The difficulty of fabricating flash memory are in the orders of magnitute more diffuclt compared to covering a metal disk with some magnetic material. So there will always be a market for magnetic media, unless that is replaced by some similarly cheap technology.
Intel have been in the flash memory market for as long as I can remember, they're just focusing on a growth market like everyone else is. AMD where also in the game, have n't really kept up with what they have been up to though.
Yes there where two visible lines, but (for me atleast) if you was actually concentrating on the job at hand, such as coding you never noticed them. To me having a much sharper display with less eye strain was worth it.
My 19" was the last Sony product I ever purchased, their LCD screens just seem expensive and not much better than the competition. I guess they do not manufacture their own panels.
300 MHz is pretty slow You would have really hated 4Mhz Z-80's then. Or the PDP-11's that wern't a whole lot faster. They did get the job done letting C and Unix get written on them though. Yeah, but the (G)UI and coding practices of a modern computer systems are completely different. Besides that was n't the point I was making. The point was the 300MHz means one of two things either 1) they are fab'ing the chip using older technology or 2) They are lowering the clock to get really long battery life. I'm speculating no 1.
As as side note, I've worked with all kinds of machines, my first was a 10MHz 286 doing graphics and sound mixing in x86 assembler. Now days even modern embedded 8-bit microcontrollers run at upto 16MHz and are coded in C and with the odd routine written in assembler.
Anyone wager this is some kind MIPS implementation or based on OpenCores RISC? 300 MHz is pretty slow, so I would also guess that its done on a pretty old feature size, likely to be built in those fabs in china?
From what I can remember the aquisitions though have always been for technology they don't already own or do own but inferior.
If it goes through they get Yahoo market share, but if they tinker with Yahoo too much most likely people will leave Yahoo since if they wanted to use Microsoft Search they would do. Market share is all well and good, but even with their combined market share they would still be a long way behind Google and Yahoo has nothing that I can see that could be classed as a "Killer App".
If the sale does go ahead what is going to happen? Are they going to call it Microsoft Yahoo and have the run side by side with their current offerings? Also Yahoo is also a failing company with no direction, they even brought back an original founder to get things moving again but it has n't made any difference.
Personally it does n't make any sense to me, but maybe I will be proved wrong time will tell.
If you go to this link: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/celeronm/celeronm.htm there are PDFs at the bottom of the page that detail two 1GHZ processors one at 90nm / 512K Cache and one at 65nm / 1MB Cache both have 5.5W TDP. I have the 90nm version infront of me on a Kontron ETX board, ie something shipping right now. However once you factor in the chipset and memory power requirements its more like 13W at load. 5.5W for 2010 is most likely for a cpu+chipset+memory combo.
Not really, if you think about it when you dream you can see and hear; although your brain is processing sensory data it is not coming from the sensory part of your brain, you could say it is "faked". The matrix works the same way, directly feeding signals to the brain so sensory parts of the brain lie dormant and never develop since you are affectively "dreaming" since birth.
Obviously it was meant as a joke and I don't want to get more off topic than I already have. I'm just playing on the obession in geekdom with the film. Even if the energy element of the film was feasible other aspects just are n't; for example why use humans when there are less PITA forms of life?
I also read somewhere that not getting out of bed for two weeks results a 60% loss in body effiency, so Neo would probably not even be able to open is eyes when he got out, let alone move his arms to remove the tube.
Also talking about eyes, I saw this program once about blindness in this child where there was nothing physically wrong with the eye, but the passage to the brain was blocked so the signals were n't being recieved. Apparently since this was the case since birth, the brain did n't develop in that area so clearing the blockage would have no affect since the brain would not know what to do with the data. In Neo's case this would probably apply to the other senses too and probably the motor functions.
But as you said, the film is all about the philosophy oh and Carrie-Anne Moss in PVC:)
This is probably going to dent my karma, but what the heck:
JTEC could potentially harvest waste heat from internal combustion engines and combustion turbines, perhaps even the human body. With this we can find all the power we need, the plan is to harvest humans, makes the Matrix look almost almost prophetic:)
The boards themselves are made from fiberclass and are opaque. What gives a board its green colour is the solder resist that is used to stop solder sticking to the tracks during wave soldering and stop the copper from oxidizing.
So basically yes it is a stylistic change and not due to any change in the manufacture process materials for pcbs.
Is that the moon landing conspiracy theorists will only accept being taken to the moon so they can see for themselves. Wake up and smell the carpet bagging, it's just a big scam for free moon tickets:-P
How many of these units do you think they're going to sell? These things don't design themselves and the company has to cover these costs. Of course getting the pricing right will dictate sales.
