Strictly, there's nothing stopping UWB from operating in the gamma regions.
*Flush*
Dude, you've just joined the brainwashed masses. PC => Windows noooooooooooo, UWB => Radio Range noooooooooooo by which standard? Can you show me any document that states, "The ISO (International Standards Office) states for now and evermore that UltraWideband is a signal spanning more than 50% of the electromagnetic spectrum between 0 Hz. and 6 GHz. So it shall be written, so it shall be done."
In other words if I invent a transmitter tomorrow that creates a pulse in gamma, xray, UV, visible, IR, radio that it will not be an UltraWideband device? What will it be? UltraUltraWideband (UUWB)? Where does the ISO state that the acronym UWB means only a radio pulse. Just because the US and FCC recognises it doesn't mean the world does. It's this same "we own the world" attitude that caused binLaden to destroy WTC. 5.5 billion other people dude.
No shit a 100Gw UWB pulse isn't going to be good for you, neither is a 1Mw pulse from a laser. That doesn't mean the background glow from a city full of streetlights is going to burn holes in you does it? Didn't think so
<Budweiser Frog>True, true</Budweiser Frog>
Anyways, if you conflate radio transmissions with gamma ray transmissions you have already proven yourself an idiot. No PhD for you; it's grade 10 Physics all over again.
Whoa, dude, did you do your grade 10 at Area 51 or Los Alamos? Last time I looked UWB sub-nanosecond pulses weren't on any curriculum. Strictly, there's nothing stopping UWB from operating in the gamma regions. If that's not UWB then it must be UWGXP (Ultra Wideband Gamma Xray Pulse) or something, you'll need to ask some MBA marketing guy.
Seriously does anyone know what a UWB pulse looks like in the frequency domain? Would it look like a square wave with a sharp cut-off point at 6GHz? This is what I figure, as a peak would imply a carrier-esque signal. I got drunk and missed the lecture about Bessel functions, so is this to do with that?
Why don't you get your hand off your dick for 5 minutes and look for some info on EM transmitters.
After you... Don't want a sticky keyboard, eh? I thought so.
I like petting kittens.
I don't want you to get my cat sticky either.
Do you honestly believe that the same device could transmit frequencies across the ENTIRE FUCKING EM SPECTRUM?!
I thought that was the "miracle discovery", ah well I guess it's ultrawideband << totalband instead of merely ultrawideband < totalband. The military is already looking into this stuff, apparently it can see through walls and the ground.
Both narrowband and UWB can be harmful against lots of stuff, quoting US military sources,
an official from the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command stated that recent scientific advances in radio frequency (RF) weapons technology by several states raise significant concerns. Broadly speaking, these weapons use high power microwave energy, in either narrow or wideband form, to disrupt or destroy the high-density metal oxide semiconductor devices that are used in modern computers and sensors.....
Current technology has produced a 25-gigawatt ultra-wideband source, a 100-gigawatt UWB device is anticipated within a year, and finally, travelling wave devices are also being explored for UWB applications
A 100 Gigawatt UWB pulse is.... Not gonna be good for my sperm count. How does it sound to you? Oh yeah, it's transient so are you volunteering? Looks like lots of research is being done below 6GHz, hmmm that frequency spread should be mmmmmkay. This link has the real nitty gritty, symbol rates and all that. Can someone gimme my PhD already?
Is anyone else worried about the fact that this increases background noise radiation across the entire spectrum? Won't this cause a massive health risk?
If the world was filled with these devices then background (full spectrum Gaussian) radiation would be high enough to kill us all, equivalent to having a cellular+microwave+xray+gammaray transmitter constantly switched on stapled to our foreheads, bathing us endlessly in radiation. UWB gives us a dose of everything
Then again maybe small doses of gamma radiation are good for us, errr maybe they keep our DNA repair system primed or something? I mean small amounts of chocolate's good for us so.. why not gamma rays + xrays?
Well at least it's not as bad as cosmic radiation or neutrons I suppose, but today's narrowband transmissions at least use (to our puny knowledge) frequency ranges that don't kill us.
I hate to ask this, how is Transmeta going to survive if Duron isn't powerful enough? Is the Transmeta truly banished to embedded applications? Do Transmeta have any aces up their sleeves?
I remember the Archimedes processor ran BASIC 100 times faster than calculated, then they found that their refactoring of the BASIC interpreter decreased its size so much that the whole interpreter fit in the CPU's L1 cache. ARM processors I think it is - RISC.
