The problem with Apple is that they choose a closed standard for their hardware to promote their monopoly. They then can charge more money for their machines since the only alternative is to switch to a completely different OS. Sun plays the same game, and look how overpriced their systems are. With PC hardware, however, all the major interfaces are open standards, so many competitors can put together PCs, or the various subsystems. The consumer benefits because competition is allowed to occur naturally. This arguement leads one to the conclusion that open standards are better for the market as a whole. If we get this to happen in the OS world as well, we'd have alternatives to MS without worrying about what is and isn't compatible. Processor design will never be cheap because of escalating fab and CAD tool costs. In the millions of dollars to pursue a project to completion.
Sure you can design digital hardware on an FPGA, but you can't design a competitive microprocessor on one. For that, you need to million dollar CAD tools and million dollar fab runs.
IBM has a good track record for developing fabrication technologies, e.g. IBM was on the forefront of such technological advances as SiGe, SOI, Copper Interconnect, low dielectric insulators, etc. Unfortunately, their track record for producing useful chips based on these technolgies is less noteworthy. PowerPC doesn't sell nearly as well as a Pentium, or even an Athlon. They've given up on electronics for optical networking, at least for now. The list goes on. Mostly, they make money providing fab services for fabless chip design companies. So in a sense, it is a service they're providing
For normal data transmission, Wave division multiplexing )WDM) is often used. Basically, you use different frequencies of light to transmit different data streams. The amplitude determines whether your sending 1s or 0s. It's similar in concept to AM radio.
Hollywood's concern is hardly paranoia. It will be hard for Blockbuster to rent videos when internet bandwidth increases and it becomes easy rip a DVD and share it via Gnutella. We've already seen it with music.
The problem with the author's argument is that he ignored compatibility issues. If 90% of the people use a particular type of softtware, and the govt switches to a new type of incompatible software, it alienates citizens. That brings up the question of why people use a particular type of software. Typically it's because they had one of the 1st products. MS controls the market not because they have the best software, but instead because they were there 1st, long before open source and Linux. That's why their sw is most often used by consumers. Once you start using software, you can't switch without making all your current files obsolete. So how much will that cost taxpayers to manually convert all the files over to the new software? Also, given the the learning curve for linux is steeper than windows, you have to pay sys admins more money. This killins the cost effectiveness arguement of open source somewhat.
I doubt MS's main reason for requiring Dell customers to buy MS Windows has much to do with Linux. More likely they've found a significant number of people purchasing PCs w/o an OS go on to pirate Windows and install it. If you don't like the policy, stop buying Dell. Quit whining to the government every time you don't like something in the business world. Instead vote with your dollars. If enough people stop buying Dell machines because of the policy, they'll change it.
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A friend of mine at AMD claims they have working K8 (64 bit Athlon) parts in the lab.
I believe what he is saying is that he doesn't like digital copies because they can, in turn produce more identical perfect copies. With analog recording technologies, however, copies of copies cause compounding of noise and other errors in copying.
Last I checked, Red Hat was trying to make money selling Linux ditributions on CD and other services too. They should be held to the same standards as MS. Given that, they probably don't have much to worry about
Anyone who's written in c knows that's it's constructs are very simple. Also "safety" features
such as array bound checking, etc. are nonexistent. Therefore, compiling it to any normal machine code is very straightforward because of the simple mapping. Not familiar with Fortran, but I doubt it's any better for performance than c.
The problem isn't unfixable. It's just more work than MS and other sw authors are willing to commit to. Sounds like the Interface between the window manager and the kernal needs to be reworked, either by all programs with root privileges, or implemented generically in the OS. Anyway, I'm glad someone exposed the weakness so it can be analysed, and appropriate steps taken to fix it.
Given that the government expects over 1/3 of my salary, I think that a governrmental database containing my name, address, and gender is hardly worth getting upset about in comparison.
We have a couple of SunBlade 1000s, plus some Ultra60's. Very expensive but not that impressive. A coworker found that compiling qt programs was much quicker on a Pentium 4 running linux than on an ultra60. When Spectre comes out for linux, we'll be able to benchmark the systems a lot better, though.
