I agree. If everyone voted for who they REALLY want to be president, this two party crap might go out the window.
My general opinion is that if you vote for either of the two whatsisnames that get all the publicity, you probably are brainwashed and you probably made your decision by watching television.
Ask yourself one question:
If I could vote for anyone I want, who would I vote for?
Well, you CAN vote for anyone you want. So quit being so brainwashed.
but there's no way that all players for PCs will respect the watermark.
One problem - the new sound card chipsets, particularly the latest one by TI, will refuse to play damaged watermarked audio. So even if your program just decodes and passes the signal, your sound card will mysteriously refuse to play.
However this article points out a lot of things that seem to be coming true and mentioned in the article that is the focus of this slashdot item, that basically the music company executives didn't expect it to be broken, don't have anything to fall back on, and the SDMI may in fact fall apart now that two years of their work have been effortlessly cut into shreds! Which is EXCELLENT news!
I disagreed with that article, because even if it was cracked AFTER they released it, they still wouldn't have anything to fall back on. Assuming they don't. If they do have something, they can use the results of the contest to eliminate possible cracks. So overall, I think cracking it before its release is a bad thing.
Because the music industry has appeared to be clueless up to this point, here's another possibility:
It really has been broken, and they really don't have anything to fall back on. So they DENY it's been broken, and release it anyway. Then it gets broken again after its release, and they pretend they weren't expecting it, along with playing stupid legal games.
I'm not sure if they are really this clueless. But it's possible.
I hate to point this out, but that post is ass-backwards.
To test a CPU, you run at low resolutions with V-Sync off, to keep the fill rate on the card from maxing out.
To test the fill rate of a card, you test at high resolutions. This tests both the pixel/texel rate and the memory bandwidth.
One legitimate reason to run at low resolutions is if you have a large display that doesn't support higher resolutions. Most 31 inch displays are 800x600, as well as any most multimedia projectors under $5000. So if you want to run a 31 inch monitor, or a 72 inch rear-projection screen, you are probably going to run at lower resolutions.
Also, with big screens like these, anti-aliasing is an advantage. So 800x600 with 4xFSAA is the best resolution for big monitors.
I never did any of these, but I did write TRS-80 versions of breakout, karate champ, and yie-ar kung fu.
Breakout was especially simple. I wrote it in just a few hours. I was ten years old at the time. And the version I wrote had some cool features that the original lacked.
Karate champ and yie-ar were a little more complicated, but still nothing that would take more than a couple of days to write.
I agree that trivial games like these should be public domain. Both the gameplay and how to make it work on a computer are not that complicated.
I have a very similar computer (K6-2, Voodoo 3, DVD Drive), but I am also getting something called a Broadlogic 1020 Card, which is a DVB/Dish Network satellite reciever on a PCI card. It will be hooked up to a Dish 500 satellite dish. The display is a 72 inch Da-Tex rear projection screen with a Dukane 8050, 1800 lumen multimedia projector. It's also hooked to my surround sound system.
Anyhow, if you want a swiss army knife, I agree that you should get computer components instead of a standalone box. More versatility...
For people who don't have the technical knowledge to assemble their own computer, a standalone box is a good option. Tivo is pretty cool, as is the Dishplayer by Dish Network. This Nokia also looks like a good option.
For that matter, how about all the new filtering features that/. was supposed to be getting?
Solution # 1: Download slashcode, add these features to the Perl code, send the code back, and let everyone know about the features so we can get them deployed.
Perl is written is C, and I've heard of vulnerabilities in Perl scripts that can be manipulated by passing termination characters "\0" in forms on the web. However, any fairly competent web programmer will strip input down to allowable characters, and use taint checking. This prevents Perl from corrupting either C (termination) or the command shell (this can be done with pipe characters and > signs in the input of certain Perl scripts.)
I haven't tested to see if locale strings cause any problems with Perl. Since the Perl interpreter is just a fancy C program, it's possible it has the same vulnerabilities.
I also had a TRS-80 model 1 for my first computer. Had 4k of RAM and a cassette player. Then we got a 16K RAM upgrade and a 90K floppy drive. Man was I stoked.
