Individuals are entitled to bend over and take it in the ass, or go live in the woods and not participate in society at all.
Nobody is pointing a gun forcing you to pay for DRM-enabled media. If you want DRM-free media, then I suggest you go to the library and read a book. The modern digital era makes it way too easy for people to steal content...of course content creators want DRM. My wife is a video game developer at a small studio...without technologies like Macrovision SafeDisc, she probably wouldn't have a job due to rampant stealing of games. Anybody who steals software is an asshole and a thief. If you don't like the price, then go use something else. I use to steal music/games/software as a teenager. Then I grew up.
There's a common misconception that information "belongs" to whoever thinks it up.
Of course it does. How do you think authors get published for their books? You think J.K Rowling would be motivated to write Book 7 if she wasn't getting paid for her hard work?
This is entitlement...just like how most of Slashdot thinks we are all entitled to free software. God forbid that people need to make a living and feed their kids.
What you propose is regulating capitalism for everyday items (regulation is needed for things where competition is impossible...like power lines). History shows time and time again shows that this doesn't work. Content creators can offer their products however they want. If they want to offer their movies as a comic flip-book, then so be it. Anything else is meddling.
You are not entitled to pay the raw cost of blank media. Businesses make deals to avoid litigation. You may think its foolish, but the media may very well end up costing more if the legal costs are greater than your so-called "tax". Its the way the business world works. Go get an MBA if you don't understand.
DRM serves consumers if it is the only way content providers will release media in formats desired by consumers. If you don't want DRM content, then don't buy it. Don't buy from Apple iTunes store. Don't buy the Microsoft Zune. You are not entitled to DRM-free content. Content providers can choose not to release DRM-free content.
Phones in the U.S. either use the PCS band (1900MHz) or the original "cellular" band (800MHz). In theory, lower frequencies penetrate walls better. Any experts care to weigh in on this? I believe iDEN (Nextel) is all 800MHz...maybe this is why the submitter had better luck. Although its more likely that there was simply a Nextel tower closer to him/her.
Thats nice. But most users use non-scientific applications that will see very little benefit from 64-bit ops. The extra register space is really not a big deal with a superscalar out-of-order where register renaming and high L1 bandwidth keeps the instructions moving. Stack spills/fills nearly always hit in the L1 and performance nowadays is becoming dominated by cache misses. 64-bit is certainly necessary to move beyond 4GB of address space (with segment tricks), but most users will see no benefit from 64-bit ALU operations. In fact, 32-bit datapaths can be clocked faster than 64-bit datapaths.
Not only does Gore fly around in a jet and drive a big car, but none of his multiple homes use the more-expensive Wind Power that is available from his respective local utilities.
If IA-32 was so inferior, a new ISA would be dominant today. Yes, backwards compatibility is a big deal. But if a new ISA delivers 50-100% better performance, you can bet that people would adopt it and MS would offer their products for it (e.g. NT4 was available for DEC Alpha).
Parent poster is right. Intel and AMD have proven that the ISA is irrelevant to processor performance. Modern x86 chips implement a RISC superscalar out-of-order pipeline internally. Of the 100+ million transistors on the die, Intel/AMD only have to burn a million or so to implement the x86->RISC conversion (called uOps or micro-ops).
And no, architectural registers is largely irrelevant also because of techniques like register renaming.
So yes, the anti-x86 trolls should move along. x86 is here to stay and it doesn't matter.
If you live in high altitude areas, ECC RAM is really necessary if you want reliable computing. Even with ECC, higher-end servers will "scrub" memory by periodically reading out every memory block to correct single-bit errors before they become double-bit errors.
The Virginia Apple Supercomputer initially used non-ECC nodes. Couldn't keep the machine up and they ended up selling off all of the original Xserve machines to get ECC Xserve's.
At Los Alamos altitude, the problem is even worse. It isn't uncommon for non-ECC workstations to crash every other day.
