that (especially those from the 60's) despise corporations, and somehow fail to realize corporations provide us with jobs, health coverage, a place in which to feel pride, et cetera.
Funny, I'm not from the 60's but I disagree with everything you listed - corporations don't provide us with jobs - we provide them skills and abilities. Corporations have taken health care hostage as a method of keeping people from seeking the best paying job, if you have a pre-existing condition and you switch jobs, don't expect the new insurance to cover you for at least a year. Finally, any sense of pride people feel in a corporate employer is totally misplaced - they should feel sense of pride in their accomplishments at work and elsewhere. But pride in their employer is completely misplaced because you can be sure that no large corporation feels anything remotely reciprocal towards its employees - no matter how critical they are, all are just one spreadsheet away from being terminated.
Amen! This is exactly what I've been thinking along. If these people want privacy - they need to make sure we all get privacy. Privacy can not be allowed to become a perq of the privileged and elite.
The other really important thing that Compaq sold to Intel was the Alpha cpu design group. There has been soo much bitching in comp.arch about the whole situation (by some of the Alpha engineers) that it was hard to miss. Alpha is dead at Compaq and Samsung has totally backed away from doing anything with Alpha either, despite their near complete licensing of the technology for second source purposes.
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11i is actually a major upgrade 'under the covers' - HP has significantly increased R&D spending on HPUX big time over the last couple of years. You can expect 11.20 to be a big improvement in much more obvious ways than 11i (aka 11.11) is.
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FWIW, IA64 has been referred to as PA-RISC 3.0, in good part because the ISA was primarily designed by the same people who did PA-RISC.
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You are right that you did mention it, but I disagree with the "retreating upstream" part. Sparc is in some very cheap boxes and IA64 is just as upstream, if not more so, than any recent PA-RISC, Alpha or Power cpu.
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You gotta compare apples to apples - You won't be seeing IA64 mobos for even $500 for at least a couple of years, if ever (a lot of things can change in a couple of years). When the CPU is at least 3 grand, you can bet the infrastructure is going to be similary expensive.
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Sounds like you haven't heard about a little chip called the Power4
Plus Sun sure hasn't rolled over either, Sparc performance has always been subpar, but they make up for it with a good OS (Solaris) and tons of applications.
They don't care about lo-fi grainy analog copying. This stuff is about preventing both exact digital copies and hi-fi analog copies like you could theoretically make if you had a recorder for the high-resolution analog CrCbY and RGB signals that you get out of progressive DVD players and HDTV reciver boxes today.
Sun making Star Office GPL is at least as much a strategic move against microsoft as it is a contribution to OSS. They did it when they were flush with cash and a high share price. I doubt they would do the same today.
It is a lot like SAP making their relational database, SAPDB, OSS. Hardly anyone buys SAPDB without SAP R/3 on top of it. But, Oracle is trying to move into the marketspace in which SAP R/3 mostly dominates. By freeing SAPDB, SAP lost very little revenue, but now Oracle has to compete with a product that, while not quite as good as Oracle's database, is definitely a high-quality, industrial strength, fully-scalable, buzzword, buzzword, buzzword system.
No, the spec benchmarks are whole-system benchmarks. They are most decidedly not just "a bit of maths." All official spec numbers are reported as being run on specific systems, not just simple cpus. Go to http://www.spec.org/ to read up on the spec cpu benchmarks.
No benchmark is perfect, but the spec benchmarks come the closest to an general workload that can be considered comparable across systems.
Not in Canada it isn't. It is illegal to sell DirecTV subscriptions in Canada, consequently (and the Canadian courts have already ruled on this) hacking DirecTV is legal - it isn't quite so cut and dried but close enough. The guys doing the development on this project are Canadian.
If MS is smart, they've got a couple of holes in GPL'd software in their back pocket. They will leak them in a way that can't be traced back to them, and voila!, proof that GPL is bah,baah,baaad just in time to make the headlines.
On the topic of subwoofers - check out these babies by SVS - available only via the net:
http://www.svsubwoofers.com/
They make them as big as water-heaters, but they are about a third the price of equivalently performming commercial subs. I've got one and it shakes the entire house when called upon - pictures fall off the walls, stuff will 'walk' off the shelves, it is amazing. Especially for watching movies.