I remember reading a magazine called "Interface Age" back in the 70's. (shortly after I learned how to read, but anyway...) They had an article about how someday we would have video cards with a whole megabyte of RAM, and we could do high resolution color graphics. Even then, they knew that a lot of video RAM would be needed, they just didn't have the technology to do it (cheaply).
I remember a few years ago when 1 meg video cards were the new rage, and you could do 256 colors at 1024x768. I wondered why anyone would ever need more than that. Then shortly after that, ATI came out with the 3D Expression card. It had two megs of RAM, and 3D instructions on the card itself. WOW. I bought one in PCI format, even though I didn't have a PCI slot to put it in. Got a PCI motherboard a couple of months later.
Anyhow, my point is - as soon as you think that we have reached the practical limit to how good video cards need to be, they'll think of some new feature that needs a better card.
Just as a side note - the Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM. Yes, that bytes. And there was some pretty cool games made for it. (The games themselves were on ROM chips, but they still had a 128 byte limitation for storing character positions, scores, screen states, etc.)
What is happening with server emulators, as well as many other products (DVD, Playstation Emulators, etc.) is that companies are making a product which requires another product. Then they are trying to control where you get that second product.
It's the old razor and razor blade analogy. Let's say a razor company sold razors for around cost, and then designed them so that no one else could make blades for them. Then, when some other company figures out how to make the blades, you hire a bunch of lawyers and sue them to high heaven.
This is simple, blatant, anti-competitiveness. You can argue that the company depends on it for profits, but that doesn't make it legitimate. If you sell a product at a loss to bait the sale of another product, you are taking a risk. The risk is that your customers may buy that other product from a competitor, or even get it for free from someone giving it away. Using legal pressure to force that competitor to "cease and desist" is unethical and anticompetitive, as well as a misuse of the legal system.
However, in today's society, certain companies seem to be getting away with it anyway.....
This was a decision made by the legal department, actually.
Back in the days of the Intel 80486, other companies (AMD, Texas Instruments, and Cyrix) started making chips called "486", with other letters or whatever tagged to them. Intel sued someone (can't remember which one) and the court said that "486" couldn't be trademarked because it was a model number, and other companies could have model numbers containing the same digits.
So the legal department told the marketing department that they needed to come up with a trademarkable name for their next generation of chips. Hence the "Pentium" name, which became a registered trademark. (By the way, a company called NexGen beat them to the name 586, which was a Risc86 chip, and became the design for the AMD K6.)
Personally I question a person who goes it alone and does all this work himself without thinking that he is either an AMD plant or works for another concern like Microsoft to discredit everyone except whom he is supposed to discredit. My question is who pays this "Tom" guy's wage?
Like I said above, if you've been reading Tom for a long time, his biases have shifted. That leads me to believe that if he is partial, it is for personal reasons, not financial ones. His wage is paid by people clicking on his site. The only thing I know of that the hardware manufacturers give him is parts to review.
Well, I still feel good about not liking Tom and his reviews. It is not so much that he found the bug but the fact that "I'm going to keep this as evidence and not help Intel" and his general approach to this situation...
And his attitude shouldn't be what it is considering what he is doing
Speaking as someone who has been following hardware sites since Tom's page didn't even have its own domain...
Tom used to be noticably pro-Intel. This was true until somewhere in the AMD-K6/Pentium Pro days, when he started noting that the K6 would run at 100 Mhz bus, and the socket 7 Pentiums wouldn't. He then gradually started becoming more pro-AMD and less pro-Intel.
I see two possibilities here.
1. He judges things purely on technical advantages, and really thinks AMD is better.
2. Someone at Intel pissed him off somewhere along the line, and he has a personal bias.
It's also possible that both of the above are true.
There is one thing I can't stand about his site - since he added the daily "technical news", I have seen news bits that are obviously press releases, and contain obvious technical errors that Tom should notice. I don't think he actually reads some of the stuff before it gets posted as "news".
