Bullshit, read the constitution again, it clearly states
" To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
It says nothing about profits, it says that in exchange for promoting these things which we feel are valuable to society we will allow you to have controll of your works for a limited time.
Huh? I've used my AT&T phone all over the country, including in the grand canyon and on Mt Whitney, never once had a problem, in fact I've never even had a dropped call with AT&T which is a heck of a lot more then I can say for Verizon or Cingular. With the ability to fall back to the nations best AMPS network you are basically assured of getting a singal, then again maybe your phone doesn't have AMPS support?
They ARE going to bundle the ability to buy the song, the album, or the ring tone of a song eventually. THAT is where the real revenue will come for them. As other people have noted a buck for the ID is expensive, but if they can get the people with the disposable income to use further services then they probably have a good revenue stream. Personally I would carry the cost of the ID service and do all the bundling, kind of use the ID feature as a loss leader to bring people into the ad stream for all the other services.
Crossover Office? Seems to work well for most programs. TurboTax would break due to the shitty copy protection but a competing product should work. And as another poster pointed out they have a web edition which works with FOSS browsers.
You're assuming that these things cost nothing to produce vs the 1-2 cents per polycarbonite disk, that's just not true. At most you would save a small fraction of a penny, and in exchange you get a media that is less robust. With the exception of one time advertisements like the poster below mentioned I can't really see a use for this.
Nope, because they most likely won't be able to get a sniffer between me and the host. If they can't compromise the host then they can't drop in a password sniffer =) Trust me there is so much low hanging fruit that going to the trouble of masking your services will stop 99.999+% of attacks. Besides no one is advocating JUST using port knocking, it's more or an added layer of obscurity which throws off the non-determined or non-skilled attackers (the vast majority since most attacks are automated or scripted via root kits).
The first one links to the driver for windows CE devices, not a firmware update. The second one links to an aparantly dynamic page that no longer comes up but searching the site for X022504.pdf shows no hits. Furthermore the Tech Library and downloads portions of the site list no such files.
Hmm, according to everything I have read it can't. For instance this thread from dpreview says that the card can't be made to do modes other than IDE. Now if you can point me to a site with info on replacing the Apple firmware on the drive controll electronics with a version that works I would be very interested.
I take it you haven't seen some of the games out now with LOTS of eye candy? Silent Storm is absolutly amazing looking even with crappy settings, I turned on all the eye candy for a while just to look at it but my lowly GF3 can barely do 1FPS. People with the newest Radeon's and GForce's can't run it at high resolution with everything cranked. This is an engine that Nival obviously designed for a seriously long lifespan. Oh yeah and AI processing eats my 1.2GHz Athlon for breakfast. I think this game is going to make me finally upgrade my PC =)
Nope, the iTrip uses a full stereo synthetic tuned signal, it sounds great as long as the channel is free and your stereo doesn't pick up sideband interference from adjacent channels. Here in Cleveland there is only one channel that meets all of the above conditions with my factory stereo (I would replace it but the Taurus doesn't do standard DIN due to the way the stereo is integrated into the central dash).
You won't save anything because the mini-iPod edition of the drive doesn't work outside the iPod. There is however another player out there based on the Hitachi drive which has full functioning electronics, and it's cheap to boot! Btw I'm not sure why you would use a mini if you are just going to put it in a huge custom enclosure, the full sized iPod would work just as well.
No, if it is not unsolicited then it is not spam by definition. I recieve email from plenty of commercial interests that isn't spam. I get stuff from vendors, trade journals, gaming mags whos site I signed up for, etc. That email has to go out somehow and it's often easier to hand it off to an outside firm with a colo and some beefy email servers to send it out. This has it's benifits (leaves bandwidth free for other things, doesn't delay normal emails, keeps your own IP's from accidently being blacklisted), and its detractions (possibly becoming associated with a real spammer if you don't do proper research, being listed as a spamming organization by clueless idiots who forgot they signed up for your newsletter, updates, etc). Again I will repeat my point, not all bulk email is spam.
For home and small business use the volume shadow copy repository in Windows 2003 or a similar setup under Linux would be fine. Combined with RAID-1 or better RAID-5 it eleminates probably 95+% of need for removable media for backup. I personally still use an IDE sled for occasional home backups but they aren't really necessary since I installed 2003 (I'm an MCSE so the $ was well spent as a learning tool, I've also set up a similar concept under Linux). Hopefully XP-Reloaded will also include the volume shadow copy feature or something similar.
The interconnect is exactly what I was pointing at. The Cray interconnect isn't any faster then the cross connect fabrics used by other applications like the G5 supercluster. Those Infiband switches have the same bandwidth (96GB/s) and nearly the same latency (8.1 microseconds for the Cray vs 4.5-10 microseconds for the Infiband switches and are considerably cheaper! The fact is comodity systems have caught up with Cray and their solution is looking expensive and less scalable.
Well the judge is wrong. The protocol itself makes no attempt to allow or block recording, but another application by the same company (ICQ) can talk to the same network and includes a history function. That's a pretty damn fine hair to split if you are going to throw someone in jail. I can see not allowing police officials to introduce such a log without a court issued warrant but I can not see making it a crime to record a medium which is by nature not secure.