Not only that, response is flat - none of that boomy rice-boy stuff most people think of as bass, svs produces bass so pure and clean that you normally don't even notice that it is there - everything just sounds 'fuller' and more complete.
Here are some reviews by about 75 other owners in case you aren't quite willing to take the word of one random dude on slashdot:
http://audioreview.com/reviews/subwoofer/index_S .s html
I've had a slightly different take on this for quite a while. I believe that federal laws that make it illegal to descramble satellite or other signals like that of cell phone traffic that pass through my property are bogus. The information is there, it is on my property, I didn't ask for it to be there, I should be able to do what I want with it.
Obviously the US government does not agree with me on that issue. But, at least they are being consistent here. The heat and other non-obvious emissions from my property are not intended for law enforcement or any one else to be able to use, even if they pass through public property.
So, as long as it isn't legal to watch pirated satellite tv I think it is proportional that the cops can't watch us in our own homes.
NASA loves to 'commercialize' their developments. In this way, they are probably the highest profile form of corporate welfare there is. NASA does the R&D and then hands over the exclusive rights for a pittance to some commercial outfit to turn into a product.
It may be apocryphal, but I think Beowulf just barely missed being locked-up by this kind of old-school thinking. The saving grace was that most of the original Beowulf work had been done by a sub-contractor and, unlike most of the rest of the industry, NASA had not required that the sub to turn over IP rights to the client (NASA) in their contract. So once Beowulf got big, the NASA administration came around wanting to lock it up and give it to one vendor, but they were foiled by their own contract, and the contractors were able to free the source for the work they had done.
Thus leaving me free to say, "Imagine that AI running on a Beowulf cluster!"
And maybe Cornell is filtering spam and you don't know it. Lots of ISPs do that without telling their clients, it isn't a far stretch for campus IT departments to do the same.
I worked for a company that sold super-computers running a mach-based OS. That company has since been purchased by HP and the mach-os was dumped as quickly as possible.
As I recall, there were two really major problems with mach:
1) Buggy as all get out
2) Enormous message-passing latencies. System calls that take a couple of microseconds under HPUX took 100s of microseconds under mach on the same hardware.
Shows what you know about muslim countries. I married into a liberal muslim family and even they still aren't big on the respecting women thing (for example, they've got a lot of daughters, but only because they thought they had to have a son, so they kept having kids until a son was born, then they stopped). The more radical muslims are far, far worse.
Ever hear about honor killings? This kind of murder is almost sanctioned by many islamic governments (although the Quran itself is not big on the idea at all). Here's a link to the first hit in Google on "honor killings:"
The short and ugly reason behind the way women are treated (forced to wear full-body coverings, not allowed to speak, etc) is that Islam considers men to be uncontrollable sexual animals. If they even get so much as a hint of a woman's sexuality, then they will not be able to stop themselves from assaulting her. Because of this attitude - this conditioning, women, especially unaccompanied women, are often in far more danger out in public in muslim countries than they would be in similar circumstances in a western country.
Perhaps it makes the pissed off people question the point of the CCTV in first place. After all, if the cameras weren't there they wouldn't have to worry about fulfilling DPA for CCTV footage...
Check out Rubberhose. It is a cryptographic filesystem for linux and almost the BSD*'s that provides plausible deniability. I.e. even if they grab your computer and figure out that you are running rubberhose to hide stuff, you can throw them a bone by just decrypting your financial records, or your diary, or some other similarly benign piece of information and then no one can prove that there are any other items still encrypted on the disk.
This is exactly as the RIAA member companies planned. It has been pretty clear to both internet gurus and music insiders that the big record labels only make their money because they have a stranglehold on the distribution of the vast majority of music. All internet music delivery systems threaten the big record labels' big profits, not to mention their entire existence.
So, as mp3.com claimed during their trial, the record companies have been using the monopoly power granted by US copyright law, to stifle competition. Ultimately, real change won't happen until a new generation of executives comes to power in the big media corporations, people who aren't knee-jerk afraid of new distribution methods. That's probably around 10 years away, which, as a shareholder of mp3.com, really bums me out.