The licenses mentioned (patent clauses in GPL acknoweldged) deal with copyright and not patents which although people easily confuse are completely different legal areas.
Fair enough your average programmer has no sense of geopolitics but if Microsoft wants to sell in every country in the world they're going to have to realise that they need to spend some money on proper research and QC, they're a huge company with lots of cash the last time I looked.
Point 1 is easily solved with localised versions for India and Pakistan.
Point 2 is strange, the article makes it sound that a microsoft office in turkey had a map of turkey where I assume the south-east was marked as a seperate "entity" with some kind of artifical border which is n't there in any world map. Maybe they had politically active turkish kurds working there or something, strange.
Point 3 the saudis are offended by everything, have a overblown sense of importance and can be ignored.
When putting together a PC based around a budget CPU most PC builders also go for a slightly lower spec'd mother board, memory, hard drive, graphics card, etc.
Having read the article properly this time, it would appear to be a memory chip problem. These chips would probably be fine in a PC since Self Refresh is a power saving feature that is n't used in desktop PC's.
All DRAM needs refresh cycles in order to top up the capacitor charges, normally every 64ms. These refresh cycles are generated by the memory controller. SDRAM introduced 'Self Refresh' in which the memory chip would refresh for keeping the memory contents whilst being in a power-down mode.
From the article it seems that the timing circuitry required to generate the refresh cycles is faulty on these chips so the memory is n't refreshed properly becoming corrupted.
I'd hope HP are shipping out new modules with new chips on them, if they wanted to be sly they could just replace the SPD on the modules with one that just tells the BIOS not to turn on self refresh.
The problem may not be the memory chips per-se but the configuation information.
Modern memory modules have a small non-volatile serial configuration memory that tells the BIOS which CAS/RAS/Tpd/Trd/etc settings to use.
If any of these settings are wrong you are likely to get memory corruption. I'd wager this is more likely to be the problem.
When C/C++ uses profiling it will only ever produce one "best case" compilation for a given function.
With any JIT system you have the opertunity to use the profiling information from a given "window" of the execution so there is the possibility of having more than one compilation for a function.
Now, I do not know how sophisticated JAVA JIT compilers have become but this is one area where JIT will have an upper hand over a static compiler.
OTOH, these tests do not look like there is enough significant variation in the execution path for profiling to make a large difference.
If this their idea of pluging a security hole then I don't think I will be purchasing any kind of routing equipment from this mickey mouse outfit in the future.
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The difficulty of fabricating flash memory are in the orders of magnitute more diffuclt compared to covering a metal disk with some magnetic material. So there will always be a market for magnetic media, unless that is replaced by some similarly cheap technology.
Intel have been in the flash memory market for as long as I can remember, they're just focusing on a growth market like everyone else is. AMD where also in the game, have n't really kept up with what they have been up to though.
Yes there where two visible lines, but (for me atleast) if you was actually concentrating on the job at hand, such as coding you never noticed them. To me having a much sharper display with less eye strain was worth it.
My 19" was the last Sony product I ever purchased, their LCD screens just seem expensive and not much better than the competition. I guess they do not manufacture their own panels.
As as side note, I've worked with all kinds of machines, my first was a 10MHz 286 doing graphics and sound mixing in x86 assembler. Now days even modern embedded 8-bit microcontrollers run at upto 16MHz and are coded in C and with the odd routine written in assembler.
Anyone wager this is some kind MIPS implementation or based on OpenCores RISC? 300 MHz is pretty slow, so I would also guess that its done on a pretty old feature size, likely to be built in those fabs in china?
From what I can remember the aquisitions though have always been for technology they don't already own or do own but inferior. If it goes through they get Yahoo market share, but if they tinker with Yahoo too much most likely people will leave Yahoo since if they wanted to use Microsoft Search they would do. Market share is all well and good, but even with their combined market share they would still be a long way behind Google and Yahoo has nothing that I can see that could be classed as a "Killer App". If the sale does go ahead what is going to happen? Are they going to call it Microsoft Yahoo and have the run side by side with their current offerings? Also Yahoo is also a failing company with no direction, they even brought back an original founder to get things moving again but it has n't made any difference. Personally it does n't make any sense to me, but maybe I will be proved wrong time will tell.
If you go to this link: http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/celeronm/celeronm.htm there are PDFs at the bottom of the page that detail two 1GHZ processors one at 90nm / 512K Cache and one at 65nm / 1MB Cache both have 5.5W TDP. I have the 90nm version infront of me on a Kontron ETX board, ie something shipping right now. However once you factor in the chipset and memory power requirements its more like 13W at load. 5.5W for 2010 is most likely for a cpu+chipset+memory combo.
