First of all: architecture is not the same as an interface. The processor instructions are just the interface to the processor. Obviously part of the architecture. But the architecture is also number of ALU's, pipelining, memory controller, bus interface etc. etc. (and in the case of microprocessors etc. etc. added to that).
And yes, AMD did great with their 64 bit chip, though it is not so fast that consumers will throw themselves upon it (at least not when microsoft will only release Windows 64 bit when intel has a competative product). But to call AMD the real innovators? What about Pentium-M, chipset with direct gigabit/s-ata raid, wifi, flash, new memory technologies, integrated graphics, buttocks (BTX), PCI-express, USB, DDR2, dual memory controllers....well you get the picture. All stuff where Intel played a big part.
I've no problem agreeing with most of the article though, so please see this post as a confirmation of the points I did not mention.
If you could easily open the case without voiding waranty or damaging the mini iPod, this would be the case. But since you can't, it isn't as easily fixable in practice. I don't see many people taking this path, even not the ones that can handle soldering irons.
Anyways, many problems with devices are not hard from an engeneering standpoint. Same with software etc.. It just takes someone to remember to check against going standards. Ok, I am off glueing my balance turning wheel of my receiver into place...
It's not spyware or malware. Actually, this is from the original makers of KaZaa.
They (actually someone within the team that did the commercial stuff) sold the KaZaa software to some flaky Australian outfit when they hit big. That when things went wrong.
I saw a Dutch TV documentary on the 10th year of ISP XS4ALL (it was also shown on national TV afaik). This because the lead developer was Dutch.
Can't see them getting into such heavy legal fighting with this software, though the secret services may think differently:)
Hey, you can't store the whole internet on the machine you know! Everything takes forever using a modem. What kind of machine are you thinking about? You need gigantic harddisk (probably raid) and/or a really fast connecton to pull that off.
Hey, safe the paper and print out the cheat sheet from that PDF if you need it. I think PDF is good enough for most games.
And WHEN is mankind good enough to make double sided printers a default? Oh well, lets hope e-ink will finally make us loose some of those paper piles.
I wonder if they regarded playing TV in the background as well. I've normally got a little screen of a PCI TV-tuner running in the corner. Sometimes with sound, sometimes without (when I am listening to a shoutcast station).
It happens quite regularly that I find out that I am in the middle of one of those commercial representations that endure about 20 minutes when TV is finished. You can imagine how instense I am looking at the TV at that moment. So the numbers mentioned might even be an overstatement.
Ok, I am off, I am going to enjoy the simp^h^h^h^hunreal tournament. D'oh!
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Maybe this will happen to newspapers as well, but for now I prefer the newspaper for background/behind the scene news. Currently there are little or no newssites that offer better researched or written stories. Quality goes a long way. Unfortunately, my work also goes a long way, and I have little time to read the articles I would normally read. And internet is indeed great for the latest news. I saw 9-11 first on CNN - CNN the site that is.
Enough already! What's against posting this in the main article? And if anything is, can't slashdot make a deal with NY times? It is not that the slashdot community never visits the times site or something like that. Now I either have to look at the "free link" article or lookup my once generated password. And hell if I can find that if I need it. Or bother to do it.
No, that would even take google down. But note that google has its own XML soap interface. So you could easily write one yourself that uses google. This makes interpreting the answer from the server a lot easier.
I use it sometimes throught a mail interface which I won't mention before all of slashdot is going to use it. I've got only mail at work due to security considerations.
Here goes (the +1 funny rating for a story, sorry)
The capacity upgrade is expected overtime, but the format it feels like it's pending for changes year after year. And whatever happened to SCSI devices. 95% of the drives are IDE and it eats up your processor.
I've played games while burning cd's. As long as they don't use the same hdd or ide channel you are fine. Nobody cares about that kinda processor power no more. If you put it in U-DMA mode (I've seen that W2K still does not use U-DMA automatically) the system will be available for use.
SCSI is just too expensive. I'd rather see SATA being used for these kind of devices as well as for harddisks, if only for the smaller cable. You would not have to worry about configuring the devices either.
But SCSI? Neh, lets keep those things for RAID configs, and let SATA do the rest.
Even for nanobots 2^128 (divided into groups) is a bit much (127 bits would be better:).
If you compare it to 2^32 (divided into groups) of IPv4 though, it's a huge improvement indeed. So yes, 2^128 is overkill, but 2^64 in groups might not be and 2^32 is clearly too little. Those extra bytes will be well spend in my opinion.
Or shorter, your right. I'm not sure if the nanobots should be aware of the internet and use IPv6, but that's for future scientists to decide. Can't visualize a medical nanobot running a web server just yet. I will have some more booze and try again.
