I don't see what's the point of sending data through the air when you have to make connections to the bricks anyways. Each brick has to have a power connection and that isn't through the air. They could easily just add a high speed serial interface to that connector.
They also talk about water cooling this system. Those connections are even harder to deal with. Hoses are always going to be thicker and more difficult to handle and there's the possibility of leaks, especially when connecting and disconnecting hoses.
Note that I'm not talking about recompiling. The XBox has an x86 CPU. Only the hardware-dependant parts would need to be changed. Hopefully that would just mean the HAL and drivers. You should then be able to run standard x86 Win32 software on it, just like on a PC.
Regarding recompiling the source, well, Microsoft certainly wouldn't do it. The source is out there but you can imagine how Microsoft would react if someone actually used it.
So could you theoretically build a new HAL for XP and get it to work on an XBox? Or for that matter any weird x86 architecture? I suppose it may be hard to do this without using the source, but it's not impossible. It'd be an interesting project.
What sort of load was the iPod seeing when those graphs were made? Frequency response into a high impedance input wouldn't be the same as frequency response into some fairly low impedance portable headphones.
For example the output of the Archos Jukebox 6000 had overly small capacitors which limited bass. There is a mod that fixes this.
Maybe they want to start selling them ASAP, perhaps so they're out in time for Christmas. They can easily fix firmware bugs later. It makes sense, doesn't it?
Instead, a lot of people end up getting frustrated and the product gets a bad reputation that it never recovers from.
However, closing every window might not cause the browser process to exit. This sometimes happens with IE. You should kill all remaining browser processes before running the browser again.
I don't think this is just multiple audio streams. They say claim that the file size should be simillar to a stereo MP3. This means that they must be taking advantage of the simillarities in the multiple channels, like MP3 joint stereo.
There's nothing wrong with testing a vaccine on people who don't have an illness. It's been done many times. They test the vaccine on people who are at risk from the disease and then monitor how many vaccinated and unvaccinated people get the disease.
That's not the same thing. Relay-based computers were being built in the 40's. Vacuum tubes had been around for 40 years by then and they were being used everywhere. So why use relays, which are slower and less reliable?
You need to have a Windows license to install the Windows version of IE. The third paragraph in the license makes it very clear. If you run the EXE you have to agree to it. If you want to look at the license without running the executable extract license.txt using some tool that supports SFX CAB files. Here's the third paragraph, changed to lower case (from ALL CAPS) so it can be posted here:
note: if you do not have a valid eula for any "os product" (including, without
limitation, microsoft windows 98, microsoft windows nt 4.0, microsoft windows 2000, microsoft millennium edition, microsoft windows xp, or any other microsoft operating system that is a successor to any of the foregoing operating systems) you are not authorized to install, copy, or otherwise use the os components and you have no rights under this supplemental eula.
Yeah, but then you block the obnoxious ads
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Yahoo ads aren't in my face because I block all of their ads. It's very easy to do it. AdBlock for Firefox works really well. There are many ad blockers for IE as well.
Gmail ads can't be blocked as easily because they're part of the page. That's okay though because they're relevant and not annoying.
How often do you make a 911 call? How much does the infrastructure cost? So what should the price be? Perhaps you might want to take out insurance just in case you need to call 911?
WhenU posted a press release on their web site. That is good for them. They make themselves look better and suggest to advertisers that their ads will be seen on more computers.
Aluria didn't post any press releases about this. All they have is the Spyware SAFE page for WhenU, which they must have now that they've certified it. I still think they shot themselves in the foot, just by certifying WhenU, but they certainly didn't go out of their way to publicize it.
Would this "steal bandwith"?
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They say that this new protocol would tolerate higher rates of packet loss. What happens to TCP connections when a lot of connections use this new protocol? Would it create worse congestion on networks, which this protocol can tolerate, but which would greatly slow down TCP connections?
I suppose that if you just want to send serial data back and forth in the standard way, perhaps using handshaking lines in the standard way, a USB-to-Serial converter is okay.
However a lot of stuff uses serial ports in non-standard ways and I doubt you can do that with a USB-to-Serial converter. LIRC and WinLIRC allow you to send and receive remote control signals but don't work with the converters. A converter also might not allow you to talk to calculators, program some microcontrollers, decode and encode radio signals and more.
Sure, you can find microcontrollers with a USB interface and use those instead but that's more expensive and more work. Many people who would feel comfortable with making a simple interface involving a few resistors and diodes wouldn't build a USB interface.
I tried this once and it didn't work. I used an unamplified "rabbit ears" as the transmitter antenna and an amplified indoor antenna about 15 metres away. I couldn't see any trace of the signal.
I guess the RF modulator didn't produce enough power. Think about the relative efficiency of what I did compared to a direct coax connection. If a direct coax connection produces good signal levels what are you going to get this way?
