AMD totally rulled with their 64-bit offering, forcing Intel to play catch-up and come up with a compatible instruction set. AMD was first with a dual-core x86 (although, ok, not by much). Athlons/Opterons have always had integrated memory controllers (big plus esp for multi-CPU systems); Intel is only about to introduce that. Look at benchmarks, AMD CPUs still hold well against Intel's offering, and remain faster/cheaper/more energy-efficient in many applications. Purely speculating now, but AMD is expected to come up with some interesting CPU/GPU combo; no idea of Intel's plans there, but unless they acquire nVidia (or worked out some secret agreements), they sure don't can't pretend to have the same level of expertise as ATI.
All in all, no, sorry, I don't think AMD merely "always plays second fiddle" like they used to with their K6 etc....Although they certainly need to watch out if Intel really delivers on Penryn and whatever else they sure have in the pipeline.
May your wish come true: PC+LCD for $450 - $50 rebate. 1GB DDR2, 120GB HD, DVD-RW, kbd/mouse, 17" monitor...
It even comes with Vista, so for a really sweet deal you "just" need to manage to get some money back from M$ by returning the OS.:)
Some providers in the US also try/tried that, starting as early as 2003, and usually hoping that non-customers would pay $$ to access their network through such user-provided "open" wi-fi APs. I don't think this worked overly well so far though... http://www.sonic.net/hotspots/ http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/learnmore/
You're correct, ISPs are still free to provide any service they want, like VoIP. The way I understand this resolution though, they're not allowed to treat their own service differently than other carriers', or act in any other way that would be discriminatory, like charge you different rates depending on if, or where, you buy such extra services. Seems fair to me...
Call me weird, anti-/. or something, but I've read the bill (it's not that long, really), and it seems actually quite good.
Some interesting bits (my interpretation, IANAL etc; check the real stuff if you're into legalese):
ISPs can still block spam/porn/attacks... as long as the customer is clearly notified of such filtering and can opt out
However ISPs aren't allowed to, say, collect money from content providers for 'improved' service... bye Goodmail!:-)
ISPs can implement some QoS (good!) but only based on the type of service, not its source/destination/ownership/content...
In sync with this post by jonwil, who I fully agree with.
Users can attach to their PC any device they want unless it "substantially degrade[s]" others' service -- Hello Wi-Fi sharing?:-]
(this however certainly doesn't shield you from trouble if your line is used for illegal stuff)
All in all, seems pretty well-thought. Good job Maine. I can't see a nasty flaw, loophole, unnecessary burden put on ISPs or end-users...; did anyone spot some problem I missed?
What about starting with yourself then, oh_my_080980980 ?
On the court order, Paul M. Barnett, a special justice, checked a box that said Cho "presents an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness" but did not check the box that would indicate he was a danger to others.
Corroborating quote from Christopher Flynn, director of Virginia Tech's Cook Counseling Center:
"Clearly if anyone had any warning about a violent incident, people would have stepped in and acted"
Sorry oh_my_080980980, it seems that the consensus before Cho's went on his killing spree was (unfortunately) that he was only a threat to himself.
You may argue then that any person who make suicidal comments should be reported, so that access to a gun can be denied to them. Just a few problems with that:
To start on a cynical note, there are tons of other ways to commit suicide anyway. Some may even conclude that using a firearm is 'ok' in a sense that it's not too likely to bring colletaral damage (as opposed to, for example, letting the gas stove leak or even jumping from a high building).
The privacy implications of such a scheme are far-reaching (IMHO unacceptable, but you're free to think differently)
You'll need some mechanism to avoid false reports (I could easily pretend that, say, my mother-in-law is suicidal to bar her from legitimately getting a gun) -- good luck. "Hey Charlie, we were told you made a comment about killing yourself, is that true??" That's gonna work real well.