I do like the reviews and articles that are actually written by his staff, though. I think keeping proof of the situation was important in the case of the 1133 Mhz chip. I think if he would have sent it back the problem may have dissapeared, much like it did with Kyle's chip. I think when he sent it back they did a microcode load or something, then returned it saying there was nothing wrong with it.
None of the four chips that this group of reviewers got would compile the Linux kernel. When Kyle slowed them down to 850 Mhz they worked. This points to the chips being flaky at their rated speed.
As far as Tom's attitude, it is the sum of all his experiences, just like anyone elses is. Though he could make a concious effort to change it, I think his honesty is important in an industry where too many reviewers simply regurgitate praise.
IANAL either, but I don't think you can officially license a trade secret. I think for DVD-CCA to be licensing CSS, that means it's copyrighted or patented.
It's definitely not patented, because to be patented, it can't be a trade secret.
And a copyright only protects the exact wording of something, not a method of doing something. So in this case, someone could make a clean room implementation.
Have you ever considered the fact that the MPAA doesn't actually have any legal basis for their licensing, other than a self declared control of the market? And lobbying congress to pass the DMCA, which also has no other legal basis?
It's one thing to tell Xing "Hey, we found a crack in your security and reverse engineered your program." and quite another to build a tool to use that crack and distribute it to the public.
It's true that these are two different things. But the point is, they are both speech. If someone finds themselves with knowledge of how to defeat something, it is THEIR choice on how to handle it. It is not Xing's choice, it is not the government's choice. It is the choice of the person who has knowledge who to tell about it.
It is unfortunate that we have built a society where security through obscurity is so vital to the status quo that disseminating knowledge is punishable as a crime. If someone has enough knowledge about you to pretend to be you, then you become responsible for their actions. And if you build an empire out of paper cards, you can force our society to guard your card house. In turn, the people of that society have to give up freedoms for that protection.
The reason for freedom of speech is because speech is not a physical act. The way you respond to that speech is your own choice. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." If someone IS hurt by speech, it is either because of their response to that speech, or because they built a framework of lies that is destroyed by the truth.
The truth is that much of our society is built on fiction, and secrets, and dependence on ignorance. Dispelling that ignorance should be encouraged, because in the long run, knowledge rises to the top.
(If you disagree, explain why laws against passing bad checks could ever be constitutional.)
This one is simple, actually. The reason passing bad checks is illegal is because it falls under libel. In other words, free speech does not give you the right to lie. By passing a bad check, you are indicating that you have the money to pay it, and are willing to do so. If you do not have the money to pay, or are not willing to do so, you are lying. Libel law predates the constition, and being untruthful has never been guaranteed legal.
If you want a better example, how about license plates? In this case, the government is requiring you to tag yourself with a number, in order to utilize your constitutional right to travel. A direct violation of the right to NOT express things you choose not to.
However, the DMCA is NOT content neutral. It is illegal to publish source code to DeCSS, but it is not illegal to publish the source code of how to burn the Canadian flag. It is in fact the content of the source code that is being punished.
I heard that the next price break (after this one) is supposed to be September 20th. The 1000 should be under $500.
I usually try not to pay more than $150 for processors. The 800 Thunderbird should be in my range at the end of September. The DDR motherboards should be out by then, too.
The big decision will be - do I get a motherboard the supports SDR, so I can salvage my RAM, or do I get a DDR motherboard and new RAM. (I can always put the old RAM in my K6-3) Maybe someone will make a motherboard that supports both. Hmmm....
If RAMBUS stock isn't worth anything, this won't matter.
1,000,000 shares time zero dollars per share is zero dollars.
I think Intel is starting to wonder if they have more to lose in market share than they have to gain in Rambus bribes.
Rambus won't quite go bankrupt, because they have big contracts with Sony and Hitachi for video games. But if I was someone with Rambus stock, I would sell it as soon as it shows the slightest sign of dropping.
The K6-2+ series (which this article is about) have 128K of full speed L2 cache on the chip. They also support L3 cache on the motherboard, so their cache performance is excellent.
