I looked this up a while ago... Xen needs the HOST OS to be modified, at least with current CPUs. Fortunately, VMWare player if free as in beer, and it works. So, now I have a perfectly functioning Linux install which I couldn't do before (lack of WiFi support for my wireless chip). Xen is nice, but free VMWare is good and it works.
I agree, 2.5 Watts isn't a whole lot of power with which to play. Technically, USB isn't a good choice. But because USB is already everywhere, I really think that it will inevitably be the closest thing that we have to a low power standard. There's no extra equipment required, and it's incredibly flexible -- it's pretty cool that with all the PC's around the house and office, I'm seldom more than 30 feet from a USB "charging" or "power" outlet. For longer term use, I imagine that cheap USB power hubs will be readily available. Plus, there's no reason for "wall warts" with USB connectors to cost more than any other 5V power adaptor (excluding a few dimes for the slightly more complex connector).
What would really make this work is some sort of higher power extension to USB, as you say, something in the range of 15 W. Heck, a 17inch LCD is right around 20W (I think)... maybe in "USB3".
Just a hunch, but my best guess is that we will slowly see the USB power "feature" become the standard for (very) lower power devices. You can already find cell phones, mp3 players, cameras, PDA's and a few misc. accessories that are USB powered - and I've seen USB "power only" hubs available for charging these devices while you're on vacation.
The natural next step is for more devices to switch to USB power. Routers and hubs and other things that are typically "near" a computer come to mind.
NCIX has been around for years, they're pre-"web" -- they started as a bricks-and-mortar store (and they've got several around town now). They're based here, in Vancouver, Canada.
I've never used NewEgg, since shipping anything across the border is hit-and-miss. I have purchased and recommended NCIX to others, though, and it seems that there are some similarities to NewEgg - reasonably competitive prices, better than average service. As for being "pyramid" schemey, AFAIK, it's not. NCIX gives what some would varyingly call a commission, a referral fee, or an affiliate fee -- there's nothing wrong with them at all, many companies offer these.
Disclaimer: I've had an NCIX affiliate account for a few years, not that it's earned much.
One thing the Turion's have that the Intel Mobiles don't is 64bit support. Is that an issue? For the average user, probably not for a while. Although, I imagine that a few corporations will try to start standardizing on 64bit hardware in (a long) preparation for 64bit software.
How much does a BES server + CALS (or equivalent) cost? I don't have a clue, never having had the chance to set one up. However, I will bet that it's insignificant compared to the monthly cost of the data service. In Canada, the RIM data plans are about $40/mo.
A Microsoft Exchange centered system is not going to reduce the cost of the monthly wireless plans unless the cell provider is willing to take less profit on the MS devices. They won't unless competition forces the issue.
I suppose that MS could also collect less of a monthly fee per device than RIM. Does anyone know what RIM's cut of monthly fees is?
I've never tried Blingo until I saw the GP post. After having tried it, I'm impressed by the business concept. All that they do is show some Google AdSense advertisements above and below the regular Google search results -- Google has a program specifically for co-branded searches. To you, the end user, you still get Google "quality" results, although, the sponsored links are somewhat more prominent that on Google.com. Plus, you get an (admittedly small) chance of winning a prize.
I would not be surprised if they earn a couple dollars per thousand searches -- it would be in the ballpark of my experience with AdSense. At that rate, it's quite easy to finance a couple of movie tickets an hour plus a bigger prize like an iPod or PS2 every day.
I don't think that this will be as big of a deal as it looks. I seriously doubt that very many people will bother to upgrade their operating systems. My web logs still show plenty of Windows 98 hits (never mind Netscape 4.0!). IMHO, Those that will have to upgrade to Vista will either be geeks who have the required hardware already, or corporations who won't care about 'aero-glass' anyway. Everyone else will just get Vista when they get a new computer. For most home users, XP was a great upgrade because Win 98/ME's tendency to crash was a major annoyance. XP doesn't really crash, so I don't see any particular reason to upgrade.
It may be better to hide the revised service as long as possible so that any future lawsuits will have to wait that much longer to be put into motion. Nothing but bad can be had by rolling this out any earlier than necessary.
