I live at Barcelona (Spain, Europe), and I can tell you that who wrote the article has misinterpreted the whole thing. I'll try to clarify it a bit:
1) A "canon" will be fined over blank media (optical and flash), but hard disks and volatile RAMs are excluded.
2) Still exist the "private copy right", when there is no meaning of making further money selling/dealing with downloaded data (in spanish "sin ánimo de lucro").
As corollarius, can be said that the "canon" has been aproved due to the fact of admiting two points:
a) The citizen is right to get and give (aka share) data from a P2P network, or share a phisical book or disc without having to pay to the author.
b) The "canon" is intended to compensate in some way the point (a).
Well, after my try of claryfing that the P2P it is *not* illegal in Spain (neither for downloading a movie nor for a disc, while not intended for making money of it), I'm against that canon, as it is indiscriminate, thus not fair.
There are many organizations here fighting for civil rights to revert the "canon" law/instruction.
Lynx OS is a great OS, widely used for industrial environments (3.1.0 and 4.0.0 are quite sound, providing hard real time response, promise!). Would be no a surprise that it could be running as the main OS for games (dual boot, with Linux for the enthusiasts), instead of the bare minimum OS used in the PS2.
For both MP3, JPEG, and MPEG4 the transformation used is not a Fourier transform (not even TDFT/FFT), but DCT/IDCT ([inverse]discrete cosine transform). The reason for using DCT instead of the FFT (equivalent to the time Discrete Fourier Transform) is because the DCT is computationally cheaper than the FFT (about one half, in the fundamentals is really a mutilated DFT/FFT), and it provides enough information for the band discarding approaches used in lossy data compression.
Wouldn't be a great ethical step? i.e., "open sourcing" a driver means you have no fear about using unlicensed code, etc. Is there really too much to hide? My bet is that is all about court-related panic (SCO vs IBM anyone?).
On paper the PSP is vastly more powerful. It has a 333MHz CPU with 32 MBs of main memory. The DS, in comparison, has an ARM 9 running at 67 MHz and an ARM 7 running at 33 MHz.
You're right, Linux, on the x86 context, since its first version required an i386 or better processor (i80386sx was the bare minimum). By the way, Minix 1.0 was able to be loaded on a 4.77MHz i8086/i8088 machine with 640KB of RAM.
Richard Stallman's discourse is fairly homogeneus, and logical from his own basis. I personally endorse his arguments, but it is legitimate to disagree totally or partially, of course. RMS and FSF, in my opinion, have a clear target: create a global knowledge source, without any kind of barriers, being the knowlegde generated from that basis universal and involving free access. That is a quite convincing argument.
By the way, that kind of knowledge lobby have strong "enemies", i.e., the counter lobby counterpart, the big copyright holders. see that movement as some kind of Damocles' Sword. These other lobbies will push to the limit to achieve/protect his "properties".
RMS is someone like David, and the industry, something like Goliat. Go ahead, Richard!
As rule of thumb, may be it is better for you to invert in general Computer Science formation (generic OS, compiler understanding, computer architecture, algorithmic complexity, et al), not just the "follow the last wave formation". Most people doesn't ever consider that it is dangerous to be extremely especialized. This applies to any platform-specific developing environment.
In the long way, you'll have to switch between many OS, compilers, languages, etc. Sometimes you have to be pragmatic, just to pay the bills, but take conscience about that the IT field is very variable in the surface, but sound in the fundamentals. This is why I recommend generic Computer Science formation when young people ask me for an advice (plus some other "last wave" preparation, just in case).
Yes, may be are not news at all, at least from the engineering and scientific point of view, as means that a brave new effort will be required for push computational new frontiers. Usually, the human being need to top with hard limits to surpass them with new and fresh ideas.
Come on, let's shine all, it is time for a computer science renaissance!
As european, I can not understand this Software-Patents-Pandora's-Box redux. Everyone knows that the pro-sw-patent lobby is a deep pocket restless beast, but the previous defeatment should be respected, IMO, as there are no new arguments for a view change.
I like to recall RMS arguments related to software patents, specialy the one related to the fact that to patent sofware is quite similar to patent concepts and ideas, not implementations, thus preventing innovation. Please note that "new ideas" are usually merely linear combinations of previous concepts. True innovations are *very* rare.
Nowdays having good DMA-based peripheals, the solution for solving the CPU usage at I/O operation necessarily it is not to use TWO CPUs, but a decent/efficient OS. May be that is a solution for a MS Windows box, as these OSes ate CPU without mercy. An easier way to get better I/O throughput or at least, under lower CPU usage is to get a modern Linux or BeOS with apropiate hardware.
You're right, but please note that the use of the word "quote"/"quotation" has implicit semantics about to be "small sections", and related to criticism -in all of its flavours-. The use of the words implies some context, provided by its etymology (aka built-in meaning).
