>Make sure its 30-pin fast page or fpram which is >the only one that will work with your 486 laptop. 72 >pin is for the desktops and 30 is for laptops.
With due respect, this is gibberish.
30-pin RAM came first. It was 8 bits wide (9 with parity) so you needed four to make a full bank for a 386/486.
72-pin came later. It filled a 386/486 bank with 32 bits (36 with parity)
Some 486s took only 30-pin. Some only took 72-pin. Some took both. Interestingly, there may even be 286 and 386 systems that took 72-pin. (Magnavox did a 286/386SX system using a board with a 72-pin socket)
However, that probably won't do much for a laptop. Many laptops of the era take manufacturer-specific cards.
My experience is playing a REAL NES on a 19" monitor, and for space constraints, I can't sit that much further away from the monitor than I usually do.
How has your customer base responded to this lawsuit? I have to expect that some of them can't help but see this move as desperate and end up questioning your future viability, but others might consider this a chance to get in on a "lawsuit-safe" GNU/Linux provider or be drawn in by the publicity.
>Ahh, but there is scarcity in IP. Not in the >dissemination of intellectual property, but in the >creation of the intellectual property.
But the moment the idea comes out, the scarcity ends. Unfortunately, the only way we've come up with to solve this problem is to tie the scarce component (good ideas) with the common one (media units). This can't be the best answer.
I believe for established authors, a pre-paid system could work (If I earn $100,000 in preorders, I'll write a new book)
>Remind me again how playing your GBA games on a >black market emulator fits into that statement?
A reasonably close example can come from my experience with my NES. The cartridges are getting old. The machine is getting old. Sooner or later, one or both will fail. Emulation comes into play there.
BTW, I thought it was actually commonplace at one point to USE the backup everyday, and keep the originals in a safe place. Back when floppy drives were all the rage.
>They are getting a ton of data, and they are a >corporation that is out to make money off their >assets.
Let's say that 1 in 100 queries is wirth saving by some algorithm (like your 'calls up no results' criterion). That's 2 million queries a day. Unfortunately, out of those 2 million queries, there are going to be a lot of typoes and Googlewhacking taking place. Cutting out those are much less practical problems to solve by machine.
Plus, since many good ideas are just combining things in an unusual way, your idea may have 50,000 hits, none of which are relevant to the way you're thinking.
>Why would anyone download music that he has already paid for?
>What's the point? I can create my own MP3s from CDs I already own.
Perhaps they lack the utilities (and/or knowledge of where to get said utilities) to rip the discs themselves. Perhaps the disc is physically damaged and no longer plays, or is damaged to the point that you don't want it in your 96x CD reader, which will spin it to pieces. Perhaps they seek access to the music on, say, a workstation with no drives, but enough oomph to run ogg123. Perhaps their bandwidth exceeds their CD-ripping capacity. Perhaps they get inconsistent results trying to rip the discs, and don't want to try six times to get one good copy. Perhaps the disc is DRM-o-rama.
> Actually, the irony of your statement is that >we're going to need better nano-technology to >complete the task.
I could see sort of a "bootstrapping" thing. If a small bacteria is producible, perhaps you can create such a bacteria whose purpose is to assemble a component for a larger bacteria (five different classes make DNA sequences A, B, C, D, E, and five more bind A->B, B->C, C->D, D->E, E->A, or even to "infect" and modify another cell to serve the true purpose of the project.
The problem is that many protest actions are open to interpretation. Is a protestor standing in front of the public building picking a spot to maximize the attention his message recieves, or because he wants to block entry? Is the man who struggles with a cop trying to defend himself from a potentially violent officer, or trying to make a first strike? It's often all a matter of perception.
To further prove the point, I propose the following experiment.
Record some "protestors". Create two copies of this tape, with their banners and audio edited to suggest the "protestors" espouse both sides of a controversial issue. Show the tapes at random to audiences, and survey them as to the acceptability of the "protestors'" actions.
