I recognize that you can't just put more memory slots on a BUS, but I don't see why the x86-64 architecture didn't facilitate fully banking the memory out into 4 parallel busses of 4 slots each.
Pin count. Opteron already has 940 pins, which is getting pretty ridiculous in terms of physical size, number of tiny fragile pins, reliability, power consumption to drive those pins at high speed, and chip area for the massive output driver transistors. Adding two more memory buses would require around 300 more pins at which point it gets absurd.
Given the high cost of adding buses, and that most users don't need them, AMD made the right choice IMHO.
There's also the curious case that typefaces can't be copyrighted in the US.
Whilst the typeface itself cannot be copyrighted, an original and creative set of detailed geometric instructions for how to draw the typeface can be. (At least according to my readings.) That inlcudes a Postscript program to draw a character, a list of line segments and splines, a bitmap, etc.
It seems that US currency has gone through many different changes over the years, and yet it's all still legal tender, resulting in a confusing mish-mash of coins and bills and whatnot. Is there any reason why all this currency is kept as legal tender?
It isn't a problem. The main coins maintain the same size and weight for many decades, having only minor cosmetic changes to the faces, such as the change from the wheat penny to the Lincoln Memorial penny, or the one-year-only 1976 bicentennial quarter. Old paper notes are destroyed the next time they make it to a bank so they leave circulation very rapidly. 99.999% of the money in daily use is standardized to the point where machines can accept it fine (well, as well as machines can ever accept paper and coins). Having a bunch of nanny bureaucrats run a massive switch-over program would be an utter waste.
The $2 bill and Kennedy half dollars do occassionally confuse people, and kids get a kick out of getting them as a present. I suspect that's why the public wants them still: pure giggle factor. And the Treasury likes that because people tend to hold onto them and not spend them, which amounts to a free loan to the government.
There are a bunch of oddball coins made with precious metals, like the Eisenhower silver dollar, the American Eagle platinum coins, and a variety of older coins. While they may be legal tender, only fools try to trade them at face value.
Bingo! Never say "stay here until the cops arrive" unless you really mean to make an arrest.
Also, I suspect the clerk used one of those marking pens that shows a different color for fake money. That's known as defacing currency and is also a crime. So the store people managed to offend the Secret Service in addition to corporate headquarters and the local cops. Whoops.
In fact, it *is* criminal--it's called extortion. Have the charity talk to their lawyers.
Nope. A necessary element of extortion is the threat of an unlawful action. Since blacklisting is perfectly legal, requiring a fee to be delisted is legal too. It isn't even blackmail, because a necessary element of blackmail is the threat to disclose information that is not generally known, and the blacklist has already been published by that point.
It might be slander or libel if the blacklister is careless and says something like "this is a list of proven, confirmed spammers" but few blacklisters are that idiotic (these days, after several lawsuits). What they say is "We're trying to reduce spam. Here are some IP addresses. Have fun." Good luck convincing a court that that breaks the law.
The point is it doesn't have to be a spam friendly ISP. All it takes is some server at the colo getting cracked and used for spam. Or some idiot setting up an open relay at the colo because they don't know what they are doing.
In which case a reasonable blacklist just lists that server temporarily and sends a friendly note to the ISP.
So along comes MAPS and jumps on it with gusto, blotting out the whole range of ips including hundreds of companies who haven't done a thing because of a the stupidity of a single person.
The SMTP death penalty for an entire ISP is reserved for those who deliberately tolerate spammers in large volume over a long period of time.
Which impacts business and costs money. It can also be extremely damaging to reputation for people trying to get customer service via email.
Everybody who is serious about email has multiple DNS and SMTP servers at multiple ISPs. Folks who are really serious aggressively monitor the status of outgoing email, constantly check blacklists, and have monitors across the Internet constantly verifying connectivity to their important servers.
Consequently, you have a bunch of people at those companies running around and trying to figure why the hell their email no longer works.
If they are utterly incompetent. People who know what they're doing just tweak the remaining DNS servers to point at the remaining mail hubs. Because they had the foresight to set the DNS refresh to a reasonably low value, the changes will propagate quickly and email will start working again within a few minutes.
The code should NOT allow you to bid against yourself.
But you are not. eBay is a proxy bidding system. You give them a maximum bid order, and they bid up to it in increments. It's just like sending a servant to an auction house.
