Nevertheless, Intel acquired its ARM technology from DEC, not Apple. It was DEC's StrongARM, an offshoot of ARM, that Intel turned into XScale.
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Intel now owns the largest stake in ARM (bought from Apple)
Sigh - how soon they forget. Intel's ARM technology was acquired from DEC, not Apple. It was DEC's StrongARM that was "bought" by Intel as part of the settlement of the patent infringement lawsuit brought by DEC. Not just the rights to the processor and the architecture license, but the Hudson, MA chip fab that made the processors.
As far as I know, Apple has had no involvement in ARM.
I fly United Airlines coast-to-coast several times a year, and sometimes get an upgrade to First Class. A couple of years ago, they did have Empower sockets in the First Class seats, but they seem to have pulled them from the A319s I fly and I haven't seen one in a long time. I haven't seen a power socket in coach in at least three years, across a variety of airlines.
At least I now have a Centrino-based IBM that, with the extended life battery, pretty much handles the whole flight.
I note with interest that Google's map source is NavTeq/TeleAtlas, which also supplies the mapping data for my TomTom Go GPS unit. I have read many complaints about the Go's maps being years out of date (more so in the UK than US), but in general it has worked for me.
I looked at several places where I knew the Go had incorrect mapping (nothing serious), and Google's version had them correct every time. So I guess that some chunks of the data are more up to date than others, which should be a surprise to no one.
The business lookup definitely needs work. I asked for a particular pet store in my city. It listed the address right, but the map pointer had it in the middle of a residential neighborhood several miles to the north. Strange.
Their hiring practices leave a lot to be desired. They prefer contractors to employees, but won't hire a contractor for longer than a year, and there has to be something like a 6 month break before re-hiring.
This is federal law, not just Intel. I have seen some variations in how companies implement it, but it's necessary to avoid the contractor from being considered an employee. Both companies and contractors hate it. (My wife was a contractor when this law went into effect.)
It isn't accessing the Internet - it uses a local loopback connection to talk to its server, but your firewall doesn't distinguish that.
Google Desktop can send debug info to Google, but the claim is that it sends no information about what you searched for or your local file contents to Google. You can opt out of the debug and statistical info collection.
That would be your wireless provider, not Google. It worked perfectly for me and I got a response within 30 seconds. This is so cool and useful - well worth the dime I get charged for sending SMS.
The DirecTV-TiVo recorder mentioned in the article also records OTA digital TV (including HDTV). But a DirecTV subscription is required - you can't use it JUST to record OTA. It actually has a fourth tuner for unencrypted QAM cable digital, for what that's worth (not much).
Windows XP SP2 already has this. The referenced article describes a larger new feature that would include this as a subset, but "the future is today" regarding IT admins being able to lock out USB storage devices.
I have the NSLU2 and use it as a file server for backup. But even more useful, it serves my MP3 collection to my Audiotron. It and the USB disk sit, tucked away, on a shelf in my basement. It draws far less power than a PC and is silent (other than the disk.)
It also has a built-in backup client that can back up files from other shares on your network. I don't use this, but it's a nice feature.
No, you're not. For example, an HP Integritry Rx-2600 with an Itanium 2 processor lists for as low as $2110. Itanium processors are not that far away from Xeon processor prices nowadays.
I gather you didn't actually read the article, where the relative ages of the chipsets were explicitly mentioned. The year-old ICH5R came out very well against the newer implementations.
Um, yes, the article did mention the impact of size on stacked ports. Several times in fact.
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Except that people reporting spam through SpamCop are NOT "seeking to be taken off a mailing list". They are complaining about spam - spam for which it is highly likely that they never asked to receive in the first place.
What Richter wants to do is called "list-washing" - removal (from one list, anyway) of people who complain. But most spammers will gleefully add that address to all their other lists since it is confirmed "live".
I use Spamcop and choose not to "munge" my e-mail address. But I haven't yet seen Richter's domain show up as a reporting address - nor would I expect it to. It's the bandwidth provider which normally gets the complaint. Some will of course directly pass it on to the spammer.
All TiVos have some "reserved space" that is used for the Showcases material, and is not included in the advertised space for YOUR recordings. The video comes from a "paid programming" segment run on Discovery in the wee hours of the morning. (Some people have cable companies that preempt this for their own ads, so their TiVos don't get it.) It is not "downloaded" (as in from the Internet or over the phone.)