My iPod mounts as a disk in Linux w/ Ghome. No, I have not tried copying MP3 files to my iPod's strange directory layout (and how it names files).
I like iTunes. I like the occasional game. I like Photoshop CS2. Linux does nothing for me at home (but I'm typing from Linux at work right now).
Why is this modded as a "Troll"? Post makes complete sense to me. I'm back to Windows XP after using Linux on the desktop for several years...heck, I first installed Linux in 1994. And yes, part of the reason is that I don't care anymore and just want to use things like my iPod without trouble.
The Port of New Orleans is vital to the Midwestern economy. Billions of dollars worth of agricultural products float down the Mississippi River each year. You can't really have a port without a city given the sheer number of people who work in the system.
Maybe I just don't understand Gmail, but I hate it. When I first login, all I see is a cluttered view of mail. Sure, I can filter and assign labels to things, but it is completely unintuitive to me.
The United States of America was founded primarily by 2 groups of people: profiteers and the hard-core religious. Religion still plays a large role in this country. Although many disagree, evolution is a direct contradiction to religion. Religion in the USA is not going to disappear overnight so this poll result is no surprise. Calling Americans dumb is just plain ignorant and arrogant.
In June I attended the ISCA conference. That is the International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA). At these events, people from AMD, Intel, Sun, IBM, etc all sit at the same table and discuss everything from sports to load-store-queue implementations.
A friend of mine works at Intel, and he flat out told me (several months ago) that Vanderpool/Pacifica will be slower than VMWare-only for the 1st generation. However this will change in a few years.
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Individuals are entitled to bend over and take it in the ass, or go live in the woods and not participate in society at all.
Nobody is pointing a gun forcing you to pay for DRM-enabled media. If you want DRM-free media, then I suggest you go to the library and read a book. The modern digital era makes it way too easy for people to steal content...of course content creators want DRM. My wife is a video game developer at a small studio...without technologies like Macrovision SafeDisc, she probably wouldn't have a job due to rampant stealing of games. Anybody who steals software is an asshole and a thief. If you don't like the price, then go use something else. I use to steal music/games/software as a teenager. Then I grew up.
There's a common misconception that information "belongs" to whoever thinks it up.
Of course it does. How do you think authors get published for their books? You think J.K Rowling would be motivated to write Book 7 if she wasn't getting paid for her hard work?
This is entitlement...just like how most of Slashdot thinks we are all entitled to free software. God forbid that people need to make a living and feed their kids.
What you propose is regulating capitalism for everyday items (regulation is needed for things where competition is impossible...like power lines). History shows time and time again shows that this doesn't work. Content creators can offer their products however they want. If they want to offer their movies as a comic flip-book, then so be it. Anything else is meddling.
You are not entitled to pay the raw cost of blank media. Businesses make deals to avoid litigation. You may think its foolish, but the media may very well end up costing more if the legal costs are greater than your so-called "tax". Its the way the business world works. Go get an MBA if you don't understand.
DRM serves consumers if it is the only way content providers will release media in formats desired by consumers. If you don't want DRM content, then don't buy it. Don't buy from Apple iTunes store. Don't buy the Microsoft Zune. You are not entitled to DRM-free content. Content providers can choose not to release DRM-free content.
The entitlement disease is rampant on Slashdot...
Phones in the U.S. either use the PCS band (1900MHz) or the original "cellular" band (800MHz). In theory, lower frequencies penetrate walls better. Any experts care to weigh in on this? I believe iDEN (Nextel) is all 800MHz...maybe this is why the submitter had better luck. Although its more likely that there was simply a Nextel tower closer to him/her.
Thats nice. But most users use non-scientific applications that will see very little benefit from 64-bit ops. The extra register space is really not a big deal with a superscalar out-of-order where register renaming and high L1 bandwidth keeps the instructions moving. Stack spills/fills nearly always hit in the L1 and performance nowadays is becoming dominated by cache misses. 64-bit is certainly necessary to move beyond 4GB of address space (with segment tricks), but most users will see no benefit from 64-bit ALU operations. In fact, 32-bit datapaths can be clocked faster than 64-bit datapaths.