Pfff, thats nothing compared to the 60 M they gave to SCO for some undisclosed reasons. See previous slashdot article on SCO - ooooh, I must stop drinking, my dead pan humor is getting through.
"Heck you can probably do that already, you just need more equipment and it's less convenient."
Ummm, why? You need software that can handle IPv6, but that's all. My dutch ISP (www.xs4all.nl) supports IPv6 tunnels, as well as having services on IPv6 (like the 12 TB experimental news server:). You do get an entire subnet indeed, so its great for home networking behind a linux server.
But more equipment? Don't think so. Don't forget that most of home networks contain just switches and modems. The actual IPv6 would be done by software. With support by linux, XP, java, etc. etc.
I think IPv4 NAT is a hack. One that works reasonably well for some protocols, but it's still a hack IPv6 should have more support already.
Hey guys, welcome to the future. If you are anoyed by a chatlet coming up, prepare for the future. Because it will shift to audio and video afterwards. Including speaking bots as well, if I'm not mistaken.
This is the next step forward, internet will become more like a telephone / television kind of thing. The tech part about it has already faded to the background mostly (not that that's a bad thing, so long as it is there). You can see a lot of (video) conferencing going on between individuals. This will slowly be taken up by the companies.
The two chats I had with my ISP (tech support) were really helpfull. The one I had with McAfee was worthless though. In the end it's the person on the other end that makes the difference between anoyment and enjoyment I guess. So no, I don't think it's bad. And yes, I've got pop-ups blocked, so I wouldn't see it either.
Dunno what I would do with a spare, expensive processor without a motherboard. Why not just buy the stupid thing and buy a CPU/motherboard/memory combination later on? You're sure not to only want to update your processor. And with a mobo, processor and memory a new computer is easily born (or upgraded) so it is easier to sell, or to give away to friends.
Well at least that's the theory, i've got 4 computers (not including my PDA) in my 3 by 4 meter room by now:) They're working though. Oh well, one linux server, one main pc, one test pc and a laptop. They're all used.
Doesn't save you from overwriting an important piece of data though. So it's not the final word on buffer overruns I presume. Makes it harder to infiltrate a program, but in no means impossible.
Indeed. From the packaging of one of those silver emulsions: put little on processor, use credit card (and old one probably, they did not mention) to spread over processor. Worked for me. I don't everclock though, so I would not see melting processors too soon.
And note that the stuff is hell to get out of your clothing. It's just silver, it's not a solution on anything. The problem with that is that it won't dissolve in - well nothing really. It's silver, isn't it?
Ahhh, but that's the point. The perception is that women find tech specs cold, stark and heartless. Tech specs are "male", happy people and warm fuzzies are "female". I was going to say that it's all bullshit, but there is quite a bit of evidence to the contrary. Just look at how cosmetics and shampoo are marketed.
Well, in a lot of shampoo and cosmetics ads I hear a lot of chemical names and technical claims. Obviously the have no relation to computers other than that cheesy part where they show some vitimin X entering a hair.
Once I tried and ask people how much they actually understood of the claims and almost nobody understood anything. This was mostly due to not listening carefully though, as it should be. I was a bit worried when most people did not understand the term "dermatologically tested" though, it has been in ads for quite some time.
Most security issues are from bad designs or bad tools/techniques. That anything can be broken by a genius hacker or genius fool is complete non-sense in my opinion. Maybe this is used as an excuus, or just romanticism, but I've never seen any proof to that theory.
Things like buffer overruns (bad tools and/or bad design) and plain stupidity (build part of IE into kernel space) are the biggest problems in my opinion.
What do you mean 'until p2p users switch over?'. I've seen a lot of lossless compression cd's on that - eh - other download service that I use.
Doh, in a test with a room full of music lovers listening in with their own (mostly sennheiser) headphones, NONE was able to distinguish a normal CD with 192 kbit compression. The test was done using several formats (minidisk format, mp3 format & ogg format). Only a few could distinguish between 128 kbit mp3 and 44khz CD, and only for a couple of music genres (mostly classical, if I remember correctly, which seems logical).
Nowadays you can buy scratching tables using CD's. My former boss had two. They seemed to do the job, but then I'm not an audio professional. Vinyl probably sounds more vinylly according to audio freaks (that still use those tubes to get perfect - mashed up - sound).
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First of all: architecture is not the same as an interface. The processor instructions are just the interface to the processor. Obviously part of the architecture. But the architecture is also number of ALU's, pipelining, memory controller, bus interface etc. etc. (and in the case of microprocessors etc. etc. added to that).
