... how my parallel port is using the same IRQ as my sound card (for some reason). So the game is, I have to unload my parallel port modules, then reload the sound modules, and then (finially) reload my par port modules. Its really fun, and after going through a few lives and continues, I win everytime.
A lot of people seem to be complaining that Slashdot doesn't need to announce a development release... I think that its only being announced because its the first release of 2.5. Kind of like saying "hey, its started, just thought you'd crazy ones would like to know!" I very much doubt we are going to see EVERY 2.5.x release on the front page.
And if you are one of those complaining... c'mon... grow up. Like it *really* killed you to read one extra headline.
Okay, I haven't bought a PS2 yet. I'm waiting for a price drop before I do. So does this mean in the interest of playing old PSX backups, I need to buy a modchip now? Or are the modchips the articles referring to (reading them didn't clear this up any) only related to imports and imported DVDs? Call me crazy, but I don't know Eastern languages very well, so getting games and movies that only speak those aren't any fun. If those are the only modchips going away in the very near future, then that's fine with me (and maybe only me).
Intel's chipsets for P4 have been using DDR for a while now. In fact, most OEMs have been developing P4 systems with DDR for months now. I can't tell you the last time we sold a RAMBUS probe. Further more, all of intel's future processor chipsets will use DDR as well.
I work for a test equipment supplier which will go unnamed.
This is just something that is a result of society. We can see things like this in a number of places. DoS attacks are just another example of vandalism. "Hey, its not mine, who cares?" Its not that the people doing the attacks are immune to understanding what they are doing. It is they just don't give a flying fuck. Its very sad. Until someone destorys something they work to maintain, they won't understand.
Something along these lines are probably the best idea. That way if in 10 years its not fiber, but a cable full of bubbles, you aren't screwed. If you do use PVC (or some kind of conduit), just make sure you put some rope in them so that you can pull the cables through later. Otherwise you aren't saving yourself much trouble. (Some, but not much).
They have every right in the world. Its your house now, but it might not be 20 years from now. And if your house burns down 20 years from now while someone else's kids are sleeping, that is not good. Its all in the name of safety. Well, at least it use to be in the name of safety. Now it might also be in the name of "our city needs more money, and you need a permit for that nail to hang a picture."
But regardless, I wouldn't want to move into a house without some (even small) level of reassurance someone has said "yeah, as far as we know, this wiring is safe (even if barely)."
I think he mean just the boxes themselves. No wires. I would think you could pass an electrical inspection with having just the boxes there. I can understand not passing if they all had wires running through them. I could be wrong though.
All of the consoles sold now are loss leaders. With the cost of development and manufacturing, its a must for set-top boxes. Its nothing new.
I wish there were enough people to buy an X-Box and never buy even one game for it. Of course, I think to kill of the X-Box (or any console for that matter) it would take as many people who already are buying one. I doubt that many people would be willing to pay whatever it costs for one.
As a side note... I got a dreamcast with NesterDC. It has something like 1,000 NES ROMs. Very fun to play some of those old games again. But then, I only paid $50 for the dreamcast....
Okay... so here's what I don't get... the company's policy clearly says "KPMG is obligated to protect its reputation and trademarks and KPMG reserves the right to request removal of any link to our website."
So what do they think? EVERYONE that they request to remove a link is going too. If they want to try to use this stupid policy to "enforce" something (what, I'm still not quite sure) then at least word it properly. In the form of "we request the right to force you to remove a link to our site." Not that either policy actually means anything.
I reserve the right to request you to remove any silver type jewerly while visitng my website.
A company called Oasis Semiconductor is working on the "MOST" system. Which provides a fiber optic communication system in cars. The idea is to replaced the copper-based CAN bus with fiber. The added benefit, that they see, is total system integration. In their prime example, the CD player becomes nothing more than a CD-ROM. The data is sent directly to the Amp in the audio system where its decoded and played. This way any system on the car can now have audio output. It also makes it easier to integrate cell phone system into cars. My car as one of those Cellport system installed in it. Which is nice, but if I want a different radio, I'm screwed. With Oasis's system, I could put any radio I want (that supports MOST) in, since its not tied to my cell phone.
Currently some Mercedes Benz models and *maybe* BMW use MOST. Though, they are only using 4 devices on the chain. Mercedes can, however, at least say they have a fiber optic network in their car.
