Ahhh...yes. Here is the dividing line. "I have to think about it and can't just jump around shooting things, just like in my 85 favorite games that have come out in the last 4 years." Does anyone remember when games HAD to rely on substance, because there wasn't anything else to sell? Are any gamers out there NOT adrenaline junkies with 35s attention spans? Granted, there are some exceptions, but they are few and far between. I used to consider myself an avid gamer, but now the extent of that is juryrigging my OS around to play MOO, or some other golden oldie. *SIGH* Rant over. Sorry about that.
True to a point. If, however, you are attempting to state that it will never run as any kind of workstation, I will kindly point out to you that the XBox development workstations are not just powerpc based, they are full fledged Apple workstations running a custom NT operating system.
Let's just face it, the United States is becoming a puritan state. Consider: the FCC is seeking to extend it's powers to Cable, Satellite, and Internet (because violence doesn't hurt people, sex does. Just watch broadcast television); there is drastically more funding to combat "obsenity" (read: blasphemy), and now we're having senate hearings on the looming threat of pornagraphy (the ULTIMATE WMD?!?). You know what? I like to smoke, drink, and occasionally look at pictures of beautiful naked women. I don't smoke around people who don't like it, or in big crowds; I don't drink irresponsibly, and somehow I haven't had the urge to turn down the real thing. These are MY rights, not subject to the will of the people until they lead me to harm society. So, United States of Canada anyone?
The whole point of the article is the fact that it all is public information. Currently. All it took was the public taking an interest in it to make it secret. It's scary to think what a malicious person or group could do with that kind of power to suppress information.
That's an interesting thought, but remember, America is the country where your vote means nothing ( http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/ ). Does anyone remember the 2000 presidential election? And the fact that Bush lost by over 500,000 votes? That's right. That's how much the American people's opinion counts.
So, on the one hand you're dead set against working with Russia, because in your mind they're still the bad guys; and you're dead set against the cost of the mission, because without help it'll be very expensive. Here's a news flash; you can't have both. And all that ranting about Russia? I think you need to get some of the facts straight; the modern Russian weapons you were talking about? Yeah, well, they came from Syria, not Russia directly, and Syria has already been severely reprimanded for it. Of course, if the military budget (an astronomical sum of $396.1 billion requested for 2003) were curtailed slightly to increase the $15.335 billion Nasa budget, maybe something could happen. Instead, for years our space program languished, accomplishing next to nothing, until yet another major disaster involving the over-priced, extremely fragile, low lift-capacity and limited range space shuttle. We need the Russians, Europeans, Asians, and anyone else willing to work on the project.
The very scary thing is that he doesn't need that support. Think about this: I'm an American Citizen, and I did not vote for Mr. Bush. Nor did the majority of the people. It is known and documented beyond doubt that he lost the popular vote. Furthermore, I did not have the opportunity to vote for or against the Patriot Act; that was strictly senators and congresspeople with their own agendas of party loyalty. I did not have the opportunity to vote for or against this war. I get the opportunity to vote on whether the State of Maine will allow casino gambling. Everytime I go to a ballotbox, I wish to god that there was something on the ballot worth voting for; one of the issues that I really care about. There never is. The presidential election is the most important vote an American Citizen can make, and it's been robbed from us by disregarding the popular vote. That was the first liberty, and maybe the most important liberty, taken from us by our Caring Government. BTW, George Orwell's 1984 was required reading in my schooling. It's sad that it is not everywhere.
