You'll probably have to buy a new player to use this service. Microsoft seems to be pushing for clocks to be added to players, so I would guess that all of the files have a time stamp that a computer can renew. Whenever the clock hits a particular time, date, or whatever they use, the files with that time for their expiration date are deleted. If you plug into a computer and it tells your player that you've paid your bill, the expiration time gets moved a month into the future. Or perhaps the clock gets wound back a month.
The point is that the songs you get from Apple should work on Linux once you have them. As long as there is a Linux AAC player, there is no reason that they wouldn't. My guess is that Microsoft is going to rent the files in their own closed format and sue anyone who tries to make their own player for it.
All right! Someone other than me who actually read the things!
Yes, I did use the 19W average number for the 970 compared to the max number for the 7455. I did it because the production 970s are doubtless going to be better and as you said, the clockspeed matters. If you look at the numbers for a 970 at 1.8 GHz, it burns about 42W. If the power consumption drops that much in 600 MHz, I think that it could drop 4W for annother 200.
Still, you are probably right. I was just pointing out that the 970 does, indeed, have a low enough power dissipation for use in a laptop. It could even perform competitively with Pentium based portable computers (in my opinion, they aren't laptops if they don't have at least two hours of battery life).
Well, you're forgetting that intelectual property seems to be more valuable than real property now.
So, it's like said kid telling people about a game that he created and how to play it, but then trying to charge them for playing it.
Any sane and/or knowedgeable judge would throw this case out in a second. There is no possible way that SCO can say "Oops. We didn't mean to give you information. We would like it back now."
Asimo might run some sort of Linux, but I seriously doubt it. I mean, the thing doesn't _need_ anything remotely resembling modern operating systems. If the Linux kernel were stripped of most of the extraneous code, it would actually run pretty quickly, but it wouldn't be anything like what most people think of when they say Linux.
It's far more likely that Asimo runs an OS specifically designed for it.
Actually, they DID have contingencies. If the sub was ever boarded, abandoned, or could possibly change hands in any way, the comm oficers were ordered to throw the books describing the Enigma into the water on the floor. These books were printed with a special red ink on pink paper. The ink would disolve as soon as it hit the water.
Without those books, the Enigma would be completely useless. They contained the schedule describing the first few letters the operators had to type to use the machine for any given day. It was a great system, really. The Enigma was eventually captured, but it took quite some doing.
They're both incredibly simple to look up. If had you spent 30 seconds actually looking for real data rather than assuming, they would have shown up in the first few hits of almost any search engine.
Also, apples.com is in no way affiliated with Apple Computers. Visiting there would have told you that, but you obviously didn't. Since they are not related, of course you didn't find any information on either processor.
Even Apple.com doesn't have processor spec sheets. They simply don't need to have them. All of their processors are produced by third parties which have their own publishing facilities. Apple just puts them into things.
The PPC 970 only dissipates 19W at 1.2 GHz. The 7455 (the G4 that goes into the current PowerBooks) dissipates 22W at 1 GHz. Those numbers are at full capacity and I got them from official spec sheets.
Don't say that these use more power or produce more heat without the facts to back up your position.
The 15" AlBooks should be coming out fairly soon. Acording to several rumor sites, they're going to have the lighted keyboard, internal Bluetooth, AirPort Extreme, and all sorts of other stuff that is now in the 17" line.
I really want a 15" PowerBook, but I'm WAY too cheap to get one.
"The Robot Wars phenomenon, begun in San Francisco, gave rise to Comedy Central's "Battlebots" and a similar new show on Tech TV."
What, pray tell, is this "new show"? Certainly not Robot Wars, which has been around for years. I can't think of any other show to which they could be referring.
Also, is it just me, or did Robot Wars get really lame after Craig Charles left?
Apple service is simply phenomenal. I called them at about 2PM central to get my PowerBook 5300 repaired and the box came 10 AM the next day. When I had it packed, I called the delivery company, the guy to pick it up was here within 15 minutes. Apple had it for two days, and then they shipped it back to me.
Due to a rather unusual mix-up with my apartment complex's main office, I didn't get the package until a few weeks later, but that's hardly Apple's fault.
