No, chip "architecture" generally means "Instruction Set Architecture" by default unless further qualified. Implementation details like pipeline stages, cache associativity, TLB organization, bus widths, etc, are sometimes referred to as "microarchitecture". AMD's x86 chips have different microarchitectural features from Intel's (and from each other!) but they share the same architecture (i386) with some varying extensions (3dnow, x86-64).
Calling any x86 chip "RISC" is a big big stretch of the terminology. The microcode engines inside the last few generations are sort of RISCy but that is an implementation detail, not an architectural feature.
Disclaimer: I am not an IC designer, but I have been reading comp.arch for 10 years.
I agree too, except that
I couldn't give a fuck if iTunes is completely incompatible, and I couldn't give two shits what kind of DRM Apple want to use.
I use Opera and Mozilla and Eudora in Windows (98 and 2000, utterly unpatched from the original installation CDs). Never had any spyware ever, nor worms, trojan horses or viruses. I have a good friend who uses Windows with Internet Explorer and Outlook, and he has no malware problems either.
It's all about understanding how computers work and taking sensible precautions, not which brand name logos you wear. I don't even use anti-malware utilities, except for a read-only scan once a year or so just to prove to skeptics that there's no malware on my systems. Of course I'm always the last person in the world to see those dancing baby animations and java/flash/whatever applet games, and watching video clips can be a slight PITA without all those browser plugins... but that's a price I'm willing to pay.
SPF degrades gracefully. In the above example, the university would either (a) not publish any SPF record at all, or (b) publish a "free-for-all" SPF record. In case (a) the receiving MTA will treat the sender's domain as a "legacy" domain and accept mail from any network address. In case (b) the domain explicitly allows any network address to send mail for it.
I run some mail servers for a friend who registered a 3-letter domain that just happens to be the name of a big ISP spelled backwards. Not intentionally -- he wasn't even aware of that ISP when he got the domain. I could just strangle the idiots who "cleverly" obfuscate their $BIGISP address in Usenet postings by spelling the 2LD part backwards. I set up an auto-forward for them for a while (to make sure they got to see all the spam flooding into our servers) but decided that's a bad idea, since our servers would eventually get flagged as spam relays.
ARGH! The "Temperature Increase - Percent Increase" chart just divides load_temp by idle_temp in Celsius to calculate a "percent increase". Ratios in Celsius are meaningless! Convert to Kelvin first! Convert! Convert!
A lot of people seem to think that if your experience and perspective don't exactly match their own that you're "out of touch" and not living in "the real world".
It doesn't even take a big/rich plaintiff to threaten a small defendant, just someone with nothing to lose and time on their hands. Any idiot can file enough paperwork to get a case rolling, and the defendant pretty much has no choice but to respond with competent (expensive) lawyers. That's more or less what Marin did. His case was crap and got thrown out early on in the process, but it still cost the defendants plenty.
That ruling was a travesty by the way. It should never have been dismissed as it was, leaving the defendants unable to recover the cost of defending an obviously frivolous suit. Sure, they can counter-sue but that means opening up a new case and tracking down all the bozos involved, instead of already having them right there in court. Much more difficult!
For the last five years I've been paying $150/month (and up, as ISPs come and go) for a good fast connection for my game server, because I love the game and because I get as much out of it as I put into it. We have a nice little gaming community with my server at the center and I feel I've done my part to make a lot of people happy.
How much is he paying for his website? What does he get out of it? If it's such a big burden on him, giving nothing in return, then why the hell does he even bother? Webhosting is dirt-cheap now, and once the pages are written it hardly costs anything to serve them. This just smells like some nineties dot-com guy still trying to cash in big on teh Intarweb.
I hate them when I pay 11$ to see a movie and I'm forced to see commercials
Forced? When the commercials start, get up and walk out. Cool your heels in the lobby for 10 minutes, then go back in and watch the movie. (I generally boycott theaters that show commercials (movie previews excepted of course) but sometimes they're unavoidable.)
I know of 3 companies that we tried to send email to recently had us on their spam list because of bonehead admins subscribing blindly.
Who cares? It's not the end of the world. They give a 5xx error to your RCPT, you get an instant bounce from your own MTA, and you contact them by some alternate method. SMTP-level blocking is no big deal. We have occasional "false positives" here; people follow the link in the reject message, we whitelist them, and life goes on.
I've only taken apart one HDD -- a 340 MB Conner IDE from about 1993. I found its actuator magnet assembly to be held together entirely by the force of the magnets. No glue or fasteners at all, just two magnets attracting each other with a small non-magnetic bracket separating them. At first I thought they were glued on, the magnetic force was so strong.
BTW, I totally agree with grandparent post's points on infringement. The teenager who snarfed 20000 MP3s with Kazaa is probably still buying a handful of favorite albums every year, just like teenagers have always done. Net revenues for the music publishers: unchanged. Iron-fisted deathgrip on distribution/promotion channels: severely weakened.
