.....making it known and getting all that negative karma, you gain the right to sue SCO when it all caves in.
We know SCO will go under but there will be possibilities of suing the companies who have been financing SCO to do this.
OTOH, thinking about how much IBM are likely to hammer SCO and thier backers for them I don't think there will be anything left even in the upper layers of the pyramid;-)
1) When you power up RAM it is in an unkown state, so power down your computer for 30s makes no sense here. The (historic) 30s requirement stems from I/O cards and peripherals which did not necessarily reset when the computer warm booted.
2) Having a refresh in the order of seconds or minutes puts the staorage in the class of battery backed SRAM, i.e. in a good design data may be retained reliably for many months or even years.
3) My observation is based on my own extrapolation. Fact is that the refresh time is related to 'leakage'. Flash memory (like EPROM) in fact holds a charge in an isolated cell which forms the gate of a MOS transistor, and these cells are capable of holding thier charge for years. As cells get smaller the problem of holding the charge in appears to get less, and it has been hypothesised that if things get down to a molecular level these problems could even be eliminated. Now, this new memory works on a charge effect of an uncoupled circuit, like a Flash or Eprom, but it has molecular proportions. I think thier claim about refresh times being reduced to even minutes (which in reality is 'an eternity' in electronic device terms) is based on the fact that molecular sized structures have the potential to reduce leakage perhaps even to nothing without having to insulate the cell as happens in flash (which is what makes them bothersome to write!).
In a nutshell the technology has so many potential advantages they can afford to be uncharacteristically cautious in thier claims. I have higher hopes;-)
I envisage just swarthes of tiny black boxes interlinked by a grid of channelised synchronous serial links.
I am not a visionary, BTW, this is more or less how big digital switches in the telecoms industry works. We are just talking about scaling down from board level to chip level.
IMHO, the biggest headache to overcome in the chip industry will not be how to package and interconnect, but how to incorporate "outside world" buffers on the edge of these devices which are powerfull enougth to pump the data, rugged enougth to withstand electrical disturbances, and yet be comaptible with the process and not take up the entire chip surface.
My money, if I had any, would be on Chip on Chip solutions, that is superchips which are factory mounted on the back of buffer/driver/switch matirix chips which in turn clip into the serial data matrix.
Unlike SRAM, which requires a charged state to be maintained, and DRAMS which reuire continuous refresh, these devices would appear to permanently change a molecular structure.....i.e. they would seem to offer high speed read write non volatile memory.
This could not only increase RAM but mean we have computing devices with just one big memory pool...no Flash, no Disk, no CD, no DVD.........
Whilst the BIOS will show virus ridden email, it will not execute virus content, there is no OS yet. This means you have a possibility to review your email to check for suspicious email without risk.
Ever wondered why so many people still use Pine?
Oh right, so if I sell products in another country I can do what I like?!
I do not know how the law works on these issues but if a US company is excempt from EU law whilst selling products in the EU then an EU company is excempt from US law when selling products in the EU.
Or perhaps it should be one rule for the US and another for "offshore" operations?
The biggest penalty is not the fine but the "requirements", such as shipping non MS media players and opening up some proprietry standards to competitors.
This is not an outspoken opinion either. Member states have been unanimous on this and Monty has tried all ways to come to a comprise. The EU know what they are up against and have bullet proofed thier position against drawn out appeals.
This could be more fun than the SCO fiasco....Bill, open the file marked JudgementDay.pif:-)
It seems that operations that work on a "Pay for rights" model are very happy to sue whenever a "Pay for Service" operation has a name that remotely infinges on thier namespace.
Should the reverse be valid? Perhaps in the first instance PG could politely request that they alter thier name.
What I do not understand is, if they did sue, how would PG fix "damages"?
I was born in '63, learnt to program on an Elliot 803 (in Algol) and yes, worked my way througth Vic20's, Amigas, Apples II'S and GEM on PC's (ala Amstrad).
For work I statically linked in AiX long before I got to ELF binaries on Linux and...YES.... I am the first to lament that "progress" often abandons some pretty good technology and replaces it with bloatware.
But.....it was just a silly comment! I am suprised that an Amiga fan can be so boring. Shouldn't you be playing with Access or showing your collegues waht you can do with your Excel spreadsheets?
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Will China adopt it?
I had been thinking that there would need to be an open standard and rock solid set of validation tools to test potential software.
