And, with VOIP riding over a single line to each residence, you've accomplished exactly what?
You misunderstood the point of the VOIP solution. It is not intended to provide redundancy to each point in the node. It prevents someone from knocking-out the central office and disabling millions of residences. Noone is suggesting that each home requires redundant lines coming into each side of the house - we aren't worried about someone cutting individual lines.
So will people use Winamp, or use XMMS out of principle? I like Winamp, but given the choice between an open-source and closed-source program, why should I use the closed-source version?
"...the back-to-back Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander losses..."
I know those failed, but I thought we learned why. Wouldn't it be cheaper to "fix" the bugs in the prior mission and re-send? Just because we found a bug in something when it went into deployment doesn't mean we should scrap the project and re-architect it with different goals. Surely this would be cheaper, and a great way for NASA to way off the nay-sayers.
I thought that transporting information superluminally violated causality. Remember this article about superliminal transmission of microwaves in a cesium gas? It sparked a discussion about how useful this would be for data transmission. But I understand that the general scientific opinion is that causality prevents this from actually being able to send information faster than light. The same thing happens with gravity. Gravity doesn't travel truly "instantly" in all frames of reference, so you cannot transmit information faster than light by adjusting mass.
That makes no sense:
1) 386s ran cooler than your Celeron 433. Try running your Celeron without a heat sink & fan.
2) Peltier devices increase the temperature significantly. If you had one under that blanket you wouldn't have hands to type that message with.
That is not true. I spent a semester studying this phenomena, and as a matter-of-fact everything I raid concluded that the keyboard was faster.
This comes back to what application you are talking about. For a paint program where the user's hand is on the mouse, menus are faster. For a data entry program keyboard input is faster.
I guess you guys never heard of compression. It is a technique that allows files to become smaller, and often times a side effect is that text files become binary.
If you ever use the Word 2000 object model to contact MS Word you will get XML streams in and out of it.
1) Your point is irrelevant since this discussion is not about HTML.
2) XML is not a replacement or a complement for HTML. HTML has nothing to do with XML. XML is a extensible markup language which can be used to transfer an infinitum of data forms, HTML happens to be one of th emany many uses it has, but not nearly the most important. XML is more commonly used for databases, RPC calls, log files, EDI, or new languages than as a complement for HTML.
1) Not trolling
2) Agreed
3) Please check out the reply by "pangur" which observes that they changed the article (presumably in response to my comment) to specify the word boycott. Thus, my original comment is now irrelevant.
They already have www.battlebots.com!!! This makes sense, because they are not a dot org! This is only happening because there are some lawyers who have way too much time on their hands.
I am a battlebots fan, and I am going to compose an email to comedy central alerting them that the "geek" fan base they count on is the same group that will abandon them if they pull this stuff. I suggest you all do the same.
"Had to immediately hit Cheap CDs and buy the album. (Yes, I'm buying CDs again. The Napster battle is over)"
So you mean when Napster was around, you were not buying CDs? Glad to hear that Slashdot is publicly admitting piracy. I thought everyone said they were buying more CDs when Napster was around. I see that argument has gone straight out the window. That will do great for the RIAA side of the case.
Sorry to flame our mighty mentors here, but I really think Slashdot would do better if there was not personal commentary on story headlines. Most of the valid complaints people have about this site is the biased or foolish comments added into the headlines. It is quite frustrating.
It sounds like they used a well-known technique of adding javascript/java/some other active code that nabs information such as URL & cookies into an email. It then uses that info to do something like sending it to an anonymous collection account.
With new forms of active content being added to web pages all the time, it is amazing that anything with dynamic content. I know that's vague, but that sounds like the gist of it.
This whole discussion boils down to 2 points:
1) Hiding the Mhz from the masses is good
2) Misleading people about clock speed is bad
So why name a 1400Mhz PC as a 1600? That sounds like "lying" about the clock speed. Instead, name it an Athlon 6000? Name the 1500Mhz part Athlon 6500. That way, no one will make the "Mhz equivalency" mistake that hurt Cyrix, but the frequency is still hidden.
Who here bought an HP 600 or a Canon 720? No one, because manufacturers never made the mistake of naming printers by DPI. But I bet some people have an HP 624C.
