The term 'baud' refers to 'lever transitions per second', not 'bits per second'. Baud and bps coincide at 2400bps and lower; however above 2400bps each baud carries more than one bit of data. Therefore, the term 'baud' becomes incorrect.
Unlike the P4, the 970 does one more trick after it has cracked the PPC instructions down into iops. The 970 divides up the iop stream into "groups" of five iops a piece. So first it cracks the PPC instructions down into iops, then it collects the iops back together into groups. The iops are placed the group's five slots in program order with the stipulation that all branch instructions must go in slot 4 (the last slot). Furthermore, slot 4 can hold only branch instructions and nothing else. It is these groups of five iops that are dispatched in-order to the issue queues. (I haven't yet seen a functional diagram of the 970's core, so I'm not sure how many issue queues there are.)
computing in chunks... sounds a lot like a Cray. Together with the 900MHz-effective (jesus... that's a lot) FSB, Apple really will be selling supercomputers in the next few years.
Just looking at how OS X itself has progressed in speed from Public Beta (slug with brick tied to it), to 10.0 (slug), to 10.1 (average lazy human), to 10.2 (average lazy human drinking strong coffee), I expect that by 10.3 this technology will not give nearly such a performance hit.
DVD-audio is a reasonably mature format, and many existing DVD players can read it. It contains some huge advantages over audio CD -- 24bit samples at 48kHz vs. audio CD's 16bit x 44.1kHz; support for 5.1 as well as stereo, 6.1, 7.1, 10.2, etc; better integration of multimedia extras; etc. I expect handheld players (the DVDiscman?) to become available in the next three years as soon as DVD reader assemblies become cheaper, and I expect these DVDiscmen to become cheap within five or six years.
Also I wouldn't count out a hack of both audio-CD and DVD-audio data on the same disc, using different wavelength lasers. This would totally solve the backward compatibility problem, as well as make it easier than regular DVD-audio to rip.
Can't say much for the other up-and-coming format mentioned, as I know nothing about it.
If you're traveling and need internet access from your motel room, AOL CDs are just the ticket. 1000 free hours for 40 days, no hidden charges, BOOM. You're on the internet in any state in the Union, usually through a local call. Pick up the CDs at any Walmart (read: anywhere in the US) and you're good to go.
I will be sad to see them go for that reason alone. AOL's helped me out for two summers in a row.
If folks can get a better, faster, cheaper online experience by ditching AOL, they'll do it in a heartbeat.
Especially now that no one has any money to spare on AOL pleasantries like half-assed chatroom censorship and 50% of bandwidth going to ads, AOL is dying. Expect A0L to lose more ground over the coming months... considering their future next to cable and DSL access, for all intents and purposes AOL is dead.
This will deal a well-deserved shot to the disgusting practice called "telesync". Let us pray that from hereon in, all our pirated movies will be DVD rips.
It's heartwarming that you've invented a new form of crypto. However, before anyone takes it seriously, you're going to have to reveal it to the cryptographic community. "Many eyes make bugs shallow" as they say, and in few places is this more important than in crypto. An algorithm you've looked at 10000 times may have a logical error you've never caught, that would be glaring to a knowledgable pair of fresh eyes.
Plus no self-respecting paranoid freak is ever going to use a new cipher that hasn't had any time in the spotlight. Release it to the field and ask for comments.
NetBSD (at version 1.6 now) is a wonderful and lean operating system which can be tailored to specific needs quite easily. Unlike bloated Linux distros (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE... basically everything but Slack) it installs only the bare necessities, and the rest can be installed via the kickass package system. You don't have to worry about security holes popping up every six days either -- everything just runs. I'm sure NetBSD could serve the poster's needs 100%.
Put a barcode reader on this, and you'll have proprietors of even small-time grocers in the (ahem) palm of your hand. Especially for the price of a few tanks of petrol.:)
here in Melbourne it seems as though there exists a national Do Call list. in fact I wouldn't be surprised if my government were using their extensive wiretaps to ensure that telemarketing quotas were being met!
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African packet radio users will notice faster downloads and less net traffic over the next several years, as half the adults on the continent die of AIDS.
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The term 'baud' refers to 'lever transitions per second', not 'bits per second'. Baud and bps coincide at 2400bps and lower; however above 2400bps each baud carries more than one bit of data. Therefore, the term 'baud' becomes incorrect.
'bps' is faster to type anyhow.
