how from a usage standpoint is a dual-core machine any different than a dual-processor one? Obviously from a design standpoint it's much nicer to have one chip with two cores rather than two separate chips, especially in terms of cost, but does a dual-core processor ACT any differently to the software than two separate processors would?
There is lower latency between the 2 CPUs too... multiple CPU do need to communicate with each other often to maintain cache coherence and other stuff...
What we really need is a triple core cpu. One core to run the spyware. One to run software to try and counter the spyware. And one to actually do some useful work.
Why not use all that resources to run OS X instead? Using a PPC emulator that is... or better yet, run Linux?
At this rate we^H^Hconsumers are spending more and more money running spyware^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huseful applications...
This used to happen on hard drives as well. In the previous century, I had a bunch of Quantum brand hard drives fail due to "sticktion." The lubricant became a "glue" over time. The data recovery tech used a tape measure to drop the drive from a certain height, held at a certain angle, to "unstick" the heads. He'd plug the drives back in, and recover the data.
It looked so simple, with no disassembly required.
That's because they have Japanese and Intl models. In some of our local stores around here, some sport them side by side of each other, with the Japanese made ones costing 3X as much as the China made ones..
Apparently they outsource it to Asus' plants in China for their international market, and Asus isn't all that mad a manufacturer either, so I guess it is still fine..
I.B.M. will effectively CRUSH MICROSOFT LIKE A BUG by imposing it's software patents. You see, it helps if you have a 75 year head start on the competition, and (still) about 500 times as many patents, and those covering much more fundamental areas of computing
No it doesn't, those patents would have expired by then. Nice troll otherwise.
you can't say just because they didn't release a recording when it was convenient to you that you have the right to steal it.
Think of it like this.. you are a fruit seller with plenty of fruits, and instead of selling them, you just stow them into a corner and use the whole basket of fruits as a stool.
So fast forward a few days (or in the music industries' case, decades), now the fruits are not so popular anymore (well duh, they are all old and crappy), so you just chuck them in one obscure corner behind your stall. Heck, for all intents and purposes that basket belongs in the trash! Now someone takes these fruits.. is that "stealing"?
Realise that in the music industries' case, they do not even lose the original item.
Just because the law says you can own a basket of fruits for more than a hundred years does it mean you are making a loss each time someone takes it.
I'm not sure if it is related, but i've once read an article about some research DARPA is doing in the field of aeronautics.. where they have whole squadrons on autonomous fighter jets controlled by only one human (who also happens to be part of the squadron).
It is some pretty neat stuff, especially if you are having trouble enlisting enough humans to fight wars for you.
Hmmm... all that CRT radiation will so totally irradiate any geek that stays in these CRT/CPU houses.. not that geeks have any use for those pointy things anyway...
I've actually cut apart a few RFID tags before and they largely consist of some coil functioning as an antenna. How about they make larger versions of these for cars?
Exactly, and what would be the ramifications if the Hubble crashes into Shanghai? Perhaps right smack on one of those high tech maglift rails they got, thereby derailing it and killing hundreds of people?
After all that has been happening with NASA lately, is there any reason that they won't make this "stuff up"?
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how from a usage standpoint is a dual-core machine any different than a dual-processor one? Obviously from a design standpoint it's much nicer to have one chip with two cores rather than two separate chips, especially in terms of cost, but does a dual-core processor ACT any differently to the software than two separate processors would?
There is lower latency between the 2 CPUs too... multiple CPU do need to communicate with each other often to maintain cache coherence and other stuff...
What we really need is a triple core cpu. One core to run the spyware. One to run software to try and counter the spyware. And one to actually do some useful work.
Why not use all that resources to run OS X instead? Using a PPC emulator that is... or better yet, run Linux?
At this rate we^H^Hconsumers are spending more and more money running spyware^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huseful applications...
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, prisons run YOU!
Well, in America, there will be quite a lot of prison pr0n..
Finally, we can see if all those scenarios (ie.. human toilet) as depicted by hollywood are true or not!
This used to happen on hard drives as well. In the previous century, I had a bunch of Quantum brand hard drives fail due to "sticktion." The lubricant became a "glue" over time. The data recovery tech used a tape measure to drop the drive from a certain height, held at a certain angle, to "unstick" the heads. He'd plug the drives back in, and recover the data.
