They are hardly developed however, but they have all the components to grow into babies, so they are completely human.
So by this definition i suppose that an unfertilized egg and some sperm is completely human? After all, those are components required to create a human.
Hell, by this definition, a large mound of carbon, oxygen, iron, hydrogen etc. is completely human as well.
I read that (and I might be wrong) that Google makes $400 Million in ad revenue from AOL subscribers (who, presumably, arrive at google from AOL). If microsoft had bought this steak in AOL, and cut Google out of AOL, then Google would be out $400Million a year.
I see this purchase as Google protecting the traffic it gets from AOL. In a little over 2 years they will have made their $1 billion back.
Remember when Ballmer said "I'm going to kill google?". Google just spent some of its HUGE cash pile on protection against MS. Fair play to them.
Imagine, if you will, an open source DRM music player.
Would it not be trivial to take the source code for this player and modify it to write the output to disk instead of the sound card. Thus rendering the DRM useless.
DRM gives the algorithm, key and encrypted data to the user. So far, the only thing stopping the user from breaking the DRM is the fact that the algorithm is closed source.
The problem is, all DRM is "security through obscurity", something that doesn't work when you have open source.
Lets take Apples PlayFair DRM system as an example. To crack it (as they did) you need to know a two things: 1) The encryption key (and where it can be found) 2) The encryption algorithm
If iTunes was open source, you could just find this info in the sourcecode. Breaking it would be trivial.
You can get the source from the sourceforge CVS if you want. To compile it, you'll need the winamp SDK, avaliable in the winamp development section of http://forums.winamp.com/ Dump the source in \gen_ml\ml_ipod\ and it should work.
ARM is a strictly IP company and is very successful. Its processors are used in many, many embedded applications. Eg, most cellphones, the gameboy DS, the iPod, hard disk microcontrollers, microcontrollers in cars, PDAs, etc etc. They recieved royalties for over 1 billion units last year. ARM cores are everywhere.
The difference is that ARM has always been an IP only company, ever since it was spun out of Acorn computers.
My Geforce 6800GT has 220M transistors on a 130nm process, and manages no more than around 400MHz.
How on earth can a 240M transistor chip on a 90nm process achieve 4600MHz?
NOBODY has seen even a 2 fold clock speed increase in the move from 130nm to 90nm let alone 11 fold. I know that these two chips arn't exactly comparable, but 4.6GHz?
Its a shame. I (heart) my transmeta based notebook, (i got it for £500 3 months ago) its so tiny. I may not be able to play back video very well, but its under a kilogram and incredibly small. Perfect for webbrowsing and email on the move:(
Who will make processors for these kind of notebooks now?
(Oh, sure, the BBC computer was brilliant, the Inmos Transputer was the product of sheer genius, the Archimedes was very respectable for the time - far more advanced than PCs! - and the ARM/StrongARM processors were a work of art. Care to find any of these products outside of a few specialist shops in the UK? In fact, care to find anything other than the StrongARM anywhere at all???)
This year, ARM are on track to recieve licences for over 1 Billion ARM processor cores. There are more ARM cores in the world than pentiums.
I can say with a very high degree of confidence that the reader owns at least one arm powered product. I own 7. 3 hard disks (complete with ARM based microcontrollers). Two cellphones (one powered by an ARM7 and the other an ARM9), one PDA (StongARM), an iPod (3 ARM cores in this device: one in the hard disk, and 2 for the main device).
ARM are everywhere. One of the great british computing success storys. The only reason why nobody know about them is because nothing says "ARM Inside".
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They are hardly developed however, but they have all the components to grow into babies, so they are completely human.
So by this definition i suppose that an unfertilized egg and some sperm is completely human? After all, those are components required to create a human.
Hell, by this definition, a large mound of carbon, oxygen, iron, hydrogen etc. is completely human as well.
Do you honestly think that your god would be impressed by this attitude?
If so, thats not the kind of deity I'd like to worship thankyouverymuch.
Hahaha. Oops. I clearly have something else on my mind =)
I read that (and I might be wrong) that Google makes $400 Million in ad revenue from AOL subscribers (who, presumably, arrive at google from AOL). If microsoft had bought this steak in AOL, and cut Google out of AOL, then Google would be out $400Million a year.
I see this purchase as Google protecting the traffic it gets from AOL. In a little over 2 years they will have made their $1 billion back.
Remember when Ballmer said "I'm going to kill google?". Google just spent some of its HUGE cash pile on protection against MS. Fair play to them.
Imagine, if you will, an open source DRM music player.