The part that you're not understanding is this: eBay lets you cancel an auction you may have just won! The only catch is that you have to simultaneously enter a new, higher maximum bid as if you were entering the auction for the first time. That's entirely fair, as it lets you have second thoughts about your maximum bid without the person in second place being screwed by the bid increment they were expecting. Maybe this other comment explains it better.
"[I]nteroperable devices" may use proprietary security systems to lock out unauthorized interoperability, but a technology developed solely for this functional purpose is not copyrightable.
This ruling just cancelled the copyright of the Linux kernel binaries, which are exclusively functional.
Either solely functional data is copyrightable, or the GPL is worthless. You cannot have it both ways. Congress made this absolutely clear when they explicitly extended copyright to software. (There having been several court decisions that all software was public domain.) Given that, the applicability of the DMCA is crystal clear.
Ya gotta love/.'s hysterical tabloid title. This ain't abuse of the DMCA, folks. Lexmark is using it exactly as intended.
Fortunately, quantum cryptography seems to be able to implement a convenient one time pad at a decent data rate.
Not for fiber optic communication, it doesn't. Quantum "cryptography" over a long-haul link requires (1) a conventional message authentication code (MAC) to protect against a man-in-the-middle attack, or (2) transmitting the photons on a straight-line path through air so that a man-in-the-middle attack can be detected by measuring time-of-flight. Otherwise an attacker can simply cut the fiber, attach a quantum "cryptography" machine to each end, transparently forward data from each end to the other, and use a radio link to make up for the lost time. Radio travels at the speed of light, whereas signals on a fiber travel at about 0.67c. Every meter of travel through air gives you back 1.1 nanoseconds taken away by the transparent proxy algorithms.
#1 reduces its strength to that of conventional cryptography. #2 is impractical because long air paths require either expensive tunnels or are affected by weather.
Hollow-core fiber might help, although it still has a delay due to the evanescent field sticking out into solid matter, isn't available commercially in 500 km spools, and would be unholy expensive to deploy for every comm link you wanted to protect.
Quantum "cryptography" won't work directly over radio because you can't detect individual radio photons. (They're swamped by thermal noise. For the one meter band, you'd have to cool the transmitter, receiver, and propagating medium to around one millikelvin just to be able to detect the photons.)
I'm sorry to say it, but quantum "cryptography" is just snake oil. Worse, it protects the least-vulnerable part of the system. Software flaws, LAN sniffing, removable media, data radiating from Ethernet cables, adulterous employees who can be blackmailed, etc. are much bigger holes. A hypothetical enemy who can cryptanalyze every cipher you can afford to deploy is not the first thing you should worry about.
Suffice to say that the headshrinkers I most respect consider it useful for finding appropriate rituals to appease the Insurance Gods, nothing more.
The DSM was created to bring some coherence to the psych literature. It is informative to have 50,000 narrative case studies, each with its own terminology, but not particularly practical. Which is relevant to insurance because they don't care about you at all, they just want some rationality for their overall population of customers. They know full well that not a single one of their customers has an exact, perfect DSM diagnosis.
I could use a 1TB disk where I could random access it for read and writes... but just write once?
With appropriate software, write once can give you a versioning file system with a tamper-proof history.
Also: think video. 6000x4500 pixels at 30 fps, using 2:1 lossless compression, is 1215 MB/sec. This technology would be perfect for digital movie production.
How is this Apple's fault, when the OS has natively supported two button mice for the better part of a decade?
Imagine what would happen if the GameCube came with a one-button controller. Game developers would have the choice of either designing crappy games with crippled UIs, or infuriating serious customers.
"Apple: the Atari 2600 of desktop computing."
Or howzabout "Apple: when you lack the coordination to play with serious toys."
Additionally, your Photoshop argument falls down because 1.) control-click has worked for right-click functionality for years, meaning that Adobe could have added full contextual menu capability at any time.
There's something called the "home row". Take a keyboarding class.
Also, Maya is not used by any statistically significant portion of the Mac's userbase,...
Likewise, a statistically-significant portion of the heavy-duty app market will not use Macs. A portion that, not coincidentally, uses computers to make the big bucks and has money to burn on hardware.
Of course, Apple hardware is crippled by design by not having error-correcting data buses, so serious users would stay away even with a thousand-button mouse.
