Why DRAM? eDRAM has a 4x density advantage over SRAM, so they're getting 4MB on-die instead of 1MB. You can read the paper by IBM's eDRAM developers for 15 pages of detail, if you wish. Mind your megabits versus megabytes... array designers always talk megabits. DRAM's not as slow as you think.
So, if Google turns their search engine into a search engine that ignores those types of search results then they've just moved out of the No.1 position in my favorite search engine list. Maybe I'm missing something....
I think you're missing the fact that these are the sites that are basically screaming, "I am RELEVANT. I am so so so relevant! relevantrelevantrelevant! I am so relevant that I have to do several sneaky things to show my relevance! Look at me! memememe!" They're the hyperactive seven year-olds of online retail, and they're all Amazon (or whatever) affiliates that are selling you the same things for the same price. Why you'd demand to see them, I don't know.
Surprised? They want to be surprised? Right-- Sauron wins and Middle Earth plunges into darkness forevermore. No effing way does anyone, whether they've read Tolkien or not, expect Frodo not to be successful.
Actually, the Sony software DLs all photos on a Memory Stick into a directory such as C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Image Transfer\'03_08_05_01\DCIM\101MSDCF
gphoto asks where I'd like to put them, and which photos I'd like to put there.
Sony DSC-P72 and gphoto... just needed to switch to PTP mode.
I actually prefer gphoto to the cruddy windows software than came with the camera... if you want to do anything more than automagically dump everything on the Memory Stick into My Documents, you've got to access the flash memory manually anyhow. Plus that automagical program dumps an icon in the system tray at startup... talk about crap.
And you know what? RH8 doesn't bitch at me when I turn the camera off like Win2K on my laptop does-- supposed to click the remove hardware icon first. This is plug and play?
I though I'd need dual-boot on my desktop with XP to use stuff like my camera and the cable modem successfully without a big headache, but I haven't booted XP since the Adelphia guy came to verify my MAC address and install some spyware on my XP partition. The bastards block port 80, but Apache's working just fine on the 32K other ports.
.why a company named American Micro Devices is locating their plant in Germany and not here in America?
That's Advanced Micro Devices. I could harp on how idiotic that makes the parent post look, but continuing on...
RTFA-- Germany offered them $1.5 billion in incentives, and they're building right next to an existing fab with experienced employees. $1.5 billion would be tough for a US state to put together.
I don't know. Although I do think that the MCM package is trickling down IBM's eServer line from the hugely reliable mainframe zSeries into the pSeries. As far as bus advantages, etc, I'm not enough of a systems geek...
Passport doesn't require a client, does it? I assume the real Passport server program ships with Windows Server 2003 and IIS, but there's no passport client per se... MSN messenger and originally XP registration forced you to get a MS Passport, but passport authentication works just fine with any modern web browser, or else Hotmail would be useless from non-Windows OSes.
So anyways, if it's like Passport, really you just need to get large websites to use the Liberty Identity Service, and users of those websites will end up with Liberty Identity credentials.
That's why MS loved signing eBay up for Passport...
SSO in its standard form simply allows using the same identity and credentials at multiple sites. Your SSO credentials are only the intersection of all sets of personal information needed by SSO sites, not the superset. Each site then stores additional information hashed with your unique SSO id. It's a matter of debate what that intersection should be:
Username/Identifier
Password/PIN/etc.
Secret Question?
Secret Answer?
Zipcode?
etc...
It is possible to have SSO with only the first two, but the many numbnuts that forget their password require some secure form of reset.
I think you misunderstand the connections between the tools within a fab and the fab itself. The processes used to manufacture chips within fabs are constantly evolving within the same physical plant. In addition to not necessarily being obseleted due to process shrinks, one fab can produce several different process variations, even within a given node. No fab is limited to, for instance, a 130nm SOI 7-level metal Low-K process. In the article they speculate about SOI (silicon on insulator) like it's some far-out concept, when it's probably used in the PPC970 processor in the Mac G5. IBM's big on SOI, while Intel has been against it. But that doesn't mean IBM's fabs can only make SOI wafers. SOI isn't well suited for every application.
New fab construction is often driven by factors unrelated to process. Increased wafer starts, materials handling for 300mm instead of 200mm wafers, bigger/smaller floorplan, different cleanroom specs, etc.
Flash also has a limited number of writes before it dies. Yes, it's tens or hundreds of thousands of write cycles, but try to use a flash disk as the home of a swap file and you're screwed. 100Mhz memory could write 100M times is a second. Goodbye flash.