As presently structured, the ads would not be HDTV. Perhaps sometime in the future that might happen.
You're not supposed to turn the TiVo off. Even "standby" isn't "off". The only way to really turn it off is to unplug it, which eliminates the whole point of having a TiVo.
Just turn the TV off and leave the TiVo alone.
On standalone TiVos, Standby turns off the audio/video outputs and front-panel LEDs and routes the RF in to RF out. On DirecTV TiVos it also stops recording the live buffer(s).
The Clear button will do this for a show selected in Now Playing. If you're currently watching a show previously recorded, press left-arrow then clear. You do have to confirm this request.
The FUD about satellite reception going out often is just that. I switched from cable to satellite three years ago - the cable signal was much LESS reliable than satellite, and would go out for hours at a time even when weather was good.
Initially, I had Dish Network, but switched to DirecTV with the integrated TiVo. I live in snow and ice country, and I rarely lose signal. When I do, if ice builds up on the dish, I clean it off with a broom out the window and it's fine. In most climates, you won't get "rain fade" with a properly installed dish - if it is a problem for you, you can get larger dishes that give a stronger signal. I have yet to lose the signal once this winter.
My cable provider (Comcast) increases rates twice a year - it most recently went up 28%. I do use cable for the cable modem, and, due to Comcast's screwy prices, it's cheaper for me to get basic cable (and not use it) than not.
Intel uses "geographic" names (towns, mountains, etc.) for all its code names, since they can't be copyrighted. Prescott is a town in Oregon (a state from which Intel draws many of its code names), so I think that the connection to Moby Dick is just a coincidence.
In the time before 9/11, it was common for me to be asked to power on a laptop to show a "full screen". But since 9/11, I've never been asked to do this - they send the laptop through X-ray and sometimes do the chemical swab test.
Because other additives (MTBE, Ethanol, etc.) need to be used instead to raise the octane level. Can you even find leaded gas anymore? I haven't seen it in MANY years.
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Nevertheless, Intel acquired its ARM technology from DEC, not Apple. It was DEC's StrongARM, an offshoot of ARM, that Intel turned into XScale.
Intel now owns the largest stake in ARM (bought from Apple)
Sigh - how soon they forget. Intel's ARM technology was acquired from DEC, not Apple. It was DEC's StrongARM that was "bought" by Intel as part of the settlement of the patent infringement lawsuit brought by DEC. Not just the rights to the processor and the architecture license, but the Hudson, MA chip fab that made the processors.
As far as I know, Apple has had no involvement in ARM.
I fly United Airlines coast-to-coast several times a year, and sometimes get an upgrade to First Class. A couple of years ago, they did have Empower sockets in the First Class seats, but they seem to have pulled them from the A319s I fly and I haven't seen one in a long time. I haven't seen a power socket in coach in at least three years, across a variety of airlines.
At least I now have a Centrino-based IBM that, with the extended life battery, pretty much handles the whole flight.
I note with interest that Google's map source is NavTeq/TeleAtlas, which also supplies the mapping data for my TomTom Go GPS unit. I have read many complaints about the Go's maps being years out of date (more so in the UK than US), but in general it has worked for me.
I looked at several places where I knew the Go had incorrect mapping (nothing serious), and Google's version had them correct every time. So I guess that some chunks of the data are more up to date than others, which should be a surprise to no one.
The business lookup definitely needs work. I asked for a particular pet store in my city. It listed the address right, but the map pointer had it in the middle of a residential neighborhood several miles to the north. Strange.
Noticed this at the bottom of the page...
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This is federal law, not just Intel. I have seen some variations in how companies implement it, but it's necessary to avoid the contractor from being considered an employee. Both companies and contractors hate it. (My wife was a contractor when this law went into effect.)
It isn't accessing the Internet - it uses a local loopback connection to talk to its server, but your firewall doesn't distinguish that.
Google Desktop can send debug info to Google, but the claim is that it sends no information about what you searched for or your local file contents to Google. You can opt out of the debug and statistical info collection.
That would be your wireless provider, not Google. It worked perfectly for me and I got a response within 30 seconds. This is so cool and useful - well worth the dime I get charged for sending SMS.