I went with a Toshiba Slot loading DVD player. I never had a problem finding it. Since there are fewer drives on the market, it is reasonable to assume that they might be of higher quaility. If someone is willing to pay extra for a SCSi then they would expct higher quaility
In any event, I think that this is a moot point. Either they already have a SCSI reader or they will simply use their writer as one. Nor do I think they care if the reader is scsi or not.
I don't think its only about speed. SCSI is far more toleratent of other things going on with the bus. The IDE bus was never really meant to be used in a multitasking system. If a data packet had to be delayed for an unknown amount of time, that is acceptable. SCSI, on the other hand, doesn't have this issue.
A completely different reason for wanting know Assembly language is not related to software. If you are a hardware design engineer, Assembly Language can be invaluable. I work for a company that makes Logic Analzyers and the most popular embedded processors is the PowerPC family. Our Logic Analyzers have a built in inverse assembler. Many Many times hardware engineers will look at the IA to determine what was going on, on the bus. Granted, they don't care what C instructions were being executed. They want to know, at the roots, what was the processor doing.
I think its very unlikely nowadays someone would write a computer application in assembly laungage. It would take way to long. But in the embedded world there are tons of reasons to know assembly. At the very least, everyone should know how to read it....
Dude, slow down. You are getting all your stuff mixed up. I never said audio CD players are analog. A CDROM driver has nothing to do with reading the bits it receives. The CDROM does all that. All it does, is report the data back the driver. You are right about a single bit error. What you negelct is that by the time the CDROM driver sees the bit, it doesn't know that it was ever an error.
What you want is a driver that does an excessive amount of post processing. It has nothing to do with fixing buggy CDROM drivers. The driver doesn't have to do the FFT. It doesn't know its suppose to. It just sees bits and bytes. If you want to fix a 'protected' CD, then write a program to run your FFT.
CDROM drivers crap out when they get an error because the entire packet is corrupted, not one bit. Remember when you are ripping a CD, you are ripping the digital bits. Therefore, the drive (and its driver) treat it just like data. It does not care that the data it is reading is suppose to be audio at some point.
We are already dealing with circuits that have a voltage swing of 250mV. If I understand this site (which you have pointed out already as less than credible), then we could say 0 = 0v, 1 = 250mV and 2 = 500mV.
I don't think that ternary logic is useless. But its usefulness is limited. I think it will be most useful in high speed serial systems. Infiniband comes to mind. (Though it wouldn't be implemented there now.)
I don't agree with your assement of slower than binary, however, it will cost more power. Especially if the first generation of design relied on more comparaters.
Sure this sort of thing is "interesting", but what is the actual benefit of writing applications in HLL that are then compiled down to this instruction set or that ?
You are rather arrogant, aren't you? I care about this kind of stuff because I don't write applications. I build hardware. You don't seem me bitching about MAME running on the XBox. I could use your same "who cares" argument by saying "No kidding, its a PC. Let's stop wasting our time with that. Its 'interesting' but nothing new."
So I am sorry if it bothers you that Slashdot appeals to a broader audience than code monkies (which apparently you are and the other 99% of the people that read slashdot are not).
This isn't "Stuff that matters" its "irrelevant stuff to pass sometime" God, a statement like that just makes me boil.
This is yet another example of the desire for "new or different" over getting hands dirty and improving what is there
You don't even know what a trinary system is, do you? Its exactly dealing with improving what is there already. By having 3 different states, we could significantly increase the rate with we transmit serial data. (Which is idea that just popped into my head.) Its a lot faster to detect two distinct voltages than two that are very close.
Ah, no one cares about you anyway. Go back under your rock.
All this is going to do is to force the manufacturers of CDROMs to fix the broken drivers. The 'copy protection' schemes do nothing more than exploit bugs in the sloppy error handling of the standard Windows CDROM driver.
I was under the impression that this scheme exploited the error correction of a CD. I wasn't aware it had anything to do with error handling. This scheme makes use of the fact that if you trash the error correction bits on your CD, a digital device won't understand it. Your audio CD player doesn't care.
Say you read 3 data chunks. 0x34 0x35 0x36. The checksum values come back telling you that 0x35 should have been read as a 0x37. Well, an audio cd player won't know who the believe. The data or the checksum. So it chucks it. Our ears (as we are told, won't hear it get filtered out.) However, our CDROMs say "fine, make it 0x37." Well you do that enough times and your digital file is no good. There are no audio filters built into a cdrom to correct for these errors. The inherient nature of a Audio CD player's error correction scheme makes it rather simple audio filter. We lose that once the track is ripped into a digital file.
