And what's to stop a pirate radio station from broadcasting false traffic reports or news by regular old analog voice transmission? Nothing. Somehow the world keeps turning.
you have to understand that the P4 was able to run at high clock speeds only because it was designed to use a very long pipeline of small functional units... The last Gigahertz race was ended by a shift of architecture, not by "hitting a wall".
The NetBurst architecture was noting but Intel's response to hitting the MHz wall. Intel wanted to continue ramping up MHz which in the past had corresponded very well with overall performance and was thus important to consumers. But because they were starting to hit the wall, they couldn't pull off extra MHz without compromising the amount of work per cycle. Worst of all, the P4 didnt move the MHz wall back very far - in production it never got much past 3.6 GHz or so.
The MHz wall is still standing strong. The fastest CPUs now have that same clock speed (+- 30%, in contrast to the 10,000% MHz increase of the previous decades).
The P4 hit 3 GHz, what, 4 years ago? For Opteron to hit 3GHz only now is just proof of how badly the quest for GHz has atrophied.
Had the wall not been hit, and GHz continued to increase as in the 90s, we'd be up to someting like 20 GHz by now. So the truth of this story is the exact opposite of "The Gigahertz Race is Back On." RAM and HDD capacity and price are relatively stagnant for the last few years, too. The only thing still growing by leaps and bounds is flash memory.
As they say, "RTFS" - read the fine summary. "During the trial at least, only SMS, MMS, and GPRS (data) traffic will be allowed; voice calls will be blocked." I think allowing data but not voice is the perfect way to let people keep in touch and stay productive without driving everybody nuts. So long as they continue that policy beyond the trial (and they did say "at least"), I see nothing to complain about. (And no, realistically, I don't think VOIP will happen enough to be a problem).
Soldiering is soldiering, no matter what technologies you equip your soldiers with.
No. If that were true, there would be no radios or rifles, much less airplanes, tanks, bombs... Either you really think gung-ho soldiers with nothing but pointy sticks can win, or what you really meant was "good tech is good, useless tech is useless," which I certainly agree with. Native Americans (at least some of them) were plenty adaptible, flexible, enduring, hard-hearted, whatever. There's a limit to the odds you can overcome with true grit alone.
I think it's a little bit naive to expect one branch of a multi-national corporation to talk very well with another.
I think it's a little bit naive of you and Sony to think people will care about Sony's internal problems when people's shiny new Sony-branded products fail to function as advertised. If their stuff doesn't work, it isn't worth the money. Why that occurs is not my problem.
Internet presense itself isn't a limited commodity, so they can have at it. On the other hand, to the extent that having popular websites corresponds to economic development, this does signal increased competition for both natural resources and geopolitical influence (which, if not zero sum games, are fairly close to it).
The observation about China's slow internet growth is interesting - maybe their draconion Internet policies are starting to bite. Might this be an early sign of China hitting an economic glass ceiling imposed by their social policies?
Yes, in each of these situations you lose something, blood, money, time, people, and equipment, but the other guy is worse off? You Win!
By your definition winning isn't necessarily good. I don't call it a victory unless the payoff is more than the investment. If you get in a bidding war on ebay and end up paying $100 for something you can get anywhere else for $50, ebay will still send you a congratulatory email calling you a "winner." But guess what, you're still a loser.
Transflective TFT is what handheld GPS use, too, and with exactly the result you describe - direct sunlight = good, darkness = good (using the backlight), bright ambient sunlight and especially glare = bad.
I guess you've never heard of the whole net neutrality debate. Or for that matter the DMCA (a means for certain companies to selectively banish whatever they want from the 'net, at least temporarily). Or domain name trademark disputes. Or "great firewalls" filtering entire nations' net access, with the aid of US companies. These are real issues. It's ridiculous for you to claim that the powers that be aren't clamoring for more control over the Internet when they've been doing so for at least the last 10 years, with some success. You think now they're suddenly satisfied? Pass the bong.
revision to SMTP to make it more difficult to spoof addresses and easier to catch spam.
Any suggestions on blocking spam other than address spoofing? Because I suspect that is not a leading cause of spam. With tens of thousands of zombies sitting on the net, why bother?
For the most part, I don't think spam is the Internet's fault. I think superfluous messages are the cost of ridiculously cheap and convenient communication. Spam a pain, but not worth locking the Internet down to combat it IMHO.
What's more, I heard they make all the internal components out of solid gold! That's crazy: I don't need gold transistor chips. Why don't they make them out of silicon like usual?
