The main reason to make radios that are outside of the US FCC channels for 802.11b/g is that there are other enforcement agencies that use a different part of the ISM(Industry, Scientific, Medical) band for unregulated communications. ETSI/EFTA in europe, MIC in Japan, and various other organizations worldwide demand differing specifications. France also does not allow unregulated use of the 5.8Ghz band used by 802.11a because it is used by their military despite being set aside decades ago by the ITU for use as an ISM unlicensed band.
Yep, you have to look no farther than ATI for proof that WHQL blessing means exactly butkis when it comes to stability. For years ATI has released and had blessed some of the least stable drivers in existance. Lately they have gotten better, but that has more to do with customer demand and available resources then any great change in MS's testing program. But I don't think this is really going to enforce any DRM, because the maker of Daemon tools can simply buy a commercial certificate and get the signing certificate from MS. When a tool has dual uses I think MS would have a very hard time justifying to a court why it did not grant a certificate to such a manufacturer.
That's such uter bullocks. There are MANY branches of goverment, federal, state, and local that use OSS. In addition there are MANY (most) Fortune 500 companies that use OSS at some level. Microsoft is NOT going to be able to buy some law that says you are not allowed to use OSS. What they may be able to do is drop support for harware that doesn't enforce their form of DRM, but you will still be able to buy (lower volume, higher cost) components legally that can run your OSS software fine. Btw TCPA originally came out of a need within Microsoft to be able to verify a network booted OS image. They had customers that wanted to boot diskless machines from the LAN with storage hosted on a SAN but these large customers had a problem with the fact that they could not verify the image as it came across the network onto the box. So MS started working on a hardware/software verification method that would allow them to verify the integrity of a network booted image. Only later did MS's move into the content realm create a shift in the project to a digital rights restriction mechanism.
I don't know about other MMO's, but the WOW client-server communications are done with encrypted packets with keys setup using PKI during login. Unless you are a brilliant cryptographer you are NOT going to be reading the communications with a Linux router box setup with some fanciful USB controll hooks to the gaming PC. Besides developing such technology would be infinitly more expensive then simply hiring Chineese sweatshop workers to play WOW.
Ok, look at LTO3. Couple grand for the drive then $120/800GB so about 3 times as cheap per GB once you have paid for the drive. Oh yeah, it's actually made for archiving, which HDD's are NOT. Disk which aren't used are almost as likely to fail as those that are used all the time due to problems with the lubricant.
Actually the CISC frontend is a very GOOD thing as it allows better utilization of cache resources and lowers overall latency due to memory fetching. A pure RISC architecture would fail to perform today because of the disparity between CPU performance and main memory performance. Even socalled RISC chips like the PPC bear little resemblance to earlier RISC chips like MIPS.
The i960 was not a failure, it's used in about 50% of RAID controllers and quite a few other embedded applications. Perhaps you were thinking of the i860, or the i432? The i860 was in many ways similar to Itanium. It was a VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architecture which was like EPIC very overreaching for the time. It was also a floating point monster that was expensive to produce. Finally the i860 required massive compiler optimizations to produce efficient code which the compilers of the day weren't up to. Basically Intel didn't learn from the i860 and repeated the mistake a decade and a half later.
Uh, I think you missed a VERY important part of the census clause: in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. This allows the Congress to enact the Census in any way they so choose. So even under a VERY restrictive view of enumerated powers the Congress would have the ability to dicatate that the Census include calculation of any information they deem fit to collect. The only requirement in the constitution is an enumeration of the population for purposes of calculating the constituancy of the house, but there is very broad leniency given as to how to Census shall be put into action.
I've recieved responses to form driven faxes from the EFF's website. Of course I bother to actually modify the form letter to be specific to my senator and include my own thoughts with those expressed in the default letter. It also helps that my senator sits on the technology commitee and so obviously takes some interest in the subject. The fact that I've talked to him face to face several times might have something to do with it, but the letter still has to get past the staffers =)
Much more important than killing Alpha is the fact that they killed PA-RISC development for Itanium. Alpha was a niche processor with a declining market population, high powered workstations and specialized scientific servers. PA-RISC ran/runs big business systems which have very specific requirements that are outside what a comodity processor will be targeted at due to cost concerns, but where the system price guarentees room for profit. Being without a big bad processor for their high end business systems would be MUCH worse for HP then having to use an alternative processor for their limited workstation and scientific server lines (Opteron, Xenon).