And yes, AMD did great with their 64 bit chip, though it is not so fast that consumers will throw themselves upon it (at least not when microsoft will only release Windows 64 bit when intel has a competative product). But to call AMD the real innovators? What about Pentium-M, chipset with direct gigabit/s-ata raid, wifi, flash, new memory technologies, integrated graphics, buttocks (BTX), PCI-express, USB, DDR2, dual memory controllers....well you get the picture. All stuff where Intel played a big part.
I've no problem agreeing with most of the article though, so please see this post as a confirmation of the points I did not mention.
If you could easily open the case without voiding waranty or damaging the mini iPod, this would be the case. But since you can't, it isn't as easily fixable in practice. I don't see many people taking this path, even not the ones that can handle soldering irons.
Anyways, many problems with devices are not hard from an engeneering standpoint. Same with software etc.. It just takes someone to remember to check against going standards. Ok, I am off glueing my balance turning wheel of my receiver into place...
It's not spyware or malware. Actually, this is from the original makers of KaZaa.
:)
They (actually someone within the team that did the commercial stuff) sold the KaZaa software to some flaky Australian outfit when they hit big. That when things went wrong.
I saw a Dutch TV documentary on the 10th year of ISP XS4ALL (it was also shown on national TV afaik). This because the lead developer was Dutch.
Can't see them getting into such heavy legal fighting with this software, though the secret services may think differently
Scheme to get around firewalls. Usability. Encryption. The momentum to make it big? High quality voice?
Hey, you can't store the whole internet on the machine you know! Everything takes forever using a modem. What kind of machine are you thinking about? You need gigantic harddisk (probably raid) and/or a really fast connecton to pull that off.
Hey, safe the paper and print out the cheat sheet from that PDF if you need it. I think PDF is good enough for most games.
And WHEN is mankind good enough to make double sided printers a default? Oh well, lets hope e-ink will finally make us loose some of those paper piles.
This is the entire and I mean ENTIRE problem with Ep. I and II, everyone is seen as either pure good or pure evil.
I thought that return of the king (and lord of the rings in general) was pretty neat though. Unless you count Smeagol as not evil that is.
I wonder if they regarded playing TV in the background as well. I've normally got a little screen of a PCI TV-tuner running in the corner. Sometimes with sound, sometimes without (when I am listening to a shoutcast station).
It happens quite regularly that I find out that I am in the middle of one of those commercial representations that endure about 20 minutes when TV is finished. You can imagine how instense I am looking at the TV at that moment. So the numbers mentioned might even be an overstatement.
Ok, I am off, I am going to enjoy the simp^h^h^h^hunreal tournament. D'oh!
Maybe this will happen to newspapers as well, but for now I prefer the newspaper for background/behind the scene news. Currently there are little or no newssites that offer better researched or written stories. Quality goes a long way. Unfortunately, my work also goes a long way, and I have little time to read the articles I would normally read. And internet is indeed great for the latest news. I saw 9-11 first on CNN - CNN the site that is.
Enough already! What's against posting this in the main article? And if anything is, can't slashdot make a deal with NY times? It is not that the slashdot community never visits the times site or something like that. Now I either have to look at the "free link" article or lookup my once generated password. And hell if I can find that if I need it. Or bother to do it.
Dunno much about geology, but Canada is definately not under the US.
No, not even if you count in Alaska.
Oh, I used it to find more bars in my favourite town, but that might not be /.ty enough :)
No, that would even take google down. But note that google has its own XML soap interface. So you could easily write one yourself that uses google. This makes interpreting the answer from the server a lot easier.
I use it sometimes throught a mail interface which I won't mention before all of slashdot is going to use it. I've got only mail at work due to security considerations.
Here goes (the +1 funny rating for a story, sorry)
Google API's
The capacity upgrade is expected overtime, but the format it feels like it's pending for changes year after year. And whatever happened to SCSI devices. 95% of the drives are IDE and it eats up your processor.
I've played games while burning cd's. As long as they don't use the same hdd or ide channel you are fine. Nobody cares about that kinda processor power no more. If you put it in U-DMA mode (I've seen that W2K still does not use U-DMA automatically) the system will be available for use.
SCSI is just too expensive. I'd rather see SATA being used for these kind of devices as well as for harddisks, if only for the smaller cable. You would not have to worry about configuring the devices either.
But SCSI? Neh, lets keep those things for RAID configs, and let SATA do the rest.
Even for nanobots 2^128 (divided into groups) is a bit much (127 bits would be better :).
If you compare it to 2^32 (divided into groups) of IPv4 though, it's a huge improvement indeed. So yes, 2^128 is overkill, but 2^64 in groups might not be and 2^32 is clearly too little. Those extra bytes will be well spend in my opinion.
Or shorter, your right. I'm not sure if the nanobots should be aware of the internet and use IPv6, but that's for future scientists to decide. Can't visualize a medical nanobot running a web server just yet. I will have some more booze and try again.