Can Transmeta pull off any miracles like this, such as using a JIT compiler to translate the entire executable app instead of just doing it in the background like they're doing now?
The article is fascinating but a little overcharismatic,
David A. Thompson and John S. Best of IBM write: An engineer from the original RAMAC project of 1956 would have no problem understanding a description of a modern disk drive.
No problem, I'd love to see them explain to a cryogenically frozen engineer from 1956 Reed-Solomon Error Correction codes realtime FPGA/ASIC design (Hamming basics), RLL coding standards, GMR head construction using nanometer technology, realtime control design of servo-actuated heads' feedback mechanism (to keep on track without resonant head movements), electron beam lithography to debug the IDE on-drive electronics.
I'll admit though once they cover all that, the differences between SCSI/EIDE plus ATA will be a walk in the park.
Plus can IBM be sued for fraud or illegal trading because of their 120GXP drives being way off 200,000 hours MTBF specification? It must be written down in stone somewhere.
ANYONE that says linux doesn't really need to pay much attention to cut and paste uniformity in the GUI is alienating all these people, as you cannot explain the intricacies of Gnome/KDE peculiarities with cut and paste to illiterate people that don't know their own language, not to mention English. This experiment is a vindication of the usability supremacy of GUI for internationalised systems, The same way even an illiterate kid in Delhi can appreciate the finest van Gogh painting.
I'm not dissin' KDE or Gnome, just saying that what you're doing is important, and that you need to understand that there are a lot of people that when the GUI crashes, or the core dumps or a buffer overflow's exploited they WILL hit the reboot switch. Stability stability stability.
S'il vous plait mountee/dev/hda1 Vous etes certainment? Oui ou Non Il y a un dump de la core, vous pouvez debuggez?
I am a content provider, I have a website which focuses on a small part of history that is regularly browsed by those interested in the same topic. It is 346 html pages at last count.
I am not about to go bankrupt. It is vanity publishing that is affordable. I can afford it and am glad I have an outlet that is readily viewable and of use for others. If CNN cant survive in that environment, it is not my concern.
Who pays for your bandwidth? Who pays your hosting fees? Perhaps a freebie thrown in by your ISP to sweeten the deal. If your website becomes popular and people demand more information, and need new content (ala tomshardware), who's going to pay for the research? Right now it's ad revenues or web surfers' credit cards. But here comes the chicken and egg - who's going to pull out their credit card for tomshardware if they need to pay to read it for the first time? Will they erect billboards on the highway? Which highway, which State, only in California? Maybe tomshardware would accidentally become an exclusive Californian Internet chatroom
I'll admit that the gross excesses of before with armies of $150,000 HTML developers creating websites that on/. would be Score: -1, Redundant is gone. However now we're seeing a worrying swing in the opposite direction where if you put up a website you have to pay, plus if it becomes popular you have to pay for bandwidth, all out of your own pocket. I'm not even considering the cost of refreshing content like news stories or TV listings. This kills free content, relegating it to some Bill-of-Rights pleasing formality like the Public Access Channel.
If CNN cant survive in that environment, it's not my concern
CNN: big website, nice fresh content, ad supported Tomshardware: big website, nice fresh content (latest Athlon MP, etc.), ad supported Dude, you just alienated the whole of/.
I presume that this was the case in the UK (by your address and the term "rails"), but I don't think it was ever the case in the US. There were company imposed restrictions on what "official" equipment could be hooked up to phone lines, but those have long since been removed.
He he. That's still in force here in the UK. You can only (legally) connect devices that are BABT (British Approvals Board for Telecommunications) Approved. Let me see if Google agrees with the rest of your your statement via Yahoo's Google search (Yahoo pays Google money to do their search I'd rather support ads than taint Google by encouraging pay-for-placement).....
Rules:
Governing Water and Electric Service November 1996
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power As Established September 4, 1983 and Amended by Resolution PART 2-E DESCRIPTION OF ELECTRIC SERVICE
D. Alternating Current
Frequency, Voltage, and Phase Single-phase loads with a service ampacity of 600 amperes or less at 240/120 volts normally will be supplied through one main meter. Where such service ampacity is in excess of 600 amperes, approval must be obtained from the Department regarding metering requirements and related facilities, including switches and circuits.
You need the beauracrats' approval if you're going to consume a little more power than usual. Hey there's some more, quoting:
(1) Any single-phase motor having locked-rotor current not exceeding 46 amperes, and full-load running current not exceeding 12 amperes, may be operated at 120 volts.
