Just remember that this is the Conservative Party is the one that is modeled after the Republican Party in the United States. Not all of the the philosophies, but in operation. The have been in constant election mode and that means that they put their partisanship before any real governance.
This includes things like Bill C-61. If you are a Canadian and you are reading this site you should know what and how Bill C-61 is and how it can affect you. It is dead simply because of a quirk in politics, not because it died in any readings. The Conservatives can and will reintroduce a third bill like C-61 simply because they can. They are in line with 'big business' and lobbyists at the expense of your average Canadian. If you allow the Conservatives to gain a majority then they will ram a successor to C-61 down you throats and you have NO ONE but yourselves to blame in allowing this to happen.
Just remember that this is the governing party that has allowed an innocent man (Maher Arar) to be renditioned and tortured in Syria via the United States on poor and mistaken evidence that he was a terrorist, and then tried to cover it up by denying any fault. What makes you think that a government that would allow this would give any consideration to average Canadians about criminalizing downloads?
You have a little more than 30 days to get the word out that the Conservative Party is not out for any citizen's interests but is totally willing to follow the will of corporate interests, the largest of which are headquartered in the United States. Funny how Bill C-61 looked like the DMCA...
The original article is atrocious. There are no details on what type of licensing this fellow is claiming and he throws in some patent leverage that allows VIA to get away with making x86 parts.
The author of the original article sounds like he doesn't have a clue what he has heard and has no idea how to explain it.
From what I can tell from his badly munged writing, it looks like nVidia can make x86 compatible processors to take on Intel and AMD in the performance processor market, but they are in a legal bind potentially.
This might mean that they want to make specific socket compatible parts, of which Intel and AMD have made proprietary connections and protected by numerous patents and trade secrets. nVidia probably has signed agreements with these companies for their northbridge chipset and GPU/SLI business and making CPUs would probably break all sorts of clauses therein. This is probably where the author is claiming the licensing would be required to make a socket compatible CPU.
It might also mean that nVidia wants to make their own x86 class CPU with a new northbridge of their own. Probably a nonstarter since that means you'd have to purchase a motherboard from nVidia just to use their new CPU. Probably breaks the previously mentioned clauses too.
The last scenario I could see is that nVidia cannot make a decently performing x86 compatible processor without infringing on patents that AMD and Intel own. Unless nVidia has a massive patent portfolio of their own that Intel or AMD are currently infringing upon, neither would open up any (cross) licensing discussion to nVidia and allow them to muscle in on the performance x86 market.
Bah I just woke up so this may come across clearly.
The reason why it's only for eye candy at the moment is because developers do not want to fork the gaming experience. Since accelerated physics would create a have and have not situation for gamers, where the non accelerated experience would be too slow to be acceptable, developers choose to only fluff up the eye candy portions because you could not make the game play experience identical between the two.
This means that you could fork development and have two versions of the game, where the first non accelerated version is significantly less physics rich and has less eye candy than an accelerated one. The big caveat to that is that we live in a networked world, and multiplayer games are big too. This would also create a fundamental incompatibility between the different gaming experiences which means the two versions could not interact.
That's pretty much the big reason on why physics engine accelerators have been limited to visual eye candy only and not the fundamental games. It's purely a business decision, and one that will get reassessed once the market for physics engines becomes large enough where the developers can safely 'ditch' non accelerated physics systems.
AMD does not have market leadership, so they can make radical gambles for better efficiencies to attempt for better marketshare.
From what I can recall, Intel fellow Bob Colwell mentioned the CPU designers could integrate ethernet onboard but they faced a fight from the ethernet chip group which have their own marketshare, budget and design group.
I suppose that as long as chipsets (Northbridges and Southbridges) make money for Intel, memory controllers will stay on the Northbridge and use more power than having memory controllers on CPU.
Wouldn't a creative technology terrorist comprimise and activate this system and force a jetliner to land on the Whitehouse? The pilots can't override it and no need to get any hijackers on board at the time of flight.
