the lustre people were told to leave and most have
What can you tell use about the departures? Was the request by Oracle causation for the mass exodus or only in response? That is, once they lost critical mass, did they simply cut their losses?
p.s. I could have sworn that I replied to this comment earlier... I suppose I won't see a response at this late date:(
Yes, as I know it there are 18 different formats of ATSC. But I argure that only 1080i 16x9 is true HDTV. Maybe 16x9 720p. Nothing less is HDTV, ie widescreen 480p is not HDTV. My progressive scan DVD player does that and it doesn't hold a candle to 1080i.
Why does everyone keep saying that we will all have HDTV in 2006. There is nothing mandating an upgrade to HDTV (16x9 1080i) in 2006. What is mandated is that the broadcasters must use the new spectrum for a digital signal, DTV. It could be 4x3 480i and probably will be. Broadcasters will probably prefer to output four SDTV signals (they can slice up the bandwith that way) than one HDTV signal. For one thing they can probably generate more ad revenue that way.
I may be speaking completely out of my rear end here but I can think of another reason to ditch the ISA stuff. I hear ISA is slow. Probably still runs at 8MHz for compatablities sake. Aren't the serial, parallel, and PS/2 ports all hung off the ISA bus. Getting rid of the ISA bus probably results in less device interrupts as well. Somebody with a clue have anything to add to this. I don't know my PCs as well as I used too.
"Any the real reason this would be awesome is to avoid that damn local blackout for sporting events"
word. Just think about how ticked off the cable companies would be about this, the NFL, NBA, MLB, whatever. Why pay for the NFL Sunday ticket for instance just becasue you want to catch your home team and you just moved out of state! No more NFL blackouts. We can all watch the Yankees all season long - or the Tigers (go Tigers!). Cable companies will lose customers to sat which can give people a greater choice.
I don't like this law and the newspaper analogy is a good way to illistrate the problem and why it isn't fair. But to stike it down would totally ruin the way the TV sports market works. With that said, I'm all for it!!
I grew up in MI and went to Michigan State and I just moved to Minneapolis. I want to catch all of the MSU Football, Hockey, Basketball I can. I also want to watch the Red Wings, Pistons, Lions, and Tigers games. Today I can't. Maybe tomorrow I can. Go echostar.
All good points. But I really do think that the movie studios are afraid of HD-DVDs. Heck, almost all were afraid of DVDs at first until they realized that they could sell the same movie to the guy who already owened the VHS version. They have made a lot of money doing so and they hadn't even learned from the whole Beta-VHS debacle.
Sure, OTA is free and clear. But today, most of us can't record in HD. You can because you have the Hipix. When will Tivo be able to record HD? That's the kicker.
The other side of this is of course us, the consumers. If Hollywood actually went with HD-DVD then we would all have to go out and buy new players. People love DVDs now but look at how many still use VHS. It will take a long time to switch over. It may never happen. Most people don't have a display capable of reproducing the resolution of HD. Why should they invest the money in the players and such when they can't reap the benifits. So, it's a double edged sword. They movie studios won't put out the goods in HD becuase few will buy. But no one will invest until the studios put out. But, I digress....
/.ers. What about HDTV? Current DVD media is not big enough to hold a feature length movie in high definition. With 27Gb that will be possible.
But, will Hollywood let it? They don't want you to be able to buy a HD-DVD - play it back on you 50" plasma + home theater and never go to the movie house. They don't want you to take that same HD-DVD and make 50 copies for your friends. They don't want you to copy the DVD to your PC and share it with the world on the Internet. You can bet they won't let HD enter this media. And that's too bad because what else are you going to put on your Scream XI DVD?
True there is already D-VHS. But who wants to mess with the size of tapes with no random access! Besides, I've heard they movie studios are trying to kill D-VHS too.
Getting the old pid is possible. The kernel can assign the newly started job its old pid unless it is in use. If it is in use then wait or die or do some magic.
I think that there is another important reason to checkpoint an application. DEBUG
If I'm running a buggy app and I want to figure it out - it could take an awe full amount of work to reproduce the circumstances. But, not if you checkpoint!
Just ckpt your app and you can start debugging from that point over and over again. You can also send your ckpt to a support person so they could help.
On a side note - you mention that many Linux machines already have NAT. Doesn't winME or whatever they call it these days have Internet Connection Sharing? Intended to do what my Dlink firewall/IP NAT does but with two network cards? People using ICS may be a bigger target to go after. Just a thought.