It doesn't matter, their crossbar memory bus doesn't scale past 128 CPU's so anything beyond that is just a cluster fo Crays. At that point the memory latency is just as bad as any other clustered system so why not use a cluster of cheap brute force cpu's? The answer is that there IS no reason other than running multiple tasks which are limited to one crossbar each. Cray has to either redesign their systems so the crossbar scales with the number of CPU's (quite difficult when you have to cross large physical distances like between boxes) or they need to just concede the fact that modern clustering techniques have killed them on price/performance and are nearly there for almost all cases in performance. The fact is that most researchers are finding algorithms for their work that scales well with comodity clusters because that's what their research budgets can afford. For the small class of problems which don't map well to clusters there may be a need for large vectror computers but it's unlikely that there is room for two vendors and NEC has a large profitable company and the Japanese government backing them.
Actually, no it's not inevitable that you will be infected. Turn on the built in firewall in XP or get a hardware firewall if you are running a downlevel version of windows, then run something other than IE as your browser and something other than Outlook as your email client. Now simply don't run unsolicited executables and you are basically assured to not get any virus's, worm's, trojans, etc. By not running the two end user programs that are known to contain literally thousands of exploitable bugs and giving a little user training you can eliminate 99.9% of non-automated attacks and the automated ones are generally stopped by any decent NAT style firewall (one which does not allow an incomming connection unless it is part of an ongoing TCP/IP conversation). I have done this for various family members (including my grandmother who is 83 years old) and none of them has ever had a virus.
Yeah, nothing except true multiple inheritance, design by contract, strong typing, and a fairly sparse but powerfull lexicon (the reserved keywords are about the same as Pascal). Yep there are zero advantages there. Just because the language is mapped to C rather then directly compiled (by most compilers, I believe ISE has a native compiler available) doesn't mean it is somehow inferior to one with a native compiler, it just means it is easily portable without a lot of compiler work.
Don't say always unless you are absolutely sure you are correct. In fact the MMU is NOT always part of the CPU. In embedded systems and older chip designs the MMU is frequently an external chip, and depending on requirements can be left out of a design entirely. But Intel has had an integrated MMU for ages so it is doubtfull that they would move it to the Northbridge just to support NX.
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Bullshit, read the constitution again, it clearly states
" To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
It says nothing about profits, it says that in exchange for promoting these things which we feel are valuable to society we will allow you to have controll of your works for a limited time.
Yes and that agenda is obviously to drive all profitable businesses from the state....
Huh? I've used my AT&T phone all over the country, including in the grand canyon and on Mt Whitney, never once had a problem, in fact I've never even had a dropped call with AT&T which is a heck of a lot more then I can say for Verizon or Cingular. With the ability to fall back to the nations best AMPS network you are basically assured of getting a singal, then again maybe your phone doesn't have AMPS support?
They ARE going to bundle the ability to buy the song, the album, or the ring tone of a song eventually. THAT is where the real revenue will come for them. As other people have noted a buck for the ID is expensive, but if they can get the people with the disposable income to use further services then they probably have a good revenue stream. Personally I would carry the cost of the ID service and do all the bundling, kind of use the ID feature as a loss leader to bring people into the ad stream for all the other services.
Crossover Office? Seems to work well for most programs. TurboTax would break due to the shitty copy protection but a competing product should work. And as another poster pointed out they have a web edition which works with FOSS browsers.
You're assuming that these things cost nothing to produce vs the 1-2 cents per polycarbonite disk, that's just not true. At most you would save a small fraction of a penny, and in exchange you get a media that is less robust. With the exception of one time advertisements like the poster below mentioned I can't really see a use for this.
It's not like the penny or two per plastic disk is a major expense.
Nope, because they most likely won't be able to get a sniffer between me and the host. If they can't compromise the host then they can't drop in a password sniffer =) Trust me there is so much low hanging fruit that going to the trouble of masking your services will stop 99.999+% of attacks. Besides no one is advocating JUST using port knocking, it's more or an added layer of obscurity which throws off the non-determined or non-skilled attackers (the vast majority since most attacks are automated or scripted via root kits).
So the smart warez traders will use scp AND port knocking =)
The first one links to the driver for windows CE devices, not a firmware update. The second one links to an aparantly dynamic page that no longer comes up but searching the site for X022504.pdf shows no hits. Furthermore the Tech Library and downloads portions of the site list no such files.
Hmm, according to everything I have read it can't. For instance this thread from dpreview says that the card can't be made to do modes other than IDE. Now if you can point me to a site with info on replacing the Apple firmware on the drive controll electronics with a version that works I would be very interested.