Try reading section 2-b-1-ii of the Massachussets one, as follows;
(b) Offense defined. Any person commits an offense if he knowingly:
(1) possesses, uses, manufactures, develops, assembles, distributes, transfers, imports into this state, licenses, leases, sells or offers, promotes or advertises for sale, use or distribution any communication device:
(i) for the commission of a theft of a communication service or to receive, intercept, disrupt, transmit, re-transmits, decrypt, acquire or facilitate the receipt, interception, disruption, transmission, re-transmission, decryption or acquisition of any communication service without the express consent or express authorization of the communication service provider; or
(ii) to conceal or to assist another to conceal from any communication service provider, or from any lawful authority, the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication; or
(2) modifies, alters, programs or reprograms a communication device for the purposes described in subparagraphs (b)(1)(i) and (ii) above; or
(3) possesses, uses, manufactures, develops, assembles, distributes, imports into this state, licenses, transfers, leases, sells, offers, promotes or advertises for sale, use or distribution any unlawful access device; or
(4) possesses, uses, prepares, distributes, sells, gives, transfers or offers, promotes or advertises for sale, use or distribution any:
(i) plans or instructions for making, or assembling or developing any communication or unlawful access device, under circumstances evidencing an intent to use or employ such communication or unlawful access device, or to allow the same to be used or employed, for a purpose prohibited by this section, or knowing or having reason to believe that the same is intended to be so used, or that the aforesaid plans or instructions are intended to be used for manufacturing or assembling such communication or unlawful access device for a purpose prohibited by this section; or
(ii) material, including hardware, cables, tools, data, computer software or other information or equipment, knowing that the purchaser or a third person intends to use the material in the manufacture, assembly or development of a communication device for a purpose prohibited by this section, or for use in the manufacture, assembly or development of an unlawful access device; and
(5) Assist others in committing any of the acts prohibited by this section.
Where, exactly, in the DMCA that thou shalt not manufacture aftermarket ink cartridges? Look, it's called a loophole, and the minute an ISP has the right to snoop for the existence of a NAT, even just barely by the letter of the law, they're going to. Every broadband ISP that I know of in my area expressly forbids it without their permission/extra cost/hardware. Routers, VPNs, firewalls, etc, etc...all fall into the loophole of "concealing the origin of the communication."
THIS-WINTER-WAS-NOT-WARMER-IN-NE!!!!! Anyone who lives here will tell you, that damn "arctic air from alberta" that they're always talking about on the weather stations has been scr*wing us over a squeeky table for months now.
What exactly are the credentials of this bovik.org? Because I could come up with a nifty little logarithmic graph to show that CO2 levels have gone DOWN! And then I could post it to a site, and state it as evidence...now, that would be utter bullshit, but what does it matter? I think that you'll need to quote some reliable sources before you can be taken seriously. For one, "global warming" is a silly term. Take the renaissance for example. Wheat was grown in Iceland and Greenland, and oranges in Great Britain and France. It was a warming trend after a mini-iceage. Now, is that a valid excuse for continued pollution today? No. It just says that the term "global warming" is a silly media buzzword that should be replaced by something along the lines of "global environmental impact." As for the "hell of a lot more than.05% per decade," well, that would make the average summer temperature in Maine last year, which was 63.6, should in fact, have been measurably higher than that in 1900 (65.6) (http://climvis.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/cag3/state_m ap_display.pl)
In fact, if you look at those temperatures throught the last century, there is no noticeable temperature change! How exactly do you quantify this?
What about hydrogen fuel cells? All the major manufacturers are either 1.) Talking about it or 2.) Doing it. That kind of rules out the "big-oil scam." Besides, who do you think is going to be running hydrogen distribution? Shell is already starting on the west coast of the US. It'll just be "Big H" conspiracies then...
"Fifty years ago this month, a toxic mix of dense fog and sooty black coal smoke killed thousands of Londoners in four days. It remains the deadliest environmental episode in recorded history."
If this isn't the perfect argument for modern nuclear energy, I don't know what is...
Actually, it's more mission dependent than that. The distance isn't as much of a factor (though it is in some applications) as the bandwidth future proofing capability. In the vast majority of telecommunications specs that have been coming out for the last few years (at least in New England) it's fiber for ANY kind of backbone application. Even if the closets (for some godawful reason, though it does happen) happen to be 50ft apart. 12-strand multimode fiber is what you'll usually see. It makes sense over even short distance because of the bandwidth capability. In 10 years, that backbone fiber can be pushing 10gbps between those closets, per transmit recieve pair. Now, I know that they are working on a 10gbps standard for Cat6 fiber, but who wants to run a copper backbone? Hell, that fiber put in 15yrs ago can push the new 10gbps fiber standard right now! And you've got no crosstalk, no interferance (ever see what happens to your bandwidth when your 200pair copper is running too close to a bank of fluorescent lighting?). I've even seen a dozen or so specifications for fiber to the desktop projects in schools even! I've managed two of those installations in the last year, and the reason they do it isn't because it's some newfangled technology, it's for future-proofing. They know that later on, they'll be able to push more and more bandwidth down those same fibers and just have to swap out the active components in the closets. Any idea how much it costs to swap out a cable plant? Anyway, what it boils down to is this; even internally in workstations, the actual interface itself could be fiber, and not only would it allow much greater bandwidth immediately, it would future-proof the specification as well. I think 5 or 10 years down the road, we're going to see optical links for data begin to really take over. There's only so much that can be pushed through copper, and only so much interference before data integrity is severely degraded.