Also, since the K6-2+ is manufactured with a.18 micron process, almost 100% of these chips will overclock to 600 Mhz. And all you have to do is set a couple of jumpers on the motherboard. For cheap overclocking, these chips are great.
The only problem I see is availability. I've only ever seen two of these chips, and I see a lot of AMD processors. If you have a Socket 7 motherboard, and you see one of these chips, I'd highly recommend getting one.
Actually, sockets have a huge advantage in cooling over slots. It is mostly because of the direct connection of the pins to the board. The pins help dissipate heat, as well as the heat sink being directly seated to the top of the core.
As far as size, you can get a larger heat sink on a slot, but that still doesn't make up for the natural cooling properties of a socket, unless the difference in size is massive.
Arguments like these confuse and detract from the main issue at hand and contribute to the perception of some people that the DeCSS code is being spread by anarchist kiddies instead of by people with a legitimate freedom issue.
Are you implying that these anarchist kiddies don't have a legimate freedom issue?
Everyone has a legimate right to freedom. Anarchists included.
I also believe that since a T-shirt is inherently harmless, and inherently speech, the fact that it is on a t-shirt does make it right. Anything else is an overextension of law.
If riding in an airplane is called flying, then riding in a boat is called swimming...
If you really want to fly, get out of the plane... I highly recommend taking along a parachute. Incredible view, incredible mental focus, nice rush.
For another great hobby, I recommend solo autocross racing. It's pretty cheap, assuming you already have a fairly sporty car. It's a great way to meet cool people who may or may not be into computers.
Speaking of that, I saw a woman at an autocross Saturday who had the words " Well behaved women never make history " on the back of her roll bar. In four weekends of autocross, I've met several cool people and have become a much better driver. I think having a secondary focus makes me a better programmer / software designer.
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I agree. If everyone voted for who they REALLY want to be president, this two party crap might go out the window.
My general opinion is that if you vote for either of the two whatsisnames that get all the publicity, you probably are brainwashed and you probably made your decision by watching television.
Ask yourself one question:
If I could vote for anyone I want, who would I vote for?
Well, you CAN vote for anyone you want. So quit being so brainwashed.
Just my opinion.
but there's no way that all players for PCs will respect the watermark.
One problem - the new sound card chipsets, particularly the latest one by TI, will refuse to play damaged watermarked audio. So even if your program just decodes and passes the signal, your sound card will mysteriously refuse to play.
Don't throw away those old sound cards...
However this article points out a lot of things that seem to be coming true and mentioned in the article that is the focus of this slashdot item, that basically the music company executives didn't expect it to be broken, don't have anything to fall back on, and the SDMI may in fact fall apart now that two years of their work have been effortlessly cut into shreds! Which is EXCELLENT news!
I disagreed with that article, because even if it was cracked AFTER they released it, they still wouldn't have anything to fall back on. Assuming they don't. If they do have something, they can use the results of the contest to eliminate possible cracks. So overall, I think cracking it before its release is a bad thing.
Because the music industry has appeared to be clueless up to this point, here's another possibility:
It really has been broken, and they really don't have anything to fall back on. So they DENY it's been broken, and release it anyway. Then it gets broken again after its release, and they pretend they weren't expecting it, along with playing stupid legal games.
I'm not sure if they are really this clueless. But it's possible.
I hate to point this out, but that post is ass-backwards.
To test a CPU, you run at low resolutions with V-Sync off, to keep the fill rate on the card from maxing out.
To test the fill rate of a card, you test at high resolutions. This tests both the pixel/texel rate and the memory bandwidth.
One legitimate reason to run at low resolutions is if you have a large display that doesn't support higher resolutions. Most 31 inch displays are 800x600, as well as any most multimedia projectors under $5000. So if you want to run a 31 inch monitor, or a 72 inch rear-projection screen, you are probably going to run at lower resolutions.
Also, with big screens like these, anti-aliasing is an advantage. So 800x600 with 4xFSAA is the best resolution for big monitors.
I never did any of these, but I did write TRS-80 versions of breakout, karate champ, and yie-ar kung fu.
Breakout was especially simple. I wrote it in just a few hours. I was ten years old at the time. And the version I wrote had some cool features that the original lacked.