One gets you fifty that when people agree with the "protestors'" cause, they will consider their actions much less malicious.
The problem is that after a point, they've made back their money, and they're just gouging.
A comparable situation is the contract requirements with mobile phones. They rig them in a way that makes them back the subsidy they've given you on the phone, BUT they don't tie you there after they've made their money back.
Possible technical approaches to making the money back without permanently locking in the consumer include:
1-- storing the cartridge chip ID; after some number of different official cartridges are recorded, unlock the printer.
2-- sell only a package of the printer and cartridges at a price that covers costs; additional cartridges are reasonably priced or clonable.
>So what if they want to protect some artistic >property? Who does that hurt?
Everyone benefits from a broad, unencumbered public domain. PD works can form the basis for new creative works, plus they allow access to knowledge relatively cheaply (with no copyright exclusivity to maintain a price floor, the cost of a PD work falls to that of reproduction)
This really surprises me. I really envisioned a future direction that placed nations like Mexico as our tech leaders in 50 years, because they had no IP nutcases today to throw a pipe in the wheel-spokes of science.
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> Al-Jazeera is not a news organization in the >Western sense. Al-Jazeera deliberately distorts the >news.
Most news organizations distort news to increase its appeal. Ever watch local TV "news at 10?" For the sake of increased local appeal, they always start bellowing "the LOCAL connection to the major news story", a connection that's flimsy or meaningless half the time.
There is no nobility in commercial journalism. The only difference between the New York Times and the Weekly World News is that one has annoying registration requirements, and the other has Bat Boy pictures.
OTOH, if you take everyone stretching the story in a different direction, perhaps the obvious distortions and contradictions tend to cancel out. The larger the number of voices you see, the better.
Actually, you raise a good point implicity. Where can people "learn by wrecking?"
Anyone can learn to operate and administer a *ix by throwing Minix or Slackware on a thrift-shop refugee 486/66. If you blow away/, nobody cares.
How do I learn to run a 370? It's typically too expensive and bulky to play with the "real thing" at home, and nobody will give you a running system to play with.
The only thing that comes even close is emulation, and that won't teach you that you shouldn't tie up the annoying guy who's bothering you with the system master tape.
>Dictionary spammers tie up target servers without >any reasonable expectation that most messages will >reach an actual user
Not quite. a DoS has NO intention whatsoever of having the messages get to valid users. This had a small hope of it. Moreover, the intent to make the service unavailable for others wasn't there.
But you don't actively push away people when there is no tangible benefit for others to remove the feature. The only benefit I could see would be to avert remarking, but frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if other approaches were tried (i.e. cracked BIOSes that overstate clock speed)
AMD has the right idea-- allow overclocking, but make it tamper-evident (crossed L1 bridges)
> Slightly offtopic, but i heard about some guys who >obtained blueprints and made a UT map of their high >school. Kinda scary, but i guess its better than >the real thing.
Actually, I can see some perfectly non-violent uses for a FPS map of a school.
-Downloadable 3D map of the school for new students, avoid the first day "What do you mean Room 701 is in Yaroslavl?" problems. Especially useful if the school tends to host events that bring outsiders on campus (Example: local LUG meets at a school. Why not a map where you start in the parking lot, and can walk all around campus, but the room holding the meeting has large lights set up around it to find it.)
-Impressive demonstration that not everyone there is technically illiterate
-Testing a proposed remodeling for appearance and workability
-virtual walkthrough. I can't think of a good term for it, so an example application makes more sense. "Okay, we have real school shooters (or, less violently, a nasty clog in the school bathroom) reported here... and here"
Remember that the FPS has been the only broadly used first-person 3D navigation scheme. VRML was pretty much DOA, so this is the only affordable tool for any application requiring a 3D walkthrough.
Why not a dress code no more complex than "if your gender-specific components are covered, you're cool?".
The disadvantages of dull clothes include:
1. High costs. I can easily dress in a T-shirt and shorts for under USD 50. A three piece suit, not so readily. Expensive clothing just stretches budgets further.