Pfff, thats nothing compared to the 60 M they gave to SCO for some undisclosed reasons. See previous slashdot article on SCO - ooooh, I must stop drinking, my dead pan humor is getting through.
"Heck you can probably do that already, you just need more equipment and it's less convenient."
:). You do get an entire subnet indeed, so its great for home networking behind a linux server.
Ummm, why? You need software that can handle IPv6, but that's all. My dutch ISP (www.xs4all.nl) supports IPv6 tunnels, as well as having services on IPv6 (like the 12 TB experimental news server
But more equipment? Don't think so. Don't forget that most of home networks contain just switches and modems. The actual IPv6 would be done by software. With support by linux, XP, java, etc. etc.
I think IPv4 NAT is a hack. One that works reasonably well for some protocols, but it's still a hack IPv6 should have more support already.
Sheesh, we will have this discussion again when get everyone one of those 281 address - spaces - have been given to a single human being shall we?
:)
Even _counting_ to 2^128 is a daunting task. Actually, with current computers even counting to 2^64 takes practically forever if I'm not mistaken.
You could always put the entire galaxy into a public address space if it comes that far
Hey guys, welcome to the future. If you are anoyed by a chatlet coming up, prepare for the future. Because it will shift to audio and video afterwards. Including speaking bots as well, if I'm not mistaken.
This is the next step forward, internet will become more like a telephone / television kind of thing. The tech part about it has already faded to the background mostly (not that that's a bad thing, so long as it is there). You can see a lot of (video) conferencing going on between individuals. This will slowly be taken up by the companies.
The two chats I had with my ISP (tech support) were really helpfull. The one I had with McAfee was worthless though. In the end it's the person on the other end that makes the difference between anoyment and enjoyment I guess. So no, I don't think it's bad. And yes, I've got pop-ups blocked, so I wouldn't see it either.
Dunno what I would do with a spare, expensive processor without a motherboard. Why not just buy the stupid thing and buy a CPU/motherboard/memory combination later on? You're sure not to only want to update your processor. And with a mobo, processor and memory a new computer is easily born (or upgraded) so it is easier to sell, or to give away to friends.
:) They're working though. Oh well, one linux server, one main pc, one test pc and a laptop. They're all used.
Well at least that's the theory, i've got 4 computers (not including my PDA) in my 3 by 4 meter room by now
Doesn't save you from overwriting an important piece of data though. So it's not the final word on buffer overruns I presume. Makes it harder to infiltrate a program, but in no means impossible.
Indeed. From the packaging of one of those silver emulsions: put little on processor, use credit card (and old one probably, they did not mention) to spread over processor. Worked for me. I don't everclock though, so I would not see melting processors too soon.
And note that the stuff is hell to get out of your clothing. It's just silver, it's not a solution on anything. The problem with that is that it won't dissolve in - well nothing really. It's silver, isn't it?
Ahhh, but that's the point. The perception is that women find tech specs cold, stark and heartless. Tech specs are "male", happy people and warm fuzzies are "female". I was going to say that it's all bullshit, but there is quite a bit of evidence to the contrary. Just look at how cosmetics and shampoo are marketed.
Well, in a lot of shampoo and cosmetics ads I hear a lot of chemical names and technical claims. Obviously the have no relation to computers other than that cheesy part where they show some vitimin X entering a hair.
Once I tried and ask people how much they actually understood of the claims and almost nobody understood anything. This was mostly due to not listening carefully though, as it should be. I was a bit worried when most people did not understand the term "dermatologically tested" though, it has been in ads for quite some time.
Most security issues are from bad designs or bad tools/techniques. That anything can be broken by a genius hacker or genius fool is complete non-sense in my opinion. Maybe this is used as an excuus, or just romanticism, but I've never seen any proof to that theory.
Things like buffer overruns (bad tools and/or bad design) and plain stupidity (build part of IE into kernel space) are the biggest problems in my opinion.
What do you mean 'until p2p users switch over?'. I've seen a lot of lossless compression cd's on that - eh - other download service that I use.
Doh, in a test with a room full of music lovers listening in with their own (mostly sennheiser) headphones, NONE was able to distinguish a normal CD with 192 kbit compression. The test was done using several formats (minidisk format, mp3 format & ogg format). Only a few could distinguish between 128 kbit mp3 and 44khz CD, and only for a couple of music genres (mostly classical, if I remember correctly, which seems logical).
Nowadays you can buy scratching tables using CD's. My former boss had two. They seemed to do the job, but then I'm not an audio professional. Vinyl probably sounds more vinylly according to audio freaks (that still use those tubes to get perfect - mashed up - sound).
So, what exactly is the point to this story???