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Funny, I'm not from the 60's but I disagree with everything you listed - corporations don't provide us with jobs - we provide them skills and abilities. Corporations have taken health care hostage as a method of keeping people from seeking the best paying job, if you have a pre-existing condition and you switch jobs, don't expect the new insurance to cover you for at least a year. Finally, any sense of pride people feel in a corporate employer is totally misplaced - they should feel sense of pride in their accomplishments at work and elsewhere. But pride in their employer is completely misplaced because you can be sure that no large corporation feels anything remotely reciprocal towards its employees - no matter how critical they are, all are just one spreadsheet away from being terminated.
Amen! This is exactly what I've been thinking along. If these people want privacy - they need to make sure we all get privacy. Privacy can not be allowed to become a perq of the privileged and elite.
The other really important thing that Compaq sold to Intel was the Alpha cpu design group. There has been soo much bitching in comp.arch about the whole situation (by some of the Alpha engineers) that it was hard to miss. Alpha is dead at Compaq and Samsung has totally backed away from doing anything with Alpha either, despite their near complete licensing of the technology for second source purposes.
11i is actually a major upgrade 'under the covers' - HP has significantly increased R&D spending on HPUX big time over the last couple of years. You can expect 11.20 to be a big improvement in much more obvious ways than 11i (aka 11.11) is.
FWIW, IA64 has been referred to as PA-RISC 3.0, in good part because the ISA was primarily designed by the same people who did PA-RISC.
You are right that you did mention it, but I disagree with the "retreating upstream" part. Sparc is in some very cheap boxes and IA64 is just as upstream, if not more so, than any recent PA-RISC, Alpha or Power cpu.
You gotta compare apples to apples - You won't be seeing IA64 mobos for even $500 for at least a couple of years, if ever (a lot of things can change in a couple of years). When the CPU is at least 3 grand, you can bet the infrastructure is going to be similary expensive.
Plus Sun sure hasn't rolled over either, Sparc performance has always been subpar, but they make up for it with a good OS (Solaris) and tons of applications.
Has anyone done a comparison between 150kbps or 75kbps DTS versus Ogg on 5.1 encoded material?
On the net we are *all* journalists. If you post it, you've published it. Here's the press release that Jacobs refers you to:
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http://usaondca.com/press/html/2001_07_17_sklya
Jacobs and the two assistant us attorneys should be ashamed to be made into such tools of blatantly anti-american corporate machinations.
They don't care about lo-fi grainy analog copying. This stuff is about preventing both exact digital copies and hi-fi analog copies like you could theoretically make if you had a recorder for the high-resolution analog CrCbY and RGB signals that you get out of progressive DVD players and HDTV reciver boxes today.
Sun making Star Office GPL is at least as much a strategic move against microsoft as it is a contribution to OSS. They did it when they were flush with cash and a high share price. I doubt they would do the same today.
It is a lot like SAP making their relational database, SAPDB, OSS. Hardly anyone buys SAPDB without SAP R/3 on top of it. But, Oracle is trying to move into the marketspace in which SAP R/3 mostly dominates. By freeing SAPDB, SAP lost very little revenue, but now Oracle has to compete with a product that, while not quite as good as Oracle's database, is definitely a high-quality, industrial strength, fully-scalable, buzzword, buzzword, buzzword system.
No, the spec benchmarks are whole-system benchmarks. They are most decidedly not just "a bit of maths." All official spec numbers are reported as being run on specific systems, not just simple cpus. Go to http://www.spec.org/ to read up on the spec cpu benchmarks.
No benchmark is perfect, but the spec benchmarks come the closest to an general workload that can be considered comparable across systems.
Not in Canada it isn't. It is illegal to sell DirecTV subscriptions in Canada, consequently (and the Canadian courts have already ruled on this) hacking DirecTV is legal - it isn't quite so cut and dried but close enough. The guys doing the development on this project are Canadian.
If MS is smart, they've got a couple of holes in GPL'd software in their back pocket. They will leak them in a way that can't be traced back to them, and voila!, proof that GPL is bah,baah,baaad just in time to make the headlines.
Or proof that I'm a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
On the topic of subwoofers - check out these babies by SVS - available only via the net:
S .s html
http://www.svsubwoofers.com/
They make them as big as water-heaters, but they are about a third the price of equivalently performming commercial subs. I've got one and it shakes the entire house when called upon - pictures fall off the walls, stuff will 'walk' off the shelves, it is amazing. Especially for watching movies.
