Your link does not include any quotes to back up said assertion. It would probably be best if both you and the grandparent stopped inventing things, because it makes your argument look very bad.
If the cost can come down enough, these chips would certainly be useful for content distribution, as has been said. I'm left wondering, though, how tough it would be to create cheap, small ROM burners for use with PCs. Most people I know really like solid-state memory stick devices, but they see limited use due to their expense and small capacity.
What would be cooler than being able to throw a 25-cent, 1GB+, SmartMedia sized card into your computer and just burning it like you would a CD-R? I'd imagine that this process could become very, very fast, given that there are no moving parts and that the ROM could even be written to in multiple places at the same time, theoretically.
Coincidentally enough, when I think of what one of these burners would look like, designed for current computers, it would seem exactly like the removable storage drives on the Nebudchenezzar in the first Matrix movie...
There is a cheap source of hydrogen. Nuclear fission. Beyond that, there's nuclear fusion, which is a difficult proposition at this point but shows long-term promise. I don't hold out much hope for this in the short-term, though...
It's considered too dangerous to cross the road, so we'd rather just starve to death on this side. Behold, the awesome power of the uninformed.
Try playing a game in 5.1 surround using ONLY the Dolby Digital connection to a home theater receiver. Tell me how far you get. The Live/Audigy line have always supported passthrough Dolby Digital, i.e. from a pre-encoded source such as DVD. But only the NForce chipset has been able to synthesize a DD stream from standard audio sources.
Also, if you have the need for a Dolby encoder, you're probably not going to need good DACs on your sound card, or even any DACs at all. If you're using all digital outputs, analogue performance is irrelevant.
I'm sure if there was any real incentive for developers to move forward with this, it could quite quickly replace the khtml embedded system.
Nice conjecture you have there, but in fact there's no reason that the embedding application needs to be very dependent on the inner workings of the component -- that's the whole reason behind object embedding specs like KPart and ActiveX.
Knock yourself out. There are a lot of excellent-sounding audio devices availible for PCs, internal and external... it's really silly to write off an entire computer architecture because X or Y manufacturer shipped with a crappy DAC.
One of the early competitors of my company, 15 years or so ago when we used TTL parts, copied the entire product exactly. Reverse engineered the PCB. Then ran advertisements showing the two boards side-by-side...
I call BS. PCBs, schematics and the like are protected by copyright law. If your company could legitimately claim that the design was copied, it should have been a simple matter to shut down the "competitor"... reverse engineering is another thing, not resulting in a truly identical product and NOT entailing "no overhead of R&D".
Actually not, given the proportion of attacks that are targeted at civilians to cause fear and intimidation... No matter how badly Micheal Moore wants you to beleive that Iraq is in the midst of some guerrila insurgency for great justice, terrorism in Iraq is real.
He's probably running 2.6.8.1, but with a patchset like gentoo-dev or CK, both of which implement a fix for the CD recording bug. At any rate, this certainly will not affect the SuSE release, as they are plenty competent enough to pull in a patch either from 2.6.9 or one of the other tested 2.6.8 derivatives.
Linux isn't the Harley. The Harley can be customized into anything you want... except something very sleek and very fast. You can bolt all the shit you want on it, and it's still a pig. Try a distro like Gentoo, and you'll see that that's not exactly the case for Linux.
I pay taxes to the US Government, in part to be spent on creating capabilities to defend the country should the need arise. I would be angry if the military _wasn't_ formulating plans to counter spy sattelites and ballistic missiles.
I know it's popular to stick one's head in the sand and pretend that war cannot and will not exist without agression by the evil evil United States, but that is, unfortunately, untrue. If ever we were to be faced with full-scale war against another major world power, about the first thing on the list would be to knock out their intelligence-gathering and navigational capabilities. If we were unable to do that, more of our people would die -- it's that simple. Every time a story like this comes out, I see people whining about how this tech will make it even more difficult to win any kind of war against the US... Cry me a river. Europeans and Canadians, of all people, should be glad about that.