The best solution would be a standards body, started by a tech reviewer, (like Tom's hardware or Anandtech) to assign each chip maybe 3 numbers that indicate it's performance in 3 key areas. Perhaps applications, games, and server. Then the consumer can easily browse the shelves looking at whichever number best applies to them. If the rating is independant, then we don't care if it is proportional to the Mhz or what, it is a valid usable measure for the consumer. Isn't that what we want?
In the US, check cards prompt for your PIN number. You don't need smart cards to do this. I am amazed that that don't require PIN # entry for credit cards. I would happily press 4 buttons (it should be more...) to protect myself from fraud. Surely the merchants would like this too. Anyone who is
"While the classical bit can store any number between 0 and 255 on each of its eight bytes, the qubit can store all the numbers between 0 and 255 on a byte of eight qubits."
So a classical bit has 8 bytes and ranges 0-255? But a quantum byte has 8 qubits and ranges 0-255. Ummmm..... no.
Let's not get confused here. Have a patent on concept X does not give me the right to stop all research on related topics X1 and X2. It prevents you from developing X, calling it your own, and selling it. The Thomas Edison foundation holds a patent on the light bulb, but that doesn't mean I cannot research LEDs, or new types of light bulbs.
Many Slashdotters seem to have missed the point of what this case was about. This case isn't about Microsoft Office, or Microsoft just being too big, or Microsoft not innovating, or their products sucking...
This is about bundling. Windows XP bundles replacements the top software of the past year, in an attempt to kill it. CD burners, audio players w/ plug-ins, audio/video codecs, web browsers. This is why they have monopoly power. See where realaudio, winamp, EZ CD Creator, DIVX, Netscape/Mozilla are in 3 years when everybody has XP. Why bother to buy/download those products?
Splitting MS into Office & Windows doesn't resolve it. The their apps, tools, utilities, and development software must be split apart.
1) MD hold less information (~ less music)
2) MD are harder to record onto
3) MD will not play in CD-MP3 players
4) MD players are more expensive
5) MD do not allow you to control audio quality -vs- bandwidth tradeoff
This is not news, as there are several of these players out right now. I've been in the market for one for about a month. Supply is very limited as is information, so hopefully Philips (yes, one 'l' not two) device will spur more interest. Check out this link for info on the media and players. Unfortunately, most of the ones listed in the article are unavailable or hard to find.
Personally, I find them better than standard MP3 players because for half the money I get 3 times the storage, plus I can swap out disks easily. These things are actually very available. A computer show never goes by where I don't see them. And the size advantage is nice in some cases. I fly a hang glider and I want something small that I don't have to make extra room for in my harness.
Now if only it supports a flash ROM so I can write an ogg vorbis decoder for it.
All my coworkers are amazed when they find that I have nothing except empty cabinets and drawers in my cube. If they need more space, they come to me.
Why is this? Beyond my computer equipment, I keep no paper. If someone hands me a document, I copy the network location and throw the paper away. I do have some miscellany: silverware, a plate, some iced tea mix, tissues, and a nerf gun. That's all in one drawer. Essentially, space is infinite so long as I have a server and a hard drive.
The eetimes article clarifies. They are designing chips using dynamic logic which has the disadvantage of eating up significantly more power. It is actually fairly common to use dynamic logic in chips, just not on a wide scale where power is more important than transistor density or speed.
x86 chips are not simple, and creating a dynamic logic design is not likely. The company seems to have very good background in automatied design tools, but chips on the scale of x86 CPUs are not created in automated tools, they are created by hand and optimized (like assembly coding to the software guys)
"Intrinsity's bare-bones test chip operates at 2.2 GHz..." This is not that impressive on a bare bones chip. They haven't even created an ALU capable of that speed. Nevermind a full CPU. This company also doesn't have any fabs, so they will be at the disadvantage Cyrix and AMD were at in their youth.
Overall, they aren't likely to be making x86 CPUs any time soon. PDAs and laptops can't handle the power draw, so I'm not sure where that leaves them. Maybe they should team with Transmeta to solve their power problems.:-)
Typically, you use the SMTP protocol and the "PNG" "GIF" or "JPG" file formats. Our office uses "DOC" "HTML" and "PDF" internally. Do any of these sound familiar to anyone else?
Seriously, what advantage does internet faxing have over email? Email is fast and open-ended. It can handle any type of file format. It can be secured, tracked, provides return reciept.