I know that hospital data systems are often VERY redundant. For instance one hospital I know of has a dual-FDDI ring where the two ring segments go out of opposite ends of the building to two different CO's where they hook into two seperate SONET rings from the telco. This was massivly expensive just for the installation charge, but it made sure that in 5+ years they were never without access to their records.
The author of the scholarly paper that this article is based on estimates that the amount of copper in the US is roughly 1/3rd in the ground, 1/3rd in use, and 1/3rd in landfills. This means that soon mining of landfills for copper might become viable as the difficulty of obtaining new raw ore generally increases astronomically as the percentage of known reserves shrinks below a certain threshold.
I wouldn't use the internet keys AS internet keys, but with my MS Internet Keyboard Pro the keys are all remappable, so I map them to custom scripts I write. As an example I have a macro that calls the key sequence to minimize the current window.
I like the idea of NOT going with identical drives. Use RAID10 and use two sets of drives from different manufacturers. That way if there is a common failure component like many lines of drives have had over the years you aren't out all your data when the drives decide to give up the ghost at the same time due to an identical fault.
First, there is NO PPC comparable to the chips in these first macintel's. Second Apple gets a lower cost system even if the chips are slightly more expensive because they no longer have to develop all the other parts of the chipset themselves. Third and possibly most important they don't have to deal with supply disruptions and long process delays that were caused by Motorolla's inability and unwillingness to do things that were in the best interest of their only desktop customer.
I don't know if it's any more inellegant than running an emulator on top of the OS layer which has to emulate a different processor type including byte swapping! Also the Mac platform wasn't unique in this regard, there were Sun workstations with windows cards as an option.
How is a specific arrangement of bytes a FACT? Bytes are like notes, they are not in and of themselves either facts or creative, they meerly are. Collections of notes or bytes on the other hand can most certainly be creative, but bytes can also represent facts =)
No, you are missing the point. You can copyright the specific creative expression presented over the radio or television broadcast but you can not copyright the facts. So someone may take a radio or television broadcast and glean the raw facts from that presentation and then rearange them in their own creative presentation and have copyright over that presentation. Neither party has or may have copyright over the raw facts, only over the creative presentation of those facts. There is NO protection of copyright over facts in the US, only trade secret protection and protection of the creative presentation of facts.
I wouldn't feel too bad for them. Mac's have historically held their value like no other computer, and the last of a generation is even more valuable. It's likely that there are a number of people that will have PPC only software that will require them to stay on that platform for some time, if they get tired of their current machine, or it breaks, they might look for the fastest available computer from the old generation, which would be a current PB G4 if you are talking about portable systems.
That's where EIFFEL has an advantage over other languages, it's comments can't disagree with the code. The comments are part of the design by contract methodology that the language enforces. You setup your incoming inputs with an expect statement, then guarentee your outputs with an ensure block. Failing to meet either the expect or ensure conditions throws an exception which you can catch and hadle as needed.
What are you talking about, my monitor says Freq-Horizontal is 67KHz, which is WELL outside any humans hearing range. Of course partial harmonics are possible. I think the real answer is that what you are hearing is overscan at the edges of the display, either vertial or horizontal where the electron beam is hitting outside the normal area of focus.
No, something needed to be done, the valve that stuck open needed to be closed. They were incorrectly acting because the system was not responding as they expected based on their inputs. Btw TMI pisses me off. People whine about the dangers of nuclear power, yet TMI which was about the worst possible scenario for a US nuclear power plant released less radiation than a MUCH smaller coal plant would in a year.