It looked so simple, with no disassembly required.
You know what's scarier?
"This is a true story..."
Plextor is cheap anyway!!!
That's because they have Japanese and Intl models. In some of our local stores around here, some sport them side by side of each other, with the Japanese made ones costing 3X as much as the China made ones..
Apparently they outsource it to Asus' plants in China for their international market, and Asus isn't all that mad a manufacturer either, so I guess it is still fine..
Some new ground. Both KDE and Gnome have had this feature for a good while.
In fact it is a shame that the FSF didn't apply patents for those IDEAS.. bite the 900 pound gorilla where it hurts! Its gonads!
No.. the true moral of the story is.. American corporate greed knows no bounds...
Wow. I'm impressed. You even managed to balance the parentheses while doing the face-to-keyboard routine.
If you are a Windows developer you would have long gotten used to it by now...
This one has what appears to be pre-programmed and user-definable QoS to make sure your games get priority use of available bandwidth.
You can get a Linksys.. buy the Sveasoft linux fireware.. and QoS too!
For a lot less!
The topic is MIT and Caltech, not much nerdier than that!
Why does the person wearing the T-shirt in that photo has 2 lumps on his chest?
In case the server dies here is another mirror:
l .m p3
:D
http://f00tyfrenzy.com/downloads/RIAA_Phone_Cal
I really wonder how well my host can take a mini slashdotting
Anyone who wants to build another Tower of Babel because they read about it in the Bible clearly didn't finish reading it.
So what's the big Guy gonna do now? Jumble up our languages again?
Oh cool! I want to know Japanese if he does that.. lemme pray real hard....
I.B.M. will effectively CRUSH MICROSOFT LIKE A BUG by imposing it's software patents. You see, it helps if you have a 75 year head start on the competition, and (still) about 500 times as many patents, and those covering much more fundamental areas of computing
No it doesn't, those patents would have expired by then. Nice troll otherwise.
"Brought to you from the inventor of the internets!"
Legal Action.
you can't say just because they didn't release a recording when it was convenient to you that you have the right to steal it.
Think of it like this.. you are a fruit seller with plenty of fruits, and instead of selling them, you just stow them into a corner and use the whole basket of fruits as a stool.
So fast forward a few days (or in the music industries' case, decades), now the fruits are not so popular anymore (well duh, they are all old and crappy), so you just chuck them in one obscure corner behind your stall. Heck, for all intents and purposes that basket belongs in the trash! Now someone takes these fruits.. is that "stealing"?
Realise that in the music industries' case, they do not even lose the original item.
Just because the law says you can own a basket of fruits for more than a hundred years does it mean you are making a loss each time someone takes it.
I'm not sure if it is related, but i've once read an article about some research DARPA is doing in the field of aeronautics.. where they have whole squadrons on autonomous fighter jets controlled by only one human (who also happens to be part of the squadron).
It is some pretty neat stuff, especially if you are having trouble enlisting enough humans to fight wars for you.
As in aids? :D
Actually I'm already seeing it now. In future cars will have a small port under the seats to collect the.. urm.. compressed air..
Thats right folks God (Alah,Jehovia,Buddah, or the door knob you worship) gave us rights.... not the goverment.... We give the goverment rights....
What if you are atheist?
Hmmm... all that CRT radiation will so totally irradiate any geek that stays in these CRT/CPU houses.. not that geeks have any use for those pointy things anyway...
I've actually cut apart a few RFID tags before and they largely consist of some coil functioning as an antenna. How about they make larger versions of these for cars?
The privacy implications are mind boggling....
Why not just shoot it into deep space?
Exactly, and what would be the ramifications if the Hubble crashes into Shanghai? Perhaps right smack on one of those high tech maglift rails they got, thereby derailing it and killing hundreds of people?
After all that has been happening with NASA lately, is there any reason that they won't make this "stuff up"?
and take it out to dinner, it's still a pig in a dress, not a girlfriend.
This is Slashdot you insensitive clod!
The big irony is these people believe God created b00bies..
Hence if God create b00bies
and b00bies are bad
therefore God is bad.
Oh wait..