The DirecTV-TiVo recorder mentioned in the article also records OTA digital TV (including HDTV). But a DirecTV subscription is required - you can't use it JUST to record OTA. It actually has a fourth tuner for unencrypted QAM cable digital, for what that's worth (not much).
Windows XP SP2 already has this. The referenced article describes a larger new feature that would include this as a subset, but "the future is today" regarding IT admins being able to lock out USB storage devices.
I have the NSLU2 and use it as a file server for backup. But even more useful, it serves my MP3 collection to my Audiotron. It and the USB disk sit, tucked away, on a shelf in my basement. It draws far less power than a PC and is silent (other than the disk.)
It also has a built-in backup client that can back up files from other shares on your network. I don't use this, but it's a nice feature.
No, you're not. For example, an HP Integritry Rx-2600 with an Itanium 2 processor lists for as low as $2110. Itanium processors are not that far away from Xeon processor prices nowadays.
Apparently there's an alternate version without a fan, using a variant of the processor.
I gather you didn't actually read the article, where the relative ages of the chipsets were explicitly mentioned. The year-old ICH5R came out very well against the newer implementations.
Um, yes, the article did mention the impact of size on stacked ports. Several times in fact.
Except that people reporting spam through SpamCop are NOT "seeking to be taken off a mailing list". They are complaining about spam - spam for which it is highly likely that they never asked to receive in the first place.
What Richter wants to do is called "list-washing" - removal (from one list, anyway) of people who complain. But most spammers will gleefully add that address to all their other lists since it is confirmed "live".
I use Spamcop and choose not to "munge" my e-mail address. But I haven't yet seen Richter's domain show up as a reporting address - nor would I expect it to. It's the bandwidth provider which normally gets the complaint. Some will of course directly pass it on to the spammer.
All TiVos have some "reserved space" that is used for the Showcases material, and is not included in the advertised space for YOUR recordings. The video comes from a "paid programming" segment run on Discovery in the wee hours of the morning. (Some people have cable companies that preempt this for their own ads, so their TiVos don't get it.) It is not "downloaded" (as in from the Internet or over the phone.)
As presently structured, the ads would not be HDTV. Perhaps sometime in the future that might happen.
You're not supposed to turn the TiVo off. Even "standby" isn't "off". The only way to really turn it off is to unplug it, which eliminates the whole point of having a TiVo.
Just turn the TV off and leave the TiVo alone.
On standalone TiVos, Standby turns off the audio/video outputs and front-panel LEDs and routes the RF in to RF out. On DirecTV TiVos it also stops recording the live buffer(s).
The Clear button will do this for a show selected in Now Playing. If you're currently watching a show previously recorded, press left-arrow then clear. You do have to confirm this request.
The FUD about satellite reception going out often is just that. I switched from cable to satellite three years ago - the cable signal was much LESS reliable than satellite, and would go out for hours at a time even when weather was good.
Initially, I had Dish Network, but switched to DirecTV with the integrated TiVo. I live in snow and ice country, and I rarely lose signal. When I do, if ice builds up on the dish, I clean it off with a broom out the window and it's fine. In most climates, you won't get "rain fade" with a properly installed dish - if it is a problem for you, you can get larger dishes that give a stronger signal. I have yet to lose the signal once this winter.
My cable provider (Comcast) increases rates twice a year - it most recently went up 28%. I do use cable for the cable modem, and, due to Comcast's screwy prices, it's cheaper for me to get basic cable (and not use it) than not.
.. copyrighted or trademarked, I should have said...
Intel uses "geographic" names (towns, mountains, etc.) for all its code names, since they can't be copyrighted. Prescott is a town in Oregon (a state from which Intel draws many of its code names), so I think that the connection to Moby Dick is just a coincidence.
In the time before 9/11, it was common for me to be asked to power on a laptop to show a "full screen". But since 9/11, I've never been asked to do this - they send the laptop through X-ray and sometimes do the chemical swab test.
Because other additives (MTBE, Ethanol, etc.) need to be used instead to raise the octane level. Can you even find leaded gas anymore? I haven't seen it in MANY years.
Norton AntiVirus 2004 does detect and warn about spyware, keystroke loggers, etc. But even if it didn't, I don't see that there's any "blame" there.