OSS voting soltions is not an option that sprung to mind, but it's neat.
Perhaps they should try in the EU? I'm sure Ballamer could give them some tips on how to deal with Mario Monti.
We know SCO will go under but there will be possibilities of suing the companies who have been financing SCO to do this.
OTOH, thinking about how much IBM are likely to hammer SCO and thier backers for them I don't think there will be anything left even in the upper layers of the pyramid;-)
2) Having a refresh in the order of seconds or minutes puts the staorage in the class of battery backed SRAM, i.e. in a good design data may be retained reliably for many months or even years.
3) My observation is based on my own extrapolation. Fact is that the refresh time is related to 'leakage'. Flash memory (like EPROM) in fact holds a charge in an isolated cell which forms the gate of a MOS transistor, and these cells are capable of holding thier charge for years. As cells get smaller the problem of holding the charge in appears to get less, and it has been hypothesised that if things get down to a molecular level these problems could even be eliminated. Now, this new memory works on a charge effect of an uncoupled circuit, like a Flash or Eprom, but it has molecular proportions. I think thier claim about refresh times being reduced to even minutes (which in reality is 'an eternity' in electronic device terms) is based on the fact that molecular sized structures have the potential to reduce leakage perhaps even to nothing without having to insulate the cell as happens in flash (which is what makes them bothersome to write!).
In a nutshell the technology has so many potential advantages they can afford to be uncharacteristically cautious in thier claims. I have higher hopes;-)
I still havn't got through Hawkins history, and that was supposed to be brief!
Why make it slightly asymmetric? The only thing that will never be wrong is somthing that never is.
Oh that will make heckling fun.
I can just imagine the 3D version of Clippy.
I am not a visionary, BTW, this is more or less how big digital switches in the telecoms industry works. We are just talking about scaling down from board level to chip level.
IMHO, the biggest headache to overcome in the chip industry will not be how to package and interconnect, but how to incorporate "outside world" buffers on the edge of these devices which are powerfull enougth to pump the data, rugged enougth to withstand electrical disturbances, and yet be comaptible with the process and not take up the entire chip surface.
My money, if I had any, would be on Chip on Chip solutions, that is superchips which are factory mounted on the back of buffer/driver/switch matirix chips which in turn clip into the serial data matrix.
Not unique.....Other types of memory also have redundency error tolerant architecture, as mentioned by the PR people and not read by you.
This could not only increase RAM but mean we have computing devices with just one big memory pool...no Flash, no Disk, no CD, no DVD.........
Can I order mine now please?
I tried with a cider press but the noise that came out was just dreadful.
Presumably MIT students don't have to work thier way througth college like everybody else. Perhaps they should be included in the Ivy league?
That the Bill Gates building is the home of "Artificial" intelligence. Perhaps now we will see The Borg incorporated in Emacs.
Whilst the BIOS will show virus ridden email, it will not execute virus content, there is no OS yet. This means you have a possibility to review your email to check for suspicious email without risk. Ever wondered why so many people still use Pine?
And they can copy it illegally.
I do not know how the law works on these issues but if a US company is excempt from EU law whilst selling products in the EU then an EU company is excempt from US law when selling products in the EU.
Or perhaps it should be one rule for the US and another for "offshore" operations?
The biggest penalty is not the fine but the "requirements", such as shipping non MS media players and opening up some proprietry standards to competitors.
This could be more fun than the SCO fiasco....Bill, open the file marked JudgementDay.pif :-)
Apps are pretty interchangable, but SMP is kernel stuff, and it is the kernel that makes the difference between one *nix and another.
BTW, is an 'SX' OK?
Should the reverse be valid? Perhaps in the first instance PG could politely request that they alter thier name.
What I do not understand is, if they did sue, how would PG fix "damages"?
To set the record for how many you can eat in a minute using a cocktail stick?
I was born in '63, learnt to program on an Elliot 803 (in Algol) and yes, worked my way througth Vic20's, Amigas, Apples II'S and GEM on PC's (ala Amstrad).
For work I statically linked in AiX long before I got to ELF binaries on Linux and...YES.... I am the first to lament that "progress" often abandons some pretty good technology and replaces it with bloatware.
But.....it was just a silly comment! I am suprised that an Amiga fan can be so boring. Shouldn't you be playing with Access or showing your collegues waht you can do with your Excel spreadsheets?