You wrote: "AMD really should fix it and offer replacement processors to those who need it"
Surely, you must be joking. If a simple software workaround is all you need to get going, then there is absolutely no reason to spend millions of dollars replacing chips they have already shipped.
I'm sure that AMD will fix this bug in their next Rev (if they haven't already).
There are tons of bugs in everything. No one is perfect. But think about it this way. This is a MINOR bug. You will never get the "wrong answer" when a simple workaround is in place. You will never have to make a critical decision based upon bad data. You just need more TLB misses to get there. Minor, minor, minor.
Maybe AMD should have communicated this problem a little better. I'm sure they have tried to learn from the huge Intel debacle from the first Pentium. But there, you could get the "wrong answer".
We had the same thing at Michigan State. I know a couple of people who were caught and it takes more than changing variable names and function orders to fake out MSU's goods.
SGI needs the cash. But does it need it that badly? They sold their souls to the devil!
The register report said that the money came in last year. Is this old news? Even if it is this is pretty significant. You know that SGI must of had millions of dollars in revenue each year just from the proceeds of licensing all that IP. I betcha venders and others will now be forced to license those technologies from Microsoft instead. What is stopping MS from relicensing these technologies for so much $ that venders are forced to go with different stuff? - ie, not OpenGL.
If this is true I'm surprised we haven't heard of any of this yet. Maybe they haven't gotten the ball rolling. Or, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about:)
You wrote,
"Plus, the BeBox has one amazingly impressive feature that no other machine in the world has."
I know that IBM AS/400's had the little CPU meters on them. However, I don't know if they had them when the BeBox was being produced or if they still have them.
I'm not a lawyer so someone please comment if I am off the hook.
You mention small claims court - what about a class action suit? This effects everybody. The people need the EFF or a pro bono to take this to court. What kind of damages can you take from them?
Also, another thing to follow up on (and someone mentioned this earlier) is to see if these copy protected cds are being sold as "red book compliant". If they are being sold that way (and I suspect that they are) and they are not compliant (I suspect that they are not), what action does anyone have against that violation?
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the lustre people were told to leave and most have
What can you tell use about the departures? Was the request by Oracle causation for the mass exodus or only in response? That is, once they lost critical mass, did they simply cut their losses?
p.s. I could have sworn that I replied to this comment earlier... I suppose I won't see a response at this late date :(
This technique would be great for virtual machine instances hosted in simulation environments (eg. bochs).
Yes, as I know it there are 18 different formats of ATSC. But I argure that only 1080i 16x9 is true HDTV. Maybe 16x9 720p. Nothing less is HDTV, ie widescreen 480p is not HDTV. My progressive scan DVD player does that and it doesn't hold a candle to 1080i.
Why does everyone keep saying that we will all have HDTV in 2006. There is nothing mandating an upgrade to HDTV (16x9 1080i) in 2006. What is mandated is that the broadcasters must use the new spectrum for a digital signal, DTV. It could be 4x3 480i and probably will be. Broadcasters will probably prefer to output four SDTV signals (they can slice up the bandwith that way) than one HDTV signal. For one thing they can probably generate more ad revenue that way.
Hey, I read Playboy^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hslashdot for the articles!
I may be speaking completely out of my rear end here but I can think of another reason to ditch the ISA stuff. I hear ISA is slow. Probably still runs at 8MHz for compatablities sake. Aren't the serial, parallel, and PS/2 ports all hung off the ISA bus. Getting rid of the ISA bus probably results in less device interrupts as well. Somebody with a clue have anything to add to this. I don't know my PCs as well as I used too.
-spitzcor
Holy cow! You just made an excellent point!
"Any the real reason this would be awesome is to avoid that damn local blackout for sporting events"
word. Just think about how ticked off the cable companies would be about this, the NFL, NBA, MLB, whatever. Why pay for the NFL Sunday ticket for instance just becasue you want to catch your home team and you just moved out of state! No more NFL blackouts. We can all watch the Yankees all season long - or the Tigers (go Tigers!). Cable companies will lose customers to sat which can give people a greater choice.
I don't like this law and the newspaper analogy is a good way to illistrate the problem and why it isn't fair. But to stike it down would totally ruin the way the TV sports market works. With that said, I'm all for it!!
I grew up in MI and went to Michigan State and I just moved to Minneapolis. I want to catch all of the MSU Football, Hockey, Basketball I can. I also want to watch the Red Wings, Pistons, Lions, and Tigers games. Today I can't. Maybe tomorrow I can. Go echostar.
All good points.