This would mean filling reports for a significant fraction of the population. Welcome back dark ages. "According to the American College Health Association, about 44 percent of students were so depressed that it was difficult for them to function at some point in the 2006 school year. It also found that nearly 10 percent reported seriously considering suicide at least once last year." (emph. mine again)
Agreed. Blaming, even partially, "privacy laws" for this massacre is just plain dishonest. (if anything, the problem with privacy laws is that they're facing extinction)
Snippets from a news report written shortly after the tragedy: "A medical examination found that (...) [Cho's] insight and judgment are normal" "Although Cho's writings were disturbing, mental health professionals say the student's behavior didn't reach the threshold that would have demanded more aggressive intervention." "You can't do anything unless there's imminent risk that's somewhat foreseeable to take away someone's civil rights" (source: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/student.counselin g/ )
Seems clear to me that no sharing of medical information with law enforcement would have helped here.
...[electricity] produced by environmentally friendly means (IE not oil, not dams which destroy vast eco systems, not wind farms which kill birds) ...nor, say, solar cells, because most are sealed and won't allow poor spiders to nest in them?!? Watch out, your computer screen is surrounded by something called reality. Common-sense may come in handy should you chose to visit it sometime.
I routinely go to several newspapers and other news outlets websites, as I'm not comfortable with trusting a single source. Same thing for search engines, etc.
A Wikipedia clone that collects info on the same/similar topics, but differently? Great, by all means, please do!. I'm not totally convinced that Citizendium's accreditation/verification policies will result in generally better articles, but at the very least they'll be another (somewhat trustworthy) source.
This -- diversity, not accreditation etc -- does make the whole system more resilient to manipulation.
A photo that Nasa published over a year ago already unquestionably demonstrated the existence of water on Mars, see http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html (And if you're still not convinced you can even try this at home...)
Here's an idea, let the weavers assholes be themselves....
Er... no. I suspect that most weavers can't be bothered checking their mirrors -- let alone their blind spots -- which makes them dangerous to everyone, especially motorcyclists such as myself.
I'd generally rate tailgating and weaving higher risk (to others) than speeding, and I wish the police were to act accordingly. While I cannot consider the "push-button zap-everyone" convenience of today's radar-guns a good thing, the fact some can now measure the gap between vehicles can IMHO only help in educating the worst tailgaters out there.
To whoever was trolling/FUDing about FreeBSD's "market share" etc... here's what Netcraft was actually saying in their most recent article about this OS last year: "[FreeBSD] has a secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames (...) since July 2003." Full text + stats
LOL...:-) Ok, now I feel sorry for the 99+% non-French-speaking people out there, so I'll try and explain briefly why some of us can't help but laugh at all those TropCon names. "con" used to be slang for vagina and has evolved to roughly mean "f*ing dumb". How adequate sometimes...
PGP changing algorithm is pure PR, IMHO. SHA1 may be technically broken, but PGP/GPG digital signatures are not.
What this much-publicised break offers is a faster-than-brute-force way to create 2 messages whose hash is identical, but not to construct a message with a predetermined hash (which is what you'd need to do if you wanted to alter the content of an existing PGP-signed document).
The best such attack against SHA1 known to date, Kelsey & Schneier (Nov 2004, cf. http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/304), requires 2**106 operations; way beyond our reach today.
Web repository of songs you can download without any DRM crap, you pay the artist whatever you think it's worth... Yeps, it's there!
Not quite as "ideal" as div_2n described, but we're getting closer:
iamcf13: "Me: http://www.cf13.com/ Slashdot: Not newsworthy. You decide."
Thank you for letting me choose! Your Highness is too good!
Seriously iamcf13/Bryan, I hope I won't offend you in saying that, but the solutions you present as new, effective and/or unobtrusive are IMHO anything but.
Examples:
- "Relayed email is not accepted.": decision based on untrusted headers, I presume. Even if these were reliable, this would reject messages processed by any corporate internal relay(s), while leaving spam (sent from spammers-controlled servers or cracked PCs) unaffected.
- "No anonymous senders"... Right. Hey, my name is Enl4rgeItNow! I swear!
- "no Bcc mail": like in 'no mailing-list' I guess.
etc etc...
That said, I don't think that MS' proposal is much better...