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Packet8 (Nasdaq EGHT) has been a publicly trading company for years, though, the name has changed a few times. They were selling the cheesy video-phones (over analog dialup modems) back in the day. I'm not totally sure what else they did, but I'm sure that it wasn't VOIP back then.
I read TFA, it's either a hoax, a joke, or something similar.
But if you did have to cook an egg with two cell phones... something along these lines might work:
1. crack egg into pan
2. strip phones into pieces and gather plastic bits
3. liberally douse plastic bits with lighter fluid
4. ignight ligher fluid by using a bit of metal to short one of the cell phone batteries to cause a spark
5. hold pan over burning plastic
5. admire the cooked egg, then discard it and the rest of the toxic mess.
Disclaimer: Do NOT do this at home, or anywhere else. While death or injury from following moronic instructions posted by some yahoo like me onto a site like slashdot may be well deserved, you take full responsibility for it!
For those who are interested, the people who supply Shaw (who happens to be my ISP) their traffic shaping software (or is it an appliance?) is Ellacoya Networks. This bit of info was from some forum that I found when I first noticed that my maximum BT upstream got cut by about 60%.
FWIW, for those who aren't traffic shaped yet, don't be surprised if you are next if you are on a cable ISP -- the nature of the shared network means that the throughput gets choked for everyone when the upstream traffic gets too high (and ACKs get delayed). DSL providers don't really care about upstream as much, they worry more about total traffic which they can throttle in other, cheaper, ways.
There is quite a difference between SPAM and SEO -- or at least there is supposed to be.
Pre-google, very few websites used the title, h1, h2, link anchor text etc. tags very well. Since Google uses these tags to greatly influence the way the page is categorized, SEO was really a way to optimize the basic HTML to do things like put headers in header tags. For many people, it really worked out well -- by using the tags properly we effectively were giving more meta data for the search engines to use for examining our webpages.
Unfortunately, as we all know, some people go way beyond simple optimizations and do things like spam forums, blogs, etc.
Really? Care to share a model or two? I wouldn't be surprised if the feature exists, but I have yet to see it personally. At work, we've got a nice Canon Rebel, and I haven't found that feature yet.
My relatively old camera has exposure bracketing, which has proved useful a few times for me. But focus bracketing would save MANY more of my photos. I'm imagining that the camera would take a photo at whatever the current focus system does, then focus out a bit, and focus in a bit (Ok, I don't know the terminology). It's far too often that my particular camera doesn't quite focus right. Either I aim it wrong, or the lighting throws it off, or maybe in hindsight, I just wish that I had focused on something else. Plus, editing the photos later would be much more interesting.
I vaguely recall using something with "Chain" in the name... this was years ago for a local radio station. Chaincast, maybe? Anyway, IIRC, the problem (to me) was that it required a special client install. On the plus side, I think it was smart enough to server other clients on the same LAN. So, if 50 people happen to like the same stream, there's only one feed through the broadband connection.
Don't mix your personal stuff on company gear! What good can come of it? If a hacker takes over your webserver and turns it into a SPAM zombie because of a flaw in your script or the next Apache whole, who's going to be in trouble? Yup. You. What do you gain? You save a few bucks.
IMHO, host at home for sites in which you aren't concerned about uptime, or get a webhost for sites where uptime counts. FWIW, I host my personal website on an old Linux box downstairs, but my commercial stuff is on a professionally hosted VPS.
You can serve quite a few users on a 4 core server! To me, this looks like a direct attack on MS SQL Server. A lot of software for small and medium sized businesses run on SQL Server. I doubt that IBM has much sales volume at the low end anyway, so what have they got to lose?
For me, the biggest "risk" with rebates was that the company handling the rebate could claim that they never received the rebate forms -- there is no way to prove that they aren't lying.
So, web based filing would be great. Staples and their "EasyRebate" works online now. I've used it once. The way they prevent cheating is that they link their sales database to the rebates database, thereby making sure that a rebate on a single sale is never claimed more than once -- which really was the whole point of the UPC code clipping portion of a rebate.
Heh... I thought that this was going to be story about either road kill meals or some sort of cooking in the engine compartment of a car. Too bad it wasn't, an $8000 dollar oven with a timer isn't much interest to me.