But I really do think that the movie studios are afraid of HD-DVDs. Heck, almost all were afraid of DVDs at first until they realized that they could sell the same movie to the guy who already owened the VHS version. They have made a lot of money doing so and they hadn't even learned from the whole Beta-VHS debacle.
Sure, OTA is free and clear. But today, most of us can't record in HD. You can because you have the Hipix. When will Tivo be able to record HD? That's the kicker.
The other side of this is of course us, the consumers. If Hollywood actually went with HD-DVD then we would all have to go out and buy new players. People love DVDs now but look at how many still use VHS. It will take a long time to switch over. It may never happen. Most people don't have a display capable of reproducing the resolution of HD. Why should they invest the money in the players and such when they can't reap the benifits. So, it's a double edged sword. They movie studios won't put out the goods in HD becuase few will buy. But no one will invest until the studios put out. But, I digress....
/.ers. What about HDTV? Current DVD media is not big enough to hold a feature length movie in high definition. With 27Gb that will be possible.
But, will Hollywood let it? They don't want you to be able to buy a HD-DVD - play it back on you 50" plasma + home theater and never go to the movie house. They don't want you to take that same HD-DVD and make 50 copies for your friends. They don't want you to copy the DVD to your PC and share it with the world on the Internet. You can bet they won't let HD enter this media. And that's too bad because what else are you going to put on your Scream XI DVD?
True there is already D-VHS. But who wants to mess with the size of tapes with no random access! Besides, I've heard they movie studios are trying to kill D-VHS too.
-spitzcor
Getting the old pid is possible. The kernel can assign the newly started job its old pid unless it is in use. If it is in use then wait or die or do some magic.
-spitzcor
I think that there is another important reason to checkpoint an application. DEBUG
If I'm running a buggy app and I want to figure it out - it could take an awe full amount of work to reproduce the circumstances. But, not if you checkpoint!
Just ckpt your app and you can start debugging from that point over and over again. You can also send your ckpt to a support person so they could help.
-spitzcor
On a side note - you mention that many Linux machines already have NAT. Doesn't winME or whatever they call it these days have Internet Connection Sharing? Intended to do what my Dlink firewall/IP NAT does but with two network cards? People using ICS may be a bigger target to go after. Just a thought.
You wrote: "AMD really should fix it and offer replacement processors to those who need it"
Surely, you must be joking. If a simple software workaround is all you need to get going, then there is absolutely no reason to spend millions of dollars replacing chips they have already shipped.
I'm sure that AMD will fix this bug in their next Rev (if they haven't already).
There are tons of bugs in everything. No one is perfect. But think about it this way. This is a MINOR bug. You will never get the "wrong answer" when a simple workaround is in place. You will never have to make a critical decision based upon bad data. You just need more TLB misses to get there. Minor, minor, minor.
Maybe AMD should have communicated this problem a little better. I'm sure they have tried to learn from the huge Intel debacle from the first Pentium. But there, you could get the "wrong answer".
-spitzcor
Maybe they have better technology. I don't know.
We had the same thing at Michigan State. I know a couple of people who were caught and it takes more than changing variable names and function orders to fake out MSU's goods.
SGI needs the cash. But does it need it that badly? They sold their souls to the devil!
:)
The register report said that the money came in last year. Is this old news? Even if it is this is pretty significant. You know that SGI must of had millions of dollars in revenue each year just from the proceeds of licensing all that IP. I betcha venders and others will now be forced to license those technologies from Microsoft instead. What is stopping MS from relicensing these technologies for so much $ that venders are forced to go with different stuff? - ie, not OpenGL.
If this is true I'm surprised we haven't heard of any of this yet. Maybe they haven't gotten the ball rolling. Or, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about
-spitzcor
Word. What is up with the stupid "sgi" logo and the boatload of money I here they paid some consultants for the new look.
Bring back the cube.
You wrote,
"Plus, the BeBox has one amazingly impressive feature that no other machine in the world has."
I know that IBM AS/400's had the little CPU meters on them. However, I don't know if they had them when the BeBox was being produced or if they still have them.
I'm not a lawyer so someone please comment if I am off the hook.
You mention small claims court - what about a class action suit? This effects everybody. The people need the EFF or a pro bono to take this to court. What kind of damages can you take from them?
Also, another thing to follow up on (and someone mentioned this earlier) is to see if these copy protected cds are being sold as "red book compliant". If they are being sold that way (and I suspect that they are) and they are not compliant (I suspect that they are not), what action does anyone have against that violation?