I now visit the DVD section instead of the useless CD section.
*double-take*
*triple-take*
Did I read that right? You're dismayed that they're putting copy protection on CDs now, so you buy DVDs instead??? Are you aware of CSS, the DVDCA, the DMCA, Jon Johansen? CD "copy protection" is a lame hack that can be permanently removed with a pen. DVDs are encrypted, and the org that controls the encryption bought federal laws that make it illegal to decrypt without a license. DVD copy protection is far, far worse than CD copy protection.
Not that I approve of CD copy protection. I buy CDs strictly at second-hand stores now, ever since Nettwerk sent me a multisession "enhanced" Delerium CD that my reader barfed on (until I used the pen trick). The packaging on that disc proudly announced how broken it was -- are they not doing that any more?
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Calling any x86 chip "RISC" is a big big stretch of the terminology. The microcode engines inside the last few generations are sort of RISCy but that is an implementation detail, not an architectural feature.
Disclaimer: I am not an IC designer, but I have been reading comp.arch for 10 years.
I agree too, except that I couldn't give a fuck if iTunes is completely incompatible, and I couldn't give two shits what kind of DRM Apple want to use.
It's all about understanding how computers work and taking sensible precautions, not which brand name logos you wear. I don't even use anti-malware utilities, except for a read-only scan once a year or so just to prove to skeptics that there's no malware on my systems. Of course I'm always the last person in the world to see those dancing baby animations and java/flash/whatever applet games, and watching video clips can be a slight PITA without all those browser plugins... but that's a price I'm willing to pay.
SPF degrades gracefully. In the above example, the university would either (a) not publish any SPF record at all, or (b) publish a "free-for-all" SPF record. In case (a) the receiving MTA will treat the sender's domain as a "legacy" domain and accept mail from any network address. In case (b) the domain explicitly allows any network address to send mail for it.
Here in Seattle that stuff would still be on the table a week later, still needing recycling and also soaking wet.
It's not his address, he just picked somebody else's at random.
I run some mail servers for a friend who registered a 3-letter domain that just happens to be the name of a big ISP spelled backwards. Not intentionally -- he wasn't even aware of that ISP when he got the domain. I could just strangle the idiots who "cleverly" obfuscate their $BIGISP address in Usenet postings by spelling the 2LD part backwards. I set up an auto-forward for them for a while (to make sure they got to see all the spam flooding into our servers) but decided that's a bad idea, since our servers would eventually get flagged as spam relays.
Nigritude is also a word.
Today, drive the infidels from Mecca; tomorrow from Earth!
Sorry, had to post that or my head would explode.
A lot of people seem to think that if your experience and perspective don't exactly match their own that you're "out of touch" and not living in "the real world".
That ruling was a travesty by the way. It should never have been dismissed as it was, leaving the defendants unable to recover the cost of defending an obviously frivolous suit. Sure, they can counter-sue but that means opening up a new case and tracking down all the bozos involved, instead of already having them right there in court. Much more difficult!
For the last five years I've been paying $150/month (and up, as ISPs come and go) for a good fast connection for my game server, because I love the game and because I get as much out of it as I put into it. We have a nice little gaming community with my server at the center and I feel I've done my part to make a lot of people happy.
How much is he paying for his website? What does he get out of it? If it's such a big burden on him, giving nothing in return, then why the hell does he even bother? Webhosting is dirt-cheap now, and once the pages are written it hardly costs anything to serve them. This just smells like some nineties dot-com guy still trying to cash in big on teh Intarweb.
The TLD is registered to Niue, but the web server is in Ontario.
DirecTivo is cheaper because it doesn't need any MPEG encoder. It just records the already-encoded digital signal.
I've only taken apart one HDD -- a 340 MB Conner IDE from about 1993. I found its actuator magnet assembly to be held together entirely by the force of the magnets. No glue or fasteners at all, just two magnets attracting each other with a small non-magnetic bracket separating them. At first I thought they were glued on, the magnetic force was so strong.
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BTW, I totally agree with grandparent post's points on infringement. The teenager who snarfed 20000 MP3s with Kazaa is probably still buying a handful of favorite albums every year, just like teenagers have always done. Net revenues for the music publishers: unchanged. Iron-fisted deathgrip on distribution/promotion channels: severely weakened.
*triple-take*
Did I read that right? You're dismayed that they're putting copy protection on CDs now, so you buy DVDs instead??? Are you aware of CSS, the DVDCA, the DMCA, Jon Johansen? CD "copy protection" is a lame hack that can be permanently removed with a pen. DVDs are encrypted, and the org that controls the encryption bought federal laws that make it illegal to decrypt without a license. DVD copy protection is far, far worse than CD copy protection.
Not that I approve of CD copy protection. I buy CDs strictly at second-hand stores now, ever since Nettwerk sent me a multisession "enhanced" Delerium CD that my reader barfed on (until I used the pen trick). The packaging on that disc proudly announced how broken it was -- are they not doing that any more?