I can think of a few good reasons for Nvidia to roll their own chipsets. SLI is one. The market for integrated motherboards (with their chipset) is another.
Sounds like you need to get your message out on http://consumerist.com/
The fact is, most cell phone companies have horrible service and are still trying to figure out how to sell high speed data services to non-enterprise users. I make my living working on high speed mobile data access, and I don't personally subscribe to any of them. The pricing is doesn't make sense, and the coverage is spotty.
In the embedded world, you'll see VxWorks, TI's BIOS, QNX, Enea's OSE, etc. Just as likely, embedded developers will roll their own operating system if they use one at all. In many of these applications, 1 MB of memory is overkill, and much of the code is in C.
"And since the so-called radio chip is the first that can be manufactured using Intel's existing 90-nanometer CMOS technology, it promises to be cheap. Most radio chips today are built using other materials, mostly silicon germanium and require different manufacturing processes"
The important part is that it's CMOS. Now, they can make one cheaper chip that does the RF and the digital baseband processing.
Wonder how close they are to a software radio on a chip? Imagine one chip that does all the RF and digital processing for everything from GSM/EDGE to UMTS to CDMA2000 to 802.11x to future UWB.
Not video. Well, maybe. I view the Cell more as a multimedia processor for real-time processing of audio and video. I can envision playing a flight simulator or first-person shooter with streaming video and audio.
I think most of the server performance issues are on the first 12 or so servers they put up. Since Many hard-core, die-hard players jumped in on the first day, they're the ones who experienced the most problems.
They're also the ones most likely bitch and moan on bulletin boards.
This problem is not a software bug. Sort of disabling the feature, I don't see a way of fixing the problem in the client software. I mean, I don't see a software patch (or even a standards modification) fixing the problem.
What it is, is a problem exacerbated complexity. People speak different langauges around the world, often multiple langauges. That rules out an ASCII-centric solution. Even rewriting the standards wouldn't help; the problem boils down to protecting people from tmemselves, or at least human cognition flaws.
Any solution would have to be a process solution. Specifically, the process determining that you are who you say you are. The current process for doing this is flawed for the average person. Your average person is just going to click through warnings which he or she doesn't understand.
http://www.hattrick.org/
In Hattrick, you manage a soccer team. You buy and sell players, hire and fire coaches, then play in leagues. Just like most soccer leagues around the world, there's promotion and relegation. Your goal is to climb the ladder and stay on top.
You basically be the next Sir Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger but not Roman Abramovich.
It's massively multiplayer with hundreds of thousands of players,the 'role' is of a soccer manager.
I don't play the game, but my brothers do- and neither are huge soccer fans. Funny thing is that I'm the big soccer player and fan.
I'm trying to understand why anyone would want to move to a Java based OO solution for serious number crunching on specialized hardware.
When the only thing you have is a hammer...
Rightly or wrongly, some people still see Java as a "toy" langauge, especially when performance counts.
If he was some more conventional white collar criminal (say CEO, junk bond trader, political
appointee) and stole millions, he'd get off much easier. Should have chosen insider trading instead of cracking websites, Adrian.
This reminds me of the Chapelle's Show spoof of Law & Order, where drug dealer Tron Carter and a white collar criminal swap places. Lamo is the white collar criminal getting the crack dealer treatment.
I run, but to train for playing soccer in a competitive adult rec league. Also, I also prefer trail running.
I've been thinking of upgrading my training equipment. Currently, I have a sports radio strapped to the upper arm, a cell phone strapped to the other upper arm (for emergencies only), and heart rate monitor. For non-electronics, there's the clothing made of hi-tech moisture wicking material.
That Garmin GPS unit looks sweet, and I'm looking at upgrading the sports radio to a flash MP3 or iPod.
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I can think of a few good reasons for Nvidia to roll their own chipsets. SLI is one. The market for integrated motherboards (with their chipset) is another.
Sounds like you need to get your message out on http://consumerist.com/ The fact is, most cell phone companies have horrible service and are still trying to figure out how to sell high speed data services to non-enterprise users. I make my living working on high speed mobile data access, and I don't personally subscribe to any of them. The pricing is doesn't make sense, and the coverage is spotty.
