From what I have heard, AMD is using the Dresden plant exclusively for higher speed T-Bird cores and using the Austin plant for the aluminum interconnected Duron's and Slot A Athlons.
COTS stands for commercial off the shelf in military jargon. The trend across most military forces including the U.S. is to save money by buying commercial equipment and installing it directly in military vehicles, particularly for computers and radios.
Go into most military communications vans and what you see is Cisco routers just like you have back at the office.
This saves money but makes the equipment vulnerable to exactly the threat described, EMP. The military no longer "drives the train" on technology and they recognize it. It remains to be seen whether or not this becomes false economy. Sure the router works great in an air conditioned building but put it in a tent in Kuwait at 120F in a sandstorm for a few days and see how it holds up;-)
As one of those "lucky" few who actually tried out the phones, I wanted to pass on a few thoughts.
The Iridium system ultimately failed commercially because it just didn't perform. Sure you could do some neat stuff with it (as we actually tested such as call in flight between planes by pointing the antenna out the window) but get the darn thing anywhere near a built up area such as a city and it had trouble picking up a satellite. The plan for the system to use local wireless phone systems where available (such as GSM in Europe) just didn't work as advertised. $7 per minute doesn't cut it. There just aren't enough people who operate outside wireless system footprints who can affort the price to make the system commercially viable.
With so many satellites threatening to just burn up in the atmosphere, I'm in favor of whatever good usage can be made of this system. There have been a few posts complaining about the military's use/buy out of the system and I think they're dead wrong. If the military had not stepped in with funding to keep it aloft, there might not have been any scientific use of the system at all.
The military will use Iridium, ironically enough, exactly how it was intended: for quick phone service outside areas where other commercial wireless phones don't work. Up until, the military relied heavily on INMARSAT which was bulky and for which military use was not really permitted under the usage agreement and bylaws.
If he can get enough of these things on hand, he can actually train his troops to surrender using an advanced realistic simulation rather than the real thing.
Next time the war could last 36 instead of 100 hours. Imagine how much more efficient they'll be at giving up.
If I'm not terribly mistaken, researchers at the University of Virginia did a lot of work in this area in the biomedical engineering department in the early 1990's.
The entire goal of their work was to provide ways for quadrapalegic (spelling?) patients to control a mouse and interact, particularly for those whose speech was damaged beyond speech recognition technology capability. I can only imagine how much better it works now with the additional computing cycles of modern processors.
Yup. You've been reading/. too long. Sad thing is I think you're probably right.
The text of the announcement was kind of interesting. The fact that it explicitly FAILED to mention security or watermarks probably speaks volumes. It also spoke of giving users the ability to create compilations out of their own audio CD's. Probably a reference to some sort of control with watermarks. Most likely, you can make a first generation copy but second generation copies will be crippled in some way.
The target audience for this chipset seems to the average ignorant computer buyer who is only concerned with price. Those interested in performance need not inquire within.
The main marketing (I can't think of a technical advantage) advantages of the Celeron is the ability to sell really cheap systems with chipsets that integrate sound/video/network on the motherboard. By integrating, they could knock off $50 or so from the price of the box.
Up until now, there were no Duron motherboards with all of these functions integrated. Duron is clearly technically superior but had trouble competing at the extreme lower end to which it was targetted.
I wouldn't (and most on/. wouldn't) buy one of these boards. I still believe that its an important step for AMD to attack the extreme low end of the cheap PC market.
Thomson and the German company are likely to file patent lawsuits the moment Vorbis appears to be a viable market candidate. By creating a perception of uncertainty around Vorbis' future, MP3's parents could prevent conservative digital music companies from adopting it.
Beyond the obvious problem of threatening lawsuits basically without any evidence of infringement, timing the lawsuits purely in an attempt to hold onto market share is a pretty frightening concept.
Makes me want to boycott MP3. I just haven't figured out a good way to do it;-(
Quick disclaimer. I like Linux. I heartily endorse open source software and developers.
That said, just the title of the previous post illustrates why Linux isn't ready for the general public. I try to imagine talking my grandfather through the process. You might as well tell him to build his own car from parts as tell him to build his own kernel. I can only imagine the trouble calls:
"Ok, Sir. Here's what you've got to do. Can you boot in single user mode?"
"What's a mode? Oh shit...."
Once again, I would remind the moderating public that not every post that questions the preeminence of Linux is a Troll.
Is physical security. If its not connected to the internet its terribly difficult to hack into it.
DOD knows this and does not connect their classified and unclassified networks. They actually run physically separate networks for different levels of classification.