Keep in mind, that was a PowerBook 5300. They stopped even making them in '96, yet they repaired it for free almost 6 years after it was canceled.
I met a guy who had a different PowerBook (I forgot which model) and its hard drive started going bad about halfway through a flight from the US to Germany (I forgot the cities, too). He called Apple support from the plane and told them about the issue. They asked him for his serial number and told him that it would all be taken care of. When he landed, some representatives from the local Apple office were waiting for him. They gave him a new PowerBook with his broken PowerBook's serial number and he gave them the broken one. The only problem that he had was data loss, and that wasn't that significant because he had just gotten the PowerBook.
Now, as for the rest of your comment, that's pretty cool. I wouldn't have expected a device to last that long using Bluetooth. It must have a pretty good battery to start with and a fairly efficent Bluetooth transciever to boot! I might actually get a Zaurus now.
I don't even want to know what kind of graphics card had a 162 MHz StrongARM processor six or seven years ago. I strongly suspect that you don't know all of the facts.
Great, so now we can slashdot the guy's auction. 37,629 visitors already and it has two days left. I wonder if this is going to end up like that horible Cheeto did. Some clowns bid it up to millions of dollars and eBay cancelled the auction.
My dad can get the easy game within 7 seconds. He only takes about 45 to do the hardest.
I really don't see how a digitizer on your screen could be used to make headshots. I mean, how does that work? You would have to have the mouse movements calibrated rather precisely, and even then, you would only be able to shoot people in a ring around the center of your screen. That and it would only work with a real touchscreen, not a Wacom style screen.
Of course, I don't really need to know because in the only game I play, I can make headshots almost across the map with no zoom. And, no, I don't use any sort of auto-aim.
I'm using the March 4th build of Phoenix 0.5. The extension that adds auto-scroll (wherfe you click down the wheel and move the mouse around to scroll) works almost flawlessly. It choked once on a huge (a few hundred pages long) page, though.
I really like this build. It's stable, fast, and I simply don't see a reason to upgrade yet.
Well, if you want mouse gestures, you can always get StrokeIt. It adds mouse gestures to Windows as a whole. Essentially, it recognizes a gesture and performs a macro based on which gesture it was and which application is active. It can even do global gestures like close, minimize all, and restore all.
"After 48 hours of impeccable play, the DVD will no longer be readable by the DVD player". 48 hours of impeccable play implies that the reaction takes 48 hours to even get started. Somehow, I suspect that the quality will degrade rapidly as the deadline aproaches. And if it does, will we be able to claim false advertising? If the reaction is really air based, then what happens if the air has a high concentration of the reactant? That would make the DVD drcay more quikly. Would we be able to sue for our remaining few hours?
No, I wouldn't. Mostly because with my luck, it would expire right when I was in the middle of a high-speed pursuit after watching a DVD (which is probably going to be illegal in 10 years).
Oh, yeah! I got a poke in at the DMCA! Surely I'll get a 5 Funny now!
How, exactly do you propose to make nanites self replicating? It's not like they have infinite energy, you know. Reproduction takes truly huge amounts of energy that has to come from somewhere.
Besides, you can always put error checking in. Checksums and such could be used to render any 'mutated' device completely inert. Simply hard-wire the checksum and deactivation circuitry into its processor such that if the hardwired checksum doesn't match the checksum from the software, it blows a fuse. Of course, actually _doing_ that could be a problem.
So, why not hardwire the program into the device? It's not like they will ever need to be updated. Build a kill signal into them such that if they ever become dangerous, they all blow some critical component at the same time.
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You'll probably have to buy a new player to use this service. Microsoft seems to be pushing for clocks to be added to players, so I would guess that all of the files have a time stamp that a computer can renew. Whenever the clock hits a particular time, date, or whatever they use, the files with that time for their expiration date are deleted. If you plug into a computer and it tells your player that you've paid your bill, the expiration time gets moved a month into the future. Or perhaps the clock gets wound back a month.
The point is that the songs you get from Apple should work on Linux once you have them. As long as there is a Linux AAC player, there is no reason that they wouldn't. My guess is that Microsoft is going to rent the files in their own closed format and sue anyone who tries to make their own player for it.
That _is_ from the Holy Grail. The black knight kept saying that losing his arm or whatever was "just a flesh wound".
