From what I understand, it's not really the end of CMOS. Their transistor seems to be MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) on carbon nanotubes instead of silicon. That would mean you could still do CMOS (Complementary MOS) with it (maybe called CN-CMOS).
Already, oil from the former Soviet Union has begun to moderate the influence of OPEC; once the oil fields there are fully opened up it could make OPEC obselete.
...which would in turn make our breathable atmosphere obsolete...
I have a complex (it uses lots of features) C++ program which compiled fine (after a couple tweeks) under 2.95.x and 2.96 but would crash when compiled with 3.0.x. I used to think it was my fault but it now works again with 3.1 so I guess 3.0.x was badly broken...
(After a quick check) It does seem like the PowerPC is a 64-bit chip (though maybe linux uses it as a 32-bit for some operations). Also, both PPC and Itanium can act like big-endian or little-endian.
A while ago, I tried compiling and running my program (http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/overflow.html) on a Linux PPC machine and (to my surprise) everything went fine. Does that mean that it should work on ia64 too since (AFAIK) both are big-endian 64-bit architectures?
Nothing... except a small bit of your personal information
Are you telling me you actually wrote personal information in the subscription? I'm betting that the information they collect has so much junk in it it's probably useless anyway...
My mother bought the new Celine Dion CD (I've been trying to convince her to take it back for not being a "real CD"). I put it in my PC just to test it. The funny think is that the CDROM won't play it as a audio CD. However, I tried cdparanoia and I can rip it without any problem... I guess it's just another case of a "copy-protection" technology prevent legal use (like watching DVD under Linux), while failing at preventing what it's designed to prevent (you can do a mirror copy of a DVD without decrypting it).
This looks exactly like what RAMBUS have been doing with memory, although RAMBUS attacked big buisnesses right from the start. What sunk RAMBUS is that several companies (Infineon, Micron I think,...) teamed together to defeat their patents. Eventually not only did they lose their patent claim on SDRAM and DDR, but I think they lost their money from the companies that caved in (Toshiba?, Hitashi?).
Maybe your company could join the others that were extorted money and try to prove that the patent claims have no ground. If everybody sues for punitive damage and fraud, there could even be money to gain... Of course, IANAL...
Say I receive a spam mail from spamcompany.com, I could go to alsospam.com and register to receive mail at doesnt.exist@spamcompany.com. Do that a couple times and you endup with spam companies using their resources to spam eachother...
If you think that's already bad, just wait 'till they start applying DMCA-like laws to news acticles. You can view the article, but cannot make a backup copy of it. Then the link changes. You notice the change, but you cannot even prove it changed because there's no way you can get the older article without violating the law. That's getting even closer to 1984...
I realize that, but even supposing your numbers are correct, we're talking 10 of those $2.50 (the $1 is in quantities of 100000!) LEDs to match 1 100W bulb.
Yes... but who said it had to be equivalent to a 100W bulb? The sensitivity of the eye is (IIRC) roughly logarithmic so 10 times less light is still not that dark. I'd bet with a.1W LED you could see everything in one room (which means in the whole house for those people). It won't be very bright, but it'll work.
uh, ok. $1 a piece for a.1 watt bulb. sounds great. Exactly how many would I have to gang to be able to read my newspaper?
Maybe not that many... Remember that the efficiency of a normal light bulb is very very bad, since most of its energy is dissipated as heat. I wouldn't be suprised if a 100W bulb only produced 1W of visible light.
Look here for my echo-cancellation code: http://speex.sourceforge.net/audio/sndio.tg z
It's bundled with open-sound calls to read and write audio in real-time, while removing acoustic echo from the input. There's not much doc, but the test2.c program is quite simple. Feel free to contact me at jean-marc.valin@hermes.usherb.ca. Note that there's no real project (sourceforge or other) assiciated to it but if you find it useful, I may create one.
One of the MPAA arguments against DeCSS is that there is no significant no-infringing use. Well I guess there are now many significant legal uses for DeCSS. Furthermore, I would argue that any binary version of xine/mplayer/videolan that would be found in a distribution (as RPM) should be perfectly legal...