In the embedded world, you'll see VxWorks, TI's BIOS, QNX, Enea's OSE, etc. Just as likely, embedded developers will roll their own operating system if they use one at all. In many of these applications, 1 MB of memory is overkill, and much of the code is in C.
From an embedded programmer's perspective, Linux can be bloated and slow overkill.
In addition to a lucrative customer base, Nextel also brings radio spectrum to the table.
Nextel didn't have an upgrade path to mobile high speed data, at least in the air interface. As for the core network?
The important part is that it's CMOS. Now, they can make one cheaper chip that does the RF and the digital baseband processing.
Wonder how close they are to a software radio on a chip? Imagine one chip that does all the RF and digital processing for everything from GSM/EDGE to UMTS to CDMA2000 to 802.11x to future UWB.
More Buzzwords: Reconfigurable computing. System on a chip.
May I suggest a number five to your list? A single chip with microprocessor, DSPs and FPGA.
Not video. Well, maybe. I view the Cell more as a multimedia processor for real-time processing of audio and video. I can envision playing a flight simulator or first-person shooter with streaming video and audio.
To clarify some more: Linux is running on the host processor, while VxWorks or some other RTOS is running on device doing the heavy lifting (ARM, some DSP, PowerPC, etc.). Windriver is hardly unique; TI offers Linux and their own RTOS (know as BIOS) as a possible solution. See, for example, http://dspvillage.ti.com/docs/catalog/software/det ails.jhtml?templateId=5121&path=templatedata/cm/sw detail/data/swbios_link
Not to mention the Murray Hill campus now belongs to Lucent.
I think a lot of that stuff is at Lucent now. That's where the bulk of Bell Labs went.
I think most of the server performance issues are on the first 12 or so servers they put up. Since Many hard-core, die-hard players jumped in on the first day, they're the ones who experienced the most problems.
They're also the ones most likely bitch and moan on bulletin boards.
... it's an authentication problem
This problem is not a software bug. Sort of disabling the feature, I don't see a way of fixing the problem in the client software. I mean, I don't see a software patch (or even a standards modification) fixing the problem.
What it is, is a problem exacerbated complexity. People speak different langauges around the world, often multiple langauges. That rules out an ASCII-centric solution. Even rewriting the standards wouldn't help; the problem boils down to protecting people from tmemselves, or at least human cognition flaws.
Any solution would have to be a process solution. Specifically, the process determining that you are who you say you are. The current process for doing this is flawed for the average person. Your average person is just going to click through warnings which he or she doesn't understand.
Seriously, what DOESN'T have a PowerPC in it?
http://www.hattrick.org/ In Hattrick, you manage a soccer team. You buy and sell players, hire and fire coaches, then play in leagues. Just like most soccer leagues around the world, there's promotion and relegation. Your goal is to climb the ladder and stay on top. You basically be the next Sir Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger but not Roman Abramovich. It's massively multiplayer with hundreds of thousands of players,the 'role' is of a soccer manager. I don't play the game, but my brothers do- and neither are huge soccer fans. Funny thing is that I'm the big soccer player and fan.
I'm trying to understand why anyone would want to move to a Java based OO solution for serious number crunching on specialized hardware. When the only thing you have is a hammer... Rightly or wrongly, some people still see Java as a "toy" langauge, especially when performance counts.
If he was some more conventional white collar criminal (say CEO, junk bond trader, political appointee) and stole millions, he'd get off much easier. Should have chosen insider trading instead of cracking websites, Adrian.
This reminds me of the Chapelle's Show spoof of Law & Order, where drug dealer Tron Carter and a white collar criminal swap places. Lamo is the white collar criminal getting the crack dealer treatment.
I run, but to train for playing soccer in a competitive adult rec league. Also, I also prefer trail running. I've been thinking of upgrading my training equipment. Currently, I have a sports radio strapped to the upper arm, a cell phone strapped to the other upper arm (for emergencies only), and heart rate monitor. For non-electronics, there's the clothing made of hi-tech moisture wicking material. That Garmin GPS unit looks sweet, and I'm looking at upgrading the sports radio to a flash MP3 or iPod.