Neat. Reminds me of some lego-like logic blocks I've used in college in Switzerland. I wasn't even born when those were developped, but I had quite some (geek) fun with them later!:)
Cf. http://www.smaky.ch/en/lami/part3.php No motion detectors and not many other cool sensors/actuators, but the whole set of logic functions from basic gates up to microcontrollers (added later) were provided.
These Logidules were too pricey for the general public, only a few schools/universities used them. Glad to see someone else coming with a somewhat similar idea, simpler but with some exiting extra goodies (wireless...)
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WTF modded parent Insightful?
...Although they certainly need to watch out if Intel really delivers on Penryn and whatever else they sure have in the pipeline.
AMD totally rulled with their 64-bit offering, forcing Intel to play catch-up and come up with a compatible instruction set.
AMD was first with a dual-core x86 (although, ok, not by much).
Athlons/Opterons have always had integrated memory controllers (big plus esp for multi-CPU systems); Intel is only about to introduce that.
Look at benchmarks, AMD CPUs still hold well against Intel's offering, and remain faster/cheaper/more energy-efficient in many applications.
Purely speculating now, but AMD is expected to come up with some interesting CPU/GPU combo; no idea of Intel's plans there, but unless they acquire nVidia (or worked out some secret agreements), they sure don't can't pretend to have the same level of expertise as ATI.
All in all, no, sorry, I don't think AMD merely "always plays second fiddle" like they used to with their K6 etc.
May your wish come true: PC+LCD for $450 - $50 rebate. 1GB DDR2, 120GB HD, DVD-RW, kbd/mouse, 17" monitor... :)
It even comes with Vista, so for a really sweet deal you "just" need to manage to get some money back from M$ by returning the OS.
Some providers in the US also try/tried that, starting as early as 2003, and usually hoping that non-customers would pay $$ to access their network through such user-provided "open" wi-fi APs. I don't think this worked overly well so far though...
http://www.sonic.net/hotspots/
http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/learnmore/
You're correct, ISPs are still free to provide any service they want, like VoIP. The way I understand this resolution though, they're not allowed to treat their own service differently than other carriers', or act in any other way that would be discriminatory, like charge you different rates depending on if, or where, you buy such extra services.
Seems fair to me...
Call me weird, anti-/. or something, but I've read the bill (it's not that long, really), and it seems actually quite good.
Some interesting bits (my interpretation, IANAL etc; check the real stuff if you're into legalese):
(this however certainly doesn't shield you from trouble if your line is used for illegal stuff)
All in all, seems pretty well-thought. Good job Maine. I can't see a nasty flaw, loophole, unnecessary burden put on ISPs or end-users...; did anyone spot some problem I missed?
What about starting with yourself then, oh_my_080980980 ?
(emphasis mine; again http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/student.counseliCorroborating quote from Christopher Flynn, director of Virginia Tech's Cook Counseling Center:
Sorry oh_my_080980980, it seems that the consensus before Cho's went on his killing spree was (unfortunately) that he was only a threat to himself.
You may argue then that any person who make suicidal comments should be reported, so that access to a gun can be denied to them. Just a few problems with that:
"According to the American College Health Association, about 44 percent of students were so depressed that it was difficult for them to function at some point in the 2006 school year. It also found that nearly 10 percent reported seriously considering suicide at least once last year." (emph. mine again)
Agreed. Blaming, even partially, "privacy laws" for this massacre is just plain dishonest.
n g/ )
(if anything, the problem with privacy laws is that they're facing extinction)
Snippets from a news report written shortly after the tragedy:
"A medical examination found that (...) [Cho's] insight and judgment are normal"
"Although Cho's writings were disturbing, mental health professionals say the student's behavior didn't reach the threshold that would have demanded more aggressive intervention."
"You can't do anything unless there's imminent risk that's somewhat foreseeable to take away someone's civil rights"
(source: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/student.counseli
Seems clear to me that no sharing of medical information with law enforcement would have helped here.