What's the point in bringing it back if it's empty? Why not park it out of the way somewhere where it can be retrieved or recycled later, or repaired for another attempt?
Apple should just beta the.n enabler for OS X 10.4 and never get around to finalizing it, kind of google extended beta. OS X 10.5 will have.n support in box and therefore everybody wins.
So Microsoft has decided that whitelisting companies is a good idea, and everyone else is to be lumped into a greylist and blacklist area? No wonder the individuals in the grey zone are peeved, the association with blacklist websites alone will tank sales.
That just escalates this guy's standing and position in the 'newsy' community. Why would you want to build his fame and fortune for him? You pander to his fancies of being a security guru and he will hold you hostage with a 'security review' every time he needs a PR boost.
Ignore this guy and keep doing things the way they've been done. It has been responsive and working.
Why isn't there a 'minder' program or algorithm that would prevent people from logging on constantly? Let's be honest here, no one should be on for 24 hours straight or 80 hours a week. The system could either boot you off or reduce the amount of rewards you get if you spend too much time in the system. This would reduce gold farmers as well. Now you can argue what the lower limit is going to be before you get kicked off or lower rewards, but some reporting would be nice especially for parents of kids who play MMPORGs too. Just a thought, flame at will...
I'd mod you down, but then no one would know why. If you had bothered to read the article until the end, here it is:
FTFA:
"Personally, we can't help but feel that the SIXAXIS (as it's now known) has been sadly neglected when viewed alongside the rest of the PS3. Compared to Microsoft's uber-comfortable Xbox 360 pad, the SIXAXIS feels cheap, plasticky, uncomfortable and disconcertingly light - almost as if it's going to fly out of your hands during those more extreme gaming moments.
More worrying still, the newly-designed lower L and R shoulder triggers feel more like they belong on an early controller prototype than the near-final model. Replicating the 360 pad, rather than being simple shoulder-mounted buttons, the triggers are now hinged horizontally along the controller, with pressure forcing them inward along the bottom - like triggers then, really. Trouble is, they're placed almost unnaturally low meaning we found ourselves operating them by jamming our fingers in between the hinges to apply pressure, rather than using the buttons themselves. What's more, the triggers are convex, with no grooves to keep your fingers in place - an issue further compounded by their smooth finish, offering no resistance against your finger tips. Invariably we found our digits slipping off with the triggers snapping back to their default position. Bah. Of course, the PS2's Dual Shock pad wasn't without its faults either but we still learned to live with it. It's just a shame that Sony hasn't used its resources to bring its controller up to next-gen standards along with its cutting-edge hardware."
Mike Breeden was one of the guys who kept the high end overclocking and modding community alive when Macs were on life support in the mid to late nineties. He's always been a one man show and while you guys may not think he's very influential right now, he's pretty much one degree removed from all the important people today.
Ever since the G5 has stumped the modding community xlr8yourmac has kind have just been a reporting news site, but perhaps the future x86 Macs might bring back Mike's site to it's former glory.
I'd say retarded, but I guess they just weren't creative enough.
If they really wanted to capitalize on making a splash, they should have announced that retail prices were going to be marginally higher than the 360, but they could have said that they were going to use eBay for charity auctions on the initial runs, donating half of the money towards a charity of winner's designation, etc. eBay would have paid them big money for this and Sony would have made huge gains in publicity and a feeding frenzy would make the retail price look absolutely cheap in comparison.
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Encrypt your working partition then install a 2nd OS that it defaults to without revealing your main working OS.
That way they can scan for all the information they want off of your plain jane machine and not raise any suspicions about your private data.
I'd moderate you up, but I have more to say.
Just remember that this is the Conservative Party is the one that is modeled after the Republican Party in the United States. Not all of the the philosophies, but in operation. The have been in constant election mode and that means that they put their partisanship before any real governance.
This includes things like Bill C-61. If you are a Canadian and you are reading this site you should know what and how Bill C-61 is and how it can affect you. It is dead simply because of a quirk in politics, not because it died in any readings. The Conservatives can and will reintroduce a third bill like C-61 simply because they can. They are in line with 'big business' and lobbyists at the expense of your average Canadian. If you allow the Conservatives to gain a majority then they will ram a successor to C-61 down you throats and you have NO ONE but yourselves to blame in allowing this to happen.
