The problem is that Steve Jobs was already using a processor line which matches the performance-per-watt that Intel said they were having in 2 or 3 years; the PowerPC G4 7447A.
The Freescale roadmap and their current 7448 samples show they're making good progress.
IBM's lower power G5's are pretty darn exactly what Steve was whining for.
There is nothing in Intel's little presentation, bleating on about how performance per watt is more important than GHz, that Apple - and the company I work for, Genesi (narf!), hasn't been saying all through this century.
If you want performance per watt excellence now, PPC is where it is at. G4 if you need 32bit and extreme low-power (handtops, laptops), and G5 if you are willing to go a little higher up (servers, workstations). Apple ALREADY HAD THESE PRODUCTS and are TWO YEARS AHEAD OF THE GAME:)
He can make anything sound like the end of the world, can't he?
The patent pool is a START. Having "big names" contribute to it strengthens the pool's credibility. In a couple years the pool may be very very useful and contain patents from the RIGHT people.
Even Microsoft relies on Open Source sometimes. There is no reason why they wouldn't or couldn't contribute; for instance they may have a bunch of patents they might want to let people use in order to increase interoperability with Windows (as this is, ironically, the first step in migrating to Windows from Old Unix) or perhaps to increase licensing revenue for other things (i.e. maybe they would let people use the iPod Interface Patent from a couple stories back, and reap more money from the associated WMA licensing on commercial devices with "open source" firmware?)
Isn't this pretty ancient? There was an article on./ last week about an Apple patent being refused. In the end, the MP3 player was invented by Compaq anyway - yet another./ article from a couple weeks before.
Indeed. I guess it depends what kind of company you deal with.. in the case of building them in a sweat shop in China, I think they will just burn EPROMS and leave it turned off for convenience.
Turning it on though would be a bit confusing for some users who couldn't go in wired to configure it, if they didn't know to look at the bottom of the AP. The 580 manual didn't exactly shout out the location of the keys. And how would they tell which to use? It can only be using WEP or WPA, and there are 2 WEP and like 8 different WPA configurations that are possible.
For an access point with only a RJ45 and an Antenna, it would be a technical hassle for ordinary people to go in and determine their security settings before going in, if their laptop didn't support WPA, for example..
What the world needs to do is invent a wireless standard that is fast, and fairly non-conflicting, from the start. This 3-mode b/g/n or a/n bullshit and the appearance of 802.11i means there are so many configuration problems presented with a user at the ACCESS POINT before you even attempt to add devices to it.
I think the WiFi alliance basically was put into practise a few standards too late. Manufacturers are all too happy to implement half-specifications and non-ratified extensions which make it even worse (even tying you to certain branded products to enable "turbo" modes).
2.4 and 5.xGHz are getting real cluttered with wifi, phones, bluetooth, zigbee and so on.. half the troubleshooting these days seems to be made 100 times worse by the presense of other devices using other protocols in the same frequency bands.
I bought a Speedtouch 580 DSL modem as I just moved to Speakeasy, and lo and behold on the back of the modem is the MAC address of the eth0 port, and the default WEP/WPA key.
Went in and changed it and everything is happy. But the thing shipped with WPA enabled and the default (which looks random..) key next to the serial number.
Aerogels can become effective radiation shielding by proper selection of the elemental composition: Silica aerogels block UV and scatter X-rays while being 70% transparent to visible and IR wavelength. Incorporation of heavy elements by diffusion or doping of the porous solids can provide shielding from Gamma rays or solar flares. Moreover, demonstrated phenomena such as He densification in aerogel pores can be exploited for liquid propellant confinement and increased radiation shielding capability of the material, thus providing an ingenious solution for two major issues of planetary exploration.
Didn't they experiment with aerogels that absorbed infra-red radiation (part of that "we should make windows out of it" line of thought). Wouldn't there be some way that they could dope aerogel to not only insulate the craft to keep it warm but also block some cosmic radiation? It's already used to stop cometary fragments and so on.
That would be significantly lighter than lead. A set of thin, aerogel tiles along the habitable portions of the spacecraft, between outer and inner hull?
The chances of getting ovarian cancer is much higher than testicular cancer (which I would guess is the closest "equivalent") in the appropriate gender.
So in fact they're right. No proof-reading required.
The easiest way is to meet sources in person. Exchange notes on paper that can be burned etc. - email, phone etc. are all easily federally obtainable and destroying such records will land journalists and newspapers in serious trouble if I understand it correctly.