An air gap covers a wide range of incompetence in your sysadmins.
One possible way around this is to work for a contractor who provides services to the U.S. military as a tech worker in Germany.
If you qualify (and this is getting more difficult) as a technical expert, your pay is not taxed by the German government and in addition, your first $75K is free from U.S. income taxes as well. The only catch is that your employment must be temporary and that you must not be "ordinarily resident". There are a number of firms who have workers there under this status including Mitre, Logicon, and others.
I wonder who Applix might sue for giving away a product that they sell for a profit. Is Sun in jeopardy because they're giving away StarOffice? Should the government take action to protect Applix from open source competition?
I don't really think it will happen. Even still, it makes you wonder how much litigation we want to invite from the federal government.
Can you imagine an open source developer being sued by the government for putting a company like Applix out of business?
Note: I know this violates the long standing tradition that anything that might disagree with the government's lawsuit against M$ is a troll but I think its worth considering. Karma be damned;-)
I learned the hard way that Word doesn't work well for technical typesetting.
I wrote my master's thesis in Word (100+ pages)and found that everytime I added a diagram or even tried to print it on a different printer that things moved around unpredictably on the page.
It drove me nuts. Its interesting to note that StarOffice explicitly avoids using Word as a default format since (among other more obvious reasons) it introduces unpredictability into the layout.
Frame was much more predictable and its unfortunate that Adobe decided not to release their tool for Linux. I believe that's a decision they will regret and revisit as market share for Linux increases.
I don't really care. I'm just looking forward to seeing more of David Boies.
His incisive analysis of the election returns has kept me on the edge of my seat. The idea that we'll get to see him again in the M$ antitrust lawsuit is just icing on the cake.
The solution is cats. I have two of those little bastards and I haven't needed an alarm clock for years. Every morning they wake me up without exception at 6 AM to be fed.
By the way, I do have an auction going on Ebay right now if anyone wants them.
Oops, I forgot to add that I found 8 vendors off Pricewatch. I would imagine that the total number of vendors might even be as high as 9 but I'd want a hand recount;-)
Its all great to look at benchmarks but a chip that is unavailable scores a 0 each time you test it. There's two reasons a chip is usually unavailable. It is priced well beyond reach and reason or it is being produced in such low quantities that they might as well not make it
Since the release of the Athlon, AMD's chips are more readily available at higher clock speeds. Right now, there are 4 full pages of vendors selling the AMD 1.1 Ghz Thunderbird. The chip sells for as low as $341. That is an available chip.
Intel's 1.4 and 1.5 Ghz chips are available from 8 vendors and will cost you between $950 and $1100. In my book that chip is not available.
Sorry, this will not work. I am a certified patent attorney at the National Patent Office and I checked the records to verify the status of the "Copper Patent".
Right now its in litigation with two firms claiming it, Intel and Microsoft.
I've learned, somewhat painfully, the following lesson:
Despite my personal knowledge of technology and the computer industry, I have not been able to pick stocks that outperform my mutual funds.
There, I said it. Over the past few years, even including the recent bloodbath in internet stocks, no matter how well I think I know the industry I seem to guess wrong. Please no flames on the examples but I'll list a few: Compuware, bought at 40 currently under 10. A small company called Egan systems, bought at 2 3/8 sold at.18 (ouch), Blue Mountain Brewing (a local craft brewer that I enjoyed) bought at $1 currently trading at a split adjusted.04. I pick some good ones and even have had some good timing but on the measure, I don't outperform my funds. The dogs drag down the good ones.
Rules of logic don't usually apply to the market. Professional money managers (big firms and mutual funds) have access to information that most people simply can't get even with the information explosion of the Internet. I've systematically moved my money back to stock mutual funds and sleep better at night.
Don't confuse good technology with a compelling business model that will make money.
DVDRs have certain portions of the disk already written to as part of their production companies licensing deal with the MPAA. The bits required for the disk key are already prewritten with zeroes.
You can't burn an exact copy of a DVD to a DVDR, and your inexact copy won't play in most peoples DVD drives.
Wow! Why would anyone buy this thing if you can't use it to illegally copy protected material. What a waste of technology
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From what I have heard, AMD is using the Dresden plant exclusively for higher speed T-Bird cores and using the Austin plant for the aluminum interconnected Duron's and Slot A Athlons.
COTS stands for commercial off the shelf in military jargon. The trend across most military forces including the U.S. is to save money by buying commercial equipment and installing it directly in military vehicles, particularly for computers and radios.
;-)
Go into most military communications vans and what you see is Cisco routers just like you have back at the office.