Karate champ and yie-ar were a little more complicated, but still nothing that would take more than a couple of days to write.
I agree that trivial games like these should be public domain. Both the gameplay and how to make it work on a computer are not that complicated.
And on top of that, I've heard that this Insane Hardware article is a hoax...
;-)
So until I actually see a chip for myself that's missing these pins, I'll continue the direction I was headed before I read this crap.
Of course, there has never, ever been a hoax or rumor posted on Slashdot.
I have a very similar computer (K6-2, Voodoo 3, DVD Drive), but I am also getting something called a Broadlogic 1020 Card, which is a DVB/Dish Network satellite reciever on a PCI card. It will be hooked up to a Dish 500 satellite dish. The display is a 72 inch Da-Tex rear projection screen with a Dukane 8050, 1800 lumen multimedia projector. It's also hooked to my surround sound system.
Anyhow, if you want a swiss army knife, I agree that you should get computer components instead of a standalone box. More versatility...
For people who don't have the technical knowledge to assemble their own computer, a standalone box is a good option. Tivo is pretty cool, as is the Dishplayer by Dish Network. This Nokia also looks like a good option.
For that matter, how about all the new filtering features that /. was supposed to be getting?
Solution # 1: Download slashcode, add these features to the Perl code, send the code back, and let everyone know about the features so we can get them deployed.
Solution # 2: Quishyourbishin.
Perl is written is C, and I've heard of vulnerabilities in Perl scripts that can be manipulated by passing termination characters "\0" in forms on the web. However, any fairly competent web programmer will strip input down to allowable characters, and use taint checking. This prevents Perl from corrupting either C (termination) or the command shell (this can be done with pipe characters and > signs in the input of certain Perl scripts.)
I haven't tested to see if locale strings cause any problems with Perl. Since the Perl interpreter is just a fancy C program, it's possible it has the same vulnerabilities.
I also had a TRS-80 model 1 for my first computer. Had 4k of RAM and a cassette player. Then we got a 16K RAM upgrade and a 90K floppy drive. Man was I stoked.
I remember reading a magazine called "Interface Age" back in the 70's. (shortly after I learned how to read, but anyway...) They had an article about how someday we would have video cards with a whole megabyte of RAM, and we could do high resolution color graphics. Even then, they knew that a lot of video RAM would be needed, they just didn't have the technology to do it (cheaply).
I remember a few years ago when 1 meg video cards were the new rage, and you could do 256 colors at 1024x768. I wondered why anyone would ever need more than that. Then shortly after that, ATI came out with the 3D Expression card. It had two megs of RAM, and 3D instructions on the card itself. WOW. I bought one in PCI format, even though I didn't have a PCI slot to put it in. Got a PCI motherboard a couple of months later.
Anyhow, my point is - as soon as you think that we have reached the practical limit to how good video cards need to be, they'll think of some new feature that needs a better card.
Just as a side note - the Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM. Yes, that bytes. And there was some pretty cool games made for it. (The games themselves were on ROM chips, but they still had a 128 byte limitation for storing character positions, scores, screen states, etc.)
What is happening with server emulators, as well as many other products (DVD, Playstation Emulators, etc.) is that companies are making a product which requires another product. Then they are trying to control where you get that second product.
It's the old razor and razor blade analogy. Let's say a razor company sold razors for around cost, and then designed them so that no one else could make blades for them. Then, when some other company figures out how to make the blades, you hire a bunch of lawyers and sue them to high heaven.
This is simple, blatant, anti-competitiveness. You can argue that the company depends on it for profits, but that doesn't make it legitimate. If you sell a product at a loss to bait the sale of another product, you are taking a risk. The risk is that your customers may buy that other product from a competitor, or even get it for free from someone giving it away. Using legal pressure to force that competitor to "cease and desist" is unethical and anticompetitive, as well as a misuse of the legal system.
However, in today's society, certain companies seem to be getting away with it anyway.....
This was a decision made by the legal department, actually.
