With Hector behind this deal, it is no surprise that this was almost exactly what Motorola did years ago.
Motorola spun off their manufacturing division into Freescale. Now their design division cannot churn out any performance mainstream chips, and their manufacturing division had to be completely bought out after a major losses in 2007.
Let's hope Hector has learned from what happened to Motorola this time around.
I think the most interesting tidbit is that TSMC will support SOI in the future instead of just bulk CMOS. That is quite an investment they are making, and will encourage more fab-less semiconductor companies to adopt SOI instead of just those working with IBM.
Wow, car posts without car analogies!
I guess I will add that the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon also run on 5 cylinder engines. There are also 3 cylinder engine cars like the old Civic.
1. Runs with admin privileges 2. Patches system functions to hide itself from enumerations 3. Prevent detection and debug programs from running 4. Phones home on a regular basis 5. Incredibly hard to remove
I think using these public surveillance systems are only acceptable if all the video is archived and the public has access to them. My main objection is that only the prosecution has access to these devices to try to prove someone is guilty, but the defense does not have access to these devices to prove someone is not guilty.
Politicians and law enforcement will think twice about putting these systems in if the public can watch them too. This should bring some balance of power back in the courtroom.
They are investigating whether the named studios removed consumer choice by only releasing in BR format. A real open format competition would would be all studios releasing movies in both formats, and letting the consumer choose.
What they need to consider, however, is that Sony now owns several major studios, so there is no reason for those studios to back their competitor.
If the only requirement is to run the installer from another Windows install, is it possible to boot from a "Windows Live CD" such as BartPE or ERD Commander, and install the upgrade from that?
It seems like MS just substituted checking an old CD for checking running copy of Windows. What they really need is for you to enter your old CD key instead, and on activation, check for the validity of both old and new keys.
I have seen very high seek error rates reported by SMART as well for Seagate drives. However, I have not seem them affect anything in terms of reliability.
Maybe Seagate just uses uses a different metric for measuring seek error rate that results in higher raw numbers.
An average wireless router's processor has an integrated RISC, memory controller, flash controller, and #-port network switch controller in addition to the wireless controller.
Most embedded processors like the one you mention do integrated a lot of specific functions.
I think any calculation of energy gain should also factor in the energy loss from lost farm/forest land. Photosynthetic organisms are also quite efficient at converting light to energy. There is already technology to convert plant matter to fuels (ethanol/biodiesel).
How much energy can be produced had the same amount of land be used to plant energy crops?
My guess is Norton and McAfee are far more bloated than virus protection, and many of those "features" that they have and charge big bucks to corporations for are no longer implementable.
I remember when I tried Norton a while back: it took over my recyle bin.
The whole point of a web service is that it is language-neutral. There is nothing preventing you from using Ruby or any other language that can take advantage of web services. Just look at the WSDL and make use of it.
Don't forget that nVidia chipsets are in many Opteron servers, as well as AMD "validated" business platforms. Now businesses will think twice before buying revenue cashcows like Opteron servers and Athlon64 desktops.
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With Hector behind this deal, it is no surprise that this was almost exactly what Motorola did years ago. Motorola spun off their manufacturing division into Freescale. Now their design division cannot churn out any performance mainstream chips, and their manufacturing division had to be completely bought out after a major losses in 2007. Let's hope Hector has learned from what happened to Motorola this time around.
I think the most interesting tidbit is that TSMC will support SOI in the future instead of just bulk CMOS. That is quite an investment they are making, and will encourage more fab-less semiconductor companies to adopt SOI instead of just those working with IBM.
Wow, car posts without car analogies! I guess I will add that the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon also run on 5 cylinder engines. There are also 3 cylinder engine cars like the old Civic.
It has almost all the symptoms of a rootkit:
1. Runs with admin privileges
2. Patches system functions to hide itself from enumerations
3. Prevent detection and debug programs from running
4. Phones home on a regular basis
5. Incredibly hard to remove
AMD does not make 2x1MB cache 65nm chips, so the Opterons and higher end X2s are all 90nm.
Isn't this just exposing/documenting the CPU's internal debug features so that developers can use them?
If you look at the die shots of recent CPUs, you will see a big chunk of transistors marked DEBUG.
I would like them to try to prove that a 1 to 1 wireless connection can be considered "broadcast" at all.
I think using these public surveillance systems are only acceptable if all the video is archived and the public has access to them. My main objection is that only the prosecution has access to these devices to try to prove someone is guilty, but the defense does not have access to these devices to prove someone is not guilty.
Politicians and law enforcement will think twice about putting these systems in if the public can watch them too. This should bring some balance of power back in the courtroom.
They are investigating whether the named studios removed consumer choice by only releasing in BR format. A real open format competition would would be all studios releasing movies in both formats, and letting the consumer choose. What they need to consider, however, is that Sony now owns several major studios, so there is no reason for those studios to back their competitor.
That actually seems doable:
1 7-port self powered USB hub
7 of these keys
7 ethernet cables
1 8-port switch
Connect the keys to the USB hub for power
Connect the ethernet cables from the keys to the switch
Connect your workstation to the switch
Not sure which Beowulf supporting OS runs on ARM though.
NAND? I always thought Intel only makes NOR memory.
Given the choice of sharing the environment with humans or radiation, animals would much rather have the radiation.
If couse tweakers know that having 4 sticks usually force your memory to run at 2T command rate, whereas two sticks usually allows 1T.
They are just keys, not COAs. eBay, for one, does not allow selling of just software keys.
If the only requirement is to run the installer from another Windows install, is it possible to boot from a "Windows Live CD" such as BartPE or ERD Commander, and install the upgrade from that?
It seems like MS just substituted checking an old CD for checking running copy of Windows.
What they really need is for you to enter your old CD key instead, and on activation, check for the validity of both old and new keys.
I have seen very high seek error rates reported by SMART as well for Seagate drives. However, I have not seem them affect anything in terms of reliability.
Maybe Seagate just uses uses a different metric for measuring seek error rate that results in higher raw numbers.
It could be worse: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/16/
Secunia had identified it as critical, so it looks legit:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23003/
An average wireless router's processor has an integrated RISC, memory controller, flash controller, and #-port network switch controller in addition to the wireless controller.
Most embedded processors like the one you mention do integrated a lot of specific functions.
I think any calculation of energy gain should also factor in the energy loss from lost farm/forest land. Photosynthetic organisms are also quite efficient at converting light to energy. There is already technology to convert plant matter to fuels (ethanol/biodiesel).
How much energy can be produced had the same amount of land be used to plant energy crops?
My guess is Norton and McAfee are far more bloated than virus protection, and many of those "features" that they have and charge big bucks to corporations for are no longer implementable. I remember when I tried Norton a while back: it took over my recyle bin.
Why does DivX even need to "support" a specific resolution? What is keeping you from creating 2160p content in DivX? It is just a codec right?
The whole point of a web service is that it is language-neutral. There is nothing preventing you from using Ruby or any other language that can take advantage of web services. Just look at the WSDL and make use of it.
Don't forget that nVidia chipsets are in many Opteron servers, as well as AMD "validated" business platforms. Now businesses will think twice before buying revenue cashcows like Opteron servers and Athlon64 desktops.
The GPU will also need to run much slower than the CPU like the memory controller. The potential for hotspots will likely make this unfeasible.