It's not clear from the article whether or not the hackers gave HP any prior warning before posting the exploit. If not, posting the exploit was irresponsible, and they should be prosecuted. I don't think the DMCA applies, however, since it's designed to prevent cracking copyrighted material. I don't see how hacking into a computer violates any copyrights.
But it doesn't need to be twice as expensive for the non-blocking ISP. All they need to say is they've got MSN, eBay, etc. for the same price, and they'll win the market. This is assuming of course that MSN, eBay, etc. don't give the Indian ISPs a dime, which is virtually a certainty.
As far as making the internet cheaper, that's ridiculous. The consumer pays for everything, one way or the other. If eBay has to pay an ISP, they'll tack the cost onto purchases.
I was simply commenting on your absurd opinion that Apple sw tech was way ahead of pc sw tech. This is a statement that I would attribute to a Mac fanatic (or fan if you prefer that connotation). Whether you own a Mac or not is irrelevant.
That arguement is similar to the case where a guy got his picture taken with his mistress at a stop light that he went trough on red. The picture was sent to his house where his wife saw it. Now they block out the passenger side on the pictures. Similarly, legislation must be enacted to disallow use of black boxes to track peoples movement without prior court order since this is an invasion of privacy. In short, I agree with your point. That would be an abuse of the technology
Although there is some fee that a radio staion must pay to play a song on the air, I seriously doubt the record companies don't kick back a hell of a lot more money to get songs airplay. Without radio, the RIAA couldn't sell a single CD. The radio station is in the driver's seat. Advertising is just icing on the cake.
Regardless, once those EM waves leave the tower, it still seems to me the RIAA has given up their copyright by allowing anyone to listen to/record their songs.
Why do you claim Mac hardware is better than PC hardware? Although people argue about bechmark results, Pentium, Athlon, and PowerPC are roughly on the same performance level. Although Sun provides 64-bit. we're not all that impressed with it's performance where I work, and will ditch Sun as soon as we can get our cad tools on Linux. A Sun workstation is just not worth $10,000
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The problem with Apple is that they choose a closed standard for their hardware to promote their monopoly. They then can charge more money for their machines since the only alternative is to switch to a completely different OS. Sun plays the same game, and look how overpriced their systems are. With PC hardware, however, all the major interfaces are open standards, so many competitors can put together PCs, or the various subsystems. The consumer benefits because competition is allowed to occur naturally. This arguement leads one to the conclusion that open standards are better for the market as a whole. If we get this to happen in the OS world as well, we'd have alternatives to MS without worrying about what is and isn't compatible. Processor design will never be cheap because of escalating fab and CAD tool costs. In the millions of dollars to pursue a project to completion.
Sure you can design digital hardware on an FPGA, but you can't design a competitive microprocessor on one. For that, you need to million dollar CAD tools and million dollar fab runs.
Yeah, I did that in school. Too bad you can't clock it at 2 GHz.
IBM has a good track record for developing fabrication technologies, e.g. IBM was on the forefront of such technological advances as SiGe, SOI, Copper Interconnect, low dielectric insulators, etc. Unfortunately, their track record for producing useful chips based on these technolgies is less noteworthy. PowerPC doesn't sell nearly as well as a Pentium, or even an Athlon. They've given up on electronics for optical networking, at least for now. The list goes on. Mostly, they make money providing fab services for fabless chip design companies. So in a sense, it is a service they're providing
For normal data transmission, Wave division multiplexing )WDM) is often used. Basically, you use different frequencies of light to transmit different data streams. The amplitude determines whether your sending 1s or 0s. It's similar in concept to AM radio.
This is nothing new. Get her a Ruby or some other stone whose demand hasn't been inflated by marketing, if she doesn't want a diamond.
Hollywood's concern is hardly paranoia. It will be hard for Blockbuster to rent videos when internet bandwidth increases and it becomes easy rip a DVD and share it via Gnutella. We've already seen it with music.
The problem with the author's argument is that he ignored compatibility issues. If 90% of the people use a particular type of softtware, and the govt switches to a new type of incompatible software, it alienates citizens. That brings up the question of why people use a particular type of software. Typically it's because they had one of the 1st products. MS controls the market not because they have the best software, but instead because they were there 1st, long before open source and Linux. That's why their sw is most often used by consumers. Once you start using software, you can't switch without making all your current files obsolete. So how much will that cost taxpayers to manually convert all the files over to the new software? Also, given the the learning curve for linux is steeper than windows, you have to pay sys admins more money. This killins the cost effectiveness arguement of open source somewhat.