Would it not be trivial to take the source code for this player and modify it to write the output to disk instead of the sound card. Thus rendering the DRM useless.
DRM gives the algorithm, key and encrypted data to the user. So far, the only thing stopping the user from breaking the DRM is the fact that the algorithm is closed source.
So I take it you read slashdot at -1?
Thats because passports a visas are not touted as measures to prevent terrorism.
Passports and visas are there for other, good, reasons.
There are no good reasons for ID cards.
Indeed.
Lets not forget that all the london bombers would have had no problem getting ID cards.
Remember Google Video?
Google are going to sell video content and google bucks (or whatever) is going to handle the payments.
The problem is, all DRM is "security through obscurity", something that doesn't work when you have open source.
Lets take Apples PlayFair DRM system as an example. To crack it (as they did) you need to know a two things:
1) The encryption key (and where it can be found)
2) The encryption algorithm
If iTunes was open source, you could just find this info in the sourcecode. Breaking it would be trivial.
Its a space station.
You can get the source from the sourceforge CVS if you want. To compile it, you'll need the winamp SDK, avaliable in the winamp development section of http://forums.winamp.com/ Dump the source in \gen_ml\ml_ipod\ and it should work.
No I did not. If i did, I would have included a link to the homepage ;)
Here is a direct link to the homepage for the winamp iPod plugin.
We have many other features than just copy to hard drive, mlipod provides fully fledged iPod management. Go check it out!
Will - Lead dev for mlipod
or the whole 2037 32 bit integer time thing.
ARM is a strictly IP company and is very successful. Its processors are used in many, many embedded applications. Eg, most cellphones, the gameboy DS, the iPod, hard disk microcontrollers, microcontrollers in cars, PDAs, etc etc. They recieved royalties for over 1 billion units last year. ARM cores are everywhere.
The difference is that ARM has always been an IP only company, ever since it was spun out of Acorn computers.
I thought that the idea of the cell was that it was massively parrellel. If it not, then thats many millions of transistors wasted.
Athlons do offer better performance than P4s but thats entirly down to better pipeline design.
The idea of having, what is it, 9 FPUs on a chip all running IN PARRELLEL at 4.6GHz still seems like it will have truly massive power requirements.
I'm skeptical.
My Geforce 6800GT has 220M transistors on a 130nm process, and manages no more than around 400MHz.
How on earth can a 240M transistor chip on a 90nm process achieve 4600MHz?
NOBODY has seen even a 2 fold clock speed increase in the move from 130nm to 90nm let alone 11 fold. I know that these two chips arn't exactly comparable, but 4.6GHz?
This sounds like marketing hype to me.
The 512MB iPod shuffle costs $99, or in the UK, £69.
I checked the www.xe.com currency converter only to find that $99 == £52.70.
Lame beyond words.
Its a shame. I (heart) my transmeta based notebook, (i got it for £500 3 months ago) its so tiny. I may not be able to play back video very well, but its under a kilogram and incredibly small. Perfect for webbrowsing and email on the move :(
Who will make processors for these kind of notebooks now?
(Oh, sure, the BBC computer was brilliant, the Inmos Transputer was the product of sheer genius, the Archimedes was very respectable for the time - far more advanced than PCs! - and the ARM/StrongARM processors were a work of art. Care to find any of these products outside of a few specialist shops in the UK? In fact, care to find anything other than the StrongARM anywhere at all???)
This year, ARM are on track to recieve licences for over 1 Billion ARM processor cores. There are more ARM cores in the world than pentiums.
I can say with a very high degree of confidence that the reader owns at least one arm powered product. I own 7. 3 hard disks (complete with ARM based microcontrollers). Two cellphones (one powered by an ARM7 and the other an ARM9), one PDA (StongARM), an iPod (3 ARM cores in this device: one in the hard disk, and 2 for the main device).
ARM are everywhere. One of the great british computing success storys. The only reason why nobody know about them is because nothing says "ARM Inside".
In the William Gates Building in Cambridge Uni (England), I take pleasure in booting up any one of the workstations in the building into Linux.
Winamp 2 is NOT affected. Winamp 5 Lite is also NOT affected.
If you unchecked "Modern Skin Support" in the installer you are also NOT affected.
You can even remove Modern Skin Support just by renaming Program Files\Winamp\Plugins\gen_ff.dll to gen_ff.dll.old. This will remove the exploit.
If you fix this way, you will only be able to use classic skins.
So, uh, now people who make kitchen knives will be sued for inducing stabbings?
link correction: http://mlipod.sf.net