However there is no law about not telling someone you talked to someone else, or throwing a post-it in the trash.
Okay so you have ADD *AND* you're a cynical bastard?:D
I guess you aren't the target market, but that doesn't make you right. Being weird and artistic (rather than loud, obnoxious, brash and right to the point) is odd and eye-catching.
The first thing you do is wonder why this guy is pushing the cart. And he eats a banana.. and you wonder what is coming next. That's the whole point. Explaining the movie at the beginning is ADD culture in action; listening to focus groups and so on. Here's a hint; maybe this advert will be on at March Of The Penguins. I think Nintendo are trying to hit up a little more mature an audience here, the discerning geek or Nintendo-fan, and not the 11 year old.
Either way if you aren't a hyperactive junky who is munching his hotdog and popcorn a good 22 minutes before the movie starts, you might be interested. In fact the people who DO pay attention and ARE interested are more readily going to be the kind of people who play games because they have staying power and attention spans; they're very similar to the Japanese gamer ethic, that "hardcore RPG gamer" who will sit and play Pokemon through 10 times until they get every damn animal, patiently.
They're not going to be sitting there, fiddling the stylus for 10 minutes then throwing the DS across the room and buying a PSP because they are irrationally bored of it.
You understand or did I go on too long? Hey, look at me when I'm talking to you:)
The advert does exactly what you ask; it doesn't explain itself.
But it *IS* selling bananas and old guys with carts, and some kind of weird interaction between something happening on one side of the world and the other.
It just so happens that Mario (old guy) Kart (uhh..) which has a very banana skidding thing going on with it, will be wireless, which is.. well.. there you go.
No scrolling text saying "by the way this is a nod to Mario Kart", it's very subtle and artistic but the target market knows exactly what it means:)
.. why wouldn't I be surprised if this was already happening?
Such rumours of an x86 MacOS were on, off, discounted and resurfacing for years and last month it came true.
Microsoft HAS been embracing Linux, Open Source (see hiring Gentoo founder Daniel Robbins et al.) and seriously.. "opening" office document schemas may be the first step..
MS may be able to bridge that gap that no fully open operating system can; by open sourcing enough parts to allow interoperability and acceptability yet being able to - with it's billions of dollars - support and also PROTECT the interests of it's partners and the interests of companies who want to stay closed source (ATI, nVidia) and have proprietary or otherwised closed products based around that OS and support.
Wow. It sounds good. Almost too good. Like a pack of Marlboro to a lung cancer victim..
I wouldn't buy a Plasma display even if you paid for it.
When I say "hi-def" I mean anything which reportedly displays ATSC resolutions. I wouldn't put plasma screens in that category since most of them simply DON'T (if plasma really doesn't catch up with LCD in terms of native resolutions I don't see a future for it).
DLP, CRT displays would be my choice. There are plenty of HD sets around based on that technology, and plenty which support HDCP. The consumer should be advised NOW on what sets do and do not support this (and where I come from this is the job of the RETAILER - CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City, whereever you go..) and choose accordingly.
Removing the "requires HDCP" from the HD-DVD spec would simply mean it would not be used for the next generation DVD format. Blu-Ray would die on it's arse too if it also did not mandate this technological feature. Sony are perfectly happy to levy all kinds of fees (Macrovision notwithstanding) and cripple their own devices because they are also a movie studio which makes the vast majority of the movies and culled billions in license fees on the DVDs you probably already own:)
You are an idiot if you went out 3 weeks ago and bought a non-HDCP capable set considering you knew the media industry would be clamouring for it. Call yourself a nerd who wants news that matters? You clearly don't read this site or any other.
Yeah, it comes weeks after that little tidbit rumour. So what? I am going to go for a -1 or more and accuse the poster of being a flamer wanting a big copy protection discussion, where none is warranted or even alluded to in the document linked from the news post.
If you read the document they advocate the copy protection in not so many words, and they would; it's in their best interests. If you have a TV capable of playing digital high-definition content there is a HIGH certainty that it supports HDCP.
If it does not and you are really that concerned about it, you are going to be geeky or tech-freak enough to buy a TV that can anyway. The average consumer; who currently sees no reason to upgrade from standard definition television sets other than to watch HBO and the Discovery Channel, will be adequately and happily encouraged to buy new TVs anyway.