Person One was paying less than he should have for insurance, and helping to drive up the prices for the other people with that insurance. No sympathy.
Don't be an idiot. "Heart drugs" are widely used for lifestyle purposes: calcium channel blockers to reduce the number of migraine attacks, and beta blockers to reduce adrenaline-related symptoms in performance artists. An insurance company who violated their contracts simply on the basis of prescriptions would find their bones picked clean by lawyers.
Sorry. I tried to dig up the details earlier but gave up. Aha! A web search for "AT&T wireless CRM" turns up this article in CIO magazine that says it was a horribly botched upgrade of their CRM system (viciously customized Siebel) combined with a Federal deadline for number portability. They had trouble from December 2003 through February 2004, lost many thousands of customers, were for a time unable to sign up new customers, were completely offline for a whole week, and lost $100M. HTH.
I think I'm getting better service from Cingular over AT&T Wireless.
Bad example. Not only did AT&T Wireless slowly flush themselves down the toilet for several years, they went and turned off their main business software before the replacement was debugged. Whoops.
How does having three pixels (or three times as much data/pixel or whatever) decrease resolution?
Most image sensors are not directly color-sensitive. To detect color, you have to put light-absorbing filters in front of the pixels. If you have three colors, that means that each pixel is throwing away about two-thirds of the available light (the colors that are filtered out).
That does terrible things to the signal to noise ratio. Assuming the noise is limited by random variations in the number of photons that arrive (called shot noise), one-third the light means a 73% higher noise-to-signal ratio. That is bad for resolving fine detail.
Even worse, setting the lens for sharp focus means that each little spot of the scene is only being looked at by a pixel of one color. So a fine white line in the scene will show up as a zig-zag of brightly colored pixels, which is called aliasing. You can either (1) squint and pretend the image is correct (and get a rainbow Moire effect if there is a fine, repetitive structure in the scene), (2) try to unravel it with software (less obnoxious rainbow Moire), or (3) install an anti-aliasing filter, which is a piece of foggy glass that fuzzes out the light enough to prevent aliasing (which is awful for resolving power).
Incidentally, stuff like this is why most digital cameras are much crappier than their image sensor specs would suggest, and why photos of brightly-lit test charts don't tell you how pretty real pictures will look.
It is also why color technical cameras use wideband image sensors, and have a set of colored filters that apply to the whole image at once. It gives better resolution, and can pick any color you want, even narrow spectral ranges a few nanometers wide. The only catch is that they're crap for moving targets, since it takes so long to cycle through the filters.
And what about the thousands of public school scattered across America that are forced to pay only with Purchase Orders?
That's their choice.
Besides, any decent sized company can wait 90 days without payment and it won't bother them.
Time value of money: using the long term return of the stock market as a baseline, not getting paid for 90 days is a 2.8% loss, and that doesn't count the costs of accounting and collection. That's a huge hit in the low-margin commodity business, which is Newegg.com's market.
The 'X' is the bent metal where the cap is closed and welded.
The cans are stamped out of a single seamless piece of aluminum, like the base of a beer can. Aluminum electrolytic capacitors are filled with water, and therefore explode when they overheat. The 'X' weakens the can, so it ruptures at a lower, less dangerous, pressure. Their plastic end caps also often have weak spots deliberately designed in.
Newegg... [is] unsuitable for my company and many other business because of their unwillingness to accept a Purchase Order in any manner.
With a lot of organizations, "Net 30" means "we'll probably pay within 90 days". I don't blame NewEgg for not wasting their time and money playing that game. You want to borrow money, you go to a bank.
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Given the high cost of adding buses, and that most users don't need them, AMD made the right choice IMHO.
The $2 bill and Kennedy half dollars do occassionally confuse people, and kids get a kick out of getting them as a present. I suspect that's why the public wants them still: pure giggle factor. And the Treasury likes that because people tend to hold onto them and not spend them, which amounts to a free loan to the government.
There are a bunch of oddball coins made with precious metals, like the Eisenhower silver dollar, the American Eagle platinum coins, and a variety of older coins. While they may be legal tender, only fools try to trade them at face value.
Also, I suspect the clerk used one of those marking pens that shows a different color for fake money. That's known as defacing currency and is also a crime. So the store people managed to offend the Secret Service in addition to corporate headquarters and the local cops. Whoops.