Back in the days of the Intel 80486, other companies (AMD, Texas Instruments, and Cyrix) started making chips called "486", with other letters or whatever tagged to them. Intel sued someone (can't remember which one) and the court said that "486" couldn't be trademarked because it was a model number, and other companies could have model numbers containing the same digits.
So the legal department told the marketing department that they needed to come up with a trademarkable name for their next generation of chips. Hence the "Pentium" name, which became a registered trademark. (By the way, a company called NexGen beat them to the name 586, which was a Risc86 chip, and became the design for the AMD K6.)
Personally I question a person who goes it alone and does all this work himself without thinking that he is either an AMD plant or works for another concern like Microsoft to discredit everyone except whom he is supposed to discredit. My question is who pays this "Tom" guy's wage?
Like I said above, if you've been reading Tom for a long time, his biases have shifted. That leads me to believe that if he is partial, it is for personal reasons, not financial ones. His wage is paid by people clicking on his site. The only thing I know of that the hardware manufacturers give him is parts to review.
Well, I still feel good about not liking Tom and his reviews. It is not so much that he found the bug but the fact that "I'm going to keep this as evidence and not help Intel" and his general approach to this situation...
And his attitude shouldn't be what it is considering what he is doing
Speaking as someone who has been following hardware sites since Tom's page didn't even have its own domain...
Tom used to be noticably pro-Intel. This was true until somewhere in the AMD-K6/Pentium Pro days, when he started noting that the K6 would run at 100 Mhz bus, and the socket 7 Pentiums wouldn't. He then gradually started becoming more pro-AMD and less pro-Intel.
I see two possibilities here.
1. He judges things purely on technical advantages, and really thinks AMD is better.
2. Someone at Intel pissed him off somewhere along the line, and he has a personal bias.
It's also possible that both of the above are true.
There is one thing I can't stand about his site - since he added the daily "technical news", I have seen news bits that are obviously press releases, and contain obvious technical errors that Tom should notice. I don't think he actually reads some of the stuff before it gets posted as "news".
I do like the reviews and articles that are actually written by his staff, though. I think keeping proof of the situation was important in the case of the 1133 Mhz chip. I think if he would have sent it back the problem may have dissapeared, much like it did with Kyle's chip. I think when he sent it back they did a microcode load or something, then returned it saying there was nothing wrong with it.
None of the four chips that this group of reviewers got would compile the Linux kernel. When Kyle slowed them down to 850 Mhz they worked. This points to the chips being flaky at their rated speed.
As far as Tom's attitude, it is the sum of all his experiences, just like anyone elses is. Though he could make a concious effort to change it, I think his honesty is important in an industry where too many reviewers simply regurgitate praise.
my TV is a Panasonic.
Does that make a difference?
Until a month from now, when the CEO of Panasonic says something really stupid....
IANAL either, but I don't think you can officially license a trade secret. I think for DVD-CCA to be licensing CSS, that means it's copyrighted or patented.
It's definitely not patented, because to be patented, it can't be a trade secret.
And a copyright only protects the exact wording of something, not a method of doing something. So in this case, someone could make a clean room implementation.
Have you ever considered the fact that the MPAA doesn't actually have any legal basis for their licensing, other than a self declared control of the market? And lobbying congress to pass the DMCA, which also has no other legal basis?
It's one thing to tell Xing "Hey, we found a crack in your security and reverse engineered your program." and quite another to build a tool to use that crack and distribute it to the public.
It's true that these are two different things. But the point is, they are both speech. If someone finds themselves with knowledge of how to defeat something, it is THEIR choice on how to handle it. It is not Xing's choice, it is not the government's choice. It is the choice of the person who has knowledge who to tell about it.
It is unfortunate that we have built a society where security through obscurity is so vital to the status quo that disseminating knowledge is punishable as a crime. If someone has enough knowledge about you to pretend to be you, then you become responsible for their actions. And if you build an empire out of paper cards, you can force our society to guard your card house. In turn, the people of that society have to give up freedoms for that protection.
The reason for freedom of speech is because speech is not a physical act. The way you respond to that speech is your own choice. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." If someone IS hurt by speech, it is either because of their response to that speech, or because they built a framework of lies that is destroyed by the truth.