On most world countries you are allowed to quote freely.
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WTF? Dind't Sony's size should mean higher responsability too?
When you use your **put your supercorporation name here** name to promote tons of bussines subdivisions, you also have to keep a quite high grade of responsability to take care about your "good name" (!)
Seems that we have different fonts, so the contradiction. No problem, with a bit of contrast we'll achieve the truth;-)
I'll show my cards, I hope you can do the same:
Classic PAL model first introduced the Dual Shock was the model 7502 circa 1998 (I own two of these, and I'm also european).
You reported nothing about your information fonts. Here is mine (I speak from memory, but I personally **saw** these boards):
Original Playstation main system RAM:
4x 60ns NEC 8-bit data path, 60ns fast fage DRAM chips (4 * 512Kbit * 8 bit == 2 megabytes)
Playstation model 7502:
1x 60ns Toshiba 32-bit data path 60ns fast page DRAM chip (1 * 512Kbit * 32bit == 2 megabytes)
Many years ago I spent tons of hours programming the PSX (I also did something with 9002 models, when teaming with friends), and I never could address more than the 2MB (without counting the MIPS address mirroring). For loading the software I used Action Replay parallel port hardware flashed with Caetla firmware, also the PSX Xplorer cart, and homebrewed burned CD's (one of my 7502 has a mod-chip).
I'm specially interested in high resolution Playstation motherboard snapshots, and also some information about the Playstation to PsOne system on chip integration engineering process. Any detailed information is welcome.
4MB models were never for the mainstream market, just game development machines ("blue playstation", with more memory for allowing debugging, also were able to play CD-R without mod-chip -therefore also used in game magazines for running CD-R beta previews-, etc).
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I live at Barcelona (Spain, Europe), and I can tell you that who wrote the article has misinterpreted the whole thing. I'll try to clarify it a bit:
1) A "canon" will be fined over blank media (optical and flash), but hard disks and volatile RAMs are excluded.
2) Still exist the "private copy right", when there is no meaning of making further money selling/dealing with downloaded data (in spanish "sin ánimo de lucro").
As corollarius, can be said that the "canon" has been aproved due to the fact of admiting two points:
a) The citizen is right to get and give (aka share) data from a P2P network, or share a phisical book or disc without having to pay to the author.
b) The "canon" is intended to compensate in some way the point (a).
Well, after my try of claryfing that the P2P it is *not* illegal in Spain (neither for downloading a movie nor for a disc, while not intended for making money of it), I'm against that canon, as it is indiscriminate, thus not fair.
There are many organizations here fighting for civil rights to revert the "canon" law/instruction.
Lynx OS is a great OS, widely used for industrial environments (3.1.0 and 4.0.0 are quite sound, providing hard real time response, promise!). Would be no a surprise that it could be running as the main OS for games (dual boot, with Linux for the enthusiasts), instead of the bare minimum OS used in the PS2.
For both MP3, JPEG, and MPEG4 the transformation used is not a Fourier transform (not even TDFT/FFT), but DCT/IDCT ([inverse]discrete cosine transform). The reason for using DCT instead of the FFT (equivalent to the time Discrete Fourier Transform) is because the DCT is computationally cheaper than the FFT (about one half, in the fundamentals is really a mutilated DFT/FFT), and it provides enough information for the band discarding approaches used in lossy data compression.
Wouldn't be a great ethical step? i.e., "open sourcing" a driver means you have no fear about using unlicensed code, etc. Is there really too much to hide? My bet is that is all about court-related panic (SCO vs IBM anyone?).
On paper the PSP is vastly more powerful. It has a 333MHz CPU with 32 MBs of main memory. The DS, in comparison, has an ARM 9 running at 67 MHz and an ARM 7 running at 33 MHz.
That's incorrect: the PSP has two R4000-like MIPS processors (PLL clock genenator from 1 to 333MHz). Despite opinions about games, the PSP is ahead in every single technical aspect: computational power, graphic capabilites, etc.
You're right, Linux, on the x86 context, since its first version required an i386 or better processor (i80386sx was the bare minimum). By the way, Minix 1.0 was able to be loaded on a 4.77MHz i8086/i8088 machine with 640KB of RAM.
Short answer: RMS *is* relevant.
Long answer:
Richard Stallman's discourse is fairly homogeneus, and logical from his own basis. I personally endorse his arguments, but it is legitimate to disagree totally or partially, of course. RMS and FSF, in my opinion, have a clear target: create a global knowledge source, without any kind of barriers, being the knowlegde generated from that basis universal and involving free access. That is a quite convincing argument.
By the way, that kind of knowledge lobby have strong "enemies", i.e., the counter lobby counterpart, the big copyright holders. see that movement as some kind of Damocles' Sword. These other lobbies will push to the limit to achieve/protect his "properties".