Of course, that wasn't really a dead joke, but that's another issue.
I like pclminion (145572)'s response to this.
;-)"
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"Let them refer to crackers as 'hackers.' We'll just switch to referring to hackers as 'gods.'
All right! Someone other than me who actually read the things!
Yes, I did use the 19W average number for the 970 compared to the max number for the 7455. I did it because the production 970s are doubtless going to be better and as you said, the clockspeed matters. If you look at the numbers for a 970 at 1.8 GHz, it burns about 42W. If the power consumption drops that much in 600 MHz, I think that it could drop 4W for annother 200.
Still, you are probably right. I was just pointing out that the 970 does, indeed, have a low enough power dissipation for use in a laptop. It could even perform competitively with Pentium based portable computers (in my opinion, they aren't laptops if they don't have at least two hours of battery life).
Well, you're forgetting that intelectual property seems to be more valuable than real property now.
So, it's like said kid telling people about a game that he created and how to play it, but then trying to charge them for playing it.
Any sane and/or knowedgeable judge would throw this case out in a second. There is no possible way that SCO can say "Oops. We didn't mean to give you information. We would like it back now."
It's Asimo. No 'v'.
Asimo might run some sort of Linux, but I seriously doubt it. I mean, the thing doesn't _need_ anything remotely resembling modern operating systems. If the Linux kernel were stripped of most of the extraneous code, it would actually run pretty quickly, but it wouldn't be anything like what most people think of when they say Linux.
It's far more likely that Asimo runs an OS specifically designed for it.
Actually, they DID have contingencies. If the sub was ever boarded, abandoned, or could possibly change hands in any way, the comm oficers were ordered to throw the books describing the Enigma into the water on the floor. These books were printed with a special red ink on pink paper. The ink would disolve as soon as it hit the water.
Without those books, the Enigma would be completely useless. They contained the schedule describing the first few letters the operators had to type to use the machine for any given day. It was a great system, really. The Enigma was eventually captured, but it took quite some doing.
I got my facts like I said. From the spec sheets. If you want, you can look them up.
7 45 5EC.pdf
t ec hdocs/A1387A29AC1C2AE087256C5200611780/$file/PPC97 0_MPF2002.pdf
Here's the one for the 7455:
http://e-www.motorola.com/brdata/PDFDB/docs/MPC
And here's the 970's:
http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/
They're both incredibly simple to look up. If had you spent 30 seconds actually looking for real data rather than assuming, they would have shown up in the first few hits of almost any search engine.
Also, apples.com is in no way affiliated with Apple Computers. Visiting there would have told you that, but you obviously didn't. Since they are not related, of course you didn't find any information on either processor.
Even Apple.com doesn't have processor spec sheets. They simply don't need to have them. All of their processors are produced by third parties which have their own publishing facilities. Apple just puts them into things.
The PPC 970 only dissipates 19W at 1.2 GHz. The 7455 (the G4 that goes into the current PowerBooks) dissipates 22W at 1 GHz. Those numbers are at full capacity and I got them from official spec sheets.
Don't say that these use more power or produce more heat without the facts to back up your position.
The 15" AlBooks should be coming out fairly soon. Acording to several rumor sites, they're going to have the lighted keyboard, internal Bluetooth, AirPort Extreme, and all sorts of other stuff that is now in the 17" line.
I really want a 15" PowerBook, but I'm WAY too cheap to get one.
"The Robot Wars phenomenon, begun in San Francisco, gave rise to Comedy Central's "Battlebots" and a similar new show on Tech TV."
What, pray tell, is this "new show"? Certainly not Robot Wars, which has been around for years. I can't think of any other show to which they could be referring.
Also, is it just me, or did Robot Wars get really lame after Craig Charles left?
Apple service is simply phenomenal. I called them at about 2PM central to get my PowerBook 5300 repaired and the box came 10 AM the next day. When I had it packed, I called the delivery company, the guy to pick it up was here within 15 minutes. Apple had it for two days, and then they shipped it back to me.
Due to a rather unusual mix-up with my apartment complex's main office, I didn't get the package until a few weeks later, but that's hardly Apple's fault.
Keep in mind, that was a PowerBook 5300. They stopped even making them in '96, yet they repaired it for free almost 6 years after it was canceled.