I take it you haven't seen some of the games out now with LOTS of eye candy? Silent Storm is absolutly amazing looking even with crappy settings, I turned on all the eye candy for a while just to look at it but my lowly GF3 can barely do 1FPS. People with the newest Radeon's and GForce's can't run it at high resolution with everything cranked. This is an engine that Nival obviously designed for a seriously long lifespan. Oh yeah and AI processing eats my 1.2GHz Athlon for breakfast. I think this game is going to make me finally upgrade my PC =)
Nope, the iTrip uses a full stereo synthetic tuned signal, it sounds great as long as the channel is free and your stereo doesn't pick up sideband interference from adjacent channels. Here in Cleveland there is only one channel that meets all of the above conditions with my factory stereo (I would replace it but the Taurus doesn't do standard DIN due to the way the stereo is integrated into the central dash).
You won't save anything because the mini-iPod edition of the drive doesn't work outside the iPod. There is however another player out there based on the Hitachi drive which has full functioning electronics, and it's cheap to boot! Btw I'm not sure why you would use a mini if you are just going to put it in a huge custom enclosure, the full sized iPod would work just as well.
No, if it is not unsolicited then it is not spam by definition. I recieve email from plenty of commercial interests that isn't spam. I get stuff from vendors, trade journals, gaming mags whos site I signed up for, etc. That email has to go out somehow and it's often easier to hand it off to an outside firm with a colo and some beefy email servers to send it out. This has it's benifits (leaves bandwidth free for other things, doesn't delay normal emails, keeps your own IP's from accidently being blacklisted), and its detractions (possibly becoming associated with a real spammer if you don't do proper research, being listed as a spamming organization by clueless idiots who forgot they signed up for your newsletter, updates, etc). Again I will repeat my point, not all bulk email is spam.
Dell will to the best of their ability if you have Silver or above support contracts.
For home and small business use the volume shadow copy repository in Windows 2003 or a similar setup under Linux would be fine. Combined with RAID-1 or better RAID-5 it eleminates probably 95+% of need for removable media for backup. I personally still use an IDE sled for occasional home backups but they aren't really necessary since I installed 2003 (I'm an MCSE so the $ was well spent as a learning tool, I've also set up a similar concept under Linux). Hopefully XP-Reloaded will also include the volume shadow copy feature or something similar.
The interconnect is exactly what I was pointing at. The Cray interconnect isn't any faster then the cross connect fabrics used by other applications like the G5 supercluster. Those Infiband switches have the same bandwidth (96GB/s) and nearly the same latency (8.1 microseconds for the Cray vs 4.5-10 microseconds for the Infiband switches and are considerably cheaper! The fact is comodity systems have caught up with Cray and their solution is looking expensive and less scalable.
Well the judge is wrong. The protocol itself makes no attempt to allow or block recording, but another application by the same company (ICQ) can talk to the same network and includes a history function. That's a pretty damn fine hair to split if you are going to throw someone in jail. I can see not allowing police officials to introduce such a log without a court issued warrant but I can not see making it a crime to record a medium which is by nature not secure.
It doesn't matter, their crossbar memory bus doesn't scale past 128 CPU's so anything beyond that is just a cluster fo Crays. At that point the memory latency is just as bad as any other clustered system so why not use a cluster of cheap brute force cpu's? The answer is that there IS no reason other than running multiple tasks which are limited to one crossbar each. Cray has to either redesign their systems so the crossbar scales with the number of CPU's (quite difficult when you have to cross large physical distances like between boxes) or they need to just concede the fact that modern clustering techniques have killed them on price/performance and are nearly there for almost all cases in performance. The fact is that most researchers are finding algorithms for their work that scales well with comodity clusters because that's what their research budgets can afford. For the small class of problems which don't map well to clusters there may be a need for large vectror computers but it's unlikely that there is room for two vendors and NEC has a large profitable company and the Japanese government backing them.
Actually, no it's not inevitable that you will be infected. Turn on the built in firewall in XP or get a hardware firewall if you are running a downlevel version of windows, then run something other than IE as your browser and something other than Outlook as your email client. Now simply don't run unsolicited executables and you are basically assured to not get any virus's, worm's, trojans, etc. By not running the two end user programs that are known to contain literally thousands of exploitable bugs and giving a little user training you can eliminate 99.9% of non-automated attacks and the automated ones are generally stopped by any decent NAT style firewall (one which does not allow an incomming connection unless it is part of an ongoing TCP/IP conversation). I have done this for various family members (including my grandmother who is 83 years old) and none of them has ever had a virus.
I'd say it's pretty damn sad that nasa.gov is only ranked 270 when the top 100 is full of malware and other trash.
So you're saying that NASA's engineers are applying the Scotty principal? Yeah most engineers do that when they can get away with it.
Yeah, nothing except true multiple inheritance, design by contract, strong typing, and a fairly sparse but powerfull lexicon (the reserved keywords are about the same as Pascal). Yep there are zero advantages there. Just because the language is mapped to C rather then directly compiled (by most compilers, I believe ISE has a native compiler available) doesn't mean it is somehow inferior to one with a native compiler, it just means it is easily portable without a lot of compiler work.
Don't say always unless you are absolutely sure you are correct. In fact the MMU is NOT always part of the CPU. In embedded systems and older chip designs the MMU is frequently an external chip, and depending on requirements can be left out of a design entirely. But Intel has had an integrated MMU for ages so it is doubtfull that they would move it to the Northbridge just to support NX.