Just remember that this is the governing party that has allowed an innocent man (Maher Arar) to be renditioned and tortured in Syria via the United States on poor and mistaken evidence that he was a terrorist, and then tried to cover it up by denying any fault. What makes you think that a government that would allow this would give any consideration to average Canadians about criminalizing downloads?
You have a little more than 30 days to get the word out that the Conservative Party is not out for any citizen's interests but is totally willing to follow the will of corporate interests, the largest of which are headquartered in the United States. Funny how Bill C-61 looked like the DMCA...
The original article is atrocious. There are no details on what type of licensing this fellow is claiming and he throws in some patent leverage that allows VIA to get away with making x86 parts.
The author of the original article sounds like he doesn't have a clue what he has heard and has no idea how to explain it.
From what I can tell from his badly munged writing, it looks like nVidia can make x86 compatible processors to take on Intel and AMD in the performance processor market, but they are in a legal bind potentially.
This might mean that they want to make specific socket compatible parts, of which Intel and AMD have made proprietary connections and protected by numerous patents and trade secrets. nVidia probably has signed agreements with these companies for their northbridge chipset and GPU/SLI business and making CPUs would probably break all sorts of clauses therein. This is probably where the author is claiming the licensing would be required to make a socket compatible CPU.
It might also mean that nVidia wants to make their own x86 class CPU with a new northbridge of their own. Probably a nonstarter since that means you'd have to purchase a motherboard from nVidia just to use their new CPU. Probably breaks the previously mentioned clauses too.
The last scenario I could see is that nVidia cannot make a decently performing x86 compatible processor without infringing on patents that AMD and Intel own. Unless nVidia has a massive patent portfolio of their own that Intel or AMD are currently infringing upon, neither would open up any (cross) licensing discussion to nVidia and allow them to muscle in on the performance x86 market.
um, I highly doubt that it's a TAM. TAMs are not black, Macintosh TVs are black though.
http://lowendmac.com/500/macintosh-tv.html
Bah I just woke up so this may come across clearly.
The reason why it's only for eye candy at the moment is because developers do not want to fork the gaming experience. Since accelerated physics would create a have and have not situation for gamers, where the non accelerated experience would be too slow to be acceptable, developers choose to only fluff up the eye candy portions because you could not make the game play experience identical between the two.
This means that you could fork development and have two versions of the game, where the first non accelerated version is significantly less physics rich and has less eye candy than an accelerated one. The big caveat to that is that we live in a networked world, and multiplayer games are big too. This would also create a fundamental incompatibility between the different gaming experiences which means the two versions could not interact.
That's pretty much the big reason on why physics engine accelerators have been limited to visual eye candy only and not the fundamental games. It's purely a business decision, and one that will get reassessed once the market for physics engines becomes large enough where the developers can safely 'ditch' non accelerated physics systems.
sheesh, why didn't they just keep feeding him subtley poisoned information to discredit ALL the information he's given them over the years?
I forgot, the relevant statement is at 12:40ish in the presentation.
AMD does not have market leadership, so they can make radical gambles for better efficiencies to attempt for better marketshare.
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From what I can recall, Intel fellow Bob Colwell mentioned the CPU designers could integrate ethernet onboard but they faced a fight from the ethernet chip group which have their own marketshare, budget and design group.
I suppose that as long as chipsets (Northbridges and Southbridges) make money for Intel, memory controllers will stay on the Northbridge and use more power than having memory controllers on CPU.
Bob Colwell presentation:
http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380
Wasn't it Patricia Dunn who was the CEO at the time?
Just remember that this is the John Knoll who originally developed Photoshop too (stated in the article too).
Ender, is that you?
Wireless Total Price: $80
CAT5 Total Price*: $393
Having your network compromised and your identity stolen: Priceless
Wouldn't a creative technology terrorist comprimise and activate this system and force a jetliner to land on the Whitehouse? The pilots can't override it and no need to get any hijackers on board at the time of flight.