If you read the article, it talks about two companies using proprietary extensions for color faxes, and they are talking IP rights before the working group has even made a draft! I'm not interested in protocols being manhandled by corporations. Standards are standards. (Remember USRobotics and modem standards years back?)
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You misunderstood the point of the VOIP solution. It is not intended to provide redundancy to each point in the node. It prevents someone from knocking-out the central office and disabling millions of residences. Noone is suggesting that each home requires redundant lines coming into each side of the house - we aren't worried about someone cutting individual lines.
So will people use Winamp, or use XMMS out of principle? I like Winamp, but given the choice between an open-source and closed-source program, why should I use the closed-source version?
It isn't supposed to catch onmouseover and onfocus. There are legitimate uses for that.
I know those failed, but I thought we learned why. Wouldn't it be cheaper to "fix" the bugs in the prior mission and re-send? Just because we found a bug in something when it went into deployment doesn't mean we should scrap the project and re-architect it with different goals. Surely this would be cheaper, and a great way for NASA to way off the nay-sayers.
Someone please explain why they do not do this.
I thought that transporting information superluminally violated causality. Remember this article about superliminal transmission of microwaves in a cesium gas? It sparked a discussion about how useful this would be for data transmission. But I understand that the general scientific opinion is that causality prevents this from actually being able to send information faster than light. The same thing happens with gravity. Gravity doesn't travel truly "instantly" in all frames of reference, so you cannot transmit information faster than light by adjusting mass.
If someone could clarify this it would be great.
That makes no sense:
1) 386s ran cooler than your Celeron 433. Try running your Celeron without a heat sink & fan.
2) Peltier devices increase the temperature significantly. If you had one under that blanket you wouldn't have hands to type that message with.
That is not true. I spent a semester studying this phenomena, and as a matter-of-fact everything I raid concluded that the keyboard was faster.
This comes back to what application you are talking about. For a paint program where the user's hand is on the mouse, menus are faster. For a data entry program keyboard input is faster.
I guess you guys never heard of compression. It is a technique that allows files to become smaller, and often times a side effect is that text files become binary.
If you ever use the Word 2000 object model to contact MS Word you will get XML streams in and out of it.
Your information is dated: Microsoft Word 2000 and beyond use XML as the native file format.
1) Your point is irrelevant since this discussion is not about HTML.
2) XML is not a replacement or a complement for HTML. HTML has nothing to do with XML. XML is a extensible markup language which can be used to transfer an infinitum of data forms, HTML happens to be one of th emany many uses it has, but not nearly the most important. XML is more commonly used for databases, RPC calls, log files, EDI, or new languages than as a complement for HTML.
1) Not trolling
2) Agreed
3) Please check out the reply by "pangur" which observes that they changed the article (presumably in response to my comment) to specify the word boycott. Thus, my original comment is now irrelevant.
They already have www.battlebots.com!!! This makes sense, because they are not a dot org! This is only happening because there are some lawyers who have way too much time on their hands.
I am a battlebots fan, and I am going to compose an email to comedy central alerting them that the "geek" fan base they count on is the same group that will abandon them if they pull this stuff. I suggest you all do the same.
www.battlebots.com contact page
Comedy Central Battlebots page (they have a message board)
Sorry to flame our mighty mentors here, but I really think Slashdot would do better if there was not personal commentary on story headlines. Most of the valid complaints people have about this site is the biased or foolish comments added into the headlines. It is quite frustrating.
With new forms of active content being added to web pages all the time, it is amazing that anything with dynamic content. I know that's vague, but that sounds like the gist of it.
This whole discussion boils down to 2 points:
1) Hiding the Mhz from the masses is good
2) Misleading people about clock speed is bad
So why name a 1400Mhz PC as a 1600? That sounds like "lying" about the clock speed. Instead, name it an Athlon 6000? Name the 1500Mhz part Athlon 6500. That way, no one will make the "Mhz equivalency" mistake that hurt Cyrix, but the frequency is still hidden.
Who here bought an HP 600 or a Canon 720? No one, because manufacturers never made the mistake of naming printers by DPI. But I bet some people have an HP 624C.
