to make it "pop" on "average" sound systems. I know I've been guilty of doing it when reviewing an album on normal stereos instead of the $10K monitors or my Sennheisers. For the vast majority of stuff out there today you aren't going to get any better sound out of DVD-A then out of CD's because the stuff has been post produced to hell to sound good on $20 radio shack speakers and car FM radios.
You're an idiot. The Apple Fairplay protected content is.m4p (see p, protected),.m4a is used for Apple Lossless content which while it might be covered by patents is NOT going to get you thrown in jail.
The XB-70 wasn't just technically impressive, it's visually very impressive. Years later it's the only thing besides the F-117 that I very clearly remember from my trip to Wright Patterson AFB and museum.
OpenGL is a fine substitute for Direct3D but the other tools (openAL et al) are a poor subsitute for the rest of the DirectX stack. Even Carmack who is a big proponent of OpenGL still uses the rest of the DirectX stack under Windows.
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The larger carrier can get away with slightly higher rates by touting two important services, larger nationwide coverage area and bigger mobile-to-mobile pool. Because America is so large it is VERY expensive to roll out a nationwide network. Because carriers offer free calls within their networks (because the marginal cost is very near zero) having more customers is an advantage. I don't see any new wireless carriers becoming national concerns unless they ride on existing infrastructure (so call virtual carriers who lease capacity from the big boys) so continued consolidation isn't necessarily a good thing, as natural barriers to enty become large the competitive pricing pressure lessens.
Uhh, AT&T will not controll cellular at ALL. To raise cash as the long distance market was disintegrating AT&T spun off AT&T Wireless into a seperate company. That seperate company was aquired by Cingular and now operates under that name.
The interesting thing to me that in two out of the three cases an additional click gets you to a RED link. Shouldn't 5% coverage require more than 2 degrees of seperation on average?
You can't patch the OS because CPUID isn't a system call, it's a CPU instruction. Calling CPUID puts the CPU info into a number of registers. I GUESS you could trap the call and fill the registers with Intel data, but it's MUCH easier to simply noop the check.
Ion thrusters at a great distance would allow you to change the orbit by the degree or fraction of a degree needed to hit the earth. I'm pretty sure that the mechanics of landing something in space in a specific spot on earth are fairly well understood, we do it all the time with returning astronauts.
I'm not sure how they can claim that their service is broadband if it doesn't have enough bandwidth for VoIP. G711 uLaw only requires 107Kbps including all overhead source (pdf file).
Intel handed them a boatload of cash in exchange for this exclusing feature. That isn't speculation, it is fact.
Protein folding. Proteonics makes the human genome project seem like an insignificant ant next to a Boing, both in terms of required CPU power and in regards to potential benifit to the human race.
How is this new? CATIA v4 already supports NURBS curves in later revisions and CATAI v5 uses it as the core element.
I'm talking about the private key which is what is needed to sign a driver. If you don't have the private key then having the source does you no good because you can't install the compiled/modified code.
Trusted Computing Platform. It's the black box that makes hardware DRM and hardware crypto key management on Intel platform work. IBM has shipped millions (10 million by early 2004) of computers with TCP chips and the world hasn't come to an end yet =)
WTF hardware are you running that has 9TB cache? Netapp 980 tops out at only 16GB, Sun StorEdge 9990 System tops out at 128GB, IBM DS8300 tops out at 256GB, Hitachi TagmaStore tops out at 256GB, and EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 tops out at 512GB. If there's a SAN player I'm not aware of that has 38 times the capacity of EMC's biggest box I would be VERY suprised.
Actually I checked the pricing on their site, code signing cert is $499 for one year and slightly less when bought for 2 or 3 years.
Yes, lots of places make laptop 5400RPM SATA drives, just type those three terms into google would tell you that. Given that the Technical Specifications sheet lists 5400RPM I would say that is the speed until several people have them in their hands and confirm 7200RPM.
If installed on a TCP enabled board it will be tied to that TCP chip for those keys which are stored in the TCP chip. On every TCP implementation I have seen the TCP chip is removable so it can be move in case of a dead motherboard (I haven't seen a TCP chip failure though I suppose it is possible). Vista wouldn't boot if you had a dead TCP chip and had used the whole disk encryption but otherwise only protected content which is tied to a key stored in the TCP should be unavailable.
No, no they won't. In order to install a driver on the shipping version of Vista the driver will have to have a software publishers certificate from Verisign, and I can pretty much guarentee that no freeware developer or OSS project can or will support a $500/year certificate that has to remain secret or be revoked.
The iPod was the first pocketable high capacity mp3 player, that was definitly innovative. Beyond that the user interface was 10x better than anything else on the market so I would call it innovative. So, other than the two most important things about the iPod it's not innovative =)
Correct, a really good crypto system would be continuously transmitting a constant stream of jibberish and would have a preshared library of start and stop keywords to allow good data to be picked out by automatic means. This would allow a strong cryptographic system to also be resistant to traffic analysis. However the German enigma setup was anything but good.
Yep, but there has to be a serious profit motive for the network providers because they will have to do a LOT of work to get multicast working reliably across their entire network.
Nope, it's not just a high bitrate mp4 file, it uses a different compression technology completely. See the wiki entry. Note that there is a cleanroom open source implementation which means it should always be playable.
eh, the problem is on the mastering end. When producing 95+% of albums the engineer takes the nice clean studio sound he has recorded and mixed with and then applies a bunch of post production filters and compression techniques to the sound for the final cut to make it "pop" on "average" sound systems. I know I've been guilty of doing it when reviewing an album on normal stereos instead of the $10K monitors or my Sennheisers. For the vast majority of stuff out there today you aren't going to get any better sound out of DVD-A then out of CD's because the stuff has been post produced to hell to sound good on $20 radio shack speakers and car FM radios.
You're an idiot. The Apple Fairplay protected content is .m4p (see p, protected), .m4a is used for Apple Lossless content which while it might be covered by patents is NOT going to get you thrown in jail.
They certainly can be. There are various ways to check, size, date, metadata, etc. Proxy servers can also be set to only keep their data for so long.
The XB-70 wasn't just technically impressive, it's visually very impressive. Years later it's the only thing besides the F-117 that I very clearly remember from my trip to Wright Patterson AFB and museum.
OpenGL is a fine substitute for Direct3D but the other tools (openAL et al) are a poor subsitute for the rest of the DirectX stack. Even Carmack who is a big proponent of OpenGL still uses the rest of the DirectX stack under Windows.