pretty dumb thieves.. next time just copy the content of the hard disks and you can pull the trick over and over, since now the security desk guys know your familiar face
yes and no..
first, the variability is caused by the variability of the process used to produce the chips because most of the physical phenomena that are used to produce a chip are stochastic in nature (e.g. diffusion, implant, heating etc.).
Then, there is the economic factor. When you by a 2GHz pentium and a 1.8 GHz pentium, you are buying the same design and process. One was just luckier than the other. Then the manufacturer tests them and discovers that one meets the 1.8 specs and the other one the 2 specs as well. One is sold as 1.8 and the other for a higher price. Kinda like if a baker were tasting what he sells and put a higher price tag on the best tasting one.
So, why can you overclock? Manufacturers might make errors in the tests, or simply a chip might fail a test in a condition you never use the microprocessor. Or, even better, they might simply be labelling say 2.4 GHz processors as 2GHz so that the 2.4 price doesn't drop...
In the interview, a lot of things have been left out. The topic is first and foremost old. It goes back to the 80s. Statistical variations have always been taken into account by using worst cases. Problem is that the worst case approach sucks in the latest technologies, so more sophisticated methods have to be used. There has been a lot of research in the last 10 years (Check american, german, and italian universities, just to name few).
Also, the problem is old, meaning that analog designers had to deal with these problems since the early stages (example: the offset in the operational amplifiers is caused by transistor performance mismatch). Now, digital designs are affected too. First on the clocking network and now all the rest. Furthermore, it is widely known (in the community) that interconnect variations are of the same order of magnitude of the device (i.e. transistor)performance variations, and on the top of that dynamic effects (like cross talk) may severely affect the performance.
I don't agree with him on the fact that all the variations are gaussian, there is plenty of literature that states the contrary, and major chip makers know it very well.
Last but not least, there are already tools that deal with statistical variations, although none of them can handle a microprocessor, as they are mostly circtuit simulation-based.
All in all, the good news is that awareness is spreading thru the designers.
So, China with roughly 16% of the world population has decided to sink foreign software makers. Given the tremendous growth of the Chinese market, this move means that large part of the growth of world office automation software market is not going to M$, Open Office, Koffice etc because another office suite will become the de-facto standard in China. A lot of industries have been hoping to use China to grow their sinking business. I guess they will have to change their plans. In the future I can see this happening in other sectors of the world economy. Nevermind the WTO, it won't stop China from doing whatever they want. There are a lot of of sanctions against the US from the WTO for various infractions, especially in steel, agricolture, etc. and the US never gave a damn.
this seems the complement of the smart dust .
The smart dust was supposed to be a 1 cube mm sensor with some computational power that was also supposed to transmit signals. I also recall that it was supposed to cost very few $ (one?). Clearly, you do not need parachutes for it and you can just deploy thousands on the battlefield or whatever you want to spy on. I don't know if these can send such a strong signal, but I believe that if you deploy enough of them you could. And being much smaller and many thousands, they would be much harder to get rid of. However, I haven't heard of smart dust in a while. Maybe they have perfected it and started using it. Or maybe the project just died.
Quod erat demostrandum
in latin rouglhy means "what we wanted to demonstrate" and is the acronym of the latin translation of the sentence he used to conclude his proofs with (he was greek)
The assessment seems fair to me. I am one of the very few linux users in windows-oriented environment and I have plenty of experience.
Like it or not, if windows users have to migrate they have to do it seamlessy, at least at the beginning. Nobody will aceept to have his work disrupted.