...[electricity] produced by environmentally friendly means (IE not oil, not dams which destroy vast eco systems, not wind farms which kill birds) ...nor, say, solar cells, because most are sealed and won't allow poor spiders to nest in them?!?Watch out, your computer screen is surrounded by something called reality. Common-sense may come in handy should you chose to visit it sometime.
Great stuff, hardly news though, it just seems like the same thing as some Swiss lab has been working on for years.i cleID=0002C2E1-17B2-1508-97B283414B7F0000
Publications: http://isic2.epfl.ch/page58678.html
Some press coverage: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa025&art
Products?: http://www.solarisnano.com/solarenergy.php
I routinely go to several newspapers and other news outlets websites, as I'm not comfortable with trusting a single source. Same thing for search engines, etc.
A Wikipedia clone that collects info on the same/similar topics, but differently? Great, by all means, please do!. I'm not totally convinced that Citizendium's accreditation/verification policies will result in generally better articles, but at the very least they'll be another (somewhat trustworthy) source.
This -- diversity, not accreditation etc -- does make the whole system more resilient to manipulation.
A photo that Nasa published over a year ago already unquestionably demonstrated the existence of water on Mars, see http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html
(And if you're still not convinced you can even try this at home...)
I suspect that most weavers can't be bothered checking their mirrors -- let alone their blind spots -- which makes them dangerous to everyone, especially motorcyclists such as myself.
I'd generally rate tailgating and weaving higher risk (to others) than speeding, and I wish the police were to act accordingly. While I cannot consider the "push-button zap-everyone" convenience of today's radar-guns a good thing, the fact some can now measure the gap between vehicles can IMHO only help in educating the worst tailgaters out there.
To whoever was trolling/FUDing about FreeBSD's "market share" etc... here's what Netcraft was actually saying in their most recent article about this OS last year:
"[FreeBSD] has a secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames (...) since July 2003."
Full text + stats
LOL... :-)
Ok, now I feel sorry for the 99+% non-French-speaking people out there, so I'll try and explain briefly why some of us can't help but laugh at all those TropCon names.
"con" used to be slang for vagina and has evolved to roughly mean "f*ing dumb".
How adequate sometimes...
What this much-publicised break offers is a faster-than-brute-force way to create 2 messages whose hash is identical, but not to construct a message with a predetermined hash (which is what you'd need to do if you wanted to alter the content of an existing PGP-signed document).
The best such attack against SHA1 known to date, Kelsey & Schneier (Nov 2004, cf. http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/304), requires 2**106 operations; way beyond our reach today.
Web repository of songs you can download without any DRM crap, you pay the artist whatever you think it's worth... Yeps, it's there!
Not quite as "ideal" as div_2n described, but we're getting closer:
http://www.magnatune.com/
Cool stuff, those guys rock.
iamcf13: "Me: http://www.cf13.com/ Slashdot: Not newsworthy. You decide."
Thank you for letting me choose! Your Highness is too good!
Seriously iamcf13/Bryan, I hope I won't offend you in saying that, but the solutions you present as new, effective and/or unobtrusive are IMHO anything but.
Examples:
- "Relayed email is not accepted.": decision based on untrusted headers, I presume. Even if these were reliable, this would reject messages processed by any corporate internal relay(s), while leaving spam (sent from spammers-controlled servers or cracked PCs) unaffected.
- "No anonymous senders"... Right. Hey, my name is Enl4rgeItNow! I swear!
- "no Bcc mail": like in 'no mailing-list' I guess.
etc etc...
That said, I don't think that MS' proposal is much better...
Neat. Reminds me of some lego-like logic blocks I've used in college in Switzerland. I wasn't even born when those were developped, but I had quite some (geek) fun with them later! :)
Cf. http://www.smaky.ch/en/lami/part3.php
No motion detectors and not many other cool sensors/actuators, but the whole set of logic functions from basic gates up to microcontrollers (added later) were provided.
These Logidules were too pricey for the general public, only a few schools/universities used them. Glad to see someone else coming with a somewhat similar idea, simpler but with some exiting extra goodies (wireless...)