I feel the need to apologize for one point of my statement. I really didnt know what I was talking about and I thought that military radar systems used far longer wavelength bands. As for your "high power CB rig" what would 26-27 mhz do to you if 88-108 is harmless? How high powered are we talking about? Does the FCC know about this?
I dunno, with the amazing specs being leaked about the PS3, the next nintendo better knock our socks off. If anybody leverages their monopoly position on a different market, it's nintendo. The only reason I have a gamecube is so that I can link to my GBA.
Calling it a "science" is sort of a misnomer. Sure there are people studying networks scientificly, but Linked is a lot of metaphors and comparisons rather than a quantitative or modelling approach. It runs in the same vein as Wolfram's ANKOS, in that they are both missing critical intermediaries needed to qualify them (to me) as a science. My studies have been in geography, which presents a whole different level of network behavior and construction. The book is good, but a little light on science.
RF emissions is not really the right term to use here, as the part of the spectrum we are dealing with is MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES, not RADIO FREQUENCIES.
As for the second part, the system discussed in the article is not an EMP weapon. EMP weapons dont "really" exist as many think they do. There are things like HERF guns and supposed military systems based on Marx generators and stuff, but AFAIK, there really hasnt been anything made public about them. Statements like their "typical" power output are questionable at best.
As for a fighter RADAR killing a bird, I kind of find that hard to believe. I live near a 50,000 watt radio station (broadcasting at a hihger frequency than radar) and birds fly around it all the time. An AWACS Radar system uses a 6000W electrical system, so 40,000 watts from a fighter seems a bit high, but I dont know how to calculate pulse intensity.
Generally a microwave transmitter on a Recon aircraft would serve the function of satellite communication. For this, and even ground based microwave dishes, the power required is something like 1-2 watts, and in a lower frequency range than would be harmful to people.
What you are leaving out is crucial to this discussion. Businesses have a LOT of money tied up in applications that are either MS made or on an MS platform. It takes a LOT of time and a LOT of money to switch. This often times offsets any short term TCO benefits of *nix. You CANT plan an IT strategy five years ahead. It just dosent work.
How about because bluetooth is a completely useless waste of money that serves no point and has yet to find a solid implementation? Oops, did I think that out loud?
I dont REALLY know the specifics of Video IO, but 11 million pixels at 32-bit color, 60 FPS is 2.64 gbps of data. Its my understanding that the AGP has a direct connection to system RAM for large texture storage. This is supposed to give it a large frame buffer. Assuming that output resolutions jump 11-fold in a year, does it seem reasonable that memory on-card would scale equally fast? (assuming that games would utilize the new resolutions) I dont think that they could ramp up speeds that quick, but that they would need to make better use of system resources (i.e. the AGP bus) Again, I dont know specifics.
My roommates in grad school were working on this type of thing, and they were promising resolutions over 300 DPI. That makes me salivate, but I find it funny that for once display technology will be more advanced than image generation technology. (video cards)
A 300 DPI, 17" widescreen would be a resolution of something like 4500x2500, or 11 million pixels, compared to 1 or 2 million pixels in a high-res display today. AGP 32X anyone?
improved VPN for companies that are super-paranoid about their data
dedicated crypto-processor
Secure key storage on the system mainboard
Besides, when was the last time you were a customer of AMI? Chances are, NEVER. They sell to motherboard manufacturers.
as has been pointed out, GPS is a passive system. Your little Garmin e-trex is doing a lot of math based on 4+ broadcast Pseudo Random Numbers (PRN) from the system. It's like a radio station. It's not like they can have too many listeners. The only thing that communicates with the satellites is the base station that tells them not to crash to earth.
Windows media Uniquely identifies itself, Real sends you spam, (I seriously found 14 places to uncheck on Realplayer G2 to maintain my privacy) Quicktime wont let you disable it.
I give up. I am officially declaring that no streaming media shall play on my computer until such a time when situations like this get resolved. It's really a shame that one cant just use software the way one wants to on their own PC. It's BS. I can live without it.
I have a lifebook P 2000, and I can tell you that watching movies and listening to music are two things that just dont happen on it.