I suspect that there are workarounds possible -- it's "only" wireless email afterall. But RIM still has to continue to fight this until the very end. If they lose, they will have to pay royalties on all devices previously sold. The software fix would allow them to continue selling new, unencumbered, devices. So, RIM is doing the smart thing by dragging this out as long as possible. They have a reasonable chance of winning, thereby saving hundreds of millions in royalties. And, more importantly, it buys them more time to continue to work on the work-around and probably do some full scale rollouts to test customers. It's never easy to make a change that affects a few million devices so the more time the better.
I don't see why this has become such a publicized event. MSN and Yahoo have been in China already -- with the same censorship rules. In fact, to enforce the giant firewall, many other North American firms provide the required technology, including Nortel.
Don't forget about the thousands of companies that use factories in China to produce, what seems like 90% of the everything in the average house. Don't kid yourselves, the people working in factories making goods for HP, Apple, Nike, Nokia, et al. don't have the same freedoms of speech or demonstration that we do in North America.
Outside of a distinct minority of North American consumers, we've clearly decided that it's best to do business with China and hope that our living standards and freedoms and other policies will eventually get integrated into future Chinese policy.
Here's a quick bit of math for thought:
Let's say that Intel contributes half, so USD 5 000 000 000.
Let's say that Intel nets USD 5 000 per chip (probably WAY overestimating sales price and underestimating costs)
Intel would need to sell 1 000 000 chips to make this additional investment break even.
This excludes opportunity cost, cannibalism of existing Xeon sales (though, it's probably the other way around), and probably a host of other things.
It looks like sketchy math to me. To me, it seems obvious that the Itanium will be increasingly pushed into niche processing markets -- and even there, the few benefits that the Itanium presents will be continually reduced as x86 moves up market. Faster FP? Better RAS features? Better scaling? Those can and will be bolted onto Opterons (and probably even Xeons) over time.
Interesting, but I wonder if they can even make money on the older Xbox's. In the old days of consoles, the parts became significantly cheaper over time. XBox components can't get much cheaper than they are now - it's that pesky hard drive, a miniscule 10GB drive doesn't exist!
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I looked this up a while ago... Xen needs the HOST OS to be modified, at least with current CPUs. Fortunately, VMWare player if free as in beer, and it works. So, now I have a perfectly functioning Linux install which I couldn't do before (lack of WiFi support for my wireless chip). Xen is nice, but free VMWare is good and it works.
I agree, 2.5 Watts isn't a whole lot of power with which to play. Technically, USB isn't a good choice. But because USB is already everywhere, I really think that it will inevitably be the closest thing that we have to a low power standard. There's no extra equipment required, and it's incredibly flexible -- it's pretty cool that with all the PC's around the house and office, I'm seldom more than 30 feet from a USB "charging" or "power" outlet. For longer term use, I imagine that cheap USB power hubs will be readily available. Plus, there's no reason for "wall warts" with USB connectors to cost more than any other 5V power adaptor (excluding a few dimes for the slightly more complex connector).
What would really make this work is some sort of higher power extension to USB, as you say, something in the range of 15 W. Heck, a 17inch LCD is right around 20W (I think)... maybe in "USB3".
Just a hunch, but my best guess is that we will slowly see the USB power "feature" become the standard for (very) lower power devices. You can already find cell phones, mp3 players, cameras, PDA's and a few misc. accessories that are USB powered - and I've seen USB "power only" hubs available for charging these devices while you're on vacation.
The natural next step is for more devices to switch to USB power. Routers and hubs and other things that are typically "near" a computer come to mind.
NCIX has been around for years, they're pre-"web" -- they started as a bricks-and-mortar store (and they've got several around town now). They're based here, in Vancouver, Canada.
I've never used NewEgg, since shipping anything across the border is hit-and-miss. I have purchased and recommended NCIX to others, though, and it seems that there are some similarities to NewEgg - reasonably competitive prices, better than average service. As for being "pyramid" schemey, AFAIK, it's not. NCIX gives what some would varyingly call a commission, a referral fee, or an affiliate fee -- there's nothing wrong with them at all, many companies offer these.
Disclaimer: I've had an NCIX affiliate account for a few years, not that it's earned much.
