Because x86 consumes too much power compared to ARM.
ARM cores have a very good performance to power consumption ratio, that's why they are used in PDAs, phones etc. But 250MHz is a bit slow indeed, and I wonder how much the 770's software benefits from the OMAP's DSP core...
Shouldn't that mean that it's a rather obvious solution to practitioners in the field, possibly the only truly reasonable solution? These teams all developed similar solutions independently, without the help of the patent holders, yes? The teams didn't even know about the patent beforehand?
You can say this about almost all s/w patents (perhaps with the exception of special data formats like MP3 or JPEG)
Show me a flash drive that survives a couple of million write cycles, and I might consider using a flash drive instead of a normal hard drive.
AFAIK, current flash chips have a guaranteed lifetime of >100K block write cycles, but filesystems for flash chips use "wear-leveling", that means if you rewrite a file 1 million times, then this doesn't mean that a single flash block is rewritten 1 million times, but perhaps 1000 blocks 1000 times each (or whatever),
Flash chips have a interface similar to RAM chips (address / data bits, chip select, write enable,...) If your filesystem is corrupt, you can still read the data contents byte-wise,
Have you considered the possibility that the people who want software patents make really good arguments
Seriously, is there one single true argument for s/w patents? In your little rant, you haven't shown such a argument (except for the fact that you'd like the industry being monopolized),
They are all intellectual property and the general arguments about them have direct relevance to all areas mentioned though you do get arguments that get the unique aspects confused sometimes.
Then, why don't they call this topic "intellectual property issues" or whatever. This BSA stuff simply has nothing to do with patents.
but I instinctively dislike _any_ program that wants to keep itself loaded in the tray. That includes Quicktime, Real Player, Open Office, Sun's recent JVMs, and anything which tries to stay there just to seem like it loads faster, as opposed to being _needed_ all the time.
Why is this modded flamebait? I feel your pain.
Simply uncheck the "add to system tray" option in the install routine. If there is no such option, but the application stays in the system tray nevertheless, use a registry editor to remove the shit from the autostart registry keys. If you have a totally braindead application that keeps adding itself to the autostart folder every time it runs (ActiveSync, for instance), you can even write-protect that part of the registry.
But seriously, doesn't filling a chamber with something sort of nullify the whole vacuum thing?
No. AFAIK, vacuum is defined as a gas pressure less than atmospheric pressure. There are several degrees of vacuum, low vacuum to ultra-high vacuum and whatever.
Don't allow software, algorithms, logic etc. to be patented in the first place. Make sure that existing patents can never be infringed by any software, algorithms, logic etc.
Says the algorithms patented on their site so presumably we should all be able to go look at this little marvel.
If they patented this algorithm, then it must be a bloody stupid and obvious one which already has lots of implementations and is in widespread use since more than 20 years.
Some of the larger ISP's will block entire countries subnets from ever reaching your firewall/router. You just have to get past the support desk to an engineer. I used to consult for a company that had all non-North American subnets filtered by their ISP.
It's even better when you disconnect from the Internet and only use your local network. Firewall logs and spam traffic will immediately go to zero in most cases.
You'd be surprised how many free, legal songs there are on the net. Oh, but you'd know this if you were doing stuff other than downloading RIAA Stuff, right?
Plus, you can even get gigabytes of "non-free" music for free, legally. Find some good internet radio stations and use something like Streamripper.
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Stable driver APIs anyone?
Oh wait ... stable driver APIs promote binary drivers ... EVIL EVIL EVIL
I use gtkpod
I think that a solution with cygwin or colinux would be more elegant in this case.
ARM cores have a very good performance to power consumption ratio, that's why they are used in PDAs, phones etc. But 250MHz is a bit slow indeed, and I wonder how much the 770's software benefits from the OMAP's DSP core...
Maybe you shoudl be able to patent, the hole source code of a program,
Why? The whole source code is already protected by copyright
You can say this about almost all s/w patents (perhaps with the exception of special data formats like MP3 or JPEG)
Apple is not the first one to use flash memory, and of course there are already filesystems that use wearleveling, JFFS2 for instance,
AFAIK, current flash chips have a guaranteed lifetime of >100K block write cycles, but filesystems for flash chips use "wear-leveling", that means if you rewrite a file 1 million times, then this doesn't mean that a single flash block is rewritten 1 million times, but perhaps 1000 blocks 1000 times each (or whatever),
Flash chips have a interface similar to RAM chips (address / data bits, chip select, write enable, ...) If your filesystem is corrupt, you can still read the data contents byte-wise,
The drives are also typically lighter and can read and write data faster than conventional drives.
AFAIK, flash memory reads data faster than a hard drive, but writing is slow as hell because of the long block erase cycles,
does samsung have a new technology for flash chips? :-D
or do they eventually use MRAMs?
Seriously, is there one single true argument for s/w patents? In your little rant, you haven't shown such a argument (except for the fact that you'd like the industry being monopolized),
Hey, this is Slashdot, so this should be the normal case...
They don't have to.
Then, why don't they call this topic "intellectual property issues" or whatever. This BSA stuff simply has nothing to do with patents.
It's kind of weird that all copyright/piracy/P2P articles show up in the "patents" section,
I'm developing PPC-based embedded systems, you insensitive clod!
Why is this modded flamebait? I feel your pain.
Simply uncheck the "add to system tray" option in the install routine. If there is no such option, but the application stays in the system tray nevertheless, use a registry editor to remove the shit from the autostart registry keys. If you have a totally braindead application that keeps adding itself to the autostart folder every time it runs (ActiveSync, for instance), you can even write-protect that part of the registry.
I meant it seriously - weed is cheaper in NL (simply because it's legal there) and if iPods are cheaper in DE, these would be perfect swapping items.
Apple stores in Germany will probably welcome this law ;-)
No. AFAIK, vacuum is defined as a gas pressure less than atmospheric pressure. There are several degrees of vacuum, low vacuum to ultra-high vacuum and whatever.
Outsourcing makes sense only if it is cheaper than doing the work inhouse.
No SW patents == no additional cost for IP departments, lawyers, lawsuits etc. == less cost for a project
less cost == more attractive for outsourcing.
Don't allow software, algorithms, logic etc. to be patented in the first place. Make sure that existing patents can never be infringed by any software, algorithms, logic etc.
If they patented this algorithm, then it must be a bloody stupid and obvious one which already has lots of implementations and is in widespread use since more than 20 years.
It's even better when you disconnect from the Internet and only use your local network. Firewall logs and spam traffic will immediately go to zero in most cases.
SCNR
Plus, you can even get gigabytes of "non-free" music for free, legally. Find some good internet radio stations and use something like Streamripper.