(2) Single-phase, 240-volt motors installed for residential air conditioning shall be limited so that the arithmetical
sum of the locked rotor currents of all motors in a particular unit shall not exceed 450 percent of the similar sum of full-load currents nor a total of 150 amperes. (3) Single-phase motors of five hp or more may be connected to a service supplying lighting only upon special permission from, and in the manner specified by, the Department. Single-phase commercial cooking and heating loads and other miscellaneous single-phase power loads may, at the option of the Department, be supplied through a three-phase service at 240 volts. However, approval for such service shall be obtained in advance if none of the individual loads to be supplied is three-phase.
Yup, as I said those power station geeks REALLY don't like high power factors devices being connected to *THEIR* power rails. One of the remnants of good old electricity generator control I suppose. Having to bust some beauracratic butt to get a single phase instead of a 3-phase power supply to your cooker is a shock to me. To be honest, I'm as surprised to find this out as you are. Let's see if there's more juicy stuff... Whoa! This is totally cool, a mains harmonics and flicker standard. Ahhhh Google, I wish I could marry you. Quoting,
Just when you thought it was all under control.....
......The latest elements in the EMC Compliance requirement.
In order to limit the ever increasing harmonic distortion imposed on the public mains supply the Harmonics and Flicker standards are to be introduced.
As from Jan 1st 2001, compliance with these Harmonics and Flicker standards becomes a mandatory part of the EMC Directive.
This applies to all products within the scope of these standards.
Absolutely fascinating, I never knew EMC directives were law, I thought they did ethernet switches and storage and stuff. I had no idea that Corporate rule had come this far. Hmmm, time to ask Google again...
Too competitive? They were the ones introducing all the cool features. They were the first ones out with quiet IDE drives, the first ones with adjustable noise levels, the first with the "pixie dust" stuff with awesome platter density, the first big (60+ gig) laptop drives. I can't think of another hard drive company that was nearly as competitive as IBM was, and for them to say the market is too competitive, that really tells you something.
Quit while you're ahead, an interesting strategy. I'm sure IBM research did a game theory simulation and came up with this idea.Scenario:
IBM spends decades becoming cutting edge hard disk manufacturer. Excellent reputation has been built up.
New hard disk manufacturing plant in Hungary botches the technology, may be irrepairable, IBM's reputation is badly damaged. Shall we quit while we're ahead or spend possibly years finding out what is wrong with the IBM plant and then spend another 10 years rebuilding our reputation, facing constant scrutiny from tomshardware and friends?
Per packet is too irrational. What price per packet will you set? Even one cent per packet is too much. Flat rate like AoL is the way to go
Flat rate, ahh wonderful dreams. Uhh 10 bucks per Gigabyte peak time maybe, 5 bucks per Gigabyte off-peak, free at night. More ideally, proprietary MFC client app installed visible on the taskbar, communicates with a load-measuring server on the ISP, goes red at peak time (heavy traffic), yellow at off-peak, green at night (free)
The internet isn't an electric company, nor a water company. The resources they're offering isn't as hard to produce and renew like those utilities. A better analogy is the cable company where access is a flat rate, but more can be bought for a price
Agreed, bandwidth caps with extra $ for unlimited are best - easy to understand, BUT don't forget this article concerns a major ISP banning filesharing, and I get the feeling many others may follow, the ISPs have been bitchin' about filesharing bandwidth for quite some time so clearly they don't agree with you when you say that bandwidth is a lot easier to renew than electricity, it just seems easier to renew than electricity. Imagine a CCIE at your ISP watching a Cisco 12416 running at 95% usage, or facing having to cost ordering a new OC-192 to the backbone. He sees 80% of the bandwidth is used by port 1214 (Kazaa). His feeling of panic would probably be the same as the electricity distributor in California last Summer. A price rise or shutting down P2P would be the choice facing him, and as we know some dumbass MBA-dropout-type manager will make the decision, not him.
Either they meter it or they fully itemise it, "$500 for new Cisco Catalyst 6500, split between 300 downstream users one of which is you (because 10 of you are using bearshare excessively) => give us a cheque for 2 dollars, plus 3 new T1's to the backbone $1500 each per month split between 1000 users one of which is you => your monthly subscription will increase by $1.50. If you don't pay we'll take you to court" how long do you think it'll be before you're suing your neighbours? (then theoretically electric companies should charge for installing extra transformers - people of California you are requested and required to pay $1.8billion for a new power line for the grid between Utah and California plus $0.2billion for 300kV step-up and step-down transformer array. This is because Utah has 5GW excess generating capacity. Your share of the payment = $500. Itemised: 20 million people in California, $2billion cost => $2billion/20million = $500 per citizen. Please pay by Direct Debit or Credit card, thank you) hmmmm could this be a step towards Open Source Corporations?