One thing the Turion's have that the Intel Mobiles don't is 64bit support. Is that an issue? For the average user, probably not for a while. Although, I imagine that a few corporations will try to start standardizing on 64bit hardware in (a long) preparation for 64bit software.
How much does a BES server + CALS (or equivalent) cost? I don't have a clue, never having had the chance to set one up. However, I will bet that it's insignificant compared to the monthly cost of the data service. In Canada, the RIM data plans are about $40/mo.
A Microsoft Exchange centered system is not going to reduce the cost of the monthly wireless plans unless the cell provider is willing to take less profit on the MS devices. They won't unless competition forces the issue.
I suppose that MS could also collect less of a monthly fee per device than RIM. Does anyone know what RIM's cut of monthly fees is?
I've never tried Blingo until I saw the GP post. After having tried it, I'm impressed by the business concept. All that they do is show some Google AdSense advertisements above and below the regular Google search results -- Google has a program specifically for co-branded searches. To you, the end user, you still get Google "quality" results, although, the sponsored links are somewhat more prominent that on Google.com. Plus, you get an (admittedly small) chance of winning a prize.
I would not be surprised if they earn a couple dollars per thousand searches -- it would be in the ballpark of my experience with AdSense. At that rate, it's quite easy to finance a couple of movie tickets an hour plus a bigger prize like an iPod or PS2 every day.
I don't think that this will be as big of a deal as it looks. I seriously doubt that very many people will bother to upgrade their operating systems. My web logs still show plenty of Windows 98 hits (never mind Netscape 4.0!). IMHO, Those that will have to upgrade to Vista will either be geeks who have the required hardware already, or corporations who won't care about 'aero-glass' anyway. Everyone else will just get Vista when they get a new computer. For most home users, XP was a great upgrade because Win 98/ME's tendency to crash was a major annoyance. XP doesn't really crash, so I don't see any particular reason to upgrade.
It may be better to hide the revised service as long as possible so that any future lawsuits will have to wait that much longer to be put into motion. Nothing but bad can be had by rolling this out any earlier than necessary.
Packet8 (Nasdaq EGHT) has been a publicly trading company for years, though, the name has changed a few times. They were selling the cheesy video-phones (over analog dialup modems) back in the day. I'm not totally sure what else they did, but I'm sure that it wasn't VOIP back then.
I read TFA, it's either a hoax, a joke, or something similar.
But if you did have to cook an egg with two cell phones... something along these lines might work:
1. crack egg into pan
2. strip phones into pieces and gather plastic bits
3. liberally douse plastic bits with lighter fluid
4. ignight ligher fluid by using a bit of metal to short one of the cell phone batteries to cause a spark
5. hold pan over burning plastic
5. admire the cooked egg, then discard it and the rest of the toxic mess.
Disclaimer: Do NOT do this at home, or anywhere else. While death or injury from following moronic instructions posted by some yahoo like me onto a site like slashdot may be well deserved, you take full responsibility for it!
For those who are interested, the people who supply Shaw (who happens to be my ISP) their traffic shaping software (or is it an appliance?) is Ellacoya Networks. This bit of info was from some forum that I found when I first noticed that my maximum BT upstream got cut by about 60%.
FWIW, for those who aren't traffic shaped yet, don't be surprised if you are next if you are on a cable ISP -- the nature of the shared network means that the throughput gets choked for everyone when the upstream traffic gets too high (and ACKs get delayed). DSL providers don't really care about upstream as much, they worry more about total traffic which they can throttle in other, cheaper, ways.
There is quite a difference between SPAM and SEO -- or at least there is supposed to be.
Pre-google, very few websites used the title, h1, h2, link anchor text etc. tags very well. Since Google uses these tags to greatly influence the way the page is categorized, SEO was really a way to optimize the basic HTML to do things like put headers in header tags. For many people, it really worked out well -- by using the tags properly we effectively were giving more meta data for the search engines to use for examining our webpages.
Unfortunately, as we all know, some people go way beyond simple optimizations and do things like spam forums, blogs, etc.
Really? Care to share a model or two? I wouldn't be surprised if the feature exists, but I have yet to see it personally. At work, we've got a nice Canon Rebel, and I haven't found that feature yet.