Then how about this article? http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/maine/inde x.html
I can forgive you, but can Apple? The specific quote is: "Supported by the largest purchase of wireless iBook systems by any school district or state to date, Maine's initiative will ensure one-to-one computer access for all middle school students and teachers in the entire state." I believe this article from the source illustrates my point.
I'm amazed that this got moderated up. First, can you point out any schools specifically that are falling down? Because I haven't seen any, and my company was the one that installed every single wireless network in the state. That covered every middle school. Second, training; they actually instituted a comprehensive training program for all of the teachers, which you would have discovered had you really "looked into it quite a bit." Third, why would we back out of the program in within five years? Apple bent themselves over a table for the pricing on this, and it was quite a gamble on their part. We asked them, they did it for us, and then some people in the state legislature asked about the possibility of backing out of a signed contract. After it had been approved and passed. And finally, laptops going home; each school is allowed to set their own policy on that. It is entirely up to the school administration, so rant at them. I do have one further question for you; was your spelling a clever political ploy to try to demonstrate to/. readers the state of education in Maine? Or was it legitimate?
Well, if you had Read The Articel, you would know that the TCO for the laptops is about $300/user/year. Also, do you live in Maine? I doubt it. If you did, you would know that most of those schools are in these areas where there are not enough physical resources on hand.
Actually, that is entirely incorrect. The laptops were purchased, not leased. The kids have the opportunity to purchase them, in turn, at a severely discounted price when they leave middle school.
You are absolutely correct. I live in the US, and I can tell you, I'm scared. The FBI has a long history if oppression and illegal wiretaps (i.e. McCarthyism, back in the 50's, the protests in the 60's and 70's, etc.) Tell me, does anyone know what the state of civil rights is in New Zealand? How about the Telecom. market? Could they use one more project manager/estimator? Because it's starting to look better and better every day...OH GOD, WHAT IF THEY'RE READING THIS POST RIGHT NOW!!!
Well, there's the PowerPC Alliance, of which IBM and Motorola are the major players. Altivec is Motorola's little toy for the G4, of which they are the primary supplier; however, the G3 (which doesn't have Altivec) is supplied mostly by IBM, which does in fact manufacture the chip. The new PowerPC 970 is related to IBM's Power4 processor (though seriously stripped down), and is another of the PowerPC type processors. As for operating systems, any PowerPC can run OSX (though it's tied strictly to Apple hardware, to promote sales of said hardware), as well as numerous versions of Linux and Unix (though don't quote me on that; I just assume that the Power4 and variants run on IBM's *nix operating systems, as they make the hardware.) There, I think that covers all the questions. Hope it helps!
Gigabit ethernet has a maximum transfer rate of 128MB/s. The PCI bus can handle up to 132MB/s. Read this: http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/infobrf/ibpci.html
That completely aside, this does not use the PCI bus. It uses PCI-Express or USB 2.0 (decided by the particular NEWCARD in question). PCI-Express can do 10GB/s in either direction (the NEWCARD will be limited to 2.5GB/s) while USB 2.0 can handle up to 400megabit/s.
There is also no need for gigabit NICs to need heatsinks. There is a HUGE market for these things in the portable computing world. In the future, please read the specs before commenting.