2. Low climate adaptability. Cut energy costs by running the office at 84 degrees? Let people wear shorts, and they'll be a lot happier.
3. Low zing factor. Fifty grey suits will not excite people's minds. No, that's not meant in the filthy sense.
4. Impression of pettiness. If it's not affecting the work you do, why does it matter what you're wearing? If they're paying you to look at you dressed up a certain way as you work, then they should start shoving your paycheque down your pants!
If you're turning to used hard discs, this screams "empty niche! Exploit me!" I bet a single platter, 3600 rpm (for reliability), IDE drive would be perfect. Since the tech is old and proven, and the market demands reliability, put a five year warrantty on them and sell them at criminal prices.
The problem is that there's a huge space between the two sections you quote.
What do you do with a 486? Even the nicest configured 486s are too slow for most applications, and rarely have worthwhile spares. I have a whole box of fast-page SIMMs, small-denomination DIMMs, and propriatery memory modules I'll never use, and finally gave up on my collection of 500M and 1G hard discs, when I decided I couldn't RAID them into anything usable.
At Arizona State, they had some students with Social-Security ID numbers, some with 9-figure "bogus" ID numbers (99x-xx-xxxx). At some point, someone must have thrown a fit about using the Social Security number as an ID number. The logical solution was to give people a 99x number if they didn't have it. The solution they chose was to give *everyone* a new number (I think about 10 figures-- 10000xxxxx) For a bonus humiliation point, they call them 'Affiliate ID', like some sort of MLM-spam pyramid scheme. An unforseen exciting bonus: any listing of information (ie grade records) has a 40-60 chance of being in the new number or the old number. Plus, nobody knows what to give when they submit information.
> As far as I know, Matrox primarily deals in >business cards designed for enhancing 2D display (text, image editing, etc). I was referring to >gaming cards.
Were I Matrox, I'd be scared. The 'everyday' cards are now getting good enough that the monitor is the limit on the image quality. I use an el-cheapo $249 19" special.
I had a G400. I had a Radeon 7000. I had a Voodoo III. I couldn't tell the difference. Why would I pay more than the $40 the Radeon cost?
But returning to topic, what Transmeta needs is 1) much more brand awareness and 2) a unique niche. I've got a good one: many universities are starting to require laptops. A few contracts to specify Transmeta laptops would be good. Fast enough for school work, too slow for gaming, runs long enough that people aren't running for the power outlet mid-lecture.
>That said, though, running a research effort is >nothing like running a utility. If you want a >glimpse into how the government would run the >Internet, look at Amtrak. In other words, badly.
Set the way-back machine for 1971.
The railroad companies were losing their shirts on passenger trains. With very few exceptions, they were thrilled to throw the service to somebody else.
Without the government intervention, we'd either have 1) No passenger trains today at all or 2) Absolutely horrific passenger trains due to decades of non-investment and contempt by operators.
Amtrak does what it does remarkably well, given that it's still hamstrung by collaboration with private freight railways that don't seem particularly cooperative, a need for custom and specialised equipment, and a miniscule budget. The trains are surprisingly clean and comfortable, the safety record is decent, especially considering they're not in control of the track being used, and in some cases, they do turn a profit (esp. in the very densely trafficked Northeast).
>read: I stole a 17" monitor from a store. The store had a dumpster out back.
Very pessimistic, aren't you?
I've seen dumpsters full of monitors. Indeed, the one I saw was in a strip mall holding a computer shop. I didn't bother going through the dumpster, because I had all the monitors I needed.
New monitors are surprisingly cheap (I've seen 17" or 19" for USD 70 after rebate), and old workstation monitors tend to be virtually worthless in particular, because nobody wants to pay obscene prices for BNC or Sun to VGA adapter cables.
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>Make sure its 30-pin fast page or fpram which is >the only one that will work with your 486 laptop. 72 >pin is for the desktops and 30 is for laptops.
With due respect, this is gibberish.