What is this big "OH NOES!!" thing about buying a new TV. Did that many people really buy an HD TV that didn't have HDCP? I mean you would have to have a 3 or 4 year old set of reasonably poor quality to have that kind of tech in your house, and been an incredibly early adopter. Are you the mass market consumer whore the document is asking the industry to cater for?
IBM have no troubles producing the chips Apple would NEED to bring out their laptop lines and outperform Intel chips - just not at the same clock speed.
The same way AMD can release a 2.2GHz chip with a "4000+" rating and have it kick a 3.8GHz Pentium 4's ass, IBM had their 2.7GHz and will have a dual core 2.5GHz by the end of this year, which manages to thrash them both.
Apple's sweet spot hit; bingo!
We all know this is a Jobs power-play and nothing to do with chip technology. And Michael Robertson, who's Linux isn't doing so well as he hoped, trying to get attention for Linspire and banner clicks for his affiliates. Yes, a very informative, yet biased, whoring article indeed.
That's a cute solution but I have had some really bad quality tracks through iTunes.. no matter how great AAC is, they can do a quite bad job of encoding and use low bitrates, which you would never notice on an iPod with it's crappy earbuds.. but plugging it into a real amp at home just makes worse.
Throwing such tracks via a CDRW might not be the audiophile's dream come true but it works:)
My way around iTunes DRM is to buy tracks and then download a high quality MP3 from eMule.
The references state that it simply won't be INTERNET play. You can still jump in with 4 DS (and only one cart..) and play with 3 of your friends, deathmatching in the same room or office.
Just not with your friends thousands of miles away in Japan or South Africa, eh?
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Well, fuck.. :)
The problem is that Steve Jobs was already using a processor line which matches
:)
the performance-per-watt that Intel said they were having in 2 or 3 years; the
PowerPC G4 7447A.
The Freescale roadmap and their current 7448 samples show they're making good
progress.
IBM's lower power G5's are pretty darn exactly what Steve was whining for.
There is nothing in Intel's little presentation, bleating on about how performance
per watt is more important than GHz, that Apple - and the company I work for, Genesi (narf!), hasn't been saying all through this century.
If you want performance per watt excellence now, PPC is where it is at. G4 if you
need 32bit and extreme low-power (handtops, laptops), and G5 if you are willing to
go a little higher up (servers, workstations). Apple ALREADY HAD THESE PRODUCTS and
are TWO YEARS AHEAD OF THE GAME
Neko
Cue 1000 comments entitled "The real reason Apple switched!!!!"
:)
*sigh*
Neko
How did you break in
To my mom's house, in order
To fit the server?
He can make anything sound like the end of the world, can't he?
The patent pool is a START. Having "big names" contribute to it strengthens the
pool's credibility. In a couple years the pool may be very very useful and
contain patents from the RIGHT people.
Even Microsoft relies on Open Source sometimes. There is no reason why they
wouldn't or couldn't contribute; for instance they may have a bunch of patents
they might want to let people use in order to increase interoperability with
Windows (as this is, ironically, the first step in migrating to Windows from
Old Unix) or perhaps to increase licensing revenue for other things (i.e. maybe
they would let people use the iPod Interface Patent from a couple stories back,
and reap more money from the associated WMA licensing on commercial devices with
"open source" firmware?)
Neko
Isn't this pretty ancient? There was an article on ./ last week about an Apple patent being refused. In the end, the MP3 player was invented by Compaq anyway - yet another ./ article from a couple weeks before.
:)
This is worse than cable TV
Indeed. I guess it depends what kind of company you deal with.. in the case of building them in a sweat shop in China, I think they will just burn EPROMS and leave it turned off for convenience.
Turning it on though would be a bit confusing for some users who couldn't go in
wired to configure it, if they didn't know to look at the bottom of the AP. The
580 manual didn't exactly shout out the location of the keys. And how would they
tell which to use? It can only be using WEP or WPA, and there are 2 WEP and like 8
different WPA configurations that are possible.
For an access point with only a RJ45 and an Antenna, it would be a technical
hassle for ordinary people to go in and determine their security settings before
going in, if their laptop didn't support WPA, for example..
What the world needs to do is invent a wireless standard that is fast, and fairly
non-conflicting, from the start. This 3-mode b/g/n or a/n bullshit and the
appearance of 802.11i means there are so many configuration problems presented
with a user at the ACCESS POINT before you even attempt to add devices to it.
I think the WiFi alliance basically was put into practise a few standards too late.
Manufacturers are all too happy to implement half-specifications and non-ratified
extensions which make it even worse (even tying you to certain branded products
to enable "turbo" modes).