If it's driven by manufacturing costs, why do they price the media so high? I just checked amazon: Casino Royale on Blu-Ray is $27, on DVD it's $16. No, I don't believe a Blu-Ray costs $11 more to manufacture than a DVD.
Audio should not be done inside a PC. Well, not the analog portion, anyway.
Ideally. A couple years ago when I built my HTPC, I had a horrible time finding a cheap digital sound card that was linux-compatible. I finally found one. But there are still glitches, such as low sample rate / bit depth audio (from webcasts, youtube, etc) not playing because the ALSA driver does NOT automatically convert it to something the card can handle. (Or maybe it's my Denon receiver that can't handle it, who knows?)
So anyways, I'm wondering if Linux has good out-of-box support for digital audio on most motherboards these days?
I think my hatred of these red light cameras outweigh my delight about the police getting their ironic comeuppance. I think they should be banned.
What I don't understand is why don't we get a chance to vote on these things? Pervasive security cameras, too. It's a pretty clear-cut issue and a matter of opinion. I want a vote.
Are the dinosaurs we're talking about the big, familiar ones like T Rex and Triceratops? Or do birds and those big land dinosaurs share a common ancestor, technically also a dinosaur, that was smaller?
As long as the only channel between bank and user is the computer, there is no security.
Now there's a gross overstatement. None if this proves that online banking isn't worth the risk it poses. IMHO it is well worth it. I get annoyed with people who think there should be endless layers of security on everything to prevent every possible attack. Do you people drive armored cars instead of normal ones? (If not, why not?)
Your argument sounds rational, but for whatever reason the 20GB model was not selling. And it must have been a horrible deal for Sony, because the cost savings to manufacture the 20GB model must have been miniscule (60GB drives aren't exactly high-end anyways), so it was almost an extra $100 hit on each one sold for them.
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And what's to stop a pirate radio station from broadcasting false traffic reports or news by regular old analog voice transmission? Nothing. Somehow the world keeps turning.
The MHz wall is still standing strong. The fastest CPUs now have that same clock speed (+- 30%, in contrast to the 10,000% MHz increase of the previous decades).
Had the wall not been hit, and GHz continued to increase as in the 90s, we'd be up to someting like 20 GHz by now. So the truth of this story is the exact opposite of "The Gigahertz Race is Back On." RAM and HDD capacity and price are relatively stagnant for the last few years, too. The only thing still growing by leaps and bounds is flash memory.
As they say, "RTFS" - read the fine summary. "During the trial at least, only SMS, MMS, and GPRS (data) traffic will be allowed; voice calls will be blocked." I think allowing data but not voice is the perfect way to let people keep in touch and stay productive without driving everybody nuts. So long as they continue that policy beyond the trial (and they did say "at least"), I see nothing to complain about. (And no, realistically, I don't think VOIP will happen enough to be a problem).
For anybody interested in some actual information on the subject (mostly from the Army point of view), listen to this.
The observation about China's slow internet growth is interesting - maybe their draconion Internet policies are starting to bite. Might this be an early sign of China hitting an economic glass ceiling imposed by their social policies?
Transflective TFT is what handheld GPS use, too, and with exactly the result you describe - direct sunlight = good, darkness = good (using the backlight), bright ambient sunlight and especially glare = bad.
I guess you've never heard of the whole net neutrality debate. Or for that matter the DMCA (a means for certain companies to selectively banish whatever they want from the 'net, at least temporarily). Or domain name trademark disputes. Or "great firewalls" filtering entire nations' net access, with the aid of US companies. These are real issues. It's ridiculous for you to claim that the powers that be aren't clamoring for more control over the Internet when they've been doing so for at least the last 10 years, with some success. You think now they're suddenly satisfied? Pass the bong.
For the most part, I don't think spam is the Internet's fault. I think superfluous messages are the cost of ridiculously cheap and convenient communication. Spam a pain, but not worth locking the Internet down to combat it IMHO.
So anyways, I'm wondering if Linux has good out-of-box support for digital audio on most motherboards these days?
This is tiring. Do we need one of these for every single science story posted to slashdot?
Your argument sounds rational, but for whatever reason the 20GB model was not selling. And it must have been a horrible deal for Sony, because the cost savings to manufacture the 20GB model must have been miniscule (60GB drives aren't exactly high-end anyways), so it was almost an extra $100 hit on each one sold for them.
I can't even get 3d acceleration for my IBM T40 anymore because ATI dropped support for the chip from their radeon driver last year. It stinks.