Yeah, I know this is off-topic but I just had to respond. I have 256 megs of PC133 SDRAM with some bad areas. I found the bad areas with Memtest86. Then I allocated them using MmAllocateContiguousMemorySpecifyCache in a driver that runs at boot. I found a nice example driver that I just had to modify slighty. The example I used seems to be the NT example at the bottom here.
If I have a useless board with at least some components that aren't surface mount I use a hot air paint stripper to remove the components. Then I reuse them in various projects. I have a well over 90% success rate with ICs.
A hot air paint stripper will surface mount components even more easily but it's hard to use surface mount components.
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They also talk about water cooling this system. Those connections are even harder to deal with. Hoses are always going to be thicker and more difficult to handle and there's the possibility of leaks, especially when connecting and disconnecting hoses.
No, you're not safe. Check this out. It is recent too, released on Dec 10, 2004.
Turn safe search off in advanced search. Then you'll find those clips.
Regarding recompiling the source, well, Microsoft certainly wouldn't do it. The source is out there but you can imagine how Microsoft would react if someone actually used it.
So could you theoretically build a new HAL for XP and get it to work on an XBox? Or for that matter any weird x86 architecture? I suppose it may be hard to do this without using the source, but it's not impossible. It'd be an interesting project.
For example the output of the Archos Jukebox 6000 had overly small capacitors which limited bass. There is a mod that fixes this.
Instead, a lot of people end up getting frustrated and the product gets a bad reputation that it never recovers from.
However, closing every window might not cause the browser process to exit. This sometimes happens with IE. You should kill all remaining browser processes before running the browser again.
I don't think this is just multiple audio streams. They say claim that the file size should be simillar to a stereo MP3. This means that they must be taking advantage of the simillarities in the multiple channels, like MP3 joint stereo.
There's nothing wrong with testing a vaccine on people who don't have an illness. It's been done many times. They test the vaccine on people who are at risk from the disease and then monitor how many vaccinated and unvaccinated people get the disease.
That's not the same thing. Relay-based computers were being built in the 40's. Vacuum tubes had been around for 40 years by then and they were being used everywhere. So why use relays, which are slower and less reliable?
Why did they make relay-based computers? Vacuum tubes had been around for a while by then.
note: if you do not have a valid eula for any "os product" (including, without limitation, microsoft windows 98, microsoft windows nt 4.0, microsoft windows 2000, microsoft millennium edition, microsoft windows xp, or any other microsoft operating system that is a successor to any of the foregoing operating systems) you are not authorized to install, copy, or otherwise use the os components and you have no rights under this supplemental eula.
Gmail ads can't be blocked as easily because they're part of the page. That's okay though because they're relevant and not annoying.
How often do you make a 911 call? How much does the infrastructure cost? So what should the price be? Perhaps you might want to take out insurance just in case you need to call 911?
You probably want a local phone number. Do you want to tell people to call some number in India to reach you?
Here's the newsletter that they just posted to alt.gap.international.sales.
Aluria didn't post any press releases about this. All they have is the Spyware SAFE page for WhenU, which they must have now that they've certified it. I still think they shot themselves in the foot, just by certifying WhenU, but they certainly didn't go out of their way to publicize it.
Wow, you can actually buy mowers that feature "Light and easy mowing on a cushion of air". I never saw anything like it in a store here in Canada.
They say that this new protocol would tolerate higher rates of packet loss. What happens to TCP connections when a lot of connections use this new protocol? Would it create worse congestion on networks, which this protocol can tolerate, but which would greatly slow down TCP connections?
However a lot of stuff uses serial ports in non-standard ways and I doubt you can do that with a USB-to-Serial converter. LIRC and WinLIRC allow you to send and receive remote control signals but don't work with the converters. A converter also might not allow you to talk to calculators, program some microcontrollers, decode and encode radio signals and more.
Sure, you can find microcontrollers with a USB interface and use those instead but that's more expensive and more work. Many people who would feel comfortable with making a simple interface involving a few resistors and diodes wouldn't build a USB interface.
What about the Andromeda Strain?
I guess the RF modulator didn't produce enough power. Think about the relative efficiency of what I did compared to a direct coax connection. If a direct coax connection produces good signal levels what are you going to get this way?
Yeah, I know this is off-topic but I just had to respond. I have 256 megs of PC133 SDRAM with some bad areas. I found the bad areas with Memtest86. Then I allocated them using MmAllocateContiguousMemorySpecifyCache in a driver that runs at boot. I found a nice example driver that I just had to modify slighty. The example I used seems to be the NT example at the bottom here.
A hot air paint stripper will surface mount components even more easily but it's hard to use surface mount components.