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Ahhh...yes. Here is the dividing line. "I have to think about it and can't just jump around shooting things, just like in my 85 favorite games that have come out in the last 4 years." Does anyone remember when games HAD to rely on substance, because there wasn't anything else to sell? Are any gamers out there NOT adrenaline junkies with 35s attention spans? Granted, there are some exceptions, but they are few and far between. I used to consider myself an avid gamer, but now the extent of that is juryrigging my OS around to play MOO, or some other golden oldie. *SIGH* Rant over. Sorry about that.
True to a point. If, however, you are attempting to state that it will never run as any kind of workstation, I will kindly point out to you that the XBox development workstations are not just powerpc based, they are full fledged Apple workstations running a custom NT operating system.
Let's just face it, the United States is becoming a puritan state. Consider: the FCC is seeking to extend it's powers to Cable, Satellite, and Internet (because violence doesn't hurt people, sex does. Just watch broadcast television); there is drastically more funding to combat "obsenity" (read: blasphemy), and now we're having senate hearings on the looming threat of pornagraphy (the ULTIMATE WMD?!?). You know what? I like to smoke, drink, and occasionally look at pictures of beautiful naked women. I don't smoke around people who don't like it, or in big crowds; I don't drink irresponsibly, and somehow I haven't had the urge to turn down the real thing. These are MY rights, not subject to the will of the people until they lead me to harm society. So, United States of Canada anyone?
The whole point of the article is the fact that it all is public information. Currently. All it took was the public taking an interest in it to make it secret. It's scary to think what a malicious person or group could do with that kind of power to suppress information.
That's an interesting thought, but remember, America is the country where your vote means nothing ( http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/ ). Does anyone remember the 2000 presidential election? And the fact that Bush lost by over 500,000 votes? That's right. That's how much the American people's opinion counts.
So, on the one hand you're dead set against working with Russia, because in your mind they're still the bad guys; and you're dead set against the cost of the mission, because without help it'll be very expensive. Here's a news flash; you can't have both. And all that ranting about Russia? I think you need to get some of the facts straight; the modern Russian weapons you were talking about? Yeah, well, they came from Syria, not Russia directly, and Syria has already been severely reprimanded for it. Of course, if the military budget (an astronomical sum of $396.1 billion requested for 2003) were curtailed slightly to increase the $15.335 billion Nasa budget, maybe something could happen. Instead, for years our space program languished, accomplishing next to nothing, until yet another major disaster involving the over-priced, extremely fragile, low lift-capacity and limited range space shuttle. We need the Russians, Europeans, Asians, and anyone else willing to work on the project.
The very scary thing is that he doesn't need that support. Think about this: I'm an American Citizen, and I did not vote for Mr. Bush. Nor did the majority of the people. It is known and documented beyond doubt that he lost the popular vote. Furthermore, I did not have the opportunity to vote for or against the Patriot Act; that was strictly senators and congresspeople with their own agendas of party loyalty. I did not have the opportunity to vote for or against this war. I get the opportunity to vote on whether the State of Maine will allow casino gambling. Everytime I go to a ballotbox, I wish to god that there was something on the ballot worth voting for; one of the issues that I really care about. There never is. The presidential election is the most important vote an American Citizen can make, and it's been robbed from us by disregarding the popular vote. That was the first liberty, and maybe the most important liberty, taken from us by our Caring Government. BTW, George Orwell's 1984 was required reading in my schooling. It's sad that it is not everywhere.