"5.5 oz" = 0.156 kilograms "3/4 of a pound" = 0.34 kilograms "5.6 ounces" = 0.159 kilograms
This is actually more correct, because it doesn't imply precision in the original data that doesn't exist. It's also far easier to read. It's getting annoying to always see Google calculator results to 5000 freakin digits...
Even for Linux enthusiasts who coundn't really care less about the mainstream, this OS preloading is a huge win. Talk about an incentive to open specs and write Linux drivers... imagine HP saying, "You know, Broadcom, we'd really like to use your chipset in our new model laptops, but it's cheaper for us to just buy Intersil than to try to make Linux work with your stuff." That's enough to make any hardware manufacturer reevaluate their attitudes toward Linux support.
Well, there are a few emotions and attitudes that can be displayed by an intelligent entity that are difficult to reconcile without a concept of "self" - things like pride, shame, reconciliation, etc. In my opinion, several types of social animals have adequately displayed all of these, including dogs and primates.
Heck, every dog owner is probably quite familiar with this - you can observe changes in a dog's attitude based on it's self-image, shame in the realization that they've done something wrong... the way they can exploit cute looks and actions to win back their master's favor. This is evident, at least, with intelligent breeds like Greyhounds, Collies, and the like. How are they supposed to exhibit these behaviors without a concept of how they, themselves are percieved by others? If you really want to beleive that humans are super-special, there are probably ways that you can try to rationalize this evidence away... but really, spend some time around the right kind of dog, and your perceptions may change. 'Cause the truth is, members of _other_ species behave similarly to you, too, if you take the time to look.
Considering how much inertia is behind C in the developer community as a whole, just talking about all these modern language alternatives is going to get absolutely nowhere unless some of these language proponents actually get together and code "proof of concept" desktop systems and Gnome tools to show that their alternative actually _works_.
If there were a desktop environment along the scale of XFCE or even Blackbox that was actually coded in Eiffel or C# and could be shown to actually be easier to develop for and less error-prone than a C equivalent, then there might be some converts... but someone needs to tackle the implementation problems first before trying to move such a massive program into a totally new environment.
Actually, a second... witness Athlon vs. the early P4. With both companies pursuing such widely divergent strategies in chip design, anything could happen, and Intel is certainly not unassailable.
Canada makes an even bigger mockery of the democratic system than the US has managed to do. Shit, we're falling behind.... quick, someone write another bill!!!
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Your link does not include any quotes to back up said assertion. It would probably be best if both you and the grandparent stopped inventing things, because it makes your argument look very bad.
If the cost can come down enough, these chips would certainly be useful for content distribution, as has been said. I'm left wondering, though, how tough it would be to create cheap, small ROM burners for use with PCs. Most people I know really like solid-state memory stick devices, but they see limited use due to their expense and small capacity.
What would be cooler than being able to throw a 25-cent, 1GB+, SmartMedia sized card into your computer and just burning it like you would a CD-R? I'd imagine that this process could become very, very fast, given that there are no moving parts and that the ROM could even be written to in multiple places at the same time, theoretically.
Coincidentally enough, when I think of what one of these burners would look like, designed for current computers, it would seem exactly like the removable storage drives on the Nebudchenezzar in the first Matrix movie...
There is a cheap source of hydrogen. Nuclear fission. Beyond that, there's nuclear fusion, which is a difficult proposition at this point but shows long-term promise. I don't hold out much hope for this in the short-term, though...
It's considered too dangerous to cross the road, so we'd rather just starve to death on this side. Behold, the awesome power of the uninformed.
Try playing a game in 5.1 surround using ONLY the Dolby Digital connection to a home theater receiver. Tell me how far you get. The Live/Audigy line have always supported passthrough Dolby Digital, i.e. from a pre-encoded source such as DVD. But only the NForce chipset has been able to synthesize a DD stream from standard audio sources.
Also, if you have the need for a Dolby encoder, you're probably not going to need good DACs on your sound card, or even any DACs at all. If you're using all digital outputs, analogue performance is irrelevant.