Not really, if you think about it when you dream you can see and hear; although your brain is processing sensory data it is not coming from the sensory part of your brain, you could say it is "faked". The matrix works the same way, directly feeding signals to the brain so sensory parts of the brain lie dormant and never develop since you are affectively "dreaming" since birth.
Obviously it was meant as a joke and I don't want to get more off topic than I already have. I'm just playing on the obession in geekdom with the film. Even if the energy element of the film was feasible other aspects just are n't; for example why use humans when there are less PITA forms of life?
:)
I also read somewhere that not getting out of bed for two weeks results a 60% loss in body effiency, so Neo would probably not even be able to open is eyes when he got out, let alone move his arms to remove the tube.
Also talking about eyes, I saw this program once about blindness in this child where there was nothing physically wrong with the eye, but the passage to the brain was blocked so the signals were n't being recieved. Apparently since this was the case since birth, the brain did n't develop in that area so clearing the blockage would have no affect since the brain would not know what to do with the data. In Neo's case this would probably apply to the other senses too and probably the motor functions.
But as you said, the film is all about the philosophy oh and Carrie-Anne Moss in PVC
Or they could use a session cookie that is deleted when the browser is closed.
That's 400 LEDs and you'd be surprised how expensive LED's actually are. For the price of 400 you could put a high resolution mono LCD screen.
The boards themselves are made from fiberclass and are opaque. What gives a board its green colour is the solder resist that is used to stop solder sticking to the tracks during wave soldering and stop the copper from oxidizing. So basically yes it is a stylistic change and not due to any change in the manufacture process materials for pcbs.
Actually this is n't as funny as it sounds since AFAIK the US is developing smell based deterents for use in "crowd control" type applications.
Is that the moon landing conspiracy theorists will only accept being taken to the moon so they can see for themselves. Wake up and smell the carpet bagging, it's just a big scam for free moon tickets :-P
How many of these units do you think they're going to sell? These things don't design themselves and the company has to cover these costs. Of course getting the pricing right will dictate sales.
I can't see how switching licenses will help.
The licenses mentioned (patent clauses in GPL acknoweldged) deal with copyright and not patents which although people easily confuse are completely different legal areas.
Plus lots of former mosques turned into churches in spain and portugul so I I guess it works both ways.
Fair enough your average programmer has no sense of geopolitics but if Microsoft wants to sell in every country in the world they're going to have to realise that they need to spend some money on proper research and QC, they're a huge company with lots of cash the last time I looked.
Point 1 is easily solved with localised versions for India and Pakistan.
Point 2 is strange, the article makes it sound that a microsoft office in turkey had a map of turkey where I assume the south-east was marked as a seperate "entity" with some kind of artifical border which is n't there in any world map. Maybe they had politically active turkish kurds working there or something, strange.
Point 3 the saudis are offended by everything, have a overblown sense of importance and can be ignored.
Point 4 a little QC applies here.
When putting together a PC based around a budget CPU most PC builders also go for a slightly lower spec'd mother board, memory, hard drive, graphics card, etc.
Eventually that $30-$50 saving becomes $150-$200.
Having read the article properly this time, it would appear to be a memory chip problem. These chips would probably be fine in a PC since Self Refresh is a power saving feature that is n't used in desktop PC's.
All DRAM needs refresh cycles in order to top up the capacitor charges, normally every 64ms. These refresh cycles are generated by the memory controller. SDRAM introduced 'Self Refresh' in which the memory chip would refresh for keeping the memory contents whilst being in a power-down mode.
From the article it seems that the timing circuitry required to generate the refresh cycles is faulty on these chips so the memory is n't refreshed properly becoming corrupted.
I'd hope HP are shipping out new modules with new chips on them, if they wanted to be sly they could just replace the SPD on the modules with one that just tells the BIOS not to turn on self refresh.
The problem may not be the memory chips per-se but the configuation information. Modern memory modules have a small non-volatile serial configuration memory that tells the BIOS which CAS/RAS/Tpd/Trd/etc settings to use. If any of these settings are wrong you are likely to get memory corruption. I'd wager this is more likely to be the problem.
When C/C++ uses profiling it will only ever produce one "best case" compilation for a given function.
With any JIT system you have the opertunity to use the profiling information from a given "window" of the execution so there is the possibility of having more than one compilation for a function.
Now, I do not know how sophisticated JAVA JIT compilers have become but this is one area where JIT will have an upper hand over a static compiler.
OTOH, these tests do not look like there is enough significant variation in the execution path for profiling to make a large difference.
If this their idea of pluging a security hole then I don't think I will be purchasing any kind of routing equipment from this mickey mouse outfit in the future.
Being instruction set compatible is the problem since the ARM instruction set is patented.