Try reading section 2-b-1-ii of the Massachussets one, as follows; (b) Offense defined. Any person commits an offense if he knowingly: (1) possesses, uses, manufactures, develops, assembles, distributes, transfers, imports into this state, licenses, leases, sells or offers, promotes or advertises for sale, use or distribution any communication device: (i) for the commission of a theft of a communication service or to receive, intercept, disrupt, transmit, re-transmits, decrypt, acquire or facilitate the receipt, interception, disruption, transmission, re-transmission, decryption or acquisition of any communication service without the express consent or express authorization of the communication service provider; or (ii) to conceal or to assist another to conceal from any communication service provider, or from any lawful authority, the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication; or (2) modifies, alters, programs or reprograms a communication device for the purposes described in subparagraphs (b)(1)(i) and (ii) above; or (3) possesses, uses, manufactures, develops, assembles, distributes, imports into this state, licenses, transfers, leases, sells, offers, promotes or advertises for sale, use or distribution any unlawful access device; or (4) possesses, uses, prepares, distributes, sells, gives, transfers or offers, promotes or advertises for sale, use or distribution any: (i) plans or instructions for making, or assembling or developing any communication or unlawful access device, under circumstances evidencing an intent to use or employ such communication or unlawful access device, or to allow the same to be used or employed, for a purpose prohibited by this section, or knowing or having reason to believe that the same is intended to be so used, or that the aforesaid plans or instructions are intended to be used for manufacturing or assembling such communication or unlawful access device for a purpose prohibited by this section; or (ii) material, including hardware, cables, tools, data, computer software or other information or equipment, knowing that the purchaser or a third person intends to use the material in the manufacture, assembly or development of a communication device for a purpose prohibited by this section, or for use in the manufacture, assembly or development of an unlawful access device; and (5) Assist others in committing any of the acts prohibited by this section.
Where, exactly, in the DMCA that thou shalt not manufacture aftermarket ink cartridges? Look, it's called a loophole, and the minute an ISP has the right to snoop for the existence of a NAT, even just barely by the letter of the law, they're going to. Every broadband ISP that I know of in my area expressly forbids it without their permission/extra cost/hardware. Routers, VPNs, firewalls, etc, etc...all fall into the loophole of "concealing the origin of the communication."
So what do you propose? This gives the option of cutting the myriad other horrible toxins out of a vehicle's exhaust.
No, simply uninformed. If you would prefer to feed millions of wood/coal burning furnaces please, feel free.
THIS-WINTER-WAS-NOT-WARMER-IN-NE!!!!! Anyone who lives here will tell you, that damn "arctic air from alberta" that they're always talking about on the weather stations has been scr*wing us over a squeeky table for months now.
No, no, no...it's not that bullets kill people, it's that (most) people just have a very severe allergic reaction to them.
What exactly are the credentials of this bovik.org? Because I could come up with a nifty little logarithmic graph to show that CO2 levels have gone DOWN! And then I could post it to a site, and state it as evidence...now, that would be utter bullshit, but what does it matter? I think that you'll need to quote some reliable sources before you can be taken seriously. For one, "global warming" is a silly term. Take the renaissance for example. Wheat was grown in Iceland and Greenland, and oranges in Great Britain and France. It was a warming trend after a mini-iceage. Now, is that a valid excuse for continued pollution today? No. It just says that the term "global warming" is a silly media buzzword that should be replaced by something along the lines of "global environmental impact." As for the "hell of a lot more than .05% per decade," well, that would make the average summer temperature in Maine last year, which was 63.6, should in fact, have been measurably higher than that in 1900 (65.6) (http://climvis.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/cag3/state_m ap_display.pl)
In fact, if you look at those temperatures throught the last century, there is no noticeable temperature change! How exactly do you quantify this?
What about hydrogen fuel cells? All the major manufacturers are either 1.) Talking about it or 2.) Doing it. That kind of rules out the "big-oil scam." Besides, who do you think is going to be running hydrogen distribution? Shell is already starting on the west coast of the US. It'll just be "Big H" conspiracies then...
"Fifty years ago this month, a toxic mix of dense fog and sooty black coal smoke killed thousands of Londoners in four days. It remains the deadliest environmental episode in recorded history."
If this isn't the perfect argument for modern nuclear energy, I don't know what is...