Sorry, you haven't uncovered a grand new scheme with faking ink. Just replace steps (2) and (3) with "Scan and Photoshop in new contract"
MIPS is not going away. They are a seperate company that now focuses on the high-end embedded market.
Where did I ever say that I "discount the message of global warming"?
Not only does Gore fly around in a jet and drive a big car, but none of his multiple homes use the more-expensive Wind Power that is available from his respective local utilities.
If IA-32 was so inferior, a new ISA would be dominant today. Yes, backwards compatibility is a big deal. But if a new ISA delivers 50-100% better performance, you can bet that people would adopt it and MS would offer their products for it (e.g. NT4 was available for DEC Alpha).
Parent poster is right. Intel and AMD have proven that the ISA is irrelevant to processor performance. Modern x86 chips implement a RISC superscalar out-of-order pipeline internally. Of the 100+ million transistors on the die, Intel/AMD only have to burn a million or so to implement the x86->RISC conversion (called uOps or micro-ops).
And no, architectural registers is largely irrelevant also because of techniques like register renaming.
So yes, the anti-x86 trolls should move along. x86 is here to stay and it doesn't matter.
If you live in high altitude areas, ECC RAM is really necessary if you want reliable computing. Even with ECC, higher-end servers will "scrub" memory by periodically reading out every memory block to correct single-bit errors before they become double-bit errors.
The Virginia Apple Supercomputer initially used non-ECC nodes. Couldn't keep the machine up and they ended up selling off all of the original Xserve machines to get ECC Xserve's.
At Los Alamos altitude, the problem is even worse. It isn't uncommon for non-ECC workstations to crash every other day.
I had wireless problems with my D600, but the newest Intel ProSet driver solves most of those.
My iPod mounts as a disk in Linux w/ Ghome. No, I have not tried copying MP3 files to my iPod's strange directory layout (and how it names files). I like iTunes. I like the occasional game. I like Photoshop CS2. Linux does nothing for me at home (but I'm typing from Linux at work right now).
Why is this modded as a "Troll"? Post makes complete sense to me. I'm back to Windows XP after using Linux on the desktop for several years...heck, I first installed Linux in 1994. And yes, part of the reason is that I don't care anymore and just want to use things like my iPod without trouble.
The Port of New Orleans is vital to the Midwestern economy. Billions of dollars worth of agricultural products float down the Mississippi River each year. You can't really have a port without a city given the sheer number of people who work in the system.
Maybe I just don't understand Gmail, but I hate it. When I first login, all I see is a cluttered view of mail. Sure, I can filter and assign labels to things, but it is completely unintuitive to me.
I guess Gmail did cause Yahoo to up its quota.
The United States of America was founded primarily by 2 groups of people: profiteers and the hard-core religious. Religion still plays a large role in this country. Although many disagree, evolution is a direct contradiction to religion. Religion in the USA is not going to disappear overnight so this poll result is no surprise. Calling Americans dumb is just plain ignorant and arrogant.
In June I attended the ISCA conference. That is the International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA). At these events, people from AMD, Intel, Sun, IBM, etc all sit at the same table and discuss everything from sports to load-store-queue implementations.
Yes, my subject contradicts (oops!). I know both AMD and Intel guys. I believe it was the Intel guy who mentioned this.
A friend of mine works at Intel, and he flat out told me (several months ago) that Vanderpool/Pacifica will be slower than VMWare-only for the 1st generation. However this will change in a few years.
Its sort of ironic that Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, now works at Yahoo's competitor (Google).
show me the average home user who doesn't runs XP as administrator. Do they think that anything is going to change for Vista?
Yes, it is going to change for Vista. The default user will not have admin privileges.