Initially, the company said it would argue that IBM infringed SCO copyrights by moving Unix code to Linux. But when SCO filed its main claim, it argued merely that IBM infringed only by continuing to ship a version of Unix, called AIX, after SCO said it had revoked IBM's license to do so.
But, if IBM did not infringe SCO copyrights, then on what grounds did SCO revoke their Unix license? Wouldn't SCO revoking a license without good cause constitute breach of contract on SCO's behalf? Seems like IBM might still end up owning SCO...
Carlton Sneed Fiorina, whatever shall you do now... Probably just laugh all the way to the bank!P? I worked for a while as a consultant at HP. During my time there, I was unable to find anybody that did not despise Carly. Oh, and her quarterly speeches were piped through the loadspeakers in every HP building, so that you couldn't escape them!
I thought I did square the ratio! But I must have messed up my math somewhere, because you are right, the correct size should be ~115.27 mm^2 for 65nm process!
No, cable is not the best way to go. With cable, your bandwidth is shared with everybody else on your cable! If your neighbors are bandwith hogs, you're screwed! For example, one of my idiot neighbors keeps putting up a DHCP server... on the cable! Since it's closer, everybody boots through it instead of the ISP's DHCP server... and then can't use their network connection! Sorry, but I think you're much better off with a private connection to your ISP... even with bandwidth caps!
Pardon my naivete, but if they go from a 90nm process to a 60nm process for actual production, shouldn't that make this a ~150mm~2 chip size? And isn't cost really a function of yields (which go down with increasing area), not "a direct function of area"? We have yet to see what kind of yields IBM can achieve with the final process -- until then, nobody can really speculate on cost.
Sure, you'll be able to play doom III on your cell phone! But you'll have to wear oven mitts to keep from burning your hands, and the battery life will be about 5 minutes!
Supposedly, since the Cell is designed for distributed processing, it will be usefull in cellphones... but I'd rather have a cellphone that I can reliably talk on, rather than one that a cracker halfway around the world can take over and use as a spambot! They seem to be making a lot of promises about the Cell hardware that can only be realized in software -- software that hasn't been written yet!
How much power does the chip draw? I'm used to heating my entire house with Intel processors; if this chip is significantly more efficient, then I'm going to get pretty cold next winter...
The cell architecture is optimized for streaming things like video and audio, not for playing games. If you can't think of any applications for which high speed encoding/decoding of things like mpeg, jpeg, and mp3 would be useful, then you don't need a cell processor! This chip will see a lot more use in embedded audio/video devices than it will in desktops; and in fact it buys you nothing if all you want to do is run office software suites. But then, the latest pentium 4 also buys you nothing if all you want to do is run office software suites! In other words, any application that you would actually need the latest greatest x86 chip for, the cell will perform an order of magnitude faster (once the software is available). Note to Wintel: Be afraid... be very afraid!
Thank you very much for wasting my tax dollars, cretin! Seriously, I think this attitude that the "government has lots of money!" is going to be the downfall of the US... here's a subtle reminder: all the money is taken from hardworking citizens, at gunpoint if need be. Or borrowed against future taking from citizens...
Read your contract with your vendor. Fact is, most commercial software contracts don't protect against anything more than refunding the purchase price, even if completely unfit for the purpose for which it was sold!
Ok, to rephrase the question: if I'm running an open access point, does that legally make me a "carrier"? Even if it is in my own house? Seems to be that running an open access point would be a legitimate defense if somebody actually wanted to take the RIAA to court...
Is the person being billed for the internet connection legally responsible for anything done over the connection? Even if they are running an open wireless access point? Why aren't coffee shops that offer wireless free access getting sued by the RIAA?
Further, the text in the PDF simply doesn't display using xpdf under Red Hat Linux. This from a web page that claims "Our PDF doesn't suck!" Uh... yes it does.
It doesn't have to run at 802.11a/b/g speed or decode every packet... all it has to do is look at the header of an occaisonal packet, so ANY microprocessor should be able to do this, given an adequate buffer. If they can put a bluetooth receiver in an earphone, they should be able to put an 802.11 receiver in a ring! They can already fit both the receiver, transmitter, and an ARM processor on a single chip. Receive-only would be much lower power and smaller! Yes, it WOULD be very expensive to spin the silicon for a single chip solution for this... but it is well within the reach of current technology!
It's got a microprocessor in it... how much harder would it be to actually receive packets and determine if the source is running WEP or not? When I can use it for wardriving, THEN I'll buy a ring like this!
Mr. Cantu believes that restaurant-goers, particularly diners who are willing to spend $240 per person for a meal are often disappointed by conventional dining experiences.
For $240, that meal had better include spotted owl, bald eagle, and wooly mammoth! Seriously, how many people out there have ever spent $240 on a meal, let alone $240 per person?
You seem to be forgetting that DVDs are region-encoded, and therefore Japanese DVDs cannot we watched on DVD players sold in the Americas or Europe unless those DVD players have aftermarket modifications... other than that, if there are timecodes on the DVD, the technology to synch external subtitles to the DVD should be trivial.
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First rule of tort law: don't sue any entity that has no money to pay the judgement!
