Believe it or not CDs are for most people a luxery item. During the boom days CD sales where up and now we're in the bust days sales are down, hmm think they may be linked?
It really does n't matter because whatever the cause the RIAA will say that piracy is stopping their GOD GIVEN RIGHT (tm) to make money. Infact I seem to remember in the boom days the RIAA where complaining even though CD sales where up.
SCO when was asked about their apparent lack of troops and their imminent defeat, referred to a recent statement given out by the head of their new Department of Information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf:
"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"
Well IBM was regarded as THE "Evil Empire" in the 80's if you was a Nerd, Geek, etc. At this present time it's Microsoft, who knows who it will be in 20 years time.
Was analyse the signals going to/from the GameCube and the read head/head motor control.
Once you have figured out how the raw bits are stored you can actually build your own controller to read off the information ready for transfer to CD/Hard disk/etc.
I suspect the problem they will have is getting a gamecube to read the data off some other medium. The GC is very integerated and you can't intercept the commands to the drive controller (eg read sector number xxxxx) because those signals are inside a chip and not tracks on the board.
You would have to build something that connected directly to the read head/head motor control pcb tracks and attempt to calculate where on the disc it wanted the bits to stream in from. It's not impossible but it is far from trival.
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Of course this is pure speculation and I'm no way implying that this is SCO's plan but if you wanted to claim ownership over a part of Linux than what better place to do it than the scheduler? Thats a core piece of code and not some driver or feature that you can turn off.
I do agree that it's so unlikely that it's not even worth considering..
Well it depends on the context. Sendo has pleanty of reasons to be very angry with MS, when you are very angry you can easily lash out, whilst this *is* another lawsuit although this time aimed at Orange.
Sendo has tech sharing agreement with MS. Orange has tech sharing agreement with MS. MS hands over Sendo tech to Orange holds back obligations to Sendo. Sendo gives up on it's own phone with MS software due to above. Sendo sues Orange for patent infringement.
So this is n't your average money grabbing patent suit.
Nope, 'coz Sendo had an agreement where they shared their technology with MS in exchange for access to MS's OS technology.
Sendo made the mistake of agreeing that if they ever went under that their tech automatically got handed over to MS so it was actually in MS's interest that they went under. Sendo basically asserted that MS was not keeping up their end of the bargain whilst Orange got all the good stuff and help they were meant to be getting.
Or is it just this Orange one? Was n't one of the complaints Sendo had was that basically MS was taking all of it's good ideas and giving them to Orange (which is also tied into MS). Of course MS had a cross licensing thing with Sendo, but I wonder if this patent was part of that deal?
Maybe Sendo found an area where they did n't get completely screwed over by MS?
Well since the vast majority of machines ship with Windows all Microsoft would have to do is price this "special" version of windows cheaper than the "normal" version.
The average consumer would n't beable to tell the difference between two machines except for price, 9 times out of 10 they'd buy the cheaper machine.
"The Athens PC has a built-in telephone linked to Microsoft"..
I instantly imagined a call from a MS representative the instant your attempt to do MS does n't approve of.. imagine:..click to download Redhat ISO....phone rings..
Okay you won't buy it because it wont run Linux, but the mass public would buy it was cheaper than a "normal" PC but still ran all the current range of apps and games.
Microsoft could easily do this by making Windows for these machines cheaper than for normal PC's.
It does n't have to be radically different to shut Linux (or any other OS at that) out. Just make it virtually impossible for the average joe to install a new OS on the thing. The could for example only let the machine boot off a signed CD.
Whilst I've got no problem with a machine like this in isolation, the problem is if MS gradually makes machines that dont comply less "featureful" until eventually the thing wont boot at all.
Whilst you could argue that MS would be abusing their power in this way, MS could argue that they are under no obligation to make their OS run on certain hardware. A very tricky situation.
Yes it will be hacked, but I suspect it will only be doable with some kind of hardware mod like XBOX. No one is going to want to try Linux if it means modding their machine and secondly MS may attempt to make the hardware mod illegal.