The truth is that much of our society is built on fiction, and secrets, and dependence on ignorance. Dispelling that ignorance should be encouraged, because in the long run, knowledge rises to the top.
(If you disagree, explain why laws against passing bad checks could ever be constitutional.)
This one is simple, actually. The reason passing bad checks is illegal is because it falls under libel. In other words, free speech does not give you the right to lie. By passing a bad check, you are indicating that you have the money to pay it, and are willing to do so. If you do not have the money to pay, or are not willing to do so, you are lying. Libel law predates the constition, and being untruthful has never been guaranteed legal.
If you want a better example, how about license plates? In this case, the government is requiring you to tag yourself with a number, in order to utilize your constitutional right to travel. A direct violation of the right to NOT express things you choose not to.
However, the DMCA is NOT content neutral. It is illegal to publish source code to DeCSS, but it is not illegal to publish the source code of how to burn the Canadian flag. It is in fact the content of the source code that is being punished.
I heard that the next price break (after this one) is supposed to be September 20th. The 1000 should be under $500.
I usually try not to pay more than $150 for processors. The 800 Thunderbird should be in my range at the end of September. The DDR motherboards should be out by then, too.
The big decision will be - do I get a motherboard the supports SDR, so I can salvage my RAM, or do I get a DDR motherboard and new RAM. (I can always put the old RAM in my K6-3) Maybe someone will make a motherboard that supports both. Hmmm....
If RAMBUS stock isn't worth anything, this won't matter.
1,000,000 shares time zero dollars per share is zero dollars.
I think Intel is starting to wonder if they have more to lose in market share than they have to gain in Rambus bribes.
Rambus won't quite go bankrupt, because they have big contracts with Sony and Hitachi for video games. But if I was someone with Rambus stock, I would sell it as soon as it shows the slightest sign of dropping.
The K6-2+ series (which this article is about) have 128K of full speed L2 cache on the chip. They also support L3 cache on the motherboard, so their cache performance is excellent.
.18 micron process, almost 100% of these chips will overclock to 600 Mhz. And all you have to do is set a couple of jumpers on the motherboard. For cheap overclocking, these chips are great.
Also, since the K6-2+ is manufactured with a
The only problem I see is availability. I've only ever seen two of these chips, and I see a lot of AMD processors. If you have a Socket 7 motherboard, and you see one of these chips, I'd highly recommend getting one.
The reserve chute is spring loaded, and MORE reliable than the main chute.
The real statistics are 1 in 187,000. It's statistically safer than most freeways.
If you can't accept THOSE odds, then don't skydive. But it's a lot of fun.
Actually, sockets have a huge advantage in cooling over slots. It is mostly because of the direct connection of the pins to the board. The pins help dissipate heat, as well as the heat sink being directly seated to the top of the core.
As far as size, you can get a larger heat sink on a slot, but that still doesn't make up for the natural cooling properties of a socket, unless the difference in size is massive.
Arguments like these confuse and detract from the main issue at hand and contribute to the perception of some people that the DeCSS code is being spread by anarchist kiddies instead of by people with a legitimate freedom issue.
Are you implying that these anarchist kiddies don't have a legimate freedom issue?
Everyone has a legimate right to freedom. Anarchists included.
I also believe that since a T-shirt is inherently harmless, and inherently speech, the fact that it is on a t-shirt does make it right. Anything else is an overextension of law.
If riding in an airplane is called flying, then riding in a boat is called swimming...
If you really want to fly, get out of the plane... I highly recommend taking along a parachute. Incredible view, incredible mental focus, nice rush.
For another great hobby, I recommend solo autocross racing. It's pretty cheap, assuming you already have a fairly sporty car. It's a great way to meet cool people who may or may not be into computers.
Speaking of that, I saw a woman at an autocross Saturday who had the words " Well behaved women never make history " on the back of her roll bar. In four weekends of autocross, I've met several cool people and have become a much better driver. I think having a secondary focus makes me a better programmer / software designer.