However, here is something that the author overlooked and that would make that experience better:
1) installations need to be done once, provided that you mount the path you want to install. In other words, in linux you got to do the same job once, not once per machine (if you do it properly)
2) probably the original permissions of the network were too relaxed and, possibly, they initially set up the linux permissions too tight (for their internal needs). Example: redhat high security installation settings do not allow udp packets for DNS through the firewallb
3) the installation of "other stuff" is restricted (if you are not an experienced user), a feature that system administrators will love (in other words, it is harder to install the latest virus)
Things that are still too clumsy and the author is right about:
1) INSTALLATION: example: I tried to install thunderbird: I needed glibc 3.2. After some research on redhat, I found the rpm. I tried to install it and it needed something else. Now, I might be dumb, but the average windows user (linux knowledge speaking) is much dumber
2) Training: easy guidelines to.cshrc, and stuff like that
3) Mandatory shortcut to slashdot on the desktop
4) there is way too much on a CD: I end up installing things i will never use, but I can't easily come up with a short list of things i want there. Example: If a company decides to use, say mozilla, I don't care about galeon being installed. We must find a solution, so that I get exactly what I need. This is important especially for old machines that do not have huge disks and that, for whatever reason, can not mount everything off the network (e.g. laptops)
5) free outlook interface for the regular user (and by the way evolution changes a bunch of settings)
In other words, we are getting ready for prime time, and when we are it's gonna be fun
did you mean "if you were" instead of "because you are"? Let me analyze your sentence. Let me get your logic:
"you would" i.e. something would happen if something else were different
"because you are" but now you are stating something that, in your illuminated opinion, is already a fact...
I keep on failing to see the logic connection. It would make sense if you used "if you were", but I guess conditionals are hard
Did you learn your grammar from Georgie W?
Oh no! now I get it!!! You composed you reply with M$ word and used their grammar checking....
Napster got screwed because they were providing the servers for the searches, therefore "collaborating" (read supplying means) to the copy(denied)right "infringement". So, it looks like that as long as you do not help you are ok
I don't think so... you know who the makers of CD burners are? Large corporations who have the power to fight back. Not only, in some cases they would even be fighting themselves (e.g. Sony which is a hardware maker and a member of RIAA, etc). Doesn't it seem strange to you that VCRs and CD/DVD buners have never been targeted, but P2P has? Does it seem strange to you that in the US gun makers can not be sued, but Kazaa can?
In many countried it is called corruption, here it is called lobbying. The difference? In one case you buy enforcement and low level pubblic officials, in the other legislators.....
ok, so what is the variance in the traffic?
dropped? with respect to when?
what was the trend before?
and big deal: the week of july 4th, when
people were on vacation.....
I kinow that it is not a conclusive evidence, but for instance, the number of housing posts
on craigslist traditionally dips on the
holidays weekends..... does RIAA threaten
people who post housing ads?
the short time does tell nothing!
I want to see a month to month comparison
over an extended period of time to
draw any meaningful conclusions
So, your marketing guy promises the moon, you are asked to deliver the sun and you have the time to go get a rock somewhere. You end up supporting a windows-like software. If you are lucky enough, you then get assigned to make version 2.0 that will be done properly while somebody else deals with the nightmare of 1.0.
So, quick and dirty, to get the market share (if you have first mover advantage). Properly done, keep it for long time.
By the way, quick and dirty means many sleepless week-end of work, because the delivery is invariably in monday (or tuesday if it is memorial day or whatsoever).
If you do not have the first mover advantage, probably properly done will be better for everybody.
In theory, you are right. However, reality is not what really happens, but what people think it is happening. In other words, it is much cheaper for them to make people believe that window$ is secure than really making it secure. It is a short sighted policy, but when it comes to security, M$ can't see beyond its pocket....so we have the trustworthy computing, etc. etc.
I don't think Intel might want to do that.
This would mean that the defendant
could access all their documents on
their practices during discovery
and during a public trial. I don't think
they would ever want to do that.
PS: if you consider this legal advice you
are at least dumb, since I am an
electrical engineer:)
COOL! I was going to do the same. Now, I can just use it and debug it (if necessary).
As an immigrant in the US, where it is impossible to
get any decent foreign TV, and the quality of the news
sucks (especially when it comes to heavy biasing , to promoting whatever government agenda and to the
total lack of independence), it am very glad that I can
access different programs. Not that the programs of my
coutry be that incredibly better, but they are of reasonable
quality and allow me to be part of my original culture.
One of the worst things that happen to somebody who
lives abroad is going back and not understanding what
people are talking/laughing about. Really makes you feel
bad. So, I AM ALL FOR IT. Just find a better name..
yeah, that was my point. This is legal stuff, it ain't matter what he means,the meaning of what he wrote is the only thing that matters, and lawyers can be pretty anal if doing so benefits them....