But, if IBM did not infringe SCO copyrights, then on what grounds did SCO revoke their Unix license? Wouldn't SCO revoking a license without good cause constitute breach of contract on SCO's behalf? Seems like IBM might still end up owning SCO...
Carlton Sneed Fiorina, whatever shall you do now... Probably just laugh all the way to the bank!P? I worked for a while as a consultant at HP. During my time there, I was unable to find anybody that did not despise Carly. Oh, and her quarterly speeches were piped through the loadspeakers in every HP building, so that you couldn't escape them!
...that we outsource Carly's old job to India, where it can be done better at a fraction of cost! Who's with me on this one?
I thought I did square the ratio! But I must have messed up my math somewhere, because you are right, the correct size should be ~115.27 mm^2 for 65nm process!
No, cable is not the best way to go. With cable, your bandwidth is shared with everybody else on your cable! If your neighbors are bandwith hogs, you're screwed! For example, one of my idiot neighbors keeps putting up a DHCP server... on the cable! Since it's closer, everybody boots through it instead of the ISP's DHCP server... and then can't use their network connection! Sorry, but I think you're much better off with a private connection to your ISP... even with bandwidth caps!
Pardon my naivete, but if they go from a 90nm process to a 60nm process for actual production, shouldn't that make this a ~150mm~2 chip size? And isn't cost really a function of yields (which go down with increasing area), not "a direct function of area"? We have yet to see what kind of yields IBM can achieve with the final process -- until then, nobody can really speculate on cost.
Supposedly, since the Cell is designed for distributed processing, it will be usefull in cellphones... but I'd rather have a cellphone that I can reliably talk on, rather than one that a cracker halfway around the world can take over and use as a spambot! They seem to be making a lot of promises about the Cell hardware that can only be realized in software -- software that hasn't been written yet!
How much power does the chip draw? I'm used to heating my entire house with Intel processors; if this chip is significantly more efficient, then I'm going to get pretty cold next winter...
The cell architecture is optimized for streaming things like video and audio, not for playing games. If you can't think of any applications for which high speed encoding/decoding of things like mpeg, jpeg, and mp3 would be useful, then you don't need a cell processor! This chip will see a lot more use in embedded audio/video devices than it will in desktops; and in fact it buys you nothing if all you want to do is run office software suites. But then, the latest pentium 4 also buys you nothing if all you want to do is run office software suites! In other words, any application that you would actually need the latest greatest x86 chip for, the cell will perform an order of magnitude faster (once the software is available). Note to Wintel: Be afraid... be very afraid!
Thank you very much for wasting my tax dollars, cretin! Seriously, I think this attitude that the "government has lots of money!" is going to be the downfall of the US... here's a subtle reminder: all the money is taken from hardworking citizens, at gunpoint if need be. Or borrowed against future taking from citizens...
Read your contract with your vendor. Fact is, most commercial software contracts don't protect against anything more than refunding the purchase price, even if completely unfit for the purpose for which it was sold!
Arthur Dent? Aren't you the one that was quite suprised when the earth was destroyed to make way for an interstellar bypass?
Ok, to rephrase the question: if I'm running an open access point, does that legally make me a "carrier"? Even if it is in my own house? Seems to be that running an open access point would be a legitimate defense if somebody actually wanted to take the RIAA to court...
Is the person being billed for the internet connection legally responsible for anything done over the connection? Even if they are running an open wireless access point? Why aren't coffee shops that offer wireless free access getting sued by the RIAA?
Further, the text in the PDF simply doesn't display using xpdf under Red Hat Linux. This from a web page that claims "Our PDF doesn't suck!" Uh... yes it does.
Don't put all your content in PDFs that don't work with xpdf. :-(
It doesn't have to run at 802.11a/b/g speed or decode every packet... all it has to do is look at the header of an occaisonal packet, so ANY microprocessor should be able to do this, given an adequate buffer. If they can put a bluetooth receiver in an earphone, they should be able to put an 802.11 receiver in a ring! They can already fit both the receiver, transmitter, and an ARM processor on a single chip. Receive-only would be much lower power and smaller! Yes, it WOULD be very expensive to spin the silicon for a single chip solution for this... but it is well within the reach of current technology!
I'm married. I need a reason NOT to wear a ring!
It's got a microprocessor in it... how much harder would it be to actually receive packets and determine if the source is running WEP or not? When I can use it for wardriving, THEN I'll buy a ring like this!
No, silly... grilling steaks requires an Intel Pentium(TM) processor!
For $240, that meal had better include spotted owl, bald eagle, and wooly mammoth! Seriously, how many people out there have ever spent $240 on a meal, let alone $240 per person?
Sheep can't cook...
Record it on your PVR, watch it after he falls asleep.
You seem to be confusing RMS with ESR. ESR is not a fanatic (except about guns).
You seem to be forgetting that DVDs are region-encoded, and therefore Japanese DVDs cannot we watched on DVD players sold in the Americas or Europe unless those DVD players have aftermarket modifications... other than that, if there are timecodes on the DVD, the technology to synch external subtitles to the DVD should be trivial.