30-pin RAM came first. It was 8 bits wide (9 with parity) so you needed four to make a full bank for a 386/486.
72-pin came later. It filled a 386/486 bank with 32 bits (36 with parity)
Some 486s took only 30-pin. Some only took 72-pin. Some took both. Interestingly, there may even be 286 and 386 systems that took 72-pin. (Magnavox did a 286/386SX system using a board with a 72-pin socket)
However, that probably won't do much for a laptop. Many laptops of the era take manufacturer-specific cards.
> Why would it be headache city.
My experience is playing a REAL NES on a 19" monitor, and for space constraints, I can't sit that much further away from the monitor than I usually do.
Okay... here's a legitimate question from that.
How has your customer base responded to this lawsuit? I have to expect that some of them can't help but see this move as desperate and end up questioning your future viability, but others might consider this a chance to get in on a "lawsuit-safe" GNU/Linux provider or be drawn in by the publicity.
>Ahh, but there is scarcity in IP. Not in the >dissemination of intellectual property, but in the >creation of the intellectual property.
But the moment the idea comes out, the scarcity ends. Unfortunately, the only way we've come up with to solve this problem is to tie the scarce component (good ideas) with the common one (media units). This can't be the best answer.
I believe for established authors, a pre-paid system could work (If I earn $100,000 in preorders, I'll write a new book)
>Remind me again how playing your GBA games on a >black market emulator fits into that statement?
A reasonably close example can come from my experience with my NES. The cartridges are getting old. The machine is getting old. Sooner or later, one or both will fail. Emulation comes into play there.
BTW, I thought it was actually commonplace at one point to USE the backup everyday, and keep the originals in a safe place. Back when floppy drives were all the rage.
Two things:
1. 320x240 full screen at a 19" monitor, typical viewing distance == headache city.
2. 320x240 window on same monitor running a 1024x768/1152x864/1280x1024 desktop == squint city.
Pick one, pass the rest back.
>They are getting a ton of data, and they are a >corporation that is out to make money off their >assets.
Let's say that 1 in 100 queries is wirth saving by some algorithm (like your 'calls up no results' criterion). That's 2 million queries a day. Unfortunately, out of those 2 million queries, there are going to be a lot of typoes and Googlewhacking taking place. Cutting out those are much less practical problems to solve by machine.
Plus, since many good ideas are just combining things in an unusual way, your idea may have 50,000 hits, none of which are relevant to the way you're thinking.
>Why would anyone download music that he has already paid for?
>What's the point? I can create my own MP3s from CDs I already own.
Perhaps they lack the utilities (and/or knowledge of where to get said utilities) to rip the discs themselves. Perhaps the disc is physically damaged and no longer plays, or is damaged to the point that you don't want it in your 96x CD reader, which will spin it to pieces. Perhaps they seek access to the music on, say, a workstation with no drives, but enough oomph to run ogg123. Perhaps their bandwidth exceeds their CD-ripping capacity. Perhaps they get inconsistent results trying to rip the discs, and don't want to try six times to get one good copy. Perhaps the disc is DRM-o-rama.
Any more questions?
>The IBM PC is dead.
I hope you're happy! You just killed my Thinkpad!
> Actually, the irony of your statement is that >we're going to need better nano-technology to >complete the task.
I could see sort of a "bootstrapping" thing. If a small bacteria is producible, perhaps you can create such a bacteria whose purpose is to assemble a component for a larger bacteria (five different classes make DNA sequences A, B, C, D, E, and five more bind A->B, B->C, C->D, D->E, E->A, or even to "infect" and modify another cell to serve the true purpose of the project.
The problem is that many protest actions are open to interpretation. Is a protestor standing in front of the public building picking a spot to maximize the attention his message recieves, or because he wants to block entry? Is the man who struggles with a cop trying to defend himself from a potentially violent officer, or trying to make a first strike? It's often all a matter of perception.
To further prove the point, I propose the following experiment.
