They aren't. You can't put a corporation in jail. Plus, no one will ever know who made the final "ok" on putting the rootkit in (probably). The best we can do is fine them astronomical sums of money, and set the precident that this kind of thing will not be tollerated. Even though what Sony did was bad, I think it woke the government up to the slow invasion of record companies into how we use our music, which should help in the long run.
Seems more like a careon eater to me. Everyone is jumping on Sony, who is in the midst of a (deserved) media nightmare, which is easy to take advantage of. Texas isn't the first, nor the last to file a class action.
A lot of people have fallen off Segways. Bush just happens to have the disadvantage of being President, having a bad reputation intelligence wise, and having the media nearby when it happened. Segways are two-wheeled, inherently unbalanced vehicles. Of course a lot of work went into making sure they didn't tip over often, but anyone who owns one can tell you they are not foolproof. If you lean to far in any direction, over it goes, especially if you are going quite fast and hit a bump. I've ridden a Segway several times, and like a bicycle, it stays up, but not if you lean to far in any direction. I'm not a Republican and I'm not a Bush supporter, but please give credit where it is due, and save your criticism for where it is appropriate.
Since when was 960x540 a standard res? Still, 1280x720 is pretty standard HDTV and should be supported by most new mid-high end cards with new drivers. You would be supprised at the features removed from low end cards, quite a few new sub $100 cards ship without HDTV support, even if they have DVI.
You couldn't fit a powerplant big enough to run one of these in a shipping container. At least not a power plant and fuel, unless it is nuclear, which it can't be, because that would be illegal in SOOOO many ways. I think the point is that it is easily deployable, not portable. It would have to hook into HUGE power mains. It is probably made for deployment in a week, not an hour.
I'd be worried about putting my laptop in there. For one thing, CNC machines are made to handle solid chunks of metal, not delicate electronics, so they tend to jerk things around a lot. I would be affraid of my HD crashing. Also, CNC machines tend to be filled with, and generate, lots of metal dust, which does not make electronics happy.
Even if it doesn't, a 4 Billion watt PA would work great for my band, as of now, some of the people who survive our concerts eventually regain partial use of their ears, its rediculous!
You could (GASP) play a closed source gaming system once and awhile. I understand the lure of open source, I run Firefox, Thunderbird, GAIM, ect on my main machine, and am considering converting one of my backup machines to full time linux. However, turning against all that is closed source makes about as much sense to me as religious fanaticism. MS Office still beats the pants off of Open Office (however, 2.0 seems to fix many problems). Windows XP is still simpler to use than any Linux Distro. Pick and choose the best of both worlds, and I think you might be happier and more open minded.
Anyway, an open source console wouldn't sell. Back in the day, when games took months and thosands of dollars to develope, it was possible for hobbiest to put together games that rivaled the quality of comercial releases (speaking of comadore and atari here). Nowadays, games require huge teams of developers and tens of millions of dollars to make. Hobbiests, no matter how organized, could not put together a constant supply of high quality games that would make such an open source console feasable.
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Ya, don't think this is a regular hobby project. This guy has Illustrator skilz, CAD experience, and mysterious access to CNC routers, and professional printing equiptment. Not to mention a serious working knowledge of computers and electronics. Do you have any idea how hard it is to cut a chunk out of a motherboard and wire it back together?
You probably couldn't. The system itself probably uses almost no power whatsoever, since it is an ancient processor and has no moving parts on it. The screen, however, would be a power hog, and I imagine the battery life the the screen alone would only be 2 hours or so, so somewhat less for the whole system. I could be wrong though, you should e-mail him.
My always on XP SP2 machine has not had any spyware in 3 months. Its the dumb users who get infected. There are less dumb people using Linux (due to the learning curve), therefore less problems with unwanted computer activity. An XP machine properly set up with firewall, spyware, and virus scanners/blockers, and used responsibly (no Kazaa) will get a serious virus about as often as a *nix user will get rooted.
But its been proven that any system but an arbitrary one doesn't work. Either you get a crypic number like "570J", or a horrendusly long name, a la DEC "21164". The system people seem to like is the AMD system, which is arbitrarily based on the old Intel MHz system (3800+ ~= 3.800 GHz P4). I fail to see how this system is less arbitrary than Intel's old MHz system, which was at least based on a real aspect of the processor (3.8GHz P4 ACTUALLY RAN AT ABOUT 3.8GHz!!!!)
I would be, but sadly, the number does not express this. Some of the 5xx series outperform the 6xx series, and the 840 and 840EE have quite different performance. Add to that, the 7xx Pentium Ms, while possessing a higher number than the 3xx, 5xx and 6xx processors, are outperformed by them for the most part (some of the celerons might be slower). And its not even based on price! The nice 6xx's cost the same or more than the 8xx's!