It might be slander or libel if the blacklister is careless and says something like "this is a list of proven, confirmed spammers" but few blacklisters are that idiotic (these days, after several lawsuits). What they say is "We're trying to reduce spam. Here are some IP addresses. Have fun." Good luck convincing a court that that breaks the law.
The part that you're not understanding is this: eBay lets you cancel an auction you may have just won! The only catch is that you have to simultaneously enter a new, higher maximum bid as if you were entering the auction for the first time. That's entirely fair, as it lets you have second thoughts about your maximum bid without the person in second place being screwed by the bid increment they were expecting. Maybe this other comment explains it better.
Either solely functional data is copyrightable, or the GPL is worthless. You cannot have it both ways. Congress made this absolutely clear when they explicitly extended copyright to software. (There having been several court decisions that all software was public domain.) Given that, the applicability of the DMCA is crystal clear.
Ya gotta love /.'s hysterical tabloid title. This ain't abuse of the DMCA, folks. Lexmark is using it exactly as intended.
#1 reduces its strength to that of conventional cryptography. #2 is impractical because long air paths require either expensive tunnels or are affected by weather.
Hollow-core fiber might help, although it still has a delay due to the evanescent field sticking out into solid matter, isn't available commercially in 500 km spools, and would be unholy expensive to deploy for every comm link you wanted to protect.
Quantum "cryptography" won't work directly over radio because you can't detect individual radio photons. (They're swamped by thermal noise. For the one meter band, you'd have to cool the transmitter, receiver, and propagating medium to around one millikelvin just to be able to detect the photons.)
I'm sorry to say it, but quantum "cryptography" is just snake oil. Worse, it protects the least-vulnerable part of the system. Software flaws, LAN sniffing, removable media, data radiating from Ethernet cables, adulterous employees who can be blackmailed, etc. are much bigger holes. A hypothetical enemy who can cryptanalyze every cipher you can afford to deploy is not the first thing you should worry about.
Also: think video. 6000x4500 pixels at 30 fps, using 2:1 lossless compression, is 1215 MB/sec. This technology would be perfect for digital movie production.
"Apple: the Atari 2600 of desktop computing."
Or howzabout "Apple: when you lack the coordination to play with serious toys."
There's something called the "home row". Take a keyboarding class. Likewise, a statistically-significant portion of the heavy-duty app market will not use Macs. A portion that, not coincidentally, uses computers to make the big bucks and has money to burn on hardware.Of course, Apple hardware is crippled by design by not having error-correcting data buses, so serious users would stay away even with a thousand-button mouse.
Fool! You fell for a Jedi mind trick!
Wrong. Objective facts cannot be copyrighted, but creative data like fair value price lists can.
Whine, whine, whine.
Sorry. I tried to dig up the details earlier but gave up. Aha! A web search for "AT&T wireless CRM" turns up this article in CIO magazine that says it was a horribly botched upgrade of their CRM system (viciously customized Siebel) combined with a Federal deadline for number portability. They had trouble from December 2003 through February 2004, lost many thousands of customers, were for a time unable to sign up new customers, were completely offline for a whole week, and lost $100M. HTH.
That does terrible things to the signal to noise ratio. Assuming the noise is limited by random variations in the number of photons that arrive (called shot noise), one-third the light means a 73% higher noise-to-signal ratio. That is bad for resolving fine detail.
Even worse, setting the lens for sharp focus means that each little spot of the scene is only being looked at by a pixel of one color. So a fine white line in the scene will show up as a zig-zag of brightly colored pixels, which is called aliasing. You can either (1) squint and pretend the image is correct (and get a rainbow Moire effect if there is a fine, repetitive structure in the scene), (2) try to unravel it with software (less obnoxious rainbow Moire), or (3) install an anti-aliasing filter, which is a piece of foggy glass that fuzzes out the light enough to prevent aliasing (which is awful for resolving power).
Incidentally, stuff like this is why most digital cameras are much crappier than their image sensor specs would suggest, and why photos of brightly-lit test charts don't tell you how pretty real pictures will look.
It is also why color technical cameras use wideband image sensors, and have a set of colored filters that apply to the whole image at once. It gives better resolution, and can pick any color you want, even narrow spectral ranges a few nanometers wide. The only catch is that they're crap for moving targets, since it takes so long to cycle through the filters.