Record some "protestors". Create two copies of this tape, with their banners and audio edited to suggest the "protestors" espouse both sides of a controversial issue. Show the tapes at random to audiences, and survey them as to the acceptability of the "protestors'" actions.
One gets you fifty that when people agree with the "protestors'" cause, they will consider their actions much less malicious.
The problem is that after a point, they've made back their money, and they're just gouging.
A comparable situation is the contract requirements with mobile phones. They rig them in a way that makes them back the subsidy they've given you on the phone, BUT they don't tie you there after they've made their money back.
Possible technical approaches to making the money back without permanently locking in the consumer include:
1-- storing the cartridge chip ID; after some number of different official cartridges are recorded, unlock the printer.
2-- sell only a package of the printer and cartridges at a price that covers costs; additional cartridges are reasonably priced or clonable.
3-- sell the printer at its true cost.
>So what if they want to protect some artistic >property? Who does that hurt?
Everyone benefits from a broad, unencumbered public domain. PD works can form the basis for new creative works, plus they allow access to knowledge relatively cheaply (with no copyright exclusivity to maintain a price floor, the cost of a PD work falls to that of reproduction)
This really surprises me. I really envisioned a future direction that placed nations like Mexico as our tech leaders in 50 years, because they had no IP nutcases today to throw a pipe in the wheel-spokes of science.
> Al-Jazeera is not a news organization in the >Western sense. Al-Jazeera deliberately distorts the >news.
Most news organizations distort news to increase its appeal. Ever watch local TV "news at 10?" For the sake of increased local appeal, they always start bellowing "the LOCAL connection to the major news story", a connection that's flimsy or meaningless half the time.
There is no nobility in commercial journalism. The only difference between the New York Times and the Weekly World News is that one has annoying registration requirements, and the other has Bat Boy pictures.
OTOH, if you take everyone stretching the story in a different direction, perhaps the obvious distortions and contradictions tend to cancel out. The larger the number of voices you see, the better.
Actually, you raise a good point implicity. Where can people "learn by wrecking?"
/, nobody cares.
Anyone can learn to operate and administer a *ix by throwing Minix or Slackware on a thrift-shop refugee 486/66. If you blow away
How do I learn to run a 370? It's typically too expensive and bulky to play with the "real thing" at home, and nobody will give you a running system to play with.
The only thing that comes even close is emulation, and that won't teach you that you shouldn't tie up the annoying guy who's bothering you with the system master tape.
>Dictionary spammers tie up target servers without >any reasonable expectation that most messages will >reach an actual user
Not quite. a DoS has NO intention whatsoever of having the messages get to valid users. This had a small hope of it. Moreover, the intent to make the service unavailable for others wasn't there.
But you don't actively push away people when there is no tangible benefit for others to remove the feature. The only benefit I could see would be to avert remarking, but frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if other approaches were tried (i.e. cracked BIOSes that overstate clock speed)
AMD has the right idea-- allow overclocking, but make it tamper-evident (crossed L1 bridges)
> Slightly offtopic, but i heard about some guys who >obtained blueprints and made a UT map of their high >school. Kinda scary, but i guess its better than >the real thing.
Actually, I can see some perfectly non-violent uses for a FPS map of a school.
-Downloadable 3D map of the school for new students, avoid the first day "What do you mean Room 701 is in Yaroslavl?" problems. Especially useful if the school tends to host events that bring outsiders on campus (Example: local LUG meets at a school. Why not a map where you start in the parking lot, and can walk all around campus, but the room holding the meeting has large lights set up around it to find it.)
-Impressive demonstration that not everyone there is technically illiterate
-Testing a proposed remodeling for appearance and workability
-virtual walkthrough. I can't think of a good term for it, so an example application makes more sense. "Okay, we have real school shooters (or, less violently, a nasty clog in the school bathroom) reported here... and here"
Remember that the FPS has been the only broadly used first-person 3D navigation scheme. VRML was pretty much DOA, so this is the only affordable tool for any application requiring a 3D walkthrough.
Why not a dress code no more complex than "if your gender-specific components are covered, you're cool?".