Why not?
because it is a business machine. It's hard to grasp for many, but laptops are meant to do work on. Sure, some people make great effort to use a laptop for everything, and a casual user can get away with it, but a laptop is a poor, poor substitute for a desktop. If I were dealing with MP3s and DVD rips, I wouldnt give a crap if somebody stole that data.
Why not put a real OS on it?
Because you see, the REAL world relies on Microsoft Windows applications. Criticise it all you want, I, like most people am stuck with it.
Ok, the Whitepaper says that to be true, but then how does NTFSDOS or NTFS for Linux work? Even if it is using DES, I have to assume that the key length is very short to maintain it's decent performance
You are forgetting who this is. This is transmeta. They work almost entirely in the mobile sector. When you have a computer that can be stolen, data security becomes VERY important. They probabally dont give a crap about people stealing MP3s, but are responding to a need to increase security for users of sensitive information on mobile devices. The main feature is a actually a DES accellerator that is meant to allow entire contents of drives to be dynamically encrypted and decrypted on usage. The processors arent fast enough to do it in software.
I have a lifebook P 2000, and I can tell you that watching movies and listening to music are two things that just dont happen on it. I would LOVE to be able to lock it down, but it isnt really possible past PGP/Zonealarm/NAV/etc.
I didnt even realize that I was using Jot on my iPaq, but I can make the statement that it's not that great. In fact, it kind of sucks. I dont write a whole lot on my ipaq (no wireless dammit) but if I did, I would MUCH rather have a keyboard or virtual keyboard than use pen input. By this same logic, I dont see the tablet PC being of much benefit to me.
Since microsoft is kind of vague on details about Palladium, I will hit you with a TCPA question. In the TCPA FAQ, it states that "Platform Owners" will decide which software runs on their platform. Who exactly is a "Platform Owner" and does microsoft have a simmilar "feature in palladium"
I'm afraid that I just dont see the point of this. Exploring is great and all, but why do the gene-sequencing? They talk about biomedical applications and such, and I can buy that, but it all seems to be focused around this statement.
We can't protect things we don't know about.
Who cares? Things on this planet went extinct long before people came along, and will continue to long after we are done with the place. "That's nature's way" as the crocodile hunter puts it.
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Didnt we hear something on slashdot that said the congress didnt actually read any of their email? This just makes it easier to erase.
I feel the need to apologize for one point of my statement. I really didnt know what I was talking about and I thought that military radar systems used far longer wavelength bands. As for your "high power CB rig" what would 26-27 mhz do to you if 88-108 is harmless? How high powered are we talking about? Does the FCC know about this?
I dunno, with the amazing specs being leaked about the PS3, the next nintendo better knock our socks off. If anybody leverages their monopoly position on a different market, it's nintendo. The only reason I have a gamecube is so that I can link to my GBA.
Calling it a "science" is sort of a misnomer. Sure there are people studying networks scientificly, but Linked is a lot of metaphors and comparisons rather than a quantitative or modelling approach. It runs in the same vein as Wolfram's ANKOS, in that they are both missing critical intermediaries needed to qualify them (to me) as a science. My studies have been in geography, which presents a whole different level of network behavior and construction. The book is good, but a little light on science.
THis was supposed to be funny
As for the second part, the system discussed in the article is not an EMP weapon. EMP weapons dont "really" exist as many think they do. There are things like HERF guns and supposed military systems based on Marx generators and stuff, but AFAIK, there really hasnt been anything made public about them. Statements like their "typical" power output are questionable at best.
As for a fighter RADAR killing a bird, I kind of find that hard to believe. I live near a 50,000 watt radio station (broadcasting at a hihger frequency than radar) and birds fly around it all the time. An AWACS Radar system uses a 6000W electrical system, so 40,000 watts from a fighter seems a bit high, but I dont know how to calculate pulse intensity.
Generally a microwave transmitter on a Recon aircraft would serve the function of satellite communication. For this, and even ground based microwave dishes, the power required is something like 1-2 watts, and in a lower frequency range than would be harmful to people.