This saves money but makes the equipment vulnerable to exactly the threat described, EMP. The military no longer "drives the train" on technology and they recognize it. It remains to be seen whether or not this becomes false economy. Sure the router works great in an air conditioned building but put it in a tent in Kuwait at 120F in a sandstorm for a few days and see how it holds up
As one of those "lucky" few who actually tried out the phones, I wanted to pass on a few thoughts.
The Iridium system ultimately failed commercially because it just didn't perform. Sure you could do some neat stuff with it (as we actually tested such as call in flight between planes by pointing the antenna out the window) but get the darn thing anywhere near a built up area such as a city and it had trouble picking up a satellite. The plan for the system to use local wireless phone systems where available (such as GSM in Europe) just didn't work as advertised. $7 per minute doesn't cut it. There just aren't enough people who operate outside wireless system footprints who can affort the price to make the system commercially viable.
With so many satellites threatening to just burn up in the atmosphere, I'm in favor of whatever good usage can be made of this system. There have been a few posts complaining about the military's use/buy out of the system and I think they're dead wrong. If the military had not stepped in with funding to keep it aloft, there might not have been any scientific use of the system at all.
The military will use Iridium, ironically enough, exactly how it was intended: for quick phone service outside areas where other commercial wireless phones don't work. Up until, the military relied heavily on INMARSAT which was bulky and for which military use was not really permitted under the usage agreement and bylaws.
If he can get enough of these things on hand, he can actually train his troops to surrender using an advanced realistic simulation rather than the real thing.
Next time the war could last 36 instead of 100 hours. Imagine how much more efficient they'll be at giving up.
If I'm not terribly mistaken, researchers at the University of Virginia did a lot of work in this area in the biomedical engineering department in the early 1990's.
The entire goal of their work was to provide ways for quadrapalegic (spelling?) patients to control a mouse and interact, particularly for those whose speech was damaged beyond speech recognition technology capability. I can only imagine how much better it works now with the additional computing cycles of modern processors.
Yup. You've been reading /. too long. Sad thing is I think you're probably right.
The text of the announcement was kind of interesting. The fact that it explicitly FAILED to mention security or watermarks probably speaks volumes. It also spoke of giving users the ability to create compilations out of their own audio CD's. Probably a reference to some sort of control with watermarks. Most likely, you can make a first generation copy but second generation copies will be crippled in some way.
The target audience for this chipset seems to the average ignorant computer buyer who is only concerned with price. Those interested in performance need not inquire within.
/. wouldn't) buy one of these boards. I still believe that its an important step for AMD to attack the extreme low end of the cheap PC market.
The main marketing (I can't think of a technical advantage) advantages of the Celeron is the ability to sell really cheap systems with chipsets that integrate sound/video/network on the motherboard. By integrating, they could knock off $50 or so from the price of the box.
Up until now, there were no Duron motherboards with all of these functions integrated. Duron is clearly technically superior but had trouble competing at the extreme lower end to which it was targetted.
I wouldn't (and most on
From the article:
;-(
Thomson and the German company are likely to file patent lawsuits the moment Vorbis appears to be a viable market candidate. By creating a perception of uncertainty around Vorbis' future, MP3's parents could prevent conservative digital music companies from adopting it.
Beyond the obvious problem of threatening lawsuits basically without any evidence of infringement, timing the lawsuits purely in an attempt to hold onto market share is a pretty frightening concept.
Makes me want to boycott MP3. I just haven't figured out a good way to do it
Quick disclaimer. I like Linux. I heartily endorse open source software and developers.
That said, just the title of the previous post illustrates why Linux isn't ready for the general public. I try to imagine talking my grandfather through the process. You might as well tell him to build his own car from parts as tell him to build his own kernel. I can only imagine the trouble calls:
"Ok, Sir. Here's what you've got to do. Can you boot in single user mode?"
"What's a mode? Oh shit...."
Once again, I would remind the moderating public that not every post that questions the preeminence of Linux is a Troll.
Is physical security. If its not connected to the internet its terribly difficult to hack into it.
DOD knows this and does not connect their classified and unclassified networks. They actually run physically separate networks for different levels of classification.
An air gap covers a wide range of incompetence in your sysadmins.
One possible way around this is to work for a contractor who provides services to the U.S. military as a tech worker in Germany.
If you qualify (and this is getting more difficult) as a technical expert, your pay is not taxed by the German government and in addition, your first $75K is free from U.S. income taxes as well. The only catch is that your employment must be temporary and that you must not be "ordinarily resident". There are a number of firms who have workers there under this status including Mitre, Logicon, and others.