I can't figure out if the guy is clueless or simply one of the biggest liars I have ever heard of. Clearly, some of the allegations he makes are false and wrong. So, I guess that the frivolous lawsuit would take care of this, if Linford bothered to file it. Also, I wonder if the discovery process could actually provide information for a suit in the European Union, which is not so keen to corporate prevarication (http://www.spamlaws.com/eu.html for a list of laws in Europe). Also, an association whose purpose is to help crime (as spam is in some states) could also be criminally charged by a DA, anywhere in the world, as long as it negatively impacts LEGITIMATE business with deliberate actions.
By the way, we all read with a lot of interest Spamhaus material and therefore they are of public concern!!
Also, I wonder if I could sue some of the members for invasion, modification and appropriation of Private Property: in fact, they are changing the content of my hard drive with no authorization whatsoever (yes, frivolous, but less than their lawsuit).
Last, some claims of the Truly Ours S. Linford, could have been little bit more effective in certain statements, e.g. - the fact that he had never heard of the plaintiff, does not necessarily imply that he can not harm it; - the retort to 51& 52 is wrong as they are about the members of emarketerswhatever, not the association itself
I also hope that the lawyer did not use internic to get the domain name record info because he would have declared that his query would not
(a) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission by e-mail, telephone, or facsimile of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations to entities other than the data recipient's own existing customers.......
nope....
you do your homework, report it to abuse@hotmail.com including headers etc. etc., they tell you that tracking spam is hard, they give you a list of useless hints (like if I used window$ in the first place...), don't do anything, case closed, account opened.. this is a real life experience....
Slashdot Mirror
pretty dumb thieves.. next time just copy the content of the hard disks and you can pull the trick over and over, since now the security desk guys know your familiar face
yes and no..
first, the variability is caused by the variability of the process used to produce the chips because most of the physical phenomena that are used to produce a chip are stochastic in nature (e.g. diffusion, implant, heating etc.).
Then, there is the economic factor. When you by a 2GHz pentium and a 1.8 GHz pentium, you are buying the same design and process. One was just luckier than the other. Then the manufacturer tests them and discovers that one meets the 1.8 specs and the other one the 2 specs as well. One is sold as 1.8 and the other for a higher price. Kinda like if a baker were tasting what he sells and put a higher price tag on the best tasting one.
So, why can you overclock? Manufacturers might make errors in the tests, or simply a chip might fail a test in a condition you never use the microprocessor. Or, even better, they might simply be labelling say 2.4 GHz processors as 2GHz so that the 2.4 price doesn't drop...
In the interview, a lot of things have been left out. The topic is first and foremost old. It goes back to the 80s. Statistical variations have always been taken into account by using worst cases. Problem is that the worst case approach sucks in the latest technologies, so more sophisticated methods have to be used. There has been a lot of research in the last 10 years (Check american, german, and italian universities, just to name few).
Also, the problem is old, meaning that analog designers had to deal with these problems since the early stages (example: the offset in the operational amplifiers is caused by transistor performance mismatch). Now, digital designs are affected too. First on the clocking network and now all the rest. Furthermore, it is widely known (in the community) that interconnect variations are of the same order of magnitude of the device (i.e. transistor)performance variations, and on the top of that dynamic effects (like cross talk) may severely affect the performance.
I don't agree with him on the fact that all the variations are gaussian, there is plenty of literature that states the contrary, and major chip makers know it very well.
Last but not least, there are already tools that deal with statistical variations, although none of them can handle a microprocessor, as they are mostly circtuit simulation-based. All in all, the good news is that awareness is spreading thru the designers.
So, China with roughly 16% of the world population has decided to sink foreign software makers.
Given the tremendous growth of the Chinese market, this move means that large part of the growth of world office automation software market is not going to M$, Open Office, Koffice etc because another office suite will become the de-facto standard in China.