All of the pops and stuff that are actually on the CD, get played back by our computer. It doesn't know that 0x35 was really 0x37. It recorded a 0x37. There isn't anything wrong with the CDROM drivers... they work the way they are suppose to.
So I am starting to wonder. If it hasn't begun to occur already, what has to be done to bring a class action suit to the offending record companies? There are three things I see as a defense on our side.
1. It seems to me that someone would be able to find equipment that the CDs actually sound worse in.
2. Prove the lost ability to make a backup copy.
3. Show how you are suddenly limited to where you can play the $20 cd at.
Without a warning, I just can't believe its possible for them to do this. However, at the same time, I'm uncertain what law says "this cd must play in all cd players." I understand it isn't our right to play the cd anywhere, but at the same time, it is also our consumer right to know what we are buying can and can not do.
I completely disagree. Hardware is way more fun to play with than software. I love building "something" and seeing "something." Software is sooo boring. Wow, you can make clicking buttons and such. Flashing LEDs are more exciting than radio buttons on a screen.
I especially liked how he said he doesn't have anything senstive and only a handful of admin accounts. Imagine that. Its people like him that allowed Code Red to fill my apache logs.
Its not an argument. Its the reason behind the QWERTY design. Its not like they just put the keys were just thrown on a table and some guy said "this is how it will be laid out." Call that fact an argument is like saying "well, we made the tires on a car round because rubber comes in circles."
Tried a split keyboard once (MS "natural"), couldn't stand it.
I was kind of shocked when I read the email and it said that only 10% of the world is actual touch typist. Comments like this prove the guy right though. In general I have found people that can not use or do not like to use split keyboards are people who can't type correctly.
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Well, except I use my parallel port for...
...Flash Advance Linker (program GBA carts)
...The EPROM Programmer I Built
...My Printer (which needs not be replaced)
...The touch screen for my SBC
...etc, etc, etc
Unfortuantly, I haven't had time to write USB drivers or program a USB enabled micro to handle all of the that stuff yet.
... how my parallel port is using the same IRQ as my sound card (for some reason). So the game is, I have to unload my parallel port modules, then reload the sound modules, and then (finially) reload my par port modules. Its really fun, and after going through a few lives and continues, I win everytime.
A lot of people seem to be complaining that Slashdot doesn't need to announce a development release... I think that its only being announced because its the first release of 2.5. Kind of like saying "hey, its started, just thought you'd crazy ones would like to know!" I very much doubt we are going to see EVERY 2.5.x release on the front page.
And if you are one of those complaining... c'mon... grow up. Like it *really* killed you to read one extra headline.
Okay, I haven't bought a PS2 yet. I'm waiting for a price drop before I do. So does this mean in the interest of playing old PSX backups, I need to buy a modchip now? Or are the modchips the articles referring to (reading them didn't clear this up any) only related to imports and imported DVDs? Call me crazy, but I don't know Eastern languages very well, so getting games and movies that only speak those aren't any fun. If those are the only modchips going away in the very near future, then that's fine with me (and maybe only me).
Intel's chipsets for P4 have been using DDR for a while now. In fact, most OEMs have been developing P4 systems with DDR for months now. I can't tell you the last time we sold a RAMBUS probe. Further more, all of intel's future processor chipsets will use DDR as well.
I work for a test equipment supplier which will go unnamed.
This is just something that is a result of society. We can see things like this in a number of places. DoS attacks are just another example of vandalism. "Hey, its not mine, who cares?" Its not that the people doing the attacks are immune to understanding what they are doing. It is they just don't give a flying fuck. Its very sad. Until someone destorys something they work to maintain, they won't understand.
Something along these lines are probably the best idea. That way if in 10 years its not fiber, but a cable full of bubbles, you aren't screwed. If you do use PVC (or some kind of conduit), just make sure you put some rope in them so that you can pull the cables through later. Otherwise you aren't saving yourself much trouble. (Some, but not much).
They have every right in the world. Its your house now, but it might not be 20 years from now. And if your house burns down 20 years from now while someone else's kids are sleeping, that is not good. Its all in the name of safety. Well, at least it use to be in the name of safety. Now it might also be in the name of "our city needs more money, and you need a permit for that nail to hang a picture."