2.4 and 5.xGHz are getting real cluttered with wifi, phones, bluetooth, zigbee and
so on.. half the troubleshooting these days seems to be made 100 times worse by
the presense of other devices using other protocols in the same frequency bands.
Neko
I bought a Speedtouch 580 DSL modem as I just moved to Speakeasy, and lo and behold
on the back of the modem is the MAC address of the eth0 port, and the default
WEP/WPA key.
Went in and changed it and everything is happy. But the thing shipped with WPA
enabled and the default (which looks random..) key next to the serial number.
Neko
The guy I mean.
How can Sony delay for a year and have more games on launch than a console
which will have had an 18 month head start?
Neko
Why couldn't they dope it with lead or some other substance in the same way for the same kind of functionality on a better scale?
/ 7022.pdf
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/resource2000/pdf
Quote;
Aerogels can become effective radiation shielding
by proper selection of the elemental composition: Silica
aerogels block UV and scatter X-rays while being
70% transparent to visible and IR wavelength. Incorporation
of heavy elements by diffusion or doping of
the porous solids can provide shielding from Gamma
rays or solar flares. Moreover, demonstrated phenomena
such as He densification in aerogel pores can be
exploited for liquid propellant confinement and increased
radiation shielding capability of the material,
thus providing an ingenious solution for two major
issues of planetary exploration.
Neko
Didn't they experiment with aerogels that absorbed infra-red radiation (part of
that "we should make windows out of it" line of thought). Wouldn't there be some
way that they could dope aerogel to not only insulate the craft to keep it warm
but also block some cosmic radiation? It's already used to stop cometary fragments
and so on.
That would be significantly lighter than lead. A set of thin, aerogel tiles along
the habitable portions of the spacecraft, between outer and inner hull?
Neko
Men can get breast cancer. It's rare.
The chances of getting ovarian cancer is much higher than testicular cancer (which
I would guess is the closest "equivalent") in the appropriate gender.
So in fact they're right. No proof-reading required.
It's against the law pretty much, isn't it?
The easiest way is to meet sources in person. Exchange notes on paper that can
be burned etc. - email, phone etc. are all easily federally obtainable and
destroying such records will land journalists and newspapers in serious trouble if
I understand it correctly.
However there is no law about not telling someone you talked to someone else, or
throwing a post-it in the trash.
Neko
Awesome. You know everyone here has to see that film. PENGUINS, damn it. PENGUINS.
Okay so you have ADD *AND* you're a cynical bastard? :D
:)
I guess you aren't the target market, but that doesn't make you right. Being
weird and artistic (rather than loud, obnoxious, brash and right to the point)
is odd and eye-catching.
The first thing you do is wonder why this guy is pushing the cart. And he eats a
banana.. and you wonder what is coming next. That's the whole point. Explaining
the movie at the beginning is ADD culture in action; listening to focus groups
and so on. Here's a hint; maybe this advert will be on at March Of The Penguins.
I think Nintendo are trying to hit up a little more mature an audience here, the
discerning geek or Nintendo-fan, and not the 11 year old.
Either way if you aren't a hyperactive junky who is munching his hotdog and
popcorn a good 22 minutes before the movie starts, you might be interested. In
fact the people who DO pay attention and ARE interested are more readily going to
be the kind of people who play games because they have staying power and attention
spans; they're very similar to the Japanese gamer ethic, that "hardcore RPG gamer"
who will sit and play Pokemon through 10 times until they get every damn animal,
patiently.
They're not going to be sitting there, fiddling the stylus for 10 minutes then
throwing the DS across the room and buying a PSP because they are irrationally
bored of it.
You understand or did I go on too long? Hey, look at me when I'm talking to you
Neko
Way to contradict yourself.
:)
The advert does exactly what you ask; it doesn't explain itself.
But it *IS* selling bananas and old guys with carts, and some kind of weird
interaction between something happening on one side of the world and the other.
It just so happens that Mario (old guy) Kart (uhh..) which has a very banana
skidding thing going on with it, will be wireless, which is.. well.. there you
go.
No scrolling text saying "by the way this is a nod to Mario Kart", it's very
subtle and artistic but the target market knows exactly what it means
Hasn't been illegal for over a year :)
Neko
What's the point of filling a disc with full motion video at 1080p when these
consoles can generate it on the fly from source data?
Unless you want Night Trap HD. Which you are welcome to.
