Is it possible for the video card manufacturers to build their boards such that the information about the chipsets, algorithms, etc. are not easily revealed? If so, why don't they do so?
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Well, the best legal use of hemp would be paper (like the type the U. S. Constitution is written on) that holds up well over time. Then again, hemp paper + illegal hemp product = more high?
When I was correcting my thesis, one of my profs gave me an English leason on pronouns. According to him, a pronoun refers back to the closest noun. Therefore,
The goal is to get its fair share of revenue from its intellectual property.
should read
The goal is to get Linux's fair share of revenue from Linux's intellectual property.
I might not remember this correctly, but I think the courts stated the same thing as well and that the two just have to deal with it. Does somebody remember this better than I do?
Has anyone else noticed that The Smoking Gun has blurred out the guy's home phone number, but not his address or name? You would think if they really cared about his privacy, all of would have been blurred out and nothing would have been lost from the police report. But that's just my two cents.
If you follow the article's link to AMD's website from the article, you see that the CPU supports Linux; so it shouldn't take long.
Questions that I have. On AMD's page, they say that power usage is given in mW for the chip at 333, 400, and 500 MHz are 400, 700, and 1.2. Do they mean 1.2 watts (and hence 1200 mW) or does it actually use 1.2 mW? (I know that it's 1.2 W, but I wish it was 1.2 mW!) More seriously though, why aren't we seeing these chips in more things, like say mini-ITX boards? Of course, I'm not a chip and board designer; so this could be senseless dribble.
So did they just put them in a chamber with no movement whatsoever? The way I understand how the ionic breeze works is that uses the air flow already in the house so as not to require fans which are noisy.
Now, you may say that the air in your house is still. Not so, the air just moves sooooooo slow that it feels still to use.
But overall, I would say that unless their chamber had some air flow, it was not a very scientific test. Now, if they used several different air velocities during the tests, then they may have a point. Might have to scrounge up a copy of that report at the local library to find out for myself.
I've thought about this as well. The problem is would it +1 Sarcastic or -1 Sarcastic? I think it should be something along the lines of +1 Sarcastic(Funny) and -1 Sarcastic(Asshole). Or how about a 0 Sarcastic that just adds "Sarcastic(" and ")" to the original modifier name?
The other nice thing about metric is the consistent prefixes. There is one MKS symbol for length (m), not many (in, ft, yd, mi...) and it can be associated with a set of prefixes (micro, milli, kilo, mega, etc.) that have consistent meaning across all metric units.
So does that mean that I should say that I have 1 gram of wheat or 1 millikilogram when I use the MKS system?
This really isn't anything new. The pioneers in the late 1800's burned cow-patties when they were crossing the praries. In fact, cow-patties will emit methane for a fairly long amount of time. One of the California universities (sorry, can't remember which) uses methane off-gased from a landfill.
If the combustion processes is controlled correctly, there is little pollution generated. The biggest problem with either of these dirty fuels is "What impurities are in both of these that are not present in cleaner fuels that cannot be removed?"
From the article: The Chicxulub data show a subtle, yet unmistakable, topographic indication of the impact crater's outer boundary: a semicircular trough 3 to 5 meters (10 to 15 feet) deep and 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide. Good picture here.
I just can't tell that there is a crater there. Maybe this is because I'm an engineer and not a geoscientist or geologist. Can somebody explain to me how to tell that there are ridges where they claim there are? Without this explanation, I just feel that there are interpretting the data to fit their preconcieved idea.
I think tests like these are a bunch of bullshit. I don't mind a company using tests like these, but they need to understand that there is a lot more to people than what these tests show. (Slightly offtopic: I know that my personality test results (same test by the way, I keep a copy around somewhere) vary according to the mood I'm in when I take it.) Personally, I think if a company is going to use this as their sole basis for determining who to interview, they deserve what they get -- corporate trolls that already aligned with (and won't buck) their corporate philosophy.
Perhaps someone with a better understanding of security could answer this question. How secure would this be if the data were encrypted before transmission? Also, wouldn't someone be able to tap into the line significantly easier than with radio waves? Seems to me that all one would need are a video camara and simple(?) video -> signal conversion software.
I had this idea that before we could really do anything interesting in space (like long voyages), we would need to explore the oceans. I'm not sure what we'll find mining the oceans, but it would be interesting if we found huge titanium deposits down there. (Slightly off topic: I remember also hearing that when F-14 were first produced, the only known titanium deposits were in Russia and the material had to be bought through a CIA front. Anybody know if this was actually true?) Anyhow, I've almost always have thought that the order of importance should be bottom of the ocean before trip to Mars (or at least Pluto).
Why not use something worth a damn like Firewire or even Firewire 2.0 (which I've heard about being developed though I haven't seen much on it)? From what I've seen, Firewire devices still have a faster transmission rate than the USB 2.0 devices even though the burst speed is lower. Plus, Firewire isn't some much of the hack that USB is (nd yes I run SCSI too!).
Or is Intel and the gang still pissed that IEEE won't give USB the time of day?
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I don't know, just seemed like kinda a cheesy chart to me, although a lot of the points he made were decent enough, the analysis seemed cheesy.
I agree. Especially since almost every argument comes back to "SCO released this after discovering the infringement."
Even easier, just wrap all the books/magazines in cellophane. Of course, it would be harder for people to find books that they would enjoy.
Now I'm not sure what I should be more afraid to find in my email, this or spam....
How abouth your email reader thinking this is spam?
Is it possible for the video card manufacturers to build their boards such that the information about the chipsets, algorithms, etc. are not easily revealed? If so, why don't they do so?