If we get to that point, im back to dialup/BBS land..
I already am. The packet counter meter could give big discounts for off peak use. There are 2 possibilities:
1. Our future Internet bills will look like this except substitute IP_PacketCount into Kwhours
2. Metering was somehow impossible, all there is are flat flees. To get maximum household penetration (majority of customers are Joe sixpack too stupid to shop around ISP), cable companies' broadband will be HDTV-over-IP with email on the ISP's portal. All other uses of the Internet will be a breach of policy. HDTV-over-IP will be cached at Point of Presence or multicast from the ISP. Joe sizpack will be a very happy man for a flat fee of $40. The only remnant of the free Internet will be the Google search textbox (bought by Micro$oft in 2004) in the corner of the ISP's portal homepage. Pay an extra $30 to get Internet access and you'll find a void, as the drop in ad revenues no longer pays for bandwidth+servers. Independent websites will require you to have run a Cydoor signed applet for 5 minutes before allowing you access to the site's homepage. Well, at least we'll have our privacy from people like doubleclick.net.
3. Metering is impossible, but Joe sixpack demands the free Internet otherwise he won't pay a dime. Due to negligible advertising revenues, all content providers are about to go bankrupt. A transparent proxy (e.g. Squid) at the ISP can count the number of HTTP GET requests sent to each website. They pay for the bandwidth to the backbone PLUS a royalty to the content provider to whom the HTTP GET request was sent. {My lunch is getting cold so I can't think about this thoroughly}. If not transparent proxy then the IETF can come up with a "IP collect call reverse charges type" protocol. And there I was thinking that virtual circuits were out of fashion ?-)
Why do ISPS always tell us what services we can and cant run on our computers?
Because the Internet is not yet fully mature. Many years ago when electricity was being rolled out to the nation, the extra demands placed on it by devices with a high power factor lead the electric companies to state, "We make electricity - it's ours. You may not use any equipment that has not been manufactured by us and connect it to *OUR* electric rails."
The ISPs are claiming similar ownership over our use of IP packets over *THEIR* routers, same as electric companies claimed ownership of sine wave electricity over *THEIR* power lines.
This was resolved when the market was saturated and power stations were idling in the name of load-spike absorbtion. The broadband market hasn't yet been saturated, the ISPs are giving away bandwidth for a flat fee, same as electricity companies used to give electricity. Upon market maturation, people demanded a drop in prices, and the freedom to connect whatever electric devices they want to the power lines. But what if one household or company used 10 times more electricity than their neighbour? It was obviously unfair to charge them the same amount. This gave rise to electric meters. The electric companies retorted,
"But what if someone tampers with the box, what if someone steals electricity by tapping the wire before the meter and steals the electricity?"
. The customers demanded it, so they took the chance and installed metering in every home, and charged for actual usage. The restriction that you may only connect electric company authorised devices with a good power factor and negligible line interference was dropped. Technology advanced and suppression capacitors smoothed out the consumption spikes. The mains line was no longer used as a clock, quartz oscillators took over. Any device that needed a smooth sine wave no longer used the mains, but instead used an AC-DC converter (transformer+bridge rectifier) and sine wave generator using transistors, or more recently switched-mode PSU. The electric company geeks were pissed because all this extra hardware was needed just to generate a smooth sine wave, instead of pulling it directly off the mains, but everybody got used to it. Now all that remains is a limit on consumption so that you don't burn out your wires and start a fire, together with regulations on interference (unsuppressed motors) being introduced on the power line.
The Internet will follow the same trend, IP packets are turning from "Cool Internet stuff" into infrastructure, same as that beautful 50Hz. sine wave delivered to your home/business changed from a nice pattern on the oscilloscope used for old Sci-fi special effects into a critical infrastructure.
Consequently, when broadband saturates the demand, and enough people use it and demand unrestricted usage, the ISPs will have to respond and introduce metering, either at point-of-presence or at a black box in your home (apparantly MAC addresses can be spoofed, fraid is rife etc. but this MUST be resolved otherwise the Internet CANNOT mature). Discounts will be given to households that install these black box packet counters. If you come under DDoS attack, then you call the police and ISP, same as waking up one morning and finding a tap on your side of the electric meter leading to your neighbour's house.
Once a month, some guy will come read your electric meter, your gas meter, and your IP packet meter, it's inevitable.