I dont know how much of a performace boost you would get. Despite the fact that it has a power pc processor on it, it is a very different power pc. It does not have out of order execution, and has all those pretty vector processors dangling off of it. I think emulation would be 2x faster, at most.
I think the idea is more that birds are less likely to fly into something that looks like a metal whirling meat grinder than something that looks like a 200 ft white flower.
How is this +4 interesting? By any logical standard this is offtopic. Anyway, there are simple answers to all of your questions.
1. IBM is cranking out killer PPC chips.
True, but they are not cranking them out fast enough, and they are not making good on their roadmap (PPCs were supposed to hit 3+ GHz in 2004). Also, it doesn't matter, as only Apple uses PPCs in mainstream computers, and Intel/AMD/Microsoft aren't just going to switch one day.
2. AMD is cranking out killer x86 chips.
Also true, but AMD does not have the production cabilitites to supply the whole industry. Their market share has grown fast in the last few years, and they are scrambling to keep up. Dell does not use AMD because AMDs total production is smaller than Dell's desktop production, leaving out laptops and servers. In order for dell to have decent prices, they need a steady supply of chips, which only Intel can guarantee.
3. Intel is not in the special olympics. True, the Pentium D may not be the best processor ever, but look at the price: 80% performace of an Athlon X2 at 50% the price isn't bad. Also, their single core P4's are still blazing fast, and no one can touch the Pentium M. Plus, Intel's roadmap is full of great processors, while AMD's is just "Well, we thought we'd make some more Athlon 64s..."
Actually, probably not too much damage would come of a bad connection, just the chip would not power up until the problem was removed. Now if you want to see smoke, put the chip in the WRONG way, like rotating it 90 degrees. I wish they would make chips that were much harder to do that with. I built an LGA 775 system this summer, and all there is keeping you from inserting it wrong is a teeny little tab on the side of the chip. Now, if you were to make an "L" shaped chip, or at least an "L" shaped socket, it couldn't be put in wrong.
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They aren't. You can't put a corporation in jail. Plus, no one will ever know who made the final "ok" on putting the rootkit in (probably). The best we can do is fine them astronomical sums of money, and set the precident that this kind of thing will not be tollerated. Even though what Sony did was bad, I think it woke the government up to the slow invasion of record companies into how we use our music, which should help in the long run.
Or a nervous request.
Seems more like a careon eater to me. Everyone is jumping on Sony, who is in the midst of a (deserved) media nightmare, which is easy to take advantage of. Texas isn't the first, nor the last to file a class action.
A lot of people have fallen off Segways. Bush just happens to have the disadvantage of being President, having a bad reputation intelligence wise, and having the media nearby when it happened. Segways are two-wheeled, inherently unbalanced vehicles. Of course a lot of work went into making sure they didn't tip over often, but anyone who owns one can tell you they are not foolproof. If you lean to far in any direction, over it goes, especially if you are going quite fast and hit a bump. I've ridden a Segway several times, and like a bicycle, it stays up, but not if you lean to far in any direction. I'm not a Republican and I'm not a Bush supporter, but please give credit where it is due, and save your criticism for where it is appropriate.
You mean ATI XXL 81200X XP X-Treme Xdition. I won't consider any card that doesn't have the "x" in glowing green.
Since when was 960x540 a standard res? Still, 1280x720 is pretty standard HDTV and should be supported by most new mid-high end cards with new drivers. You would be supprised at the features removed from low end cards, quite a few new sub $100 cards ship without HDTV support, even if they have DVI.
Still, thats a lot of coffee. Better make it a starbucks on a college campus.
You couldn't fit a powerplant big enough to run one of these in a shipping container. At least not a power plant and fuel, unless it is nuclear, which it can't be, because that would be illegal in SOOOO many ways. I think the point is that it is easily deployable, not portable. It would have to hook into HUGE power mains. It is probably made for deployment in a week, not an hour.
I'd be worried about putting my laptop in there. For one thing, CNC machines are made to handle solid chunks of metal, not delicate electronics, so they tend to jerk things around a lot. I would be affraid of my HD crashing. Also, CNC machines tend to be filled with, and generate, lots of metal dust, which does not make electronics happy.
Good thing those bloggers are journalists, now we can throw them in jail if they have funny opinions, or won't tell us stuff!
Even if it doesn't, a 4 Billion watt PA would work great for my band, as of now, some of the people who survive our concerts eventually regain partial use of their ears, its rediculous!