A lot of industries have been hoping to use China to grow their sinking business. I guess they will have to change their plans. In the future I can see this happening in other sectors of the world economy. Nevermind the WTO, it won't stop China from doing whatever they want. There are a lot of of sanctions against the US from the WTO for various infractions, especially in steel, agricolture, etc. and the US never gave a damn.
this seems the complement of the smart dust .
The smart dust was supposed to be a 1 cube mm sensor with some computational power that was also supposed to transmit signals. I also recall that it was supposed to cost very few $ (one?). Clearly, you do not need parachutes for it and you can just deploy thousands on the battlefield or whatever you want to spy on. I don't know if these can send such a strong signal, but I believe that if you deploy enough of them you could. And being much smaller and many thousands, they would be much harder to get rid of. However, I haven't heard of smart dust in a while. Maybe they have perfected it and started using it. Or maybe the project just died.
Quod erat demostrandum
in latin rouglhy means "what we wanted to demonstrate" and is the acronym of the latin translation of the sentence he used to conclude his proofs with (he was greek)
-1 offtopic
The assessment seems fair to me. I am one of the very few linux users in windows-oriented environment and I have plenty of experience.
.cshrc, and stuff like that
Like it or not, if windows users have to migrate they have to do it seamlessy, at least at the beginning. Nobody will aceept to have his work disrupted.
However, here is something that the author overlooked and that would make that experience better:
1) installations need to be done once, provided that you mount the path you want to install. In other words, in linux you got to do the same job once, not once per machine (if you do it properly)
2) probably the original permissions of the network were too relaxed and, possibly, they initially set up the linux permissions too tight (for their internal needs). Example: redhat high security installation settings do not allow udp packets for DNS through the firewallb
3) the installation of "other stuff" is restricted (if you are not an experienced user), a feature that system administrators will love (in other words, it is harder to install the latest virus)
Things that are still too clumsy and the author is right about:
1) INSTALLATION: example: I tried to install thunderbird: I needed glibc 3.2. After some research on redhat, I found the rpm. I tried to install it and it needed something else. Now, I might be dumb, but the average windows user (linux knowledge speaking) is much dumber
2) Training: easy guidelines to
3) Mandatory shortcut to slashdot on the desktop
4) there is way too much on a CD: I end up installing things i will never use, but I can't easily come up with a short list of things i want there. Example: If a company decides to use, say mozilla, I don't care about galeon being installed. We must find a solution, so that I get exactly what I need. This is important especially for old machines that do not have huge disks and that, for whatever reason, can not mount everything off the network (e.g. laptops)
5) free outlook interface for the regular user (and by the way evolution changes a bunch of settings)
In other words, we are getting ready for prime time, and when we are it's gonna be fun
So, the driver's weight is 178 lbs.. :)
Sorry, a geek like me couldn't help...
I had to do the math
did you mean "if you were" instead of "because you are"? Let me analyze your sentence. Let me get your logic:
"you would" i.e. something would happen if something else were different
"because you are" but now you are stating something that, in your illuminated opinion, is already a fact...
I keep on failing to see the logic connection. It would make sense if you used "if you were", but I guess conditionals are hard
Did you learn your grammar from Georgie W?
Oh no! now I get it!!! You composed you reply with M$ word and used their grammar checking....
off topic? I fail to see the connection between your comment and me getting more knowledgeable about the topic of the article because of your post...
Napster got screwed because they were providing the servers for the searches, therefore "collaborating" (read supplying means) to the copy(denied)right "infringement". So, it looks like that as long as you do not help you are ok
I don't think so... you know who the makers of CD burners are? Large corporations who have the power to fight back. Not only, in some cases they would even be fighting themselves (e.g. Sony which is a hardware maker and a member of RIAA, etc).
Doesn't it seem strange to you that VCRs and CD/DVD buners have never been targeted, but P2P has? Does it seem strange to you that in the US gun makers can not be sued, but Kazaa can?
