You fundamentally misunderstand the goal of Transmeta. The product's goal is to compete against _Intel_ in mobile _PC_ products. In PDA products like Palm (i.e. where X86 compatibility is not needed) non-X86 products (particularly, Intel's StrongARM) are much better because they use less power, are faster, and are cheaper. Transmeta specifically said that they are NOT competing in this market. Transmeta will only compete where X86 compatibility is needed in lower power devices, and there has yet to be a market for that (aside from laptops, and Transmeta has yet to demonstrate superiority to Intel in that market).
Re:Does open / closed have to equal good / bad?
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Igor Stravinsky once said that there are only two types of music - good music and bad music.
And don't you forget: you can also print an Emulex press release on a t-shirt. Therefore, stock price manipulation MUST be legal. The people who don't agree don't understand the internet. Information wants to be free!!!
Hypocritical isn't it? Commander Taco doesn't "get it". As everybody knows, most web site developers get almost all of their income from developing web sites live in front of an audience, and from selling t-shirts. The actual web site is free because it can be copied. The internet makes all IP laws irrelevant since anything can be copied without a trace.
Well, we do know that Bill Joy has a Windows-based laptop. There is a Sun/Solaris based laptop, but apparently Bill prefers Windows.
Sun also runs its entire accounting system on VMS. Apparently Solaris is too fragile, and crashes constantly, so it can't handle mission critical things such as a large company's accounting system.
Intel uses VMS in their fab's.
Possibly the only company which doesn't use much invented outside is the ultimate progenitor of NIH - Compaq. IBM, also?
At one point in time Intel stock split fairly regularly, but hasn't in awhile.
Intel stock split last month.
It is also at an all time high. AMD is not; it's 30% off of its 52 week high. Please refrain from spreading FUD on the internet, and please check your facts before you post next time.
How do you explain that SDRAM can't saturate more than 1/3 of the P4 bus, but RDRAM can? The benchmarks on real systems are today's systems, but systems about to come out (e.g. the P4) have busses much faster (3x-4x) than what is out now, and will need RDRAM to keep up. That's what RDRAM is needed for. Save your benchmarks until P4 comes out (the first system to actually take advantage of RDRAM).
If that was really Napster's defense, then they are not very smart, and one wonders how somebody who couldn't innovate the simplest of concepts could