"Windows Compatible" PC's have been on Microsofts mind since Windows 3.1. Just look at what happened to hardware, you now get Microsoft approved logos on just about everything, even on things like processors a'la AMD.
In all fairness though "IBM PC" compatibility does n't really mean much for the vast majority of apps out there (ie Windwos apps) since the days of writing directly to the hardware are long gone. API compatibility is much more important than hardware compability.
Of course it does mean alot if you are trying to run Linux on some strange undocumented hardware.
For Microsoft this is the next logical progression. It gets to be a kind of Apple without having to be a hardware vendor.
The only thing I'm wondering is if MS can actually pull it off sucessfully (WebTV anyone?)
I've done a few tests with my own comparing my own music that I have mixed down to 16 bit and 24 bit WAV's.
Whilst I can't claim that this was a scientific test and whilst this was only with LAME MP3 compression the result was smaller files of around 2kbit/s with the same quality according to the decoding of the MP3 under a spectral analysis of the two files.
To lame the processes are the same, except that 24 bit instead of 16 bit samples are converted to floating point.
Of course running under a x86 VM under an emulator is going to run like a snail. The gist of was that somehow Itanium was unsuited for Java or.NET applications compared to other processor which is not true.
Actually Java and.NET bytecode style applications are likely to beable to be better optimized than their C and C++ equivelants with a decent virtual machine when running on Itanium.
A VM bytecode program contains alot more structural information of how the original program looked than C or C++ programs. On the Itanium the compiler has to take a "best guess" or some profile data to compile for the most common program-flow, this is one of the largest factors that limit Itanium peformance since alot of the run-time hardware optimisations are n't and cant be there.
A VM could analyse program-flow and compile different versions of the same function, dynamically changing which is used for example.
Of course this does n't help the vast majority of C/C++ code out there, but your assertion is hardly correct.
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The scanner
The lego
The skull
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Well I know there will be people out there who will moan about things like this, but you got to say this i pretty f'ing cool.
This touches two vital "geek nerves" - Hack value and use of Lego.
Believe it or not CDs are for most people a luxery item. During the boom days CD sales where up and now we're in the bust days sales are down, hmm think they may be linked?
It really does n't matter because whatever the cause the RIAA will say that piracy is stopping their GOD GIVEN RIGHT (tm) to make money. Infact I seem to remember in the boom days the RIAA where complaining even though CD sales where up.
Of course they would n't be prosecuted, as GWB says they would persecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
SCO when was asked about their apparent lack of troops and their imminent defeat, referred to a recent statement given out by the head of their new Department of Information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf:
"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"
Well IBM was regarded as THE "Evil Empire" in the 80's if you was a Nerd, Geek, etc. At this present time it's Microsoft, who knows who it will be in 20 years time.
Was analyse the signals going to/from the GameCube and the read head/head motor control.
Once you have figured out how the raw bits are stored you can actually build your own controller to read off the information ready for transfer to CD/Hard disk/etc.
I suspect the problem they will have is getting a gamecube to read the data off some other medium. The GC is very integerated and you can't intercept the commands to the drive controller (eg read sector number xxxxx) because those signals are inside a chip and not tracks on the board.
You would have to build something that connected directly to the read head/head motor control pcb tracks and attempt to calculate where on the disc it wanted the bits to stream in from. It's not impossible but it is far from trival.
Of course this is pure speculation and I'm no way implying that this is SCO's plan but if you wanted to claim ownership over a part of Linux than what better place to do it than the scheduler? Thats a core piece of code and not some driver or feature that you can turn off.
I do agree that it's so unlikely that it's not even worth considering..
Well it depends on the context. Sendo has pleanty of reasons to be very angry with MS, when you are very angry you can easily lash out, whilst this *is* another lawsuit although this time aimed at Orange.
Sendo has tech sharing agreement with MS.
Orange has tech sharing agreement with MS.
MS hands over Sendo tech to Orange holds back obligations to Sendo.
Sendo gives up on it's own phone with MS software due to above.
Sendo sues Orange for patent infringement.
So this is n't your average money grabbing patent suit.