There are many plagues that threaten the open-source community and even the software industry in general. There are software patents, DMCA and the like, frivolous lawsuits, MS bullying to name a few. In your opinion which one is the most dangerous? Also, what do you think is the best way to fight it?
I think you're forgetting what probably explains most of the price gab between IDE and SCSI. SCSI drives are targeted at mid/high-end servers and are build so that they're more reliable than IDE drives, although it has nothing to do with the controller itself.
You're bringing up a good point. Then if "undefined/future use" bits can be used retroactively, nothing prevents currently used bits to be "redefined with an added meaning". Then if that holds in count, that could mean that DMCA = "all generic hex/text editors/viewers would be illegal under the DMCA".
Although that could be interesting in the other way. If notepad can be used to change an "access control byte", it should be illegal too... so would all software... all computers... all ***stack overflow, brain dumped.
So what you're saying is that only links to main site should be legal. That means Slashdot is completely illegal. Then all search engines are too... I'd say the 99% of the web pages would be illegal.
Shameless plug... For some who might be interested in compression voice for VoIP, there's also the Speex voice codec. For voice (not music) it provides good quality at lower bit-stream than Vorbis.
Try the latest ALSA beta (0.9.2 I think) or the ALSA CVS. I've seen the source of the driver and there seems to be all that's needed for your card. Then again, I don't know how tested the driver is.
Last time I checked, I think the Audiophile 2496 was supported by ALSA (probably a couple months after you bought it). I'm guessig that's the way they operate... They release a card and put a Linux sticker on the box that means (to them): "it would be nice is someone wrote a Linux driver for that card" and then they wait until someone finally writes a driver... Not to mention that they don't even respond to e-mail asking for the card spec sheets.
Slashdot Mirror
Under the DMCA, I ask you to keep your dog from sh... on my lawn!!!
Has the word DMCA been recently accepted as a synonym for "generic laswuit"?
The end of the road for CMOS?
From what I understand, it's not really the end of CMOS. Their transistor seems to be MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) on carbon nanotubes instead of silicon. That would mean you could still do CMOS (Complementary MOS) with it (maybe called CN-CMOS).
Already, oil from the former Soviet Union has begun to moderate the influence of OPEC; once the oil fields there are fully opened up it could make OPEC obselete.
...which would in turn make our breathable atmosphere obsolete...
I have a complex (it uses lots of features) C++ program which compiled fine (after a couple tweeks) under 2.95.x and 2.96 but would crash when compiled with 3.0.x. I used to think it was my fault but it now works again with 3.1 so I guess 3.0.x was badly broken...
PowerPC is 32-bit and IA64 is little endian.
(After a quick check) It does seem like the PowerPC is a 64-bit chip (though maybe linux uses it as a 32-bit for some operations). Also, both PPC and Itanium can act like big-endian or little-endian.
A while ago, I tried compiling and running my program (http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/overflow.html) on a Linux PPC machine and (to my surprise) everything went fine. Does that mean that it should work on ia64 too since (AFAIK) both are big-endian 64-bit architectures?
All your brains are belong to us...
Nothing... except a small bit of your personal information
Are you telling me you actually wrote personal information in the subscription? I'm betting that the information they collect has so much junk in it it's probably useless anyway...
My mother bought the new Celine Dion CD (I've been trying to convince her to take it back for not being a "real CD"). I put it in my PC just to test it. The funny think is that the CDROM won't play it as a audio CD. However, I tried cdparanoia and I can rip it without any problem... I guess it's just another case of a "copy-protection" technology prevent legal use (like watching DVD under Linux), while failing at preventing what it's designed to prevent (you can do a mirror copy of a DVD without decrypting it).
This looks exactly like what RAMBUS have been doing with memory, although RAMBUS attacked big buisnesses right from the start. What sunk RAMBUS is that several companies (Infineon, Micron I think, ...) teamed together to defeat their patents. Eventually not only did they lose their patent claim on SDRAM and DDR, but I think they lost their money from the companies that caved in (Toshiba?, Hitashi?).