End result: CDBPTAPPATBTA struck down, RIAA muzzled, MPAA castrated, Internet pay-per-packet.
What the Internet actually costs for an ISP: Variable costs: Bandwidth to backbone (peak), internal bandwidth (peak) Fixed costs: electric and personnel cost to keep the routers + DHCP + blah humming (seasonal A/C) + advertising + security + blah
Consumers can demand that ISPs match this model as closely as possible and be fair (metering), quite fair (bandwidth caps like now) or keep it simple (flat fee like now).
Well AOL/TW has a controlling interest in Roadrunner, and I've not heard of any policy prohibiting filesharing apps on the RR network
It's just a matter of time, my friend, just a matter of time. Because it increases profits due to Joe sixpack just surfin' and emailin'. File transfer just extra. Nuff said.
I would post a reply, but everything I wish to say is written here better than I can put it. Hash: would you fork out a million for lawyer, etc. In the courts just because you're right doesn't mean you win, if you fold you lose, and if you run out of antes then you can't raise of course. When the raise is a million dollars - would you sign away your house, or would you fold and settle for losing only $100,000 plus $100,000 damages?
should have asked his TEACHER for help, not another student
Hmmm, in that case is this company providing illegal services? I get the feeling that making this sort of asking other students unacceptable is a bit like making P2P mp3 sharing unacceptable... Everyone just does it anyway.
What language was it? If it were some simple instruction set, i.e. RISC or something simpler, it would not be surprising if half the class came up with the same code
BDC compiler, Motorolla 68000 instructions. Our college implemented a new automatic plagiarism-detection program. They admitted it was stupid, but if you're red-flagged then you're red-flagged. Paperwork won't allow you to go back on that. It was a first year comp tutorial excercise.
Then again, with x86 generations, you have to wonder, although the incident still seems absurd
CISC won't make much difference, unless you're doing video processing and use the extended instructions. No doubt first year comp people will use the simplest instructions available.
This happened at my college over an assembly language program. Simple 20-lne factorisation algorithm. They told the lecturers that it's real hard to get 2 different listings for the same simple ASM algorithm. The commenting was different at least, but they still got an official plagiarism warning.
I played that level over and over and over. Only once nobody on my team died. And that was thanks solely to the fusion ball, perfect standoff weapon, as soon as the enemy was spotted I told my guy to turn tail and run, then called in the fusion ball.
They used it against me once, on my first move I took my entire team down the elevator, in one room, and the next thing I know - a fusion ball explodes right there. I lose 70% of my team and both hovertanks. Everyone remaining goes berserk, almost the whole screen goes dark and creepy. On that one I had 90% losses when I finished. Nasty
Have you seen this? Speak Freely [speakfreely.org]
Yup, this is a great piece of software, been using it for ages. Latency is a bit high, but that's because of the modem connection from UK to Australia. Normal landlines are designed to minimise this time lag, Internet traffic aren't.
To use you must exchange your IP addresses over mIRC, ICQ, whatever IM and then just connect to that IP address. Speakfree keeps a port ready and waiting for you. Of course this app has problems with firewalls though. It uses UDP and can tolerate packet loss. Really ahead of its time this cute little app.
so when you piss off your broadband provider, they will cut you off of cable, internet, and phone all at once.
And that possibility is not remote either - no servers policies and then no filesharing policies. The record companies would love this because they'd have us over a barrel as soon as they strike a deal with a cash-strapped broadband provider. What if @home was taken over by AoL/TW instead? Filesharing apps would probably become against policy overnight.
It's a shame that AMD, that has long battled uphill against the market dominance of Intel, has bowed under like this
C'mon, it's just some dumbass MBA-type trying to impress his MBA buddies, it just so happens that he's CEO of AMD. The board tells him what to do - their opinion is more important. And their shareholders (mainly Wall Street) tell them what to do. Don't listen to this guy. I'd think 90% of AMD employees would be horrified at what he said.
True. Linux people just plain don't care about what you're saying. If you install an application and complain about usability they'll say "go get a PhD in Perl+shell scripting then fix it yourself".
It's a selfish attitude, "Me and every other Perl hacker can use it, screw dumbasses that don't know Perl"
Taking a second look at the picture of AMD CEO Larry Sanders in the article, who else thinks he looks like Colonel Sanders of KFC?