Nope, 'coz Sendo had an agreement where they shared their technology with MS in exchange for access to MS's OS technology. Sendo made the mistake of agreeing that if they ever went under that their tech automatically got handed over to MS so it was actually in MS's interest that they went under. Sendo basically asserted that MS was not keeping up their end of the bargain whilst Orange got all the good stuff and help they were meant to be getting.
Or is it just this Orange one? Was n't one of the complaints Sendo had was that basically MS was taking all of it's good ideas and giving them to Orange (which is also tied into MS). Of course MS had a cross licensing thing with Sendo, but I wonder if this patent was part of that deal?
Maybe Sendo found an area where they did n't get completely screwed over by MS?
Athlon does n't have SSE2 and the first Athlon's dont have SSE (my 850 sure does n't) but the newer ones do.
Meanwhile Opteron has SSE2.
Any half decent UNIX system (or should I say admin) would have process accounting enabled that would stop this kind of attack.
Think long term and not just the US.
Well since the vast majority of machines ship with Windows all Microsoft would have to do is price this "special" version of windows cheaper than the "normal" version. The average consumer would n't beable to tell the difference between two machines except for price, 9 times out of 10 they'd buy the cheaper machine.
I initially read this as:
..click to download Redhat ISO.. ..phone rings..
"The Athens PC has a built-in telephone linked to Microsoft"..
I instantly imagined a call from a MS representative the instant your attempt to do MS does n't approve of.. imagine:
"Hello?"
"I'm sorry Dave I can't let you do that"
Okay you won't buy it because it wont run Linux, but the mass public would buy it was cheaper than a "normal" PC but still ran all the current range of apps and games.
Microsoft could easily do this by making Windows for these machines cheaper than for normal PC's.
It does n't have to be radically different to shut Linux (or any other OS at that) out. Just make it virtually impossible for the average joe to install a new OS on the thing. The could for example only let the machine boot off a signed CD.
Whilst I've got no problem with a machine like this in isolation, the problem is if MS gradually makes machines that dont comply less "featureful" until eventually the thing wont boot at all.
Whilst you could argue that MS would be abusing their power in this way, MS could argue that they are under no obligation to make their OS run on certain hardware. A very tricky situation.
Yes it will be hacked, but I suspect it will only be doable with some kind of hardware mod like XBOX. No one is going to want to try Linux if it means modding their machine and secondly MS may attempt to make the hardware mod illegal.
"Windows Compatible" PC's have been on Microsofts mind since Windows 3.1. Just look at what happened to hardware, you now get Microsoft approved logos on just about everything, even on things like processors a'la AMD. In all fairness though "IBM PC" compatibility does n't really mean much for the vast majority of apps out there (ie Windwos apps) since the days of writing directly to the hardware are long gone. API compatibility is much more important than hardware compability. Of course it does mean alot if you are trying to run Linux on some strange undocumented hardware. For Microsoft this is the next logical progression. It gets to be a kind of Apple without having to be a hardware vendor. The only thing I'm wondering is if MS can actually pull it off sucessfully (WebTV anyone?)
I've done a few tests with my own comparing my own music that I have mixed down to 16 bit and 24 bit WAV's. Whilst I can't claim that this was a scientific test and whilst this was only with LAME MP3 compression the result was smaller files of around 2kbit/s with the same quality according to the decoding of the MP3 under a spectral analysis of the two files. To lame the processes are the same, except that 24 bit instead of 16 bit samples are converted to floating point.
Of course running under a x86 VM under an emulator is going to run like a snail. The gist of was that somehow Itanium was unsuited for Java or .NET applications compared to other processor which is not true.
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Actually Java and .NET bytecode style applications are likely to beable to be better optimized than their C and C++ equivelants with a decent virtual machine when running on Itanium.
A VM bytecode program contains alot more structural information of how the original program looked than C or C++ programs. On the Itanium the compiler has to take a "best guess" or some profile data to compile for the most common program-flow, this is one of the largest factors that limit Itanium peformance since alot of the run-time hardware optimisations are n't and cant be there.
A VM could analyse program-flow and compile different versions of the same function, dynamically changing which is used for example.
Of course this does n't help the vast majority of C/C++ code out there, but your assertion is hardly correct.