It's really hard to amplify mass, as it is not energy. A maser is in fact a coherent beam of Microwaves
Cmon guys, "K" is the ESRB rating for "kids" like PG for movies.
What you are leaving out is crucial to this discussion. Businesses have a LOT of money tied up in applications that are either MS made or on an MS platform. It takes a LOT of time and a LOT of money to switch. This often times offsets any short term TCO benefits of *nix. You CANT plan an IT strategy five years ahead. It just dosent work.
How about because bluetooth is a completely useless waste of money that serves no point and has yet to find a solid implementation? Oops, did I think that out loud?
I dont REALLY know the specifics of Video IO, but 11 million pixels at 32-bit color, 60 FPS is 2.64 gbps of data. Its my understanding that the AGP has a direct connection to system RAM for large texture storage. This is supposed to give it a large frame buffer. Assuming that output resolutions jump 11-fold in a year, does it seem reasonable that memory on-card would scale equally fast? (assuming that games would utilize the new resolutions) I dont think that they could ramp up speeds that quick, but that they would need to make better use of system resources (i.e. the AGP bus) Again, I dont know specifics.
My roommates in grad school were working on this type of thing, and they were promising resolutions over 300 DPI. That makes me salivate, but I find it funny that for once display technology will be more advanced than image generation technology. (video cards) A 300 DPI, 17" widescreen would be a resolution of something like 4500x2500, or 11 million pixels, compared to 1 or 2 million pixels in a high-res display today. AGP 32X anyone?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt XM under chapter 11 protection?
improved VPN for companies that are super-paranoid about their data dedicated crypto-processor Secure key storage on the system mainboard Besides, when was the last time you were a customer of AMI? Chances are, NEVER. They sell to motherboard manufacturers.
as has been pointed out, GPS is a passive system. Your little Garmin e-trex is doing a lot of math based on 4+ broadcast Pseudo Random Numbers (PRN) from the system. It's like a radio station. It's not like they can have too many listeners. The only thing that communicates with the satellites is the base station that tells them not to crash to earth.
I wonder what Vegas odds on this actually happening are? I would take 5-1 against if anybody were that stupid.
I give up. I am officially declaring that no streaming media shall play on my computer until such a time when situations like this get resolved. It's really a shame that one cant just use software the way one wants to on their own PC. It's BS. I can live without it.
Why not?
because it is a business machine. It's hard to grasp for many, but laptops are meant to do work on. Sure, some people make great effort to use a laptop for everything, and a casual user can get away with it, but a laptop is a poor, poor substitute for a desktop. If I were dealing with MP3s and DVD rips, I wouldnt give a crap if somebody stole that data.
Why not put a real OS on it?
Because you see, the REAL world relies on Microsoft Windows applications. Criticise it all you want, I, like most people am stuck with it.
Ok, the Whitepaper says that to be true, but then how does NTFSDOS or NTFS for Linux work? Even if it is using DES, I have to assume that the key length is very short to maintain it's decent performance
I have a lifebook P 2000, and I can tell you that watching movies and listening to music are two things that just dont happen on it. I would LOVE to be able to lock it down, but it isnt really possible past PGP/Zonealarm/NAV/etc.
I didnt even realize that I was using Jot on my iPaq, but I can make the statement that it's not that great. In fact, it kind of sucks. I dont write a whole lot on my ipaq (no wireless dammit) but if I did, I would MUCH rather have a keyboard or virtual keyboard than use pen input. By this same logic, I dont see the tablet PC being of much benefit to me.
What is the authentication scheme for palladium? Is it something like MS passport? How does the motherboard gain authentication from the OS?
Since microsoft is kind of vague on details about Palladium, I will hit you with a TCPA question. In the TCPA FAQ, it states that "Platform Owners" will decide which software runs on their platform. Who exactly is a "Platform Owner" and does microsoft have a simmilar "feature in palladium"
We can't protect things we don't know about.
Who cares? Things on this planet went extinct long before people came along, and will continue to long after we are done with the place. "That's nature's way" as the crocodile hunter puts it.