Okay, I look at the impressive resumes belonging to both the interviewer and interviewee, and I cannot believe how little substance there is to their conversation. Why is that? They're almost powerless (no pun intended) to influence the development of process technologies. Transmeta is a fabless company that contracts with TSMC, I believe, to manufacture their processors, and the interviewee just started another fabless company. If you want to speculate on where process technology is going, ask someone with a fab!
They spend several paragraphs discussing NMOS capicitors in CMOS processes circa 1994, but apparently neither knew enough to speculate about MIM or Trench capacitor structures, two mature technologies used in DRAM. Yes, they were leading in to the gate leakage issue, but the substance of that boiled down to, "Leakage sure is a big problem." Their solution is low-voltage chips with fewer transistors. Revolutionary!
There's way more substance in press releases from Intel.
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Why DRAM? eDRAM has a 4x density advantage over SRAM, so they're getting 4MB on-die instead of 1MB. You can read the paper by IBM's eDRAM developers for 15 pages of detail, if you wish. Mind your megabits versus megabytes... array designers always talk megabits. DRAM's not as slow as you think.
Surprised? They want to be surprised? Right-- Sauron wins and Middle Earth plunges into darkness forevermore. No effing way does anyone, whether they've read Tolkien or not, expect Frodo not to be successful.
No exact dimensions, but there are some photos here.
I know there are a lot of immature slashdotters, but non-descended testicles?
Insert teabagger comment here.
Actually, the Sony software DLs all photos on a Memory Stick into a directory such as C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Image Transfer\'03_08_05_01\DCIM\101MSDCF
gphoto asks where I'd like to put them, and which photos I'd like to put there.
Sony DSC-P72 and gphoto... just needed to switch to PTP mode.
I actually prefer gphoto to the cruddy windows software than came with the camera... if you want to do anything more than automagically dump everything on the Memory Stick into My Documents, you've got to access the flash memory manually anyhow. Plus that automagical program dumps an icon in the system tray at startup... talk about crap.
And you know what? RH8 doesn't bitch at me when I turn the camera off like Win2K on my laptop does-- supposed to click the remove hardware icon first. This is plug and play?
I though I'd need dual-boot on my desktop with XP to use stuff like my camera and the cable modem successfully without a big headache, but I haven't booted XP since the Adelphia guy came to verify my MAC address and install some spyware on my XP partition. The bastards block port 80, but Apache's working just fine on the 32K other ports.
RTFA-- Germany offered them $1.5 billion in incentives, and they're building right next to an existing fab with experienced employees. $1.5 billion would be tough for a US state to put together.
I don't know. Although I do think that the MCM package is trickling down IBM's eServer line from the hugely reliable mainframe zSeries into the pSeries. As far as bus advantages, etc, I'm not enough of a systems geek...
It's four dual-core SMT processor chips, and four L3 cache chips per MCM, actually. I think cache is sexy, but I'm biased.
I'm getting a lot of karma mileage from this Power5 MCM review these days. They visited the same Microprocessor Forum that Ars did.
So anyways, if it's like Passport, really you just need to get large websites to use the Liberty Identity Service, and users of those websites will end up with Liberty Identity credentials.
That's why MS loved signing eBay up for Passport...
- Username/Identifier
- Password/PIN/etc.
- Secret Question?
- Secret Answer?
- Zipcode?
- etc...
It is possible to have SSO with only the first two, but the many numbnuts that forget their password require some secure form of reset.SCO apparently screwed up the "get a good law firm" part.
New fab construction is often driven by factors unrelated to process. Increased wafer starts, materials handling for 300mm instead of 200mm wafers, bigger/smaller floorplan, different cleanroom specs, etc.
Well, let's see. 64 bit bus at 1GHz = 8 gigabytes per second, so 9 megabytes per second is about 1000 times slower than I'd like.
Flash also has a limited number of writes before it dies. Yes, it's tens or hundreds of thousands of write cycles, but try to use a flash disk as the home of a swap file and you're screwed. 100Mhz memory could write 100M times is a second. Goodbye flash.
They spend several paragraphs discussing NMOS capicitors in CMOS processes circa 1994, but apparently neither knew enough to speculate about MIM or Trench capacitor structures, two mature technologies used in DRAM. Yes, they were leading in to the gate leakage issue, but the substance of that boiled down to, "Leakage sure is a big problem." Their solution is low-voltage chips with fewer transistors. Revolutionary!
There's way more substance in press releases from Intel.
Unfortunately, you probably paid your Microsoft tax for the bundled software. SCO would just prefer you pay your SCO-Linux tax also.
If I were going to pick the raciest candidate, I'd choose...
Actually, you have a good point, we need more racy candidates, like California.
But it is extremely interesting that the lawyers get 20% of an acquisition cost. That speaks a lot towards motives in bringing the lawsuit.