In many countried it is called corruption, here it is called lobbying. The difference? In one case you buy enforcement and low level pubblic officials, in the other legislators.....
ok, so what is the variance in the traffic?
dropped? with respect to when?
what was the trend before?
and big deal: the week of july 4th, when people were on vacation..... I kinow that it is not a conclusive evidence, but for instance, the number of housing posts on craigslist traditionally dips on the holidays weekends..... does RIAA threaten people who post housing ads?
the short time does tell nothing! I want to see a month to month comparison over an extended period of time to draw any meaningful conclusions
Are you a user of any of the file sharing programs out there?
So, your marketing guy promises the moon, you are asked to deliver the sun and you have the time to go get a rock somewhere. You end up supporting a windows-like software. If you are lucky enough, you then get assigned to make version 2.0 that will be done properly while somebody else deals with the nightmare of 1.0. So, quick and dirty, to get the market share (if you have first mover advantage). Properly done, keep it for long time. By the way, quick and dirty means many sleepless week-end of work, because the delivery is invariably in monday (or tuesday if it is memorial day or whatsoever). If you do not have the first mover advantage, probably properly done will be better for everybody.
So, what was the growth rate before? 5%? 15%? In other words, if the growth rage has increased then the point is well made, otherwise it is just crap
In theory, you are right. However, reality is not what really happens, but what people think it is happening. In other words, it is much cheaper for them to make people believe that window$ is secure than really making it secure. It is a short sighted policy, but when it comes to security, M$ can't see beyond its pocket....so we have the trustworthy computing, etc. etc.
I don't think Intel might want to do that. This would mean that the defendant could access all their documents on their practices during discovery and during a public trial. I don't think they would ever want to do that. PS: if you consider this legal advice you are at least dumb, since I am an electrical engineer :)
COOL! I was going to do the same. Now, I can just use it and debug it (if necessary). As an immigrant in the US, where it is impossible to get any decent foreign TV, and the quality of the news sucks (especially when it comes to heavy biasing , to promoting whatever government agenda and to the total lack of independence), it am very glad that I can access different programs. Not that the programs of my coutry be that incredibly better, but they are of reasonable quality and allow me to be part of my original culture. One of the worst things that happen to somebody who lives abroad is going back and not understanding what people are talking/laughing about. Really makes you feel bad. So, I AM ALL FOR IT. Just find a better name..
In california you can alredy pre-register for free at here
yeah, that was my point. This is legal stuff, it ain't matter what he means,the meaning of what he wrote is the only thing that matters, and lawyers can be pretty anal if doing so benefits them....
I can't figure out if the guy is clueless or simply one of the biggest liars I have ever heard of. Clearly, some of the allegations he makes are false and wrong. So, I guess that the frivolous lawsuit would take care of this, if Linford bothered to file it. Also, I wonder if the discovery process could actually provide information for a suit in the European Union, which is not so keen to corporate prevarication (http://www.spamlaws.com/eu.html for a list of laws in Europe). Also, an association whose purpose is to help crime (as spam is in some states) could also be criminally charged by a DA, anywhere in the world, as long as it negatively impacts LEGITIMATE business with deliberate actions.
By the way, we all read with a lot of interest Spamhaus material and therefore they are of public concern!!
Also, I wonder if I could sue some of the members for invasion, modification and appropriation of Private Property: in fact, they are changing the content of my hard drive with no authorization whatsoever (yes, frivolous, but less than their lawsuit).
Last, some claims of the Truly Ours S. Linford, could have been little bit more effective in certain statements, e.g.
- the fact that he had never heard of the plaintiff, does not necessarily imply that he can not harm it;
- the retort to 51& 52 is wrong as they are about the members of emarketerswhatever, not the association itself
I also hope that the lawyer did not use internic to get the domain name record info because he would have declared that his query would not
(a) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission by e-mail, telephone, or facsimile of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations to entities other than
the data recipient's own existing customers.......
you are telling people how to write a better virus.. this is an official notice! The secret police will come get you, criminal!!!! signed,
nope.... you do your homework, report it to abuse@hotmail.com including headers etc. etc., they tell you that tracking spam is hard, they give you a list of useless hints (like if I used window$ in the first place...), don't do anything, case closed, account opened.. this is a real life experience....
could have told you that for free... and possibly many other things about life that somebody will be paid a lot of money for...