What's the point in bringing it back if it's empty? Why not park it out of the way somewhere where it can be retrieved or recycled later, or repaired for another attempt?
Apple should just beta the .n enabler for OS X 10.4 and never get around to finalizing it, kind of google extended beta. OS X 10.5 will have .n support in box and therefore everybody wins.
Pray that it comes with a 3.5" bay for the HDD so you could theoretically upgrade it to a 750GB drive.
So Microsoft has decided that whitelisting companies is a good idea, and everyone else is to be lumped into a greylist and blacklist area? No wonder the individuals in the grey zone are peeved, the association with blacklist websites alone will tank sales.
That just escalates this guy's standing and position in the 'newsy' community. Why would you want to build his fame and fortune for him? You pander to his fancies of being a security guru and he will hold you hostage with a 'security review' every time he needs a PR boost.
Ignore this guy and keep doing things the way they've been done. It has been responsive and working.
Why isn't there a 'minder' program or algorithm that would prevent people from logging on constantly? Let's be honest here, no one should be on for 24 hours straight or 80 hours a week. The system could either boot you off or reduce the amount of rewards you get if you spend too much time in the system. This would reduce gold farmers as well. Now you can argue what the lower limit is going to be before you get kicked off or lower rewards, but some reporting would be nice especially for parents of kids who play MMPORGs too. Just a thought, flame at will...
I'd mod you down, but then no one would know why. If you had bothered to read the article until the end, here it is:
FTFA:
"Personally, we can't help but feel that the SIXAXIS (as it's now known) has been sadly neglected when viewed alongside the rest of the PS3. Compared to Microsoft's uber-comfortable Xbox 360 pad, the SIXAXIS feels cheap, plasticky, uncomfortable and disconcertingly light - almost as if it's going to fly out of your hands during those more extreme gaming moments.
More worrying still, the newly-designed lower L and R shoulder triggers feel more like they belong on an early controller prototype than the near-final model. Replicating the 360 pad, rather than being simple shoulder-mounted buttons, the triggers are now hinged horizontally along the controller, with pressure forcing them inward along the bottom - like triggers then, really. Trouble is, they're placed almost unnaturally low meaning we found ourselves operating them by jamming our fingers in between the hinges to apply pressure, rather than using the buttons themselves. What's more, the triggers are convex, with no grooves to keep your fingers in place - an issue further compounded by their smooth finish, offering no resistance against your finger tips. Invariably we found our digits slipping off with the triggers snapping back to their default position. Bah. Of course, the PS2's Dual Shock pad wasn't without its faults either but we still learned to live with it. It's just a shame that Sony hasn't used its resources to bring its controller up to next-gen standards along with its cutting-edge hardware."
Mike Breeden was one of the guys who kept the high end overclocking and modding community alive when Macs were on life support in the mid to late nineties. He's always been a one man show and while you guys may not think he's very influential right now, he's pretty much one degree removed from all the important people today.
Ever since the G5 has stumped the modding community xlr8yourmac has kind have just been a reporting news site, but perhaps the future x86 Macs might bring back Mike's site to it's former glory.
Better article here:
Note the date on the article as well.
I'd say retarded, but I guess they just weren't creative enough.
If they really wanted to capitalize on making a splash, they should have announced that retail prices were going to be marginally higher than the 360, but they could have said that they were going to use eBay for charity auctions on the initial runs, donating half of the money towards a charity of winner's designation, etc. eBay would have paid them big money for this and Sony would have made huge gains in publicity and a feeding frenzy would make the retail price look absolutely cheap in comparison.
Just my 2 cents.
Uh, how about Mac Pro?
AIDS is not a bogeyman. It's real, and it's classified as a pandemic. Check out some news that doesn't involve slashdot sometime.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/onap/facts.html
http://www.accessexcellence.org/HHQ/HRC/HF/aids/i
http://asmallvictory.net/archives/005326.html