My relatively old camera has exposure bracketing, which has proved useful a few times for me. But focus bracketing would save MANY more of my photos. I'm imagining that the camera would take a photo at whatever the current focus system does, then focus out a bit, and focus in a bit (Ok, I don't know the terminology). It's far too often that my particular camera doesn't quite focus right. Either I aim it wrong, or the lighting throws it off, or maybe in hindsight, I just wish that I had focused on something else. Plus, editing the photos later would be much more interesting.
I vaguely recall using something with "Chain" in the name... this was years ago for a local radio station. Chaincast, maybe? Anyway, IIRC, the problem (to me) was that it required a special client install. On the plus side, I think it was smart enough to server other clients on the same LAN. So, if 50 people happen to like the same stream, there's only one feed through the broadband connection.
As much as I hate being a karma whore... here's a coral link:
Coral link to benchmark.
Don't mix your personal stuff on company gear! What good can come of it? If a hacker takes over your webserver and turns it into a SPAM zombie because of a flaw in your script or the next Apache whole, who's going to be in trouble? Yup. You. What do you gain? You save a few bucks.
IMHO, host at home for sites in which you aren't concerned about uptime, or get a webhost for sites where uptime counts. FWIW, I host my personal website on an old Linux box downstairs, but my commercial stuff is on a professionally hosted VPS.
You can serve quite a few users on a 4 core server! To me, this looks like a direct attack on MS SQL Server. A lot of software for small and medium sized businesses run on SQL Server. I doubt that IBM has much sales volume at the low end anyway, so what have they got to lose?
For me, the biggest "risk" with rebates was that the company handling the rebate could claim that they never received the rebate forms -- there is no way to prove that they aren't lying.
So, web based filing would be great. Staples and their "EasyRebate" works online now. I've used it once. The way they prevent cheating is that they link their sales database to the rebates database, thereby making sure that a rebate on a single sale is never claimed more than once -- which really was the whole point of the UPC code clipping portion of a rebate.
Heh... I thought that this was going to be story about either road kill meals or some sort of cooking in the engine compartment of a car. Too bad it wasn't, an $8000 dollar oven with a timer isn't much interest to me.
I suspect that there are workarounds possible -- it's "only" wireless email afterall. But RIM still has to continue to fight this until the very end. If they lose, they will have to pay royalties on all devices previously sold. The software fix would allow them to continue selling new, unencumbered, devices. So, RIM is doing the smart thing by dragging this out as long as possible. They have a reasonable chance of winning, thereby saving hundreds of millions in royalties. And, more importantly, it buys them more time to continue to work on the work-around and probably do some full scale rollouts to test customers. It's never easy to make a change that affects a few million devices so the more time the better.
I don't see why this has become such a publicized event. MSN and Yahoo have been in China already -- with the same censorship rules. In fact, to enforce the giant firewall, many other North American firms provide the required technology, including Nortel.
Don't forget about the thousands of companies that use factories in China to produce, what seems like 90% of the everything in the average house. Don't kid yourselves, the people working in factories making goods for HP, Apple, Nike, Nokia, et al. don't have the same freedoms of speech or demonstration that we do in North America.
Outside of a distinct minority of North American consumers, we've clearly decided that it's best to do business with China and hope that our living standards and freedoms and other policies will eventually get integrated into future Chinese policy.
Here's a quick bit of math for thought:
Let's say that Intel contributes half, so USD 5 000 000 000.
Let's say that Intel nets USD 5 000 per chip (probably WAY overestimating sales price and underestimating costs)
Intel would need to sell 1 000 000 chips to make this additional investment break even.
This excludes opportunity cost, cannibalism of existing Xeon sales (though, it's probably the other way around), and probably a host of other things.
It looks like sketchy math to me. To me, it seems obvious that the Itanium will be increasingly pushed into niche processing markets -- and even there, the few benefits that the Itanium presents will be continually reduced as x86 moves up market. Faster FP? Better RAS features? Better scaling? Those can and will be bolted onto Opterons (and probably even Xeons) over time.
Interesting, but I wonder if they can even make money on the older Xbox's. In the old days of consoles, the parts became significantly cheaper over time. XBox components can't get much cheaper than they are now - it's that pesky hard drive, a miniscule 10GB drive doesn't exist!