AMD and KFC, both served REAL hot. So hot that when you touch either you better be finger-lickin' real good;-)
But seriously his argument is flawed, he states,
In his testimony, Sanders argued that Microsoft's dominance in PC operating systems fosters diversity rather than limiting consumer choice. He compared the situation to "proprietary operating systems that run only on specific hardware designed and manufactured by the same vendor," such as Apple Computer's Mac OS or Sun Microsystems' Solaris. "Microsoft's Windows operating systems run on computers manufactured by thousands of different companies," he stated.
He has a point about Microsoft's OS running on different platforms, but that's not Microsoft's decision - it was because of IBM opening up the PC hardware standard long ago. Ergo nothing to do with Microsoft maintaining a monopoly. This just goes to prove that all these top manager types are just FULL of hot air, even in AMD.
It's not fair to hold the actions of one dumbass manager (even if he's the CEO) against everyone in AMD, so go out everybody and buy AMD. After all it's not fair to say every American is a whore just because the President did some stuff with an intern a few years ago. The board will vote him off if enough shareholders/Wall Street suits want it, CEO is a revolving-door job that any MBA-type can do.
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PC => Windows noooooooooooo,
UWB => Radio Range noooooooooooo by which standard? Can you show me any document that states, "The ISO (International Standards Office) states for now and evermore that UltraWideband is a signal spanning more than 50% of the electromagnetic spectrum between 0 Hz. and 6 GHz.
So it shall be written, so it shall be done."
In other words if I invent a transmitter tomorrow that creates a pulse in gamma, xray, UV, visible, IR, radio that it will not be an UltraWideband device? What will it be? UltraUltraWideband (UUWB)? Where does the ISO state that the acronym UWB means only a radio pulse. Just because the US and FCC recognises it doesn't mean the world does. It's this same "we own the world" attitude that caused binLaden to destroy WTC. 5.5 billion other people dude.
Seriously does anyone know what a UWB pulse looks like in the frequency domain? Would it look like a square wave with a sharp cut-off point at 6GHz? This is what I figure, as a peak would imply a carrier-esque signal. I got drunk and missed the lecture about Bessel functions, so is this to do with that?
Both narrowband and UWB can be harmful against lots of stuff, quoting US military sources,
A 100 Gigawatt UWB pulse is.... Not gonna be good for my sperm count. How does it sound to you? Oh yeah, it's transient so are you volunteering? Looks like lots of research is being done below 6GHz, hmmm that frequency spread should be mmmmmkay. This link has the real nitty gritty, symbol rates and all that. Can someone gimme my PhD already?If the world was filled with these devices then background (full spectrum Gaussian) radiation would be high enough to kill us all, equivalent to having a cellular+microwave+xray+gammaray transmitter constantly switched on stapled to our foreheads, bathing us endlessly in radiation. UWB gives us a dose of everything
Then again maybe small doses of gamma radiation are good for us, errr maybe they keep our DNA repair system primed or something? I mean small amounts of chocolate's good for us so.. why not gamma rays + xrays?
Well at least it's not as bad as cosmic radiation or neutrons I suppose, but today's narrowband transmissions at least use (to our puny knowledge) frequency ranges that don't kill us.
I remember the Archimedes processor ran BASIC 100 times faster than calculated, then they found that their refactoring of the BASIC interpreter decreased its size so much that the whole interpreter fit in the CPU's L1 cache. ARM processors I think it is - RISC.
Can Transmeta pull off any miracles like this, such as using a JIT compiler to translate the entire executable app instead of just doing it in the background like they're doing now?
I'll admit though once they cover all that, the differences between SCSI/EIDE plus ATA will be a walk in the park.
Plus can IBM be sued for fraud or illegal trading because of their 120GXP drives being way off 200,000 hours MTBF specification? It must be written down in stone somewhere.
ANYONE that says linux doesn't really need to pay much attention to cut and paste uniformity in the GUI is alienating all these people, as you cannot explain the intricacies of Gnome/KDE peculiarities with cut and paste to illiterate people that don't know their own language, not to mention English. This experiment is a vindication of the usability supremacy of GUI for internationalised systems, The same way even an illiterate kid in Delhi can appreciate the finest van Gogh painting.
I'm not dissin' KDE or Gnome, just saying that what you're doing is important, and that you need to understand that there are a lot of people that when the GUI crashes, or the core dumps or a buffer overflow's exploited they WILL hit the reboot switch. Stability stability stability.
S'il vous plait mountee /dev/hda1
Vous etes certainment? Oui ou Non
Il y a un dump de la core, vous pouvez debuggez?