You could (GASP) play a closed source gaming system once and awhile. I understand the lure of open source, I run Firefox, Thunderbird, GAIM, ect on my main machine, and am considering converting one of my backup machines to full time linux. However, turning against all that is closed source makes about as much sense to me as religious fanaticism. MS Office still beats the pants off of Open Office (however, 2.0 seems to fix many problems). Windows XP is still simpler to use than any Linux Distro. Pick and choose the best of both worlds, and I think you might be happier and more open minded.
Anyway, an open source console wouldn't sell. Back in the day, when games took months and thosands of dollars to develope, it was possible for hobbiest to put together games that rivaled the quality of comercial releases (speaking of comadore and atari here). Nowadays, games require huge teams of developers and tens of millions of dollars to make. Hobbiests, no matter how organized, could not put together a constant supply of high quality games that would make such an open source console feasable.
Ya, don't think this is a regular hobby project. This guy has Illustrator skilz, CAD experience, and mysterious access to CNC routers, and professional printing equiptment. Not to mention a serious working knowledge of computers and electronics. Do you have any idea how hard it is to cut a chunk out of a motherboard and wire it back together?
You probably couldn't. The system itself probably uses almost no power whatsoever, since it is an ancient processor and has no moving parts on it. The screen, however, would be a power hog, and I imagine the battery life the the screen alone would only be 2 hours or so, so somewhat less for the whole system. I could be wrong though, you should e-mail him.
Didn't they say this thing was discovered 15 years ago? Does this count as news, or history?
We could save another billiontrillion trees or so by replacing all cars with magical unicorn drawn buggys' driven by charismatic gnomes!
My always on XP SP2 machine has not had any spyware in 3 months. Its the dumb users who get infected. There are less dumb people using Linux (due to the learning curve), therefore less problems with unwanted computer activity. An XP machine properly set up with firewall, spyware, and virus scanners/blockers, and used responsibly (no Kazaa) will get a serious virus about as often as a *nix user will get rooted.
But its been proven that any system but an arbitrary one doesn't work. Either you get a crypic number like "570J", or a horrendusly long name, a la DEC "21164". The system people seem to like is the AMD system, which is arbitrarily based on the old Intel MHz system (3800+ ~= 3.800 GHz P4). I fail to see how this system is less arbitrary than Intel's old MHz system, which was at least based on a real aspect of the processor (3.8GHz P4 ACTUALLY RAN AT ABOUT 3.8GHz!!!!)
The Pentium 4 bears little resemblance to the P6 design. The Pentium M, however, is a P6 design, with modern features.
I would be, but sadly, the number does not express this. Some of the 5xx series outperform the 6xx series, and the 840 and 840EE have quite different performance. Add to that, the 7xx Pentium Ms, while possessing a higher number than the 3xx, 5xx and 6xx processors, are outperformed by them for the most part (some of the celerons might be slower). And its not even based on price! The nice 6xx's cost the same or more than the 8xx's!
I dont know how much of a performace boost you would get. Despite the fact that it has a power pc processor on it, it is a very different power pc. It does not have out of order execution, and has all those pretty vector processors dangling off of it. I think emulation would be 2x faster, at most.
I think the idea is more that birds are less likely to fly into something that looks like a metal whirling meat grinder than something that looks like a 200 ft white flower.
How is this +4 interesting? By any logical standard this is offtopic. Anyway, there are simple answers to all of your questions. 1. IBM is cranking out killer PPC chips. True, but they are not cranking them out fast enough, and they are not making good on their roadmap (PPCs were supposed to hit 3+ GHz in 2004). Also, it doesn't matter, as only Apple uses PPCs in mainstream computers, and Intel/AMD/Microsoft aren't just going to switch one day. 2. AMD is cranking out killer x86 chips. Also true, but AMD does not have the production cabilitites to supply the whole industry. Their market share has grown fast in the last few years, and they are scrambling to keep up. Dell does not use AMD because AMDs total production is smaller than Dell's desktop production, leaving out laptops and servers. In order for dell to have decent prices, they need a steady supply of chips, which only Intel can guarantee. 3. Intel is not in the special olympics. True, the Pentium D may not be the best processor ever, but look at the price: 80% performace of an Athlon X2 at 50% the price isn't bad. Also, their single core P4's are still blazing fast, and no one can touch the Pentium M. Plus, Intel's roadmap is full of great processors, while AMD's is just "Well, we thought we'd make some more Athlon 64s..."
Actually, probably not too much damage would come of a bad connection, just the chip would not power up until the problem was removed. Now if you want to see smoke, put the chip in the WRONG way, like rotating it 90 degrees. I wish they would make chips that were much harder to do that with. I built an LGA 775 system this summer, and all there is keeping you from inserting it wrong is a teeny little tab on the side of the chip. Now, if you were to make an "L" shaped chip, or at least an "L" shaped socket, it couldn't be put in wrong.