The disadvantages of dull clothes include:
1. High costs. I can easily dress in a T-shirt and shorts for under USD 50. A three piece suit, not so readily. Expensive clothing just stretches budgets further.
2. Low climate adaptability. Cut energy costs by running the office at 84 degrees? Let people wear shorts, and they'll be a lot happier.
3. Low zing factor. Fifty grey suits will not excite people's minds. No, that's not meant in the filthy sense.
4. Impression of pettiness. If it's not affecting the work you do, why does it matter what you're wearing? If they're paying you to look at you dressed up a certain way as you work, then they should start shoving your paycheque down your pants!
If you're turning to used hard discs, this screams "empty niche! Exploit me!" I bet a single platter, 3600 rpm (for reliability), IDE drive would be perfect. Since the tech is old and proven, and the market demands reliability, put a five year warrantty on them and sell them at criminal prices.
The problem is that there's a huge space between the two sections you quote.
What do you do with a 486? Even the nicest configured 486s are too slow for most applications, and rarely have worthwhile spares. I have a whole box of fast-page SIMMs, small-denomination DIMMs, and propriatery memory modules I'll never use, and finally gave up on my collection of 500M and 1G hard discs, when I decided I couldn't RAID them into anything usable.
No problem.
At Arizona State, they had some students with Social-Security ID numbers, some with 9-figure "bogus" ID numbers (99x-xx-xxxx). At some point, someone must have thrown a fit about using the Social Security number as an ID number. The logical solution was to give people a 99x number if they didn't have it. The solution they chose was to give *everyone* a new number (I think about 10 figures-- 10000xxxxx) For a bonus humiliation point, they call them 'Affiliate ID', like some sort of MLM-spam pyramid scheme. An unforseen exciting bonus: any listing of information (ie grade records) has a 40-60 chance of being in the new number or the old number. Plus, nobody knows what to give when they submit information.
> As far as I know, Matrox primarily deals in >business cards designed for enhancing 2D display (text, image editing, etc). I was referring to >gaming cards.
Were I Matrox, I'd be scared. The 'everyday' cards are now getting good enough that the monitor is the limit on the image quality. I use an el-cheapo $249 19" special.
I had a G400. I had a Radeon 7000. I had a Voodoo III. I couldn't tell the difference. Why would I pay more than the $40 the Radeon cost?
But returning to topic, what Transmeta needs is 1) much more brand awareness and 2) a unique niche. I've got a good one: many universities are starting to require laptops. A few contracts to specify Transmeta laptops would be good. Fast enough for school work, too slow for gaming, runs long enough that people aren't running for the power outlet mid-lecture.
>That said, though, running a research effort is >nothing like running a utility. If you want a >glimpse into how the government would run the >Internet, look at Amtrak. In other words, badly.
Set the way-back machine for 1971.
The railroad companies were losing their shirts on passenger trains. With very few exceptions, they were thrilled to throw the service to somebody else.
Without the government intervention, we'd either have
1) No passenger trains today at all
or
2) Absolutely horrific passenger trains due to decades of non-investment and contempt by operators.
Amtrak does what it does remarkably well, given that it's still hamstrung by collaboration with private freight railways that don't seem particularly cooperative, a need for custom and specialised equipment, and a miniscule budget. The trains are surprisingly clean and comfortable, the safety record is decent, especially considering they're not in control of the track being used, and in some cases, they do turn a profit (esp. in the very densely trafficked Northeast).
>read: I stole a 17" monitor from a store. The store had a dumpster out back.
Very pessimistic, aren't you?
I've seen dumpsters full of monitors. Indeed, the one I saw was in a strip mall holding a computer shop. I didn't bother going through the dumpster, because I had all the monitors I needed.
New monitors are surprisingly cheap (I've seen 17" or 19" for USD 70 after rebate), and old workstation monitors tend to be virtually worthless in particular, because nobody wants to pay obscene prices for BNC or Sun to VGA adapter cables.