I'll admit that the gross excesses of before with armies of $150,000 HTML developers creating websites that on /. would be Score: -1, Redundant is gone. However now we're seeing a worrying swing in the opposite direction where if you put up a website you have to pay, plus if it becomes popular you have to pay for bandwidth, all out of your own pocket. I'm not even considering the cost of refreshing content like news stories or TV listings. This kills free content, relegating it to some Bill-of-Rights pleasing formality like the Public Access Channel.
CNN: big website, nice fresh content, ad supportedTomshardware: big website, nice fresh content (latest Athlon MP, etc.), ad supported
Dude, you just alienated the whole of
WHOA! Sorry dude, you still need approval under certain circumstances. Quoting:
You need the beauracrats' approval if you're going to consume a little more power than usual. Hey there's some more, quoting:Yup, as I said those power station geeks REALLY don't like high power factors devices being connected to *THEIR* power rails. One of the remnants of good old electricity generator control I suppose. Having to bust some beauracratic butt to get a single phase instead of a 3-phase power supply to your cooker is a shock to me. To be honest, I'm as surprised to find this out as you are. Let's see if there's more juicy stuff... Whoa! This is totally cool, a mains harmonics and flicker standard. Ahhhh Google, I wish I could marry you. Quoting, Absolutely fascinating, I never knew EMC directives were law, I thought they did ethernet switches and storage and stuff. I had no idea that Corporate rule had come this far. Hmmm, time to ask Google again...IBM spends decades becoming cutting edge hard disk manufacturer. Excellent reputation has been built up.
New hard disk manufacturing plant in Hungary botches the technology, may be irrepairable, IBM's reputation is badly damaged. Shall we quit while we're ahead or spend possibly years finding out what is wrong with the IBM plant and then spend another 10 years rebuilding our reputation, facing constant scrutiny from tomshardware and friends?
Either they meter it or they fully itemise it,
"$500 for new Cisco Catalyst 6500, split between 300 downstream users one of which is you (because 10 of you are using bearshare excessively) => give us a cheque for 2 dollars, plus 3 new T1's to the backbone $1500 each per month split between 1000 users one of which is you => your monthly subscription will increase by $1.50. If you don't pay we'll take you to court" how long do you think it'll be before you're suing your neighbours? (then theoretically electric companies should charge for installing extra transformers - people of California you are requested and required to pay $1.8billion for a new power line for the grid between Utah and California plus $0.2billion for 300kV step-up and step-down transformer array. This is because Utah has 5GW excess generating capacity. Your share of the payment = $500.
Itemised: 20 million people in California, $2billion cost => $2billion/20million = $500 per citizen. Please pay by Direct Debit or Credit card, thank you) hmmmm could this be a step towards Open Source Corporations?
1. Our future Internet bills will look like this except substitute IP_PacketCount into Kwhours
2. Metering was somehow impossible, all there is are flat flees. To get maximum household penetration (majority of customers are Joe sixpack too stupid to shop around ISP), cable companies' broadband will be HDTV-over-IP with email on the ISP's portal. All other uses of the Internet will be a breach of policy. HDTV-over-IP will be cached at Point of Presence or multicast from the ISP. Joe sizpack will be a very happy man for a flat fee of $40. The only remnant of the free Internet will be the Google search textbox (bought by Micro$oft in 2004) in the corner of the ISP's portal homepage. Pay an extra $30 to get Internet access and you'll find a void, as the drop in ad revenues no longer pays for bandwidth+servers. Independent websites will require you to have run a Cydoor signed applet for 5 minutes before allowing you access to the site's homepage. Well, at least we'll have our privacy from people like doubleclick.net.
3. Metering is impossible, but Joe sixpack demands the free Internet otherwise he won't pay a dime. Due to negligible advertising revenues, all content providers are about to go bankrupt. A transparent proxy (e.g. Squid) at the ISP can count the number of HTTP GET requests sent to each website. They pay for the bandwidth to the backbone PLUS a royalty to the content provider to whom the HTTP GET request was sent. {My lunch is getting cold so I can't think about this thoroughly}. If not transparent proxy then the IETF can come up with a "IP collect call reverse charges type" protocol. And there I was thinking that virtual circuits were out of fashion ?-)
The ISPs are claiming similar ownership over our use of IP packets over *THEIR* routers, same as electric companies claimed ownership of sine wave electricity over *THEIR* power lines.
This was resolved when the market was saturated and power stations were idling in the name of load-spike absorbtion. The broadband market hasn't yet been saturated, the ISPs are giving away bandwidth for a flat fee, same as electricity companies used to give electricity. Upon market maturation, people demanded a drop in prices, and the freedom to connect whatever electric devices they want to the power lines. But what if one household or company used 10 times more electricity than their neighbour? It was obviously unfair to charge them the same amount. This gave rise to electric meters. The electric companies retorted,
"But what if someone tampers with the box, what if someone steals electricity by tapping the wire before the meter and steals the electricity?"