Maybe your company could join the others that were extorted money and try to prove that the patent claims have no ground. If everybody sues for punitive damage and fraud, there could even be money to gain... Of course, IANAL...
the newer CPU architectures trap more problems then my old 386 could
Are you sure about that one? AFAIK Linux can be compiled on a 386 and still be as stable as when running on a PIII or Athlon.
Say I receive a spam mail from spamcompany.com, I could go to alsospam.com and register to receive mail at doesnt.exist@spamcompany.com. Do that a couple times and you endup with spam companies using their resources to spam eachother...
If you think that's already bad, just wait 'till they start applying DMCA-like laws to news acticles. You can view the article, but cannot make a backup copy of it. Then the link changes. You notice the change, but you cannot even prove it changed because there's no way you can get the older article without violating the law. That's getting even closer to 1984...
I realize that, but even supposing your numbers are correct, we're talking 10 of those $2.50 (the $1 is in quantities of 100000!) LEDs to match 1 100W bulb.
.1W LED you could see everything in one room (which means in the whole house for those people). It won't be very bright, but it'll work.
Yes... but who said it had to be equivalent to a 100W bulb? The sensitivity of the eye is (IIRC) roughly logarithmic so 10 times less light is still not that dark. I'd bet with a
uh, ok. $1 a piece for a .1 watt bulb. sounds great. Exactly how many would I have to gang to be able to read my newspaper?
Maybe not that many... Remember that the efficiency of a normal light bulb is very very bad, since most of its energy is dissipated as heat. I wouldn't be suprised if a 100W bulb only produced 1W of visible light.
Two things I forgot to mention:
1) It works on stereo (of multi-channel) input/output
2) There's an SSE (float version of MMX) version too
Look here for my echo-cancellation code:g z
http://speex.sourceforge.net/audio/sndio.t
It's bundled with open-sound calls to read and write audio in real-time, while removing acoustic echo from the input. There's not much doc, but the test2.c program is quite simple. Feel free to contact me at jean-marc.valin@hermes.usherb.ca. Note that there's no real project (sourceforge or other) assiciated to it but if you find it useful, I may create one.
One of the MPAA arguments against DeCSS is that there is no significant no-infringing use. Well I guess there are now many significant legal uses for DeCSS. Furthermore, I would argue that any binary version of xine/mplayer/videolan that would be found in a distribution (as RPM) should be perfectly legal...
There are many plagues that threaten the open-source community and even the software industry in general. There are software patents, DMCA and the like, frivolous lawsuits, MS bullying to name a few. In your opinion which one is the most dangerous? Also, what do you think is the best way to fight it?
I think you're forgetting what probably explains most of the price gab between IDE and SCSI. SCSI drives are targeted at mid/high-end servers and are build so that they're more reliable than IDE drives, although it has nothing to do with the controller itself.
You're bringing up a good point. Then if "undefined/future use" bits can be used retroactively, nothing prevents currently used bits to be "redefined with an added meaning". Then if that holds in count, that could mean that DMCA = "all generic hex/text editors/viewers would be illegal under the DMCA".
Although that could be interesting in the other way. If notepad can be used to change an "access control byte", it should be illegal too... so would all software... all computers... all ***stack overflow, brain dumped.
So what you're saying is that only links to main site should be legal. That means Slashdot is completely illegal. Then all search engines are too... I'd say the 99% of the web pages would be illegal.
Shameless plug... For some who might be interested in compression voice for VoIP, there's also the Speex voice codec. For voice (not music) it provides good quality at lower bit-stream than Vorbis.
Try the latest ALSA beta (0.9.2 I think) or the ALSA CVS. I've seen the source of the driver and there seems to be all that's needed for your card. Then again, I don't know how tested the driver is.
Last time I checked, I think the Audiophile 2496 was supported by ALSA (probably a couple months after you bought it). I'm guessig that's the way they operate... They release a card and put a Linux sticker on the box that means (to them): "it would be nice is someone wrote a Linux driver for that card" and then they wait until someone finally writes a driver... Not to mention that they don't even respond to e-mail asking for the card spec sheets.