Well, the best legal use of hemp would be paper (like the type the U. S. Constitution is written on) that holds up well over time. Then again, hemp paper + illegal hemp product = more high?
When I was correcting my thesis, one of my profs gave me an English leason on pronouns. According to him, a pronoun refers back to the closest noun. Therefore,
The goal is to get its fair share of revenue from its intellectual property.
should read
The goal is to get Linux's fair share of revenue from Linux's intellectual property.
How badly do insurance companies bilk you for building a house on top of a cliff on the ocean?
My guess is they don't. I'm sure insurance companies look at the cliff erroding as "An Act of God" and is not covered by their policy.
I might not remember this correctly, but I think the courts stated the same thing as well and that the two just have to deal with it. Does somebody remember this better than I do?
Has anyone else noticed that The Smoking Gun has blurred out the guy's home phone number, but not his address or name? You would think if they really cared about his privacy, all of would have been blurred out and nothing would have been lost from the police report. But that's just my two cents.
Sorry, but I tried it from Start->Run and was unable to run it. Are you sure it's in Win2k?
If you follow the article's link to AMD's website from the article, you see that the CPU supports Linux; so it shouldn't take long.
Questions that I have. On AMD's page, they say that power usage is given in mW for the chip at 333, 400, and 500 MHz are 400, 700, and 1.2. Do they mean 1.2 watts (and hence 1200 mW) or does it actually use 1.2 mW? (I know that it's 1.2 W, but I wish it was 1.2 mW!) More seriously though, why aren't we seeing these chips in more things, like say mini-ITX boards? Of course, I'm not a chip and board designer; so this could be senseless dribble.
So did they just put them in a chamber with no movement whatsoever? The way I understand how the ionic breeze works is that uses the air flow already in the house so as not to require fans which are noisy.
Now, you may say that the air in your house is still. Not so, the air just moves sooooooo slow that it feels still to use.
But overall, I would say that unless their chamber had some air flow, it was not a very scientific test. Now, if they used several different air velocities during the tests, then they may have a point. Might have to scrounge up a copy of that report at the local library to find out for myself.
We need a moderation for Sarcastic!
I've thought about this as well. The problem is would it +1 Sarcastic or -1 Sarcastic? I think it should be something along the lines of +1 Sarcastic(Funny) and -1 Sarcastic(Asshole). Or how about a 0 Sarcastic that just adds "Sarcastic(" and ")" to the original modifier name?
Just a thought.
If I had my moderators points, I'ld mod you up.
The other nice thing about metric is the consistent prefixes. There is one MKS symbol for length (m), not many (in, ft, yd, mi...) and it can be associated with a set of prefixes (micro, milli, kilo, mega, etc.) that have consistent meaning across all metric units.
So does that mean that I should say that I have 1 gram of wheat or 1 millikilogram when I use the MKS system?
This really isn't anything new. The pioneers in the late 1800's burned cow-patties when they were crossing the praries. In fact, cow-patties will emit methane for a fairly long amount of time. One of the California universities (sorry, can't remember which) uses methane off-gased from a landfill.
If the combustion processes is controlled correctly, there is little pollution generated. The biggest problem with either of these dirty fuels is "What impurities are in both of these that are not present in cleaner fuels that cannot be removed?"
From the article:
The Chicxulub data show a subtle, yet unmistakable, topographic indication of the impact crater's outer boundary: a semicircular trough 3 to 5 meters (10 to 15 feet) deep and 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide. Good picture here.
I just can't tell that there is a crater there. Maybe this is because I'm an engineer and not a geoscientist or geologist. Can somebody explain to me how to tell that there are ridges where they claim there are? Without this explanation, I just feel that there are interpretting the data to fit their preconcieved idea.
I think tests like these are a bunch of bullshit. I don't mind a company using tests like these, but they need to understand that there is a lot more to people than what these tests show. (Slightly offtopic: I know that my personality test results (same test by the way, I keep a copy around somewhere) vary according to the mood I'm in when I take it.) Personally, I think if a company is going to use this as their sole basis for determining who to interview, they deserve what they get -- corporate trolls that already aligned with (and won't buck) their corporate philosophy.
Perhaps someone with a better understanding of security could answer this question. How secure would this be if the data were encrypted before transmission? Also, wouldn't someone be able to tap into the line significantly easier than with radio waves? Seems to me that all one would need are a video camara and simple(?) video -> signal conversion software.
I'd rather go back to my Atari 130XE
I prefer my old C-64. Still the best damned gaming machine I've ever played on with exception of the old fashioned pinball machines.
I had this idea that before we could really do anything interesting in space (like long voyages), we would need to explore the oceans. I'm not sure what we'll find mining the oceans, but it would be interesting if we found huge titanium deposits down there. (Slightly off topic: I remember also hearing that when F-14 were first produced, the only known titanium deposits were in Russia and the material had to be bought through a CIA front. Anybody know if this was actually true?) Anyhow, I've almost always have thought that the order of importance should be bottom of the ocean before trip to Mars (or at least Pluto).
The one I seem to remember is:
Stalagmites might grow from the ceiling, but they don't.
more focus on ternary (I think that's right) computing?
That actually makes sense. The USPTO doesn't do anything that makes sense.
Why not use something worth a damn like Firewire or even Firewire 2.0 (which I've heard about being developed though I haven't seen much on it)? From what I've seen, Firewire devices still have a faster transmission rate than the USB 2.0 devices even though the burst speed is lower. Plus, Firewire isn't some much of the hack that USB is (nd yes I run SCSI too!).
Or is Intel and the gang still pissed that IEEE won't give USB the time of day?