Actually, it's more mission dependent than that. The distance isn't as much of a factor (though it is in some applications) as the bandwidth future proofing capability. In the vast majority of telecommunications specs that have been coming out for the last few years (at least in New England) it's fiber for ANY kind of backbone application. Even if the closets (for some godawful reason, though it does happen) happen to be 50ft apart. 12-strand multimode fiber is what you'll usually see. It makes sense over even short distance because of the bandwidth capability. In 10 years, that backbone fiber can be pushing 10gbps between those closets, per transmit recieve pair. Now, I know that they are working on a 10gbps standard for Cat6 fiber, but who wants to run a copper backbone? Hell, that fiber put in 15yrs ago can push the new 10gbps fiber standard right now! And you've got no crosstalk, no interferance (ever see what happens to your bandwidth when your 200pair copper is running too close to a bank of fluorescent lighting?). I've even seen a dozen or so specifications for fiber to the desktop projects in schools even! I've managed two of those installations in the last year, and the reason they do it isn't because it's some newfangled technology, it's for future-proofing. They know that later on, they'll be able to push more and more bandwidth down those same fibers and just have to swap out the active components in the closets. Any idea how much it costs to swap out a cable plant? Anyway, what it boils down to is this; even internally in workstations, the actual interface itself could be fiber, and not only would it allow much greater bandwidth immediately, it would future-proof the specification as well. I think 5 or 10 years down the road, we're going to see optical links for data begin to really take over. There's only so much that can be pushed through copper, and only so much interference before data integrity is severely degraded.
Then how about this article? http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/maine/inde x.html
I can forgive you, but can Apple? The specific quote is: "Supported by the largest purchase of wireless iBook systems by any school district or state to date, Maine's initiative will ensure one-to-one computer access for all middle school students and teachers in the entire state." I believe this article from the source illustrates my point.
I'm amazed that this got moderated up. First, can you point out any schools specifically that are falling down? Because I haven't seen any, and my company was the one that installed every single wireless network in the state. That covered every middle school. Second, training; they actually instituted a comprehensive training program for all of the teachers, which you would have discovered had you really "looked into it quite a bit." Third, why would we back out of the program in within five years? Apple bent themselves over a table for the pricing on this, and it was quite a gamble on their part. We asked them, they did it for us, and then some people in the state legislature asked about the possibility of backing out of a signed contract. After it had been approved and passed. And finally, laptops going home; each school is allowed to set their own policy on that. It is entirely up to the school administration, so rant at them. I do have one further question for you; was your spelling a clever political ploy to try to demonstrate to /. readers the state of education in Maine? Or was it legitimate?
Well, if you had Read The Articel, you would know that the TCO for the laptops is about $300/user/year. Also, do you live in Maine? I doubt it. If you did, you would know that most of those schools are in these areas where there are not enough physical resources on hand.
Actually, that is entirely incorrect. The laptops were purchased, not leased. The kids have the opportunity to purchase them, in turn, at a severely discounted price when they leave middle school.
You are absolutely correct. I live in the US, and I can tell you, I'm scared. The FBI has a long history if oppression and illegal wiretaps (i.e. McCarthyism, back in the 50's, the protests in the 60's and 70's, etc.) Tell me, does anyone know what the state of civil rights is in New Zealand? How about the Telecom. market? Could they use one more project manager/estimator? Because it's starting to look better and better every day...OH GOD, WHAT IF THEY'RE READING THIS POST RIGHT NOW!!!
IBM has been putting the processor's in Apple machines for something like 7 years now....
Well, there's the PowerPC Alliance, of which IBM and Motorola are the major players. Altivec is Motorola's little toy for the G4, of which they are the primary supplier; however, the G3 (which doesn't have Altivec) is supplied mostly by IBM, which does in fact manufacture the chip. The new PowerPC 970 is related to IBM's Power4 processor (though seriously stripped down), and is another of the PowerPC type processors. As for operating systems, any PowerPC can run OSX (though it's tied strictly to Apple hardware, to promote sales of said hardware), as well as numerous versions of Linux and Unix (though don't quote me on that; I just assume that the Power4 and variants run on IBM's *nix operating systems, as they make the hardware.) There, I think that covers all the questions. Hope it helps!
Gigabit ethernet has a maximum transfer rate of 128MB/s. The PCI bus can handle up to 132MB/s. Read this: http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/infobrf/ibpci.html That completely aside, this does not use the PCI bus. It uses PCI-Express or USB 2.0 (decided by the particular NEWCARD in question). PCI-Express can do 10GB/s in either direction (the NEWCARD will be limited to 2.5GB/s) while USB 2.0 can handle up to 400megabit/s. There is also no need for gigabit NICs to need heatsinks. There is a HUGE market for these things in the portable computing world. In the future, please read the specs before commenting.