Not only that, response is flat - none of that boomy rice-boy stuff most people think of as bass, svs produces bass so pure and clean that you normally don't even notice that it is there - everything just sounds 'fuller' and more complete.
Here are some reviews by about 75 other owners in case you aren't quite willing to take the word of one random dude on slashdot:
http://audioreview.com/reviews/subwoofer/index_
I've had a slightly different take on this for quite a while. I believe that federal laws that make it illegal to descramble satellite or other signals like that of cell phone traffic that pass through my property are bogus. The information is there, it is on my property, I didn't ask for it to be there, I should be able to do what I want with it.
Obviously the US government does not agree with me on that issue. But, at least they are being consistent here. The heat and other non-obvious emissions from my property are not intended for law enforcement or any one else to be able to use, even if they pass through public property.
So, as long as it isn't legal to watch pirated satellite tv I think it is proportional that the cops can't watch us in our own homes.
NASA loves to 'commercialize' their developments. In this way, they are probably the highest profile form of corporate welfare there is. NASA does the R&D and then hands over the exclusive rights for a pittance to some commercial outfit to turn into a product.
It may be apocryphal, but I think Beowulf just barely missed being locked-up by this kind of old-school thinking. The saving grace was that most of the original Beowulf work had been done by a sub-contractor and, unlike most of the rest of the industry, NASA had not required that the sub to turn over IP rights to the client (NASA) in their contract. So once Beowulf got big, the NASA administration came around wanting to lock it up and give it to one vendor, but they were foiled by their own contract, and the contractors were able to free the source for the work they had done.
Thus leaving me free to say, "Imagine that AI running on a Beowulf cluster!"
And maybe Cornell is filtering spam and you don't know it. Lots of ISPs do that without telling their clients, it isn't a far stretch for campus IT departments to do the same.
I worked for a company that sold super-computers running a mach-based OS. That company has since been purchased by HP and the mach-os was dumped as quickly as possible.
As I recall, there were two really major problems with mach:
1) Buggy as all get out
2) Enormous message-passing latencies. System calls that take a couple of microseconds under HPUX took 100s of microseconds under mach on the same hardware.
Shows what you know about muslim countries. I married into a liberal muslim family and even they still aren't big on the respecting women thing (for example, they've got a lot of daughters, but only because they thought they had to have a son, so they kept having kids until a son was born, then they stopped). The more radical muslims are far, far worse.
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Ever hear about honor killings? This kind of murder is almost sanctioned by many islamic governments (although the Quran itself is not big on the idea at all). Here's a link to the first hit in Google on "honor killings:"
http://www.uchastings.edu/cgrs/campaigns/honor.
The short and ugly reason behind the way women are treated (forced to wear full-body coverings, not allowed to speak, etc) is that Islam considers men to be uncontrollable sexual animals. If they even get so much as a hint of a woman's sexuality, then they will not be able to stop themselves from assaulting her. Because of this attitude - this conditioning, women, especially unaccompanied women, are often in far more danger out in public in muslim countries than they would be in similar circumstances in a western country.
Perhaps it makes the pissed off people question the point of the CCTV in first place. After all, if the cameras weren't there they wouldn't have to worry about fulfilling DPA for CCTV footage...
No it doesn't take up any extra verifiable space, that would kind of give it all away wouldn't it? Read the info at the website.
Check out Rubberhose. It is a cryptographic filesystem for linux and almost the BSD*'s that provides plausible deniability. I.e. even if they grab your computer and figure out that you are running rubberhose to hide stuff, you can throw them a bone by just decrypting your financial records, or your diary, or some other similarly benign piece of information and then no one can prove that there are any other items still encrypted on the disk.
www.rubberhose.org
This is exactly as the RIAA member companies planned. It has been pretty clear to both internet gurus and music insiders that the big record labels only make their money because they have a stranglehold on the distribution of the vast majority of music. All internet music delivery systems threaten the big record labels' big profits, not to mention their entire existence.
So, as mp3.com claimed during their trial, the record companies have been using the monopoly power granted by US copyright law, to stifle competition. Ultimately, real change won't happen until a new generation of executives comes to power in the big media corporations, people who aren't knee-jerk afraid of new distribution methods. That's probably around 10 years away, which, as a shareholder of mp3.com, really bums me out.