RMS is someone like David, and the industry, something like Goliat. Go ahead, Richard!
As rule of thumb, may be it is better for you to invert in general Computer Science formation (generic OS, compiler understanding, computer architecture, algorithmic complexity, et al), not just the "follow the last wave formation". Most people doesn't ever consider that it is dangerous to be extremely especialized. This applies to any platform-specific developing environment.
In the long way, you'll have to switch between many OS, compilers, languages, etc. Sometimes you have to be pragmatic, just to pay the bills, but take conscience about that the IT field is very variable in the surface, but sound in the fundamentals. This is why I recommend generic Computer Science formation when young people ask me for an advice (plus some other "last wave" preparation, just in case).
Yes, may be are not news at all, at least from the engineering and scientific point of view, as means that a brave new effort will be required for push computational new frontiers. Usually, the human being need to top with hard limits to surpass them with new and fresh ideas.
Come on, let's shine all, it is time for a computer science renaissance!
As european, I can not understand this Software-Patents-Pandora's-Box redux. Everyone knows that the pro-sw-patent lobby is a deep pocket restless beast, but the previous defeatment should be respected, IMO, as there are no new arguments for a view change.
I like to recall RMS arguments related to software patents, specialy the one related to the fact that to patent sofware is quite similar to patent concepts and ideas, not implementations, thus preventing innovation. Please note that "new ideas" are usually merely linear combinations of previous concepts. True innovations are *very* rare.
Linus, as Linux kernel manager, can do whatever he think it could be fair. The community, of course, also freely, take a look to the GNU/HURD option.
The freedom is also the possibility of choice. Get it, Linus.
Nowdays having good DMA-based peripheals, the solution for solving the CPU usage at I/O operation necessarily it is not to use TWO CPUs, but a decent/efficient OS. May be that is a solution for a MS Windows box, as these OSes ate CPU without mercy. An easier way to get better I/O throughput or at least, under lower CPU usage is to get a modern Linux or BeOS with apropiate hardware.
I'm sorry too, I adverted that it was a typo after posting. Please, accept my excuses, I do not enjoy pointing the obvious.
Well, just one year of waiting, having the emulator, it is no such a huge amount of time, unless you've caught by GFLOP obsession ;-)
P.S. Are you the barrapunto.com's McPolu? Nice to see you here.
I prefer SPE since Sony calls their PS1/PS2 sound chip the SPE
As far as I know, Sony call their PS1/PS2 sound chips as SPU and SPU2.
Well, as a propositional logic fan (mainly due to Bertrand Russell, et al), I have to agree with your argumentation ;-)
You're right, but please note that the use of the word "quote"/"quotation" has implicit semantics about to be "small sections", and related to criticism -in all of its flavours-. The use of the words implies some context, provided by its etymology (aka built-in meaning).
Wrong.
On most world countries you are allowed to quote freely.
WTF? Dind't Sony's size should mean higher responsability too?
When you use your **put your supercorporation name here** name to promote tons of bussines subdivisions, you also have to keep a quite high grade of responsability to take care about your "good name" (!)
Seems that we have different fonts, so the contradiction. No problem, with a bit of contrast we'll achieve the truth ;-)
I'll show my cards, I hope you can do the same:
Classic PAL model first introduced the Dual Shock was the model 7502 circa 1998 (I own two of these, and I'm also european).
You reported nothing about your information fonts. Here is mine (I speak from memory, but I personally **saw** these boards):
Original Playstation main system RAM:
4x 60ns NEC 8-bit data path, 60ns fast fage DRAM chips (4 * 512Kbit * 8 bit == 2 megabytes)
Playstation model 7502:
1x 60ns Toshiba 32-bit data path 60ns fast page DRAM chip (1 * 512Kbit * 32bit == 2 megabytes)
Many years ago I spent tons of hours programming the PSX (I also did something with 9002 models, when teaming with friends), and I never could address more than the 2MB (without counting the MIPS address mirroring). For loading the software I used Action Replay parallel port hardware flashed with Caetla firmware, also the PSX Xplorer cart, and homebrewed burned CD's (one of my 7502 has a mod-chip).
I'm specially interested in high resolution Playstation motherboard snapshots, and also some information about the Playstation to PsOne system on chip integration engineering process. Any detailed information is welcome.
Wrong.
4MB models were never for the mainstream market, just game development machines ("blue playstation", with more memory for allowing debugging, also were able to play CD-R without mod-chip -therefore also used in game magazines for running CD-R beta previews-, etc).
Sony Playstation:
R3051 @33MHz w/ 2MB RAM (DRAM, not SDRAM)
GPU w/ 1MB VRAM
SPU w/ 512KB RAM
Yes, "release", welcome to the 21th century and the Euphemism Revival (tm).
But you do not have ramdom access to your own data (needless to say about reliability).