But regardless, I wouldn't want to move into a house without some (even small) level of reassurance someone has said "yeah, as far as we know, this wiring is safe (even if barely)."
I think he mean just the boxes themselves. No wires. I would think you could pass an electrical inspection with having just the boxes there. I can understand not passing if they all had wires running through them. I could be wrong though.
All of the consoles sold now are loss leaders. With the cost of development and manufacturing, its a must for set-top boxes. Its nothing new.
I wish there were enough people to buy an X-Box and never buy even one game for it. Of course, I think to kill of the X-Box (or any console for that matter) it would take as many people who already are buying one. I doubt that many people would be willing to pay whatever it costs for one.
As a side note... I got a dreamcast with NesterDC. It has something like 1,000 NES ROMs. Very fun to play some of those old games again. But then, I only paid $50 for the dreamcast....
Okay... so here's what I don't get... the company's policy clearly says "KPMG is obligated to protect its reputation and trademarks and KPMG reserves the right to request removal of any link to our website."
So what do they think? EVERYONE that they request to remove a link is going too. If they want to try to use this stupid policy to "enforce" something (what, I'm still not quite sure) then at least word it properly. In the form of "we request the right to force you to remove a link to our site." Not that either policy actually means anything.
I reserve the right to request you to remove any silver type jewerly while visitng my website.
A company called Oasis Semiconductor is working on the "MOST" system. Which provides a fiber optic communication system in cars. The idea is to replaced the copper-based CAN bus with fiber. The added benefit, that they see, is total system integration. In their prime example, the CD player becomes nothing more than a CD-ROM. The data is sent directly to the Amp in the audio system where its decoded and played. This way any system on the car can now have audio output. It also makes it easier to integrate cell phone system into cars. My car as one of those Cellport system installed in it. Which is nice, but if I want a different radio, I'm screwed. With Oasis's system, I could put any radio I want (that supports MOST) in, since its not tied to my cell phone.
Currently some Mercedes Benz models and *maybe* BMW use MOST. Though, they are only using 4 devices on the chain. Mercedes can, however, at least say they have a fiber optic network in their car.
I went with a Toshiba Slot loading DVD player. I never had a problem finding it. Since there are fewer drives on the market, it is reasonable to assume that they might be of higher quaility. If someone is willing to pay extra for a SCSi then they would expct higher quaility
In any event, I think that this is a moot point. Either they already have a SCSI reader or they will simply use their writer as one. Nor do I think they care if the reader is scsi or not.
I don't think its only about speed. SCSI is far more toleratent of other things going on with the bus. The IDE bus was never really meant to be used in a multitasking system. If a data packet had to be delayed for an unknown amount of time, that is acceptable. SCSI, on the other hand, doesn't have this issue.
A completely different reason for wanting know Assembly language is not related to software. If you are a hardware design engineer, Assembly Language can be invaluable. I work for a company that makes Logic Analzyers and the most popular embedded processors is the PowerPC family. Our Logic Analyzers have a built in inverse assembler. Many Many times hardware engineers will look at the IA to determine what was going on, on the bus. Granted, they don't care what C instructions were being executed. They want to know, at the roots, what was the processor doing.
I think its very unlikely nowadays someone would write a computer application in assembly laungage. It would take way to long. But in the embedded world there are tons of reasons to know assembly. At the very least, everyone should know how to read it....
err?
Isn't that exactly what I said... "...however, it will cost more power. Especially if the first generation of design relied on more comparaters.?
Dude, slow down. You are getting all your stuff mixed up. I never said audio CD players are analog. A CDROM driver has nothing to do with reading the bits it receives. The CDROM does all that. All it does, is report the data back the driver. You are right about a single bit error. What you negelct is that by the time the CDROM driver sees the bit, it doesn't know that it was ever an error.
What you want is a driver that does an excessive amount of post processing. It has nothing to do with fixing buggy CDROM drivers. The driver doesn't have to do the FFT. It doesn't know its suppose to. It just sees bits and bytes. If you want to fix a 'protected' CD, then write a program to run your FFT.
CDROM drivers crap out when they get an error because the entire packet is corrupted, not one bit. Remember when you are ripping a CD, you are ripping the digital bits. Therefore, the drive (and its driver) treat it just like data. It does not care that the data it is reading is suppose to be audio at some point.
