However I am basing this on that fact he is 18 and on the assumption that he fits a profile of some kid who does n't have many friends and needs attention. I'm not saying I'm right, just my take as you'd be amazed on how many criminals get caught simply on the inability to keep their mouths shut.
Power pins are the least of the problems, bus protocols is the main reason for incompatibility.
AMD have gone with hypertransport and integrated membory controller in the Opteron/Athlon 64.
AFAIK Pentium-M uses a "hub" architecture with a 400MHZ link with the hub also providing the DDR memory controller amongst other things.
The reason Socket7 boards worked with different chips is because they all used the orginal Pentium bus protocol. With Pentium Pro, Intel went with a new GTL bus which was n't licensed to AMD, so AMD went with the Alpha bus with the K7(as there was ex Alpha people working on K7).
You're thinking of Google Adwords in which case your reasoning would be correct. Google also have another service whereby you host Google adverts inside your own site, everytime someone clicks you get paid like a normal banner ad.
My reading is that this guy found a way to fake clicks to the latter service.
I'm amazed that this guy thought that google would pay out. If he was clever he would set up a few websites and rake the money in slowly over a length of time. I guess greed got the better of him.
The difference is that neither Mandrake, SuSE, Debian are using a monopoly in one area (OS) to create a monopoly in another area (media), that is what is illegal even in the US. Don't you recall the AT&T situation?
I think it's the same reason that people will insist on MS, i.e. the "know" MS so assume it has best solution for the job.
The same with MySQL, at around 1999 when I first started to look at doing some (very simple) database work it was the most developed thing you could get for free. At that time, Postgres was not optimised for speed and was still regarded as research product.
Anyhow, the situation has changed somewhat but some people still think it's 1999, of course most of these people are n't RDBMS people so tend to belittle essential features, until MySQL gets them.
But buying something does n't mean that the seller had the right to sell it to you. If that was the case I could sell your car to someone else and then claim I had the right since there was a willing buyer.
This article starts of with a complete untruth by stating that this "Purchase" is "key legal ammunition". It is no such thing has it will not have relevance in the court case so is more propaganda ammunition than anything.
Motorola is focusing on embedded processors these days with the MPC range of chips so they have n't turned their back on PowerPC architecture. They are just concentrating on low power, low clock speed chips.
I doubt it's out of any kind of respect. I'm sure when they say "commercial" they mean fortune 1000 type companies who have more cash floating around than your average mom&pop store.
Well in general anything to do with privacy, I always use the bath example i.e. I've got nothing to hide having a bath, but that does n't mean I want others to see me having one.
Hommer Simpson: "I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one. And there's Magnetbox, and Sorny."
Actually I went on holiday to some for off place once and saw a genuine "Panaphone" phone myself. I have to say I did n't notice the knock off name by the spelling but by "hmmm, this does n't look like a Panasonic"
I don't know if this is the same study, but I recently read that having decent street lighting is more effective than cameras.
In addition near where I live they put CCTV on a main busy shopping road. The amount of crime on the road decreased, but all that happened is that it increased in the ajoining side roads.
Hardly any of the sea bed is mapped, they're finding all kinds of bizzare looking life all the time down there. I'm all for space exploration, but maybe it's a case of running before you learn to walk.
The original aim for space exploration was really a space arms race. I'd wager that this is what this is about you probably just wont hear about that part of it.
To whom do these people pay there taxes? For example say the US imposes restrictions on these companies what's stopping them from shutting up and re-incorporating in over countries over time? The net result being a loss of tax revenue too.
I dont think you can really block outsourcing without restricting trade. I personally am for free trade (true free trade, not what we have now) but I think some countries that benefit from it and therefore pushed it are now stepping back now that job competition is starting to come into affect.
The US and others are just going to have to learn to better compete. For example whenever I look at an Asian electronics contract manufacturing facilities most boast how there raw materials and automated equipment come from Japan. Of course eventually the chinese and others will have there own manufacturing equipment but alsong as you keep innovating you will stay one step ahead of the game.
Of course I'm just talking about IT here and at the momentthis does n't apply to anything labour intensive, but having said that I can envisage Japan in 50 years time competing against China with robot automation instead of throwing people at the job.
The only way "better caches" will improve SMT is if you had one cache for each thread, however with that kind of configuration you basically end up with two cores on one chip.
The original thinking behind SMT was that with cache and branch prediction misses staring to have very large penalties, switching to an alternate thread would result in significant performance increase.
It turns out however that doing context switching at this ultra-fine granularity causes the cache miss rate to go up as each thread fights for the cache.
To get the best out of it the second thread would have to either "lock down" some cache lines and be doing either mainly ALU intensive operations or using streamed memory that would not be cached. This however end up limiting SMT to some pretty special case programming situations.
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However I am basing this on that fact he is 18 and on the assumption that he fits a profile of some kid who does n't have many friends and needs attention. I'm not saying I'm right, just my take as you'd be amazed on how many criminals get caught simply on the inability to keep their mouths shut.
Power pins are the least of the problems, bus protocols is the main reason for incompatibility.
AMD have gone with hypertransport and integrated membory controller in the Opteron/Athlon 64.
AFAIK Pentium-M uses a "hub" architecture with a 400MHZ link with the hub also providing the DDR memory controller amongst other things.