Unlike the P4, the 970 does one more trick after it has cracked the PPC instructions down into iops. The 970 divides up the iop stream into "groups" of five iops a piece. So first it cracks the PPC instructions down into iops, then it collects the iops back together into groups. The iops are placed the group's five slots in program order with the stipulation that all branch instructions must go in slot 4 (the last slot). Furthermore, slot 4 can hold only branch instructions and nothing else. It is these groups of five iops that are dispatched in-order to the issue queues. (I haven't yet seen a functional diagram of the 970's core, so I'm not sure how many issue queues there are.)
computing in chunks... sounds a lot like a Cray. Together with the 900MHz-effective (jesus... that's a lot) FSB, Apple really will be selling supercomputers in the next few years.
I predict that it will become faster with time.
Just looking at how OS X itself has progressed in speed from Public Beta (slug with brick tied to it), to 10.0 (slug), to 10.1 (average lazy human), to 10.2 (average lazy human drinking strong coffee), I expect that by 10.3 this technology will not give nearly such a performance hit.
And heck. Don't like the speed hit? Turn it off.
...when you pry HFS+ from my cold, dead hands.
No, wait. Give me that.
"Moonlight?" you might think, taking a look at slashdot's nice search function and see that there are two articles from 2000 claiming that it's dead.
HA HA HA HA HA!@
DVD-audio is a reasonably mature format, and many existing DVD players can read it. It contains some huge advantages over audio CD -- 24bit samples at 48kHz vs. audio CD's 16bit x 44.1kHz; support for 5.1 as well as stereo, 6.1, 7.1, 10.2, etc; better integration of multimedia extras; etc. I expect handheld players (the DVDiscman?) to become available in the next three years as soon as DVD reader assemblies become cheaper, and I expect these DVDiscmen to become cheap within five or six years.
Also I wouldn't count out a hack of both audio-CD and DVD-audio data on the same disc, using different wavelength lasers. This would totally solve the backward compatibility problem, as well as make it easier than regular DVD-audio to rip.
Can't say much for the other up-and-coming format mentioned, as I know nothing about it.
If you're traveling and need internet access from your motel room, AOL CDs are just the ticket. 1000 free hours for 40 days, no hidden charges, BOOM. You're on the internet in any state in the Union, usually through a local call. Pick up the CDs at any Walmart (read: anywhere in the US) and you're good to go.
I will be sad to see them go for that reason alone. AOL's helped me out for two summers in a row.
If folks can get a better, faster, cheaper online experience by ditching AOL, they'll do it in a heartbeat.
Especially now that no one has any money to spare on AOL pleasantries like half-assed chatroom censorship and 50% of bandwidth going to ads, AOL is dying. Expect A0L to lose more ground over the coming months... considering their future next to cable and DSL access, for all intents and purposes AOL is dead.
This will deal a well-deserved shot to the disgusting practice called "telesync". Let us pray that from hereon in, all our pirated movies will be DVD rips.
Telesyncs are *SO* 1985.
...but that's been covered by about 20 other comments at this point. :)
It's heartwarming that you've invented a new form of crypto. However, before anyone takes it seriously, you're going to have to reveal it to the cryptographic community. "Many eyes make bugs shallow" as they say, and in few places is this more important than in crypto. An algorithm you've looked at 10000 times may have a logical error you've never caught, that would be glaring to a knowledgable pair of fresh eyes.
Plus no self-respecting paranoid freak is ever going to use a new cipher that hasn't had any time in the spotlight. Release it to the field and ask for comments.
It is too bad we have to be weary about what we click on, especially at work.
My thoughts exactly. There's a good essay on the subject here.
I think we'll see less problems once biodegradable plastics and organic semiconductors advance further. Until then, the Nokia shitheap grows.
:)
The trend also would decrease if the inverse proportion between cell phone size and imagined dick size were disregarded.
NetBSD (at version 1.6 now) is a wonderful and lean operating system which can be tailored to specific needs quite easily. Unlike bloated Linux distros (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE... basically everything but Slack) it installs only the bare necessities, and the rest can be installed via the kickass package system. You don't have to worry about security holes popping up every six days either -- everything just runs. I'm sure NetBSD could serve the poster's needs 100%.
Put a barcode reader on this, and you'll have proprietors of even small-time grocers in the (ahem) palm of your hand. Especially for the price of a few tanks of petrol. :)
here in Melbourne it seems as though there exists a national Do Call list. in fact I wouldn't be surprised if my government were using their extensive wiretaps to ensure that telemarketing quotas were being met!