. The customers demanded it, so they took the chance and installed metering in every home, and charged for actual usage. The restriction that you may only connect electric company authorised devices with a good power factor and negligible line interference was dropped. Technology advanced and suppression capacitors smoothed out the consumption spikes. The mains line was no longer used as a clock, quartz oscillators took over. Any device that needed a smooth sine wave no longer used the mains, but instead used an AC-DC converter (transformer+bridge rectifier) and sine wave generator using transistors, or more recently switched-mode PSU. The electric company geeks were pissed because all this extra hardware was needed just to generate a smooth sine wave, instead of pulling it directly off the mains, but everybody got used to it. Now all that remains is a limit on consumption so that you don't burn out your wires and start a fire, together with regulations on interference (unsuppressed motors) being introduced on the power line.
The Internet will follow the same trend, IP packets are turning from "Cool Internet stuff" into infrastructure, same as that beautful 50Hz. sine wave delivered to your home/business changed from a nice pattern on the oscilloscope used for old Sci-fi special effects into a critical infrastructure.
Consequently, when broadband saturates the demand, and enough people use it and demand unrestricted usage, the ISPs will have to respond and introduce metering, either at point-of-presence or at a black box in your home (apparantly MAC addresses can be spoofed, fraid is rife etc. but this MUST be resolved otherwise the Internet CANNOT mature). Discounts will be given to households that install these black box packet counters. If you come under DDoS attack, then you call the police and ISP, same as waking up one morning and finding a tap on your side of the electric meter leading to your neighbour's house.
Once a month, some guy will come read your electric meter, your gas meter, and your IP packet meter, it's inevitable.
End result: CDBPTAPPATBTA struck down, RIAA muzzled, MPAA castrated, Internet pay-per-packet.
What the Internet actually costs for an ISP:
Variable costs: Bandwidth to backbone (peak), internal bandwidth (peak)
Fixed costs: electric and personnel cost to keep the routers + DHCP + blah humming (seasonal A/C) + advertising + security + blah
Consumers can demand that ISPs match this model as closely as possible and be fair (metering), quite fair (bandwidth caps like now) or keep it simple (flat fee like now).
I would post a reply, but everything I wish to say is written here better than I can put it. Hash: would you fork out a million for lawyer, etc. In the courts just because you're right doesn't mean you win, if you fold you lose, and if you run out of antes then you can't raise of course. When the raise is a million dollars - would you sign away your house, or would you fold and settle for losing only $100,000 plus $100,000 damages?
This happened at my college over an assembly language program. Simple 20-lne factorisation algorithm. They told the lecturers that it's real hard to get 2 different listings for the same simple ASM algorithm. The commenting was different at least, but they still got an official plagiarism warning.
They used it against me once, on my first move I took my entire team down the elevator, in one room, and the next thing I know - a fusion ball explodes right there. I lose 70% of my team and both hovertanks. Everyone remaining goes berserk, almost the whole screen goes dark and creepy. On that one I had 90% losses when I finished. Nasty
To use you must exchange your IP addresses over mIRC, ICQ, whatever IM and then just connect to that IP address. Speakfree keeps a port ready and waiting for you. Of course this app has problems with firewalls though. It uses UDP and can tolerate packet loss. Really ahead of its time this cute little app.
And they say it's very difficult to screw up Java what with garbage collection and whatnot ;-) Warning: Applet window should always be clearly visible.
It's a selfish attitude, "Me and every other Perl hacker can use it, screw dumbasses that don't know Perl"
AMD and KFC, both served REAL hot. So hot that when you touch either you better be finger-lickin' real good ;-)
But seriously his argument is flawed, he states,
He has a point about Microsoft's OS running on different platforms, but that's not Microsoft's decision - it was because of IBM opening up the PC hardware standard long ago. Ergo nothing to do with Microsoft maintaining a monopoly. This just goes to prove that all these top manager types are just FULL of hot air, even in AMD.It's not fair to hold the actions of one dumbass manager (even if he's the CEO) against everyone in AMD, so go out everybody and buy AMD. After all it's not fair to say every American is a whore just because the President did some stuff with an intern a few years ago. The board will vote him off if enough shareholders/Wall Street suits want it, CEO is a revolving-door job that any MBA-type can do.