The reason Socket7 boards worked with different chips is because they all used the orginal Pentium bus protocol. With Pentium Pro, Intel went with a new GTL bus which was n't licensed to AMD, so AMD went with the Alpha bus with the K7(as there was ex Alpha people working on K7).
First they settle with Microsoft for $2 billion, and now this. Are things really this bad for Sun?
AFAIK both the UK and France have nuclear weapons.
You're thinking of Google Adwords in which case your reasoning would be correct. Google also have another service whereby you host Google adverts inside your own site, everytime someone clicks you get paid like a normal banner ad.
My reading is that this guy found a way to fake clicks to the latter service.
I'm amazed that this guy thought that google would pay out. If he was clever he would set up a few websites and rake the money in slowly over a length of time. I guess greed got the better of him.
The difference is that neither Mandrake, SuSE, Debian are using a monopoly in one area (OS) to create a monopoly in another area (media), that is what is illegal even in the US. Don't you recall the AT&T situation?
I think it's the same reason that people will insist on MS, i.e. the "know" MS so assume it has best solution for the job.
The same with MySQL, at around 1999 when I first started to look at doing some (very simple) database work it was the most developed thing you could get for free. At that time, Postgres was not optimised for speed and was still regarded as research product.
Anyhow, the situation has changed somewhat but some people still think it's 1999, of course most of these people are n't RDBMS people so tend to belittle essential features, until MySQL gets them.
But buying something does n't mean that the seller had the right to sell it to you. If that was the case I could sell your car to someone else and then claim I had the right since there was a willing buyer.
This article starts of with a complete untruth by stating that this "Purchase" is "key legal ammunition". It is no such thing has it will not have relevance in the court case so is more propaganda ammunition than anything.
Are DMA transfers enabled on your CD-ROM drive IDE channel?
There has never been a time a time where Flash memory has been cheaper than hard disk storage, so it's no way a "bubble" nor artificial.
Producing a flash memory is much more complicated
then getting a piece of metal/glass and covering it with a magnetic material.
Of course the price of Flash will get lower, but will only happen with feature shrinks and new technology as economies of scale will only go so far.
Price page is here but it looks like it's around $900.
Motorola is focusing on embedded processors these days with the MPC range of chips so they have n't turned their back on PowerPC architecture. They are just concentrating on low power, low clock speed chips.
Humans sometimes make mistakes, that's where the inaccuracy comes from.
I doubt it's out of any kind of respect. I'm sure when they say "commercial" they mean fortune 1000 type companies who have more cash floating around than your average mom&pop store.
I call shenanigans on this post, namely because:
1) "Macroscale Design" is n't a degree I've heard of, if anything for designing products you'd have a product design degree.
2) You don't do product design in rendering packages like maya and lightwave, more like Solidworks or if you did n't have the cash Rhino3D.
Well in general anything to do with privacy, I always use the bath example i.e. I've got nothing to hide having a bath, but that does n't mean I want others to see me having one.
Hommer Simpson: "I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one. And there's Magnetbox, and Sorny."
Actually I went on holiday to some for off place once and saw a genuine "Panaphone" phone myself. I have to say I did n't notice the knock off name by the spelling but by "hmmm, this does n't look like a Panasonic"
I don't know if this is the same study, but I recently read that having decent street lighting is more effective than cameras. In addition near where I live they put CCTV on a main busy shopping road. The amount of crime on the road decreased, but all that happened is that it increased in the ajoining side roads.
Hardly any of the sea bed is mapped, they're finding all kinds of bizzare looking life all the time down there. I'm all for space exploration, but maybe it's a case of running before you learn to walk.
Lets see what happens when push comes to shove.
The original aim for space exploration was really a space arms race. I'd wager that this is what this is about you probably just wont hear about that part of it.
To whom do these people pay there taxes? For example say the US imposes restrictions on these companies what's stopping them from shutting up and re-incorporating in over countries over time? The net result being a loss of tax revenue too.
I dont think you can really block outsourcing without restricting trade. I personally am for free trade (true free trade, not what we have now) but I think some countries that benefit from it and therefore pushed it are now stepping back now that job competition is starting to come into affect.
The US and others are just going to have to learn to better compete. For example whenever I look at an Asian electronics contract manufacturing facilities most boast how there raw materials and automated equipment come from Japan. Of course eventually the chinese and others will have there own manufacturing equipment but alsong as you keep innovating you will stay one step ahead of the game.
Of course I'm just talking about IT here and at the momentthis does n't apply to anything labour intensive, but having said that I can envisage Japan in 50 years time competing against China with robot automation instead of throwing people at the job.
The only way "better caches" will improve SMT is if you had one cache for each thread, however with that kind of configuration you basically end up with two cores on one chip.
The original thinking behind SMT was that with cache and branch prediction misses staring to have very large penalties, switching to an alternate thread would result in significant performance increase.
It turns out however that doing context switching at this ultra-fine granularity causes the cache miss rate to go up as each thread fights for the cache.
To get the best out of it the second thread would have to either "lock down" some cache lines and be doing either mainly ALU intensive operations or using streamed memory that would not be cached. This however end up limiting SMT to some pretty special case programming situations.