Gecko ported to KDE
I'm sure if there was any real incentive for developers to move forward with this, it could quite quickly replace the khtml embedded system.
Nice conjecture you have there, but in fact there's no reason that the embedding application needs to be very dependent on the inner workings of the component -- that's the whole reason behind object embedding specs like KPart and ActiveX.
M-Audio Transit
Knock yourself out. There are a lot of excellent-sounding audio devices availible for PCs, internal and external... it's really silly to write off an entire computer architecture because X or Y manufacturer shipped with a crappy DAC.
Actually not, given the proportion of attacks that are targeted at civilians to cause fear and intimidation... No matter how badly Micheal Moore wants you to beleive that Iraq is in the midst of some guerrila insurgency for great justice, terrorism in Iraq is real.
He's probably running 2.6.8.1, but with a patchset like gentoo-dev or CK, both of which implement a fix for the CD recording bug. At any rate, this certainly will not affect the SuSE release, as they are plenty competent enough to pull in a patch either from 2.6.9 or one of the other tested 2.6.8 derivatives.
Linux isn't the Harley. The Harley can be customized into anything you want... except something very sleek and very fast. You can bolt all the shit you want on it, and it's still a pig. Try a distro like Gentoo, and you'll see that that's not exactly the case for Linux.
I pay taxes to the US Government, in part to be spent on creating capabilities to defend the country should the need arise. I would be angry if the military _wasn't_ formulating plans to counter spy sattelites and ballistic missiles.
I know it's popular to stick one's head in the sand and pretend that war cannot and will not exist without agression by the evil evil United States, but that is, unfortunately, untrue. If ever we were to be faced with full-scale war against another major world power, about the first thing on the list would be to knock out their intelligence-gathering and navigational capabilities. If we were unable to do that, more of our people would die -- it's that simple. Every time a story like this comes out, I see people whining about how this tech will make it even more difficult to win any kind of war against the US... Cry me a river. Europeans and Canadians, of all people, should be glad about that.
"5.5 oz" = 0.156 kilograms
"3/4 of a pound" = 0.34 kilograms
"5.6 ounces" = 0.159 kilograms
This is actually more correct, because it doesn't imply precision in the original data that doesn't exist. It's also far easier to read. It's getting annoying to always see Google calculator results to 5000 freakin digits...
Even for Linux enthusiasts who coundn't really care less about the mainstream, this OS preloading is a huge win. Talk about an incentive to open specs and write Linux drivers... imagine HP saying, "You know, Broadcom, we'd really like to use your chipset in our new model laptops, but it's cheaper for us to just buy Intersil than to try to make Linux work with your stuff." That's enough to make any hardware manufacturer reevaluate their attitudes toward Linux support.
Heck, every dog owner is probably quite familiar with this - you can observe changes in a dog's attitude based on it's self-image, shame in the realization that they've done something wrong... the way they can exploit cute looks and actions to win back their master's favor. This is evident, at least, with intelligent breeds like Greyhounds, Collies, and the like. How are they supposed to exhibit these behaviors without a concept of how they, themselves are percieved by others? If you really want to beleive that humans are super-special, there are probably ways that you can try to rationalize this evidence away... but really, spend some time around the right kind of dog, and your perceptions may change. 'Cause the truth is, members of _other_ species behave similarly to you, too, if you take the time to look.
If there were a desktop environment along the scale of XFCE or even Blackbox that was actually coded in Eiffel or C# and could be shown to actually be easier to develop for and less error-prone than a C equivalent, then there might be some converts... but someone needs to tackle the implementation problems first before trying to move such a massive program into a totally new environment.
Actually, a second... witness Athlon vs. the early P4. With both companies pursuing such widely divergent strategies in chip design, anything could happen, and Intel is certainly not unassailable.
Canada makes an even bigger mockery of the democratic system than the US has managed to do. Shit, we're falling behind.... quick, someone write another bill!!!