I met a guy who had a different PowerBook (I forgot which model) and its hard drive started going bad about halfway through a flight from the US to Germany (I forgot the cities, too). He called Apple support from the plane and told them about the issue. They asked him for his serial number and told him that it would all be taken care of. When he landed, some representatives from the local Apple office were waiting for him. They gave him a new PowerBook with his broken PowerBook's serial number and he gave them the broken one. The only problem that he had was data loss, and that wasn't that significant because he had just gotten the PowerBook.
Really, that would mean that they used the CPU as the GPU, not the other way around. It was designed to be a CPU that also had graphics capabilities.
That's pretty cool. I haven't done much ASM for the StrongARM, so I don't know as much about its internals as I should.
You DO know that an 'm' by itself means meter, right? And that 2m, 10m, and 100m can be interpreted in that context as wavelengths.
Roughly converted to frequencies:
2m: 144MHz
10m: 28.8 MHz
100m: 2.88 MHz
You probably meant mW, not just m.
Now, as for the rest of your comment, that's pretty cool. I wouldn't have expected a device to last that long using Bluetooth. It must have a pretty good battery to start with and a fairly efficent Bluetooth transciever to boot! I might actually get a Zaurus now.
I don't even want to know what kind of graphics card had a 162 MHz StrongARM processor six or seven years ago. I strongly suspect that you don't know all of the facts.
Great, so now we can slashdot the guy's auction. 37,629 visitors already and it has two days left. I wonder if this is going to end up like that horible Cheeto did. Some clowns bid it up to millions of dollars and eBay cancelled the auction.
Man... I would really hate to be him.
That has to be illegal. Unless they made him sign a disclaimer/waiver/whatever beforehand, that is.
My dad can get the easy game within 7 seconds. He only takes about 45 to do the hardest.
I really don't see how a digitizer on your screen could be used to make headshots. I mean, how does that work? You would have to have the mouse movements calibrated rather precisely, and even then, you would only be able to shoot people in a ring around the center of your screen. That and it would only work with a real touchscreen, not a Wacom style screen.
Of course, I don't really need to know because in the only game I play, I can make headshots almost across the map with no zoom. And, no, I don't use any sort of auto-aim.
It's free. So, no, you would never ever buy it anyway.
I'm using the March 4th build of Phoenix 0.5. The extension that adds auto-scroll (wherfe you click down the wheel and move the mouse around to scroll) works almost flawlessly. It choked once on a huge (a few hundred pages long) page, though.
I really like this build. It's stable, fast, and I simply don't see a reason to upgrade yet.
Well, if you want mouse gestures, you can always get StrokeIt. It adds mouse gestures to Windows as a whole. Essentially, it recognizes a gesture and performs a macro based on which gesture it was and which application is active. It can even do global gestures like close, minimize all, and restore all.
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
Well, I'm wondering just what reaction they use.
"After 48 hours of impeccable play, the DVD will no longer be readable by the DVD player". 48 hours of impeccable play implies that the reaction takes 48 hours to even get started. Somehow, I suspect that the quality will degrade rapidly as the deadline aproaches. And if it does, will we be able to claim false advertising? If the reaction is really air based, then what happens if the air has a high concentration of the reactant? That would make the DVD drcay more quikly. Would we be able to sue for our remaining few hours?
No, I wouldn't. Mostly because with my luck, it would expire right when I was in the middle of a high-speed pursuit after watching a DVD (which is probably going to be illegal in 10 years).
Oh, yeah! I got a poke in at the DMCA! Surely I'll get a 5 Funny now!
How, exactly do you propose to make nanites self replicating? It's not like they have infinite energy, you know. Reproduction takes truly huge amounts of energy that has to come from somewhere.
Besides, you can always put error checking in. Checksums and such could be used to render any 'mutated' device completely inert. Simply hard-wire the checksum and deactivation circuitry into its processor such that if the hardwired checksum doesn't match the checksum from the software, it blows a fuse. Of course, actually _doing_ that could be a problem.
So, why not hardwire the program into the device? It's not like they will ever need to be updated. Build a kill signal into them such that if they ever become dangerous, they all blow some critical component at the same time.