I doubt MS's main reason for requiring Dell customers to buy MS Windows has much to do with Linux. More likely they've found a significant number of people purchasing PCs w/o an OS go on to pirate Windows and install it. If you don't like the policy, stop buying Dell. Quit whining to the government every time you don't like something in the business world. Instead vote with your dollars. If enough people stop buying Dell machines because of the policy, they'll change it.
A friend of mine at AMD claims they have working K8 (64 bit Athlon) parts in the lab.
I believe what he is saying is that he doesn't like digital copies because they can, in turn produce more identical perfect copies. With analog recording technologies, however, copies of copies cause compounding of noise and other errors in copying.
Last I checked, Red Hat was trying to make money selling Linux ditributions on CD and other services too. They should be held to the same standards as MS. Given that, they probably don't have much to worry about
Anyone who's written in c knows that's it's constructs are very simple. Also "safety" features such as array bound checking, etc. are nonexistent. Therefore, compiling it to any normal machine code is very straightforward because of the simple mapping. Not familiar with Fortran, but I doubt it's any better for performance than c.
The problem isn't unfixable. It's just more work than MS and other sw authors are willing to commit to. Sounds like the Interface between the window manager and the kernal needs to be reworked, either by all programs with root privileges, or implemented generically in the OS. Anyway, I'm glad someone exposed the weakness so it can be analysed, and appropriate steps taken to fix it.
Given that the government expects over 1/3 of my salary, I think that a governrmental database containing my name, address, and gender is hardly worth getting upset about in comparison.
We have a couple of SunBlade 1000s, plus some Ultra60's. Very expensive but not that impressive. A coworker found that compiling qt programs was much quicker on a Pentium 4 running linux than on an ultra60. When Spectre comes out for linux, we'll be able to benchmark the systems a lot better, though.
...the usual .25 or .18 produced by Intel and other chip makers...
Intel and AMD both use 0.13 um technologies.
It's not clear from the article whether or not the hackers gave HP any prior warning before posting the exploit. If not, posting the exploit was irresponsible, and they should be prosecuted. I don't think the DMCA applies, however, since it's designed to prevent cracking copyrighted material. I don't see how hacking into a computer violates any copyrights.
Unix is a trdemarked name, and therefore, the owner of the trademark should get the domain name, based on precedent of similar rulings.
But it doesn't need to be twice as expensive for the non-blocking ISP. All they need to say is they've got MSN, eBay, etc. for the same price, and they'll win the market. This is assuming of course that MSN, eBay, etc. don't give the Indian ISPs a dime, which is virtually a certainty. As far as making the internet cheaper, that's ridiculous. The consumer pays for everything, one way or the other. If eBay has to pay an ISP, they'll tack the cost onto purchases.
Unless I blew him away with the gun in my glove compartment
I was simply commenting on your absurd opinion that Apple sw tech was way ahead of pc sw tech. This is a statement that I would attribute to a Mac fanatic (or fan if you prefer that connotation). Whether you own a Mac or not is irrelevant.
That arguement is similar to the case where a guy got his picture taken with his mistress at a stop light that he went trough on red. The picture was sent to his house where his wife saw it. Now they block out the passenger side on the pictures. Similarly, legislation must be enacted to disallow use of black boxes to track peoples movement without prior court order since this is an invasion of privacy. In short, I agree with your point. That would be an abuse of the technology
Although there is some fee that a radio staion must pay to play a song on the air, I seriously doubt the record companies don't kick back a hell of a lot more money to get songs airplay. Without radio, the RIAA couldn't sell a single CD. The radio station is in the driver's seat. Advertising is just icing on the cake. Regardless, once those EM waves leave the tower, it still seems to me the RIAA has given up their copyright by allowing anyone to listen to/record their songs.
Why do you claim Mac hardware is better than PC hardware? Although people argue about bechmark results, Pentium, Athlon, and PowerPC are roughly on the same performance level. Although Sun provides 64-bit. we're not all that impressed with it's performance where I work, and will ditch Sun as soon as we can get our cad tools on Linux. A Sun workstation is just not worth $10,000