Its a well kept secret but you can qualify.
Best Buy employees aren't always the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Based on the voting in Florida, I can only imagine just how knowledgable a Best Buy employee in Jacksonville must be on the subject.
I wonder who Applix might sue for giving away a product that they sell for a profit. Is Sun in jeopardy because they're giving away StarOffice? Should the government take action to protect Applix from open source competition?
;-)
I don't really think it will happen. Even still, it makes you wonder how much litigation we want to invite from the federal government.
Can you imagine an open source developer being sued by the government for putting a company like Applix out of business?
Note: I know this violates the long standing tradition that anything that might disagree with the government's lawsuit against M$ is a troll but I think its worth considering. Karma be damned
Asking folks to pay a subscription for radio just doesn't pass the common sense test.
;-)
Doesn't anyone remember the lesson of Iridium? Great technology isn't sufficient for success in the marketplace.
I hope this results in an IPO so that I can short it
I learned the hard way that Word doesn't work well for technical typesetting.
I wrote my master's thesis in Word (100+ pages)and found that everytime I added a diagram or even tried to print it on a different printer that things moved around unpredictably on the page.
It drove me nuts. Its interesting to note that StarOffice explicitly avoids using Word as a default format since (among other more obvious reasons) it introduces unpredictability into the layout.
Frame was much more predictable and its unfortunate that Adobe decided not to release their tool for Linux. I believe that's a decision they will regret and revisit as market share for Linux increases.
Nope. I read it as Tom Jones and I couldn't figure out exactly who would be listening to him on a web cast.
Actually between the two, I think I'd rather see Tom Jones
I don't really care. I'm just looking forward to seeing more of David Boies.
His incisive analysis of the election returns has kept me on the edge of my seat. The idea that we'll get to see him again in the M$ antitrust lawsuit is just icing on the cake.
Actually, they usually buy BOTH cigarettes and lottery tickets.
Lighten up folks, the tag line was a joke. Its statistics. Get it?
The solution is cats. I have two of those little bastards and I haven't needed an alarm clock for years. Every morning they wake me up without exception at 6 AM to be fed.
By the way, I do have an auction going on Ebay right now if anyone wants them.
Oops, I forgot to add that I found 8 vendors off Pricewatch. I would imagine that the total number of vendors might even be as high as 9 but I'd want a hand recount ;-)
Its all great to look at benchmarks but a chip that is unavailable scores a 0 each time you test it. There's two reasons a chip is usually unavailable. It is priced well beyond reach and reason or it is being produced in such low quantities that they might as well not make it
Since the release of the Athlon, AMD's chips are more readily available at higher clock speeds. Right now, there are 4 full pages of vendors selling the AMD 1.1 Ghz Thunderbird. The chip sells for as low as $341. That is an available chip.
Intel's 1.4 and 1.5 Ghz chips are available from 8 vendors and will cost you between $950 and $1100. In my book that chip is not available.
AOL and MSN. Enough to make me give up my cable modem service ;-)
Sorry, this will not work. I am a certified patent attorney at the National Patent Office and I checked the records to verify the status of the "Copper Patent".
Right now its in litigation with two firms claiming it, Intel and Microsoft.
I've learned, somewhat painfully, the following lesson:
.18 (ouch), Blue Mountain Brewing (a local craft brewer that I enjoyed) bought at $1 currently trading at a split adjusted .04. I pick some good ones and even have had some good timing but on the measure, I don't outperform my funds. The dogs drag down the good ones.
Despite my personal knowledge of technology and the computer industry, I have not been able to pick stocks that outperform my mutual funds.
There, I said it. Over the past few years, even including the recent bloodbath in internet stocks, no matter how well I think I know the industry I seem to guess wrong. Please no flames on the examples but I'll list a few: Compuware, bought at 40 currently under 10. A small company called Egan systems, bought at 2 3/8 sold at
Rules of logic don't usually apply to the market. Professional money managers (big firms and mutual funds) have access to information that most people simply can't get even with the information explosion of the Internet. I've systematically moved my money back to stock mutual funds and sleep better at night.
Don't confuse good technology with a compelling business model that will make money.
DVDRs have certain portions of the disk already written to as part of their production companies licensing deal with the MPAA. The bits required for the disk key are already prewritten with zeroes.
You can't burn an exact copy of a DVD to a DVDR, and your inexact copy won't play in most peoples DVD drives.
Wow! Why would anyone buy this thing if you can't use it to illegally copy protected material. What a waste of technology