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The main reason to make radios that are outside of the US FCC channels for 802.11b/g is that there are other enforcement agencies that use a different part of the ISM(Industry, Scientific, Medical) band for unregulated communications. ETSI/EFTA in europe, MIC in Japan, and various other organizations worldwide demand differing specifications. France also does not allow unregulated use of the 5.8Ghz band used by 802.11a because it is used by their military despite being set aside decades ago by the ITU for use as an ISM unlicensed band.
Yep, you have to look no farther than ATI for proof that WHQL blessing means exactly butkis when it comes to stability. For years ATI has released and had blessed some of the least stable drivers in existance. Lately they have gotten better, but that has more to do with customer demand and available resources then any great change in MS's testing program. But I don't think this is really going to enforce any DRM, because the maker of Daemon tools can simply buy a commercial certificate and get the signing certificate from MS. When a tool has dual uses I think MS would have a very hard time justifying to a court why it did not grant a certificate to such a manufacturer.
That's such uter bullocks. There are MANY branches of goverment, federal, state, and local that use OSS. In addition there are MANY (most) Fortune 500 companies that use OSS at some level. Microsoft is NOT going to be able to buy some law that says you are not allowed to use OSS. What they may be able to do is drop support for harware that doesn't enforce their form of DRM, but you will still be able to buy (lower volume, higher cost) components legally that can run your OSS software fine. Btw TCPA originally came out of a need within Microsoft to be able to verify a network booted OS image. They had customers that wanted to boot diskless machines from the LAN with storage hosted on a SAN but these large customers had a problem with the fact that they could not verify the image as it came across the network onto the box. So MS started working on a hardware/software verification method that would allow them to verify the integrity of a network booted image. Only later did MS's move into the content realm create a shift in the project to a digital rights restriction mechanism.
I don't know about other MMO's, but the WOW client-server communications are done with encrypted packets with keys setup using PKI during login. Unless you are a brilliant cryptographer you are NOT going to be reading the communications with a Linux router box setup with some fanciful USB controll hooks to the gaming PC. Besides developing such technology would be infinitly more expensive then simply hiring Chineese sweatshop workers to play WOW.
Ok, look at LTO3. Couple grand for the drive then $120/800GB so about 3 times as cheap per GB once you have paid for the drive. Oh yeah, it's actually made for archiving, which HDD's are NOT. Disk which aren't used are almost as likely to fail as those that are used all the time due to problems with the lubricant.
Actually the CISC frontend is a very GOOD thing as it allows better utilization of cache resources and lowers overall latency due to memory fetching. A pure RISC architecture would fail to perform today because of the disparity between CPU performance and main memory performance. Even socalled RISC chips like the PPC bear little resemblance to earlier RISC chips like MIPS.
The i960 was not a failure, it's used in about 50% of RAID controllers and quite a few other embedded applications. Perhaps you were thinking of the i860, or the i432? The i860 was in many ways similar to Itanium. It was a VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architecture which was like EPIC very overreaching for the time. It was also a floating point monster that was expensive to produce. Finally the i860 required massive compiler optimizations to produce efficient code which the compilers of the day weren't up to. Basically Intel didn't learn from the i860 and repeated the mistake a decade and a half later.
Uh, I think you missed a VERY important part of the census clause: in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. This allows the Congress to enact the Census in any way they so choose. So even under a VERY restrictive view of enumerated powers the Congress would have the ability to dicatate that the Census include calculation of any information they deem fit to collect. The only requirement in the constitution is an enumeration of the population for purposes of calculating the constituancy of the house, but there is very broad leniency given as to how to Census shall be put into action.
I've recieved responses to form driven faxes from the EFF's website. Of course I bother to actually modify the form letter to be specific to my senator and include my own thoughts with those expressed in the default letter. It also helps that my senator sits on the technology commitee and so obviously takes some interest in the subject. The fact that I've talked to him face to face several times might have something to do with it, but the letter still has to get past the staffers =)
Much more important than killing Alpha is the fact that they killed PA-RISC development for Itanium. Alpha was a niche processor with a declining market population, high powered workstations and specialized scientific servers. PA-RISC ran/runs big business systems which have very specific requirements that are outside what a comodity processor will be targeted at due to cost concerns, but where the system price guarentees room for profit. Being without a big bad processor for their high end business systems would be MUCH worse for HP then having to use an alternative processor for their limited workstation and scientific server lines (Opteron, Xenon).