Neko
.. why wouldn't I be surprised if this was already happening?
Such rumours of an x86 MacOS were on, off, discounted and resurfacing for years
and last month it came true.
Microsoft HAS been embracing Linux, Open Source (see hiring Gentoo founder Daniel
Robbins et al.) and seriously.. "opening" office document schemas may be the first
step..
MS may be able to bridge that gap that no fully open operating system can; by
open sourcing enough parts to allow interoperability and acceptability yet
being able to - with it's billions of dollars - support and also PROTECT the
interests of it's partners and the interests of companies who want to stay closed
source (ATI, nVidia) and have proprietary or otherwised closed products based
around that OS and support.
Wow. It sounds good. Almost too good. Like a pack of Marlboro to a lung cancer
victim..
I wouldn't buy a Plasma display even if you paid for it.
:)
When I say "hi-def" I mean anything which reportedly displays ATSC resolutions.
I wouldn't put plasma screens in that category since most of them simply DON'T
(if plasma really doesn't catch up with LCD in terms of native resolutions I
don't see a future for it).
DLP, CRT displays would be my choice. There are plenty of HD sets around based
on that technology, and plenty which support HDCP. The consumer should be advised
NOW on what sets do and do not support this (and where I come from this is the
job of the RETAILER - CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City, whereever you go..) and
choose accordingly.
Removing the "requires HDCP" from the HD-DVD spec would simply mean it would not
be used for the next generation DVD format. Blu-Ray would die on it's arse too
if it also did not mandate this technological feature. Sony are perfectly happy
to levy all kinds of fees (Macrovision notwithstanding) and cripple their own
devices because they are also a movie studio which makes the vast majority of the
movies and culled billions in license fees on the DVDs you probably already own
You are an idiot if you went out 3 weeks ago and bought a non-HDCP capable set
considering you knew the media industry would be clamouring for it. Call yourself
a nerd who wants news that matters? You clearly don't read this site or any other.
Neko
Yeah, it comes weeks after that little tidbit rumour. So what? I am going to go
for a -1 or more and accuse the poster of being a flamer wanting a big copy
protection discussion, where none is warranted or even alluded to in the document
linked from the news post.
If you read the document they advocate the copy protection in not so many words,
and they would; it's in their best interests. If you have a TV capable of playing
digital high-definition content there is a HIGH certainty that it supports HDCP.
If it does not and you are really that concerned about it, you are going to be
geeky or tech-freak enough to buy a TV that can anyway. The average consumer; who
currently sees no reason to upgrade from standard definition television sets
other than to watch HBO and the Discovery Channel, will be adequately and happily
encouraged to buy new TVs anyway.
What is this big "OH NOES!!" thing about buying a new TV. Did that many people
really buy an HD TV that didn't have HDCP? I mean you would have to have a 3
or 4 year old set of reasonably poor quality to have that kind of tech in your
house, and been an incredibly early adopter. Are you the mass market consumer whore
the document is asking the industry to cater for?
Nope. So quit whining and baiting
Yes
It wouldn't be at all bad if it was at all true.
IBM have no troubles producing the chips Apple would NEED to bring out their
laptop lines and outperform Intel chips - just not at the same clock speed.
The same way AMD can release a 2.2GHz chip with a "4000+" rating and have it
kick a 3.8GHz Pentium 4's ass, IBM had their 2.7GHz and will have a dual core
2.5GHz by the end of this year, which manages to thrash them both.
Apple's sweet spot hit; bingo!
We all know this is a Jobs power-play and nothing to do with chip technology. And
Michael Robertson, who's Linux isn't doing so well as he hoped, trying to get
attention for Linspire and banner clicks for his affiliates. Yes, a very
informative, yet biased, whoring article indeed.
Neko
That's a cute solution but I have had some really bad quality tracks through
:)
iTunes.. no matter how great AAC is, they can do a quite bad job of encoding
and use low bitrates, which you would never notice on an iPod with it's crappy
earbuds.. but plugging it into a real amp at home just makes worse.
Throwing such tracks via a CDRW might not be the audiophile's dream come true but
it works
My way around iTunes DRM is to buy tracks and then download a high quality MP3
from eMule.
Don't people read..
The references state that it simply won't be INTERNET play. You can still
jump in with 4 DS (and only one cart..) and play with 3 of your friends,
deathmatching in the same room or office.
Just not with your friends thousands of miles away in Japan or South Africa, eh?
Someone tell me why that is a big loss?
Neko