The best solution would be a standards body, started by a tech reviewer, (like Tom's hardware or Anandtech) to assign each chip maybe 3 numbers that indicate it's performance in 3 key areas. Perhaps applications, games, and server. Then the consumer can easily browse the shelves looking at whichever number best applies to them. If the rating is independant, then we don't care if it is proportional to the Mhz or what, it is a valid usable measure for the consumer. Isn't that what we want?
In the US, check cards prompt for your PIN number. You don't need smart cards to do this. I am amazed that that don't require PIN # entry for credit cards. I would happily press 4 buttons (it should be more...) to protect myself from fraud. Surely the merchants would like this too. Anyone who is
Let's not get confused here. Have a patent on concept X does not give me the right to stop all research on related topics X1 and X2. It prevents you from developing X, calling it your own, and selling it. The Thomas Edison foundation holds a patent on the light bulb, but that doesn't mean I cannot research LEDs, or new types of light bulbs.
Many Slashdotters seem to have missed the point of what this case was about. This case isn't about Microsoft Office, or Microsoft just being too big, or Microsoft not innovating, or their products sucking...
This is about bundling. Windows XP bundles replacements the top software of the past year, in an attempt to kill it. CD burners, audio players w/ plug-ins, audio/video codecs, web browsers. This is why they have monopoly power. See where realaudio, winamp, EZ CD Creator, DIVX, Netscape/Mozilla are in 3 years when everybody has XP. Why bother to buy/download those products?
Splitting MS into Office & Windows doesn't resolve it. The their apps, tools, utilities, and development software must be split apart.
1) MD hold less information (~ less music)
2) MD are harder to record onto
3) MD will not play in CD-MP3 players
4) MD players are more expensive
5) MD do not allow you to control audio quality -vs- bandwidth tradeoff
This is not news, as there are several of these players out right now. I've been in the market for one for about a month. Supply is very limited as is information, so hopefully Philips (yes, one 'l' not two) device will spur more interest. Check out this link for info on the media and players. Unfortunately, most of the ones listed in the article are unavailable or hard to find.
Personally, I find them better than standard MP3 players because for half the money I get 3 times the storage, plus I can swap out disks easily. These things are actually very available. A computer show never goes by where I don't see them. And the size advantage is nice in some cases. I fly a hang glider and I want something small that I don't have to make extra room for in my harness.
Now if only it supports a flash ROM so I can write an ogg vorbis decoder for it.
All my coworkers are amazed when they find that I have nothing except empty cabinets and drawers in my cube. If they need more space, they come to me.
Why is this? Beyond my computer equipment, I keep no paper. If someone hands me a document, I copy the network location and throw the paper away. I do have some miscellany: silverware, a plate, some iced tea mix, tissues, and a nerf gun. That's all in one drawer. Essentially, space is infinite so long as I have a server and a hard drive.
The eetimes article clarifies. They are designing chips using dynamic logic which has the disadvantage of eating up significantly more power. It is actually fairly common to use dynamic logic in chips, just not on a wide scale where power is more important than transistor density or speed.
:-)
x86 chips are not simple, and creating a dynamic logic design is not likely. The company seems to have very good background in automatied design tools, but chips on the scale of x86 CPUs are not created in automated tools, they are created by hand and optimized (like assembly coding to the software guys)
"Intrinsity's bare-bones test chip operates at 2.2 GHz..." This is not that impressive on a bare bones chip. They haven't even created an ALU capable of that speed. Nevermind a full CPU. This company also doesn't have any fabs, so they will be at the disadvantage Cyrix and AMD were at in their youth.
Overall, they aren't likely to be making x86 CPUs any time soon. PDAs and laptops can't handle the power draw, so I'm not sure where that leaves them. Maybe they should team with Transmeta to solve their power problems.
Why pay someone 5+ figures for their voice when you can just copy any voice? I guess these Microsoft guys really don't read slashdot enough
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Typically, you use the SMTP protocol and the "PNG" "GIF" or "JPG" file formats. Our office uses "DOC" "HTML" and "PDF" internally. Do any of these sound familiar to anyone else?
Seriously, what advantage does internet faxing have over email? Email is fast and open-ended. It can handle any type of file format. It can be secured, tracked, provides return reciept.
If you read the article, it talks about two companies using proprietary extensions for color faxes, and they are talking IP rights before the working group has even made a draft! I'm not interested in protocols being manhandled by corporations. Standards are standards. (Remember USRobotics and modem standards years back?)