Actually NFTS is case preserving, not case sensitive. You can not have both Foo.c and foo.c in the same folder but Foo.c will retain the capital F.
I know that hospital data systems are often VERY redundant. For instance one hospital I know of has a dual-FDDI ring where the two ring segments go out of opposite ends of the building to two different CO's where they hook into two seperate SONET rings from the telco. This was massivly expensive just for the installation charge, but it made sure that in 5+ years they were never without access to their records.
The author of the scholarly paper that this article is based on estimates that the amount of copper in the US is roughly 1/3rd in the ground, 1/3rd in use, and 1/3rd in landfills. This means that soon mining of landfills for copper might become viable as the difficulty of obtaining new raw ore generally increases astronomically as the percentage of known reserves shrinks below a certain threshold.
I wouldn't use the internet keys AS internet keys, but with my MS Internet Keyboard Pro the keys are all remappable, so I map them to custom scripts I write. As an example I have a macro that calls the key sequence to minimize the current window.
I like the idea of NOT going with identical drives. Use RAID10 and use two sets of drives from different manufacturers. That way if there is a common failure component like many lines of drives have had over the years you aren't out all your data when the drives decide to give up the ghost at the same time due to an identical fault.
First, there is NO PPC comparable to the chips in these first macintel's. Second Apple gets a lower cost system even if the chips are slightly more expensive because they no longer have to develop all the other parts of the chipset themselves. Third and possibly most important they don't have to deal with supply disruptions and long process delays that were caused by Motorolla's inability and unwillingness to do things that were in the best interest of their only desktop customer.
Dual booting for games, duh.
I don't know if it's any more inellegant than running an emulator on top of the OS layer which has to emulate a different processor type including byte swapping! Also the Mac platform wasn't unique in this regard, there were Sun workstations with windows cards as an option.
How is a specific arrangement of bytes a FACT? Bytes are like notes, they are not in and of themselves either facts or creative, they meerly are. Collections of notes or bytes on the other hand can most certainly be creative, but bytes can also represent facts =)
No, you are missing the point. You can copyright the specific creative expression presented over the radio or television broadcast but you can not copyright the facts. So someone may take a radio or television broadcast and glean the raw facts from that presentation and then rearange them in their own creative presentation and have copyright over that presentation. Neither party has or may have copyright over the raw facts, only over the creative presentation of those facts. There is NO protection of copyright over facts in the US, only trade secret protection and protection of the creative presentation of facts.
I wouldn't feel too bad for them. Mac's have historically held their value like no other computer, and the last of a generation is even more valuable. It's likely that there are a number of people that will have PPC only software that will require them to stay on that platform for some time, if they get tired of their current machine, or it breaks, they might look for the fastest available computer from the old generation, which would be a current PB G4 if you are talking about portable systems.
My guess is you could do it with an OpenFirmware boot command like }boot cd:loader.ext where loader.ext is the filename of the boot loader on the CD.
That's where EIFFEL has an advantage over other languages, it's comments can't disagree with the code. The comments are part of the design by contract methodology that the language enforces. You setup your incoming inputs with an expect statement, then guarentee your outputs with an ensure block. Failing to meet either the expect or ensure conditions throws an exception which you can catch and hadle as needed.
What are you talking about, my monitor says Freq-Horizontal is 67KHz, which is WELL outside any humans hearing range. Of course partial harmonics are possible. I think the real answer is that what you are hearing is overscan at the edges of the display, either vertial or horizontal where the electron beam is hitting outside the normal area of focus.
No, something needed to be done, the valve that stuck open needed to be closed. They were incorrectly acting because the system was not responding as they expected based on their inputs. Btw TMI pisses me off. People whine about the dangers of nuclear power, yet TMI which was about the worst possible scenario for a US nuclear power plant released less radiation than a MUCH smaller coal plant would in a year.