No. What he's saying is, for Intel's compiler developers, there is no AMD to worry about, as support would only be given for uses on Intel CPUs. Therefore, letting the optimizations work on AMD processors without validation would be OK, as Intel wouldn't have to validate for if it works properly.
The funny thing about the K6's "problems" was that it was never AMD's fault.
But, AMD CPUs were cheaper, and AMD CPUs ended up in budget machines that had cheaper, crappier motherboards with crap chipsets. End result, unreliable machine.
And, nVidia's GPUs either come unbonded from the package (early 8 series GPUs,) rip themselves in half (the "fixed" 8 series GPUs,) or don't actually exist (Fermi (10 series?) GPUs)
The real problem will be selling the printers - you'll have to operate at a massive loss to take out the entrenched manufacturers (they have cheaper manufacturing, too,) and then you can raise things back up to a reasonable price once you have a reputation.
Of course, you could aim for businesses, by making a printer that's lower cost than a laser and designed for higher volumes, but you're still looking at a very uphill battle.
That "cult" has created an ecosystem around the ATMega8/168/328 - in fact, what makes the Arduino so interesting isn't the hardware, or even the shields (although they are nice - a de-facto standard for expansion,) it's the software. The software reduces the barrier of entry to microcontroller programming drastically.
You can make an Arduino that doesn't use their hardware at all, only their software, and get quite a lot of the benefits. In fact, there are official Arduino designs that use different layouts.
The only way to get a diesel New Beetle convertible is to find a New Beetle convertible that has engine problems, and a New Beetle TDI that's been rear-ended. (Technically, you could use a Golf or Jetta TDI, but there are differences. New Beetle is best for this.) Combine the two.
Blame California's anti-car lobby attacking everything they can. They can't get regular gasoline cars off the roads, because those are too common, so they attack niches, including diesel.
And it affects those of us that live thousands of miles away from California, because whatever they do, the EPA does 5 years later. And, because California is the biggest car market in the world, and 13 other states have signed up to California's emissions standards (which are both misguided and set to California's unique geography,) carmakers either have to meet the ridiculous California emissions standards, or not sell to some of their biggest markets.
The emissions controls on the TDI, required to meet California (and now EPA, actually) standards cost $3-5k on top of the cost of everything else. (Yes, the TDI is optioned like a high-spec gas model. Options cost automakers almost nothing, and are a good way to hide things like expensive emissions controls. VW makes a LOT more on a high-spec 2.5 or 2.0T gas Jetta than they do on a TDI.)
Oh, and everything that has to be done to meet emissions... means that the thing gets about 20 MPG less than it would without the emissions controls - 60 instead of 40 MPG, on the highway.
It actually has been (partially) ported. Unfortunately, because of how Apple locks down the OS, it can only work inside of the applications it comes bundled with.
To be fair, I said it was resistant to dancing bunnies, not any other attack vector.
Dancing bunnies is an attack vector used by trojans to get the user to disable their security on their own, no software or hardware vulnerabilities needed.
There is one platform out there that's resistant to the dancing bunnies problem.
The iPhone.
Unfortunately, that's the only way to be resistant to it - don't allow third-party software unless it's been inspected by real people whose job it is to inspect it.
Unfortunately, when there's secret laws, and so many laws that lawyers have to specialize in small sections of the law, and still get it wrong, it's impossible to be a law-abiding citizen.
Of course, most people here are conditioned to buy their phones from their carrier anyway, and you don't get a discount on service if you aren't in a contract, meaning for most people, the Nokia N900 really is $600, versus somewhere around half that depending on carrier for the Touch Pro 2.
Carriers definitely drive (or hinder) phone technology here, not manufacturers. The iPhone is one of the very rare exceptions to that, and that's only because Apple was able to use their hype to get a carrier to let them in... and then the carrier took the opportunity to gouge customers because they knew they could get away with it.
Oh, and there's no reason that CDMA phones have to be the way they are about lockdown. Japanese CDMA phones use R-UIMs. (And, IIRC, Verizon was putting in an open network policy, to let you bring anything that will actually work on their network.)
It loads itself into memory first, then deletes everything. Things already loaded stay in memory, so the system remains surprisingly intact until you power down (not shut down, because all of the commands to do that are gone, although you could sync disks with the Alt-SysRq trick on Linux.)
What amazes me is how badly Dell managed to screw up the keyboard and pointing devices on the E6500.
Random clicks when you're 6 inches away from either pointing device, random shifts, ctrls, alts while typing, and this was on hundreds of machines I configured.
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The problem is, I can tether a Windows Mobile phone on AT&T if I want.
(AT&T sucks for other reasons, though, so I'll still avoid them.)
No. What he's saying is, for Intel's compiler developers, there is no AMD to worry about, as support would only be given for uses on Intel CPUs. Therefore, letting the optimizations work on AMD processors without validation would be OK, as Intel wouldn't have to validate for if it works properly.
The funny thing about the K6's "problems" was that it was never AMD's fault.
But, AMD CPUs were cheaper, and AMD CPUs ended up in budget machines that had cheaper, crappier motherboards with crap chipsets. End result, unreliable machine.
All GPUs are crap.
