I had one of those old iBook laptops that had the white paint you could remove by soaking in alcohol, which left the case transparent. But the naked electronics were boring to look at. So I lined the case with some of that thermal sheeting that changes color when it gets hot. My iBook became a a mood ring, changing color depending on how hot the internals got.
Consider: Intel traded NVIDIA a P4 FSB license for access to NVIDIA patents back in 2004. Begin Intel nForce era. What did Intel get? Posit: Intel implemented the NVIDIA patents in their CPUs and Intel now doesn't wish to stop using that patented technology or they'd have to revise the Centrino/Core Duo platform..
It's pretty safe to assume that Intel didn't want GPU-specific patents, since they haven't developed a miraculous high end GPU peerage, and their integrated GPUs are plodding along as ever. Intel wouldn't want something like NVIDIA networking or chipsets; Networking and chipsets are commodity products, not bargaining chips for a P4 FSB license that would eat into Intel's motherboard market share. The only thing left is Occam's Razor slicing patents into the Intel CPU. Intel can't afford to stop using CoreDuo, and return to P4, so Intel needed to placate NVIDIA into continuing licensing patents that are critical for the Intel CPU.
One of my local bands--for whom I do house sound--cut our second CD at a pro studio. Eventually the studio engineer asked the question: Do we want dynamic range, or compression? (I have no real memory of the exact words he used, but I remember the occurrence quite clearly). The musicians, technically savvy people from the computer industry, chose dynamic range, especially after my impassioned advice to do so. Their complex vocals and instrumentals deserve a larger dynamic range, and sounded far superior in an A/B comparison at the studio... in isolation from commercial music comparison.
Later on, when playing our CD in sequence with others, the musicians were disappointed. "how come ours is so quiet?" they asked me. When I explained that they made the choice intentionally, none of the five musicians remembered making a conscious decision on compression vs. dynamic range. I remembered the discussion, and stand my my decision, becuase of their music's complexity. Yet some days I wonder if I misguided them: if we ever failed to get a gig due to the lack of compression on our demo CD.
> compatability comes at a significant runtime > cost, which makes VMWare mainly used only for > testing purposes, not for running multiple > OSes for general work.
Aw, damn. Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to stop doing my general work in VMware Workstation.
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I had one of those old iBook laptops that had the white paint you could remove by soaking in alcohol, which left the case transparent. But the naked electronics were boring to look at. So I lined the case with some of that thermal sheeting that changes color when it gets hot. My iBook became a a mood ring, changing color depending on how hot the internals got.
Consider: Intel traded NVIDIA a P4 FSB license for access to NVIDIA patents back in 2004. Begin Intel nForce era. What did Intel get? Posit: Intel implemented the NVIDIA patents in their CPUs and Intel now doesn't wish to stop using that patented technology or they'd have to revise the Centrino/Core Duo platform..
It's pretty safe to assume that Intel didn't want GPU-specific patents, since they haven't developed a miraculous high end GPU peerage, and their integrated GPUs are plodding along as ever. Intel wouldn't want something like NVIDIA networking or chipsets; Networking and chipsets are commodity products, not bargaining chips for a P4 FSB license that would eat into Intel's motherboard market share. The only thing left is Occam's Razor slicing patents into the Intel CPU. Intel can't afford to stop using CoreDuo, and return to P4, so Intel needed to placate NVIDIA into continuing licensing patents that are critical for the Intel CPU.
One of my local bands--for whom I do house sound--cut our second CD at a pro studio. Eventually the studio engineer asked the question: Do we want dynamic range, or compression? (I have no real memory of the exact words he used, but I remember the occurrence quite clearly). The musicians, technically savvy people from the computer industry, chose dynamic range, especially after my impassioned advice to do so. Their complex vocals and instrumentals deserve a larger dynamic range, and sounded far superior in an A/B comparison at the studio ... in isolation from commercial music comparison.
Later on, when playing our CD in sequence with others, the musicians were disappointed. "how come ours is so quiet?" they asked me. When I explained that they made the choice intentionally, none of the five musicians remembered making a conscious decision on compression vs. dynamic range. I remembered the discussion, and stand my my decision, becuase of their music's complexity. Yet some days I wonder if I misguided them: if we ever failed to get a gig due to the lack of compression on our demo CD.
> compatability comes at a significant runtime
> cost, which makes VMWare mainly used only for
> testing purposes, not for running multiple
> OSes for general work.
Aw, damn. Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to stop doing my general work in VMware Workstation.