Not necessairly.
We are already dealing with circuits that have a voltage swing of 250mV. If I understand this site (which you have pointed out already as less than credible), then we could say 0 = 0v, 1 = 250mV and 2 = 500mV.
I don't think that ternary logic is useless. But its usefulness is limited. I think it will be most useful in high speed serial systems. Infiniband comes to mind. (Though it wouldn't be implemented there now.)
I don't agree with your assement of slower than binary, however, it will cost more power. Especially if the first generation of design relied on more comparaters.
Sure this sort of thing is "interesting", but what is the actual benefit of writing applications in HLL that are then compiled down to this instruction set or that ?
You are rather arrogant, aren't you? I care about this kind of stuff because I don't write applications. I build hardware. You don't seem me bitching about MAME running on the XBox. I could use your same "who cares" argument by saying "No kidding, its a PC. Let's stop wasting our time with that. Its 'interesting' but nothing new."
So I am sorry if it bothers you that Slashdot appeals to a broader audience than code monkies (which apparently you are and the other 99% of the people that read slashdot are not).
This isn't "Stuff that matters" its "irrelevant stuff to pass sometime"
God, a statement like that just makes me boil.
This is yet another example of the desire for "new or different" over getting hands dirty and improving what is there
You don't even know what a trinary system is, do you? Its exactly dealing with improving what is there already. By having 3 different states, we could significantly increase the rate with we transmit serial data. (Which is idea that just popped into my head.) Its a lot faster to detect two distinct voltages than two that are very close.
Ah, no one cares about you anyway. Go back under your rock.
All this is going to do is to force the manufacturers of CDROMs to fix the broken drivers. The 'copy protection' schemes do nothing more than exploit bugs in the sloppy error handling of the standard Windows CDROM driver.
I was under the impression that this scheme exploited the error correction of a CD. I wasn't aware it had anything to do with error handling. This scheme makes use of the fact that if you trash the error correction bits on your CD, a digital device won't understand it. Your audio CD player doesn't care.
Say you read 3 data chunks. 0x34 0x35 0x36. The checksum values come back telling you that 0x35 should have been read as a 0x37. Well, an audio cd player won't know who the believe. The data or the checksum. So it chucks it. Our ears (as we are told, won't hear it get filtered out.) However, our CDROMs say "fine, make it 0x37." Well you do that enough times and your digital file is no good. There are no audio filters built into a cdrom to correct for these errors. The inherient nature of a Audio CD player's error correction scheme makes it rather simple audio filter. We lose that once the track is ripped into a digital file.
All of the pops and stuff that are actually on the CD, get played back by our computer. It doesn't know that 0x35 was really 0x37. It recorded a 0x37. There isn't anything wrong with the CDROM drivers... they work the way they are suppose to.
So I am starting to wonder. If it hasn't begun to occur already, what has to be done to bring a class action suit to the offending record companies? There are three things I see as a defense on our side.
1. It seems to me that someone would be able to find equipment that the CDs actually sound worse in.
2. Prove the lost ability to make a backup copy.
3. Show how you are suddenly limited to where you can play the $20 cd at.
Without a warning, I just can't believe its possible for them to do this. However, at the same time, I'm uncertain what law says "this cd must play in all cd players." I understand it isn't our right to play the cd anywhere, but at the same time, it is also our consumer right to know what we are buying can and can not do.
I completely disagree. Hardware is way more fun to play with than software. I love building "something" and seeing "something." Software is sooo boring. Wow, you can make clicking buttons and such. Flashing LEDs are more exciting than radio buttons on a screen.
Nicely Put.
I especially liked how he said he doesn't have anything senstive and only a handful of admin accounts. Imagine that. Its people like him that allowed Code Red to fill my apache logs.
TiVo just sits between the Cable Box and your TV (or whatever your setup). It doesn't do any decoding of cable channels what so ever.
I've heard this argument
Its not an argument. Its the reason behind the QWERTY design. Its not like they just put the keys were just thrown on a table and some guy said "this is how it will be laid out." Call that fact an argument is like saying "well, we made the tires on a car round because rubber comes in circles."
Tried a split keyboard once (MS "natural"), couldn't stand it.
I was kind of shocked when I read the email and it said that only 10% of the world is actual touch typist. Comments like this prove the guy right though. In general I have found people that can not use or do not like to use split keyboards are people who can't type correctly.