And, nVidia's GPUs either come unbonded from the package (early 8 series GPUs,) rip themselves in half (the "fixed" 8 series GPUs,) or don't actually exist (Fermi (10 series?) GPUs)
The real problem will be selling the printers - you'll have to operate at a massive loss to take out the entrenched manufacturers (they have cheaper manufacturing, too,) and then you can raise things back up to a reasonable price once you have a reputation.
Of course, you could aim for businesses, by making a printer that's lower cost than a laser and designed for higher volumes, but you're still looking at a very uphill battle.
And the FCC wouldn't certify a baseband that you can hack easily, because it can be hacked easily.
I believe those NDAs are pretty much required by law, even if there weren't trade secrets they were trying to protect.
The Arduino is all about the "cult," however.
That "cult" has created an ecosystem around the ATMega8/168/328 - in fact, what makes the Arduino so interesting isn't the hardware, or even the shields (although they are nice - a de-facto standard for expansion,) it's the software. The software reduces the barrier of entry to microcontroller programming drastically.
You can make an Arduino that doesn't use their hardware at all, only their software, and get quite a lot of the benefits. In fact, there are official Arduino designs that use different layouts.
The only way to get a diesel New Beetle convertible is to find a New Beetle convertible that has engine problems, and a New Beetle TDI that's been rear-ended. (Technically, you could use a Golf or Jetta TDI, but there are differences. New Beetle is best for this.) Combine the two.
Blame California's anti-car lobby attacking everything they can. They can't get regular gasoline cars off the roads, because those are too common, so they attack niches, including diesel.
And it affects those of us that live thousands of miles away from California, because whatever they do, the EPA does 5 years later. And, because California is the biggest car market in the world, and 13 other states have signed up to California's emissions standards (which are both misguided and set to California's unique geography,) carmakers either have to meet the ridiculous California emissions standards, or not sell to some of their biggest markets.
The emissions controls on the TDI, required to meet California (and now EPA, actually) standards cost $3-5k on top of the cost of everything else. (Yes, the TDI is optioned like a high-spec gas model. Options cost automakers almost nothing, and are a good way to hide things like expensive emissions controls. VW makes a LOT more on a high-spec 2.5 or 2.0T gas Jetta than they do on a TDI.)
Oh, and everything that has to be done to meet emissions... means that the thing gets about 20 MPG less than it would without the emissions controls - 60 instead of 40 MPG, on the highway.
It actually has been (partially) ported. Unfortunately, because of how Apple locks down the OS, it can only work inside of the applications it comes bundled with.
http://www.phatware.com/index.php?q=product/details/writepad/writepad%22
Technically, that makes it the iPhone 2G, and the original iPhone the iPhone 2.5G. *headassplode*
But, that card is GSM900 only, making it utterly useless in some areas.
Wait, I thought Time Machine was a backup solution, not an actual time machine.
(The MessagePad came out August 1993. The Pilot 1000 and 5000 came out in June 1996.)
To be fair, I said it was resistant to dancing bunnies, not any other attack vector.
Dancing bunnies is an attack vector used by trojans to get the user to disable their security on their own, no software or hardware vulnerabilities needed.
There is one platform out there that's resistant to the dancing bunnies problem.
The iPhone.
Unfortunately, that's the only way to be resistant to it - don't allow third-party software unless it's been inspected by real people whose job it is to inspect it.
Except you don't know when the VM is compromised, sometimes.
Run your daily use OS off of a hard drive, with no network drivers installed.
To browse the internet, physically remove the hard drive, then use a live CD.
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Unfortunately, when there's secret laws, and so many laws that lawyers have to specialize in small sections of the law, and still get it wrong, it's impossible to be a law-abiding citizen.
Of course, most people here are conditioned to buy their phones from their carrier anyway, and you don't get a discount on service if you aren't in a contract, meaning for most people, the Nokia N900 really is $600, versus somewhere around half that depending on carrier for the Touch Pro 2.
Carriers definitely drive (or hinder) phone technology here, not manufacturers. The iPhone is one of the very rare exceptions to that, and that's only because Apple was able to use their hype to get a carrier to let them in... and then the carrier took the opportunity to gouge customers because they knew they could get away with it.
Oh, and there's no reason that CDMA phones have to be the way they are about lockdown. Japanese CDMA phones use R-UIMs. (And, IIRC, Verizon was putting in an open network policy, to let you bring anything that will actually work on their network.)
They have this invention, it's called the color laser printer.
And, given the appropriate paper, they're even passable at photo quality. (I prefer Staples Color Laser paper for that, BTW.)
NOPs (or better yet, HALTs) still use less power than actual instructions, even if there's no power saving whatsoever.
It loads itself into memory first, then deletes everything. Things already loaded stay in memory, so the system remains surprisingly intact until you power down (not shut down, because all of the commands to do that are gone, although you could sync disks with the Alt-SysRq trick on Linux.)
Fountain pens are actually rather easy on the hands - no pressure on the paper at all, just contact, and capillary action.
If Verizon were available in your area, it would've been Verizon DSL.
So, make that dial-up (satellite's just as bad on the AUP) and an aerial.
Or, shell out hundreds a month for a DS3.
Or, maybe have the local governments own and maintain the lines, with equal access to any company that wants it for actually providing service?
What amazes me is how badly Dell managed to screw up the keyboard and pointing devices on the E6500.
Random clicks when you're 6 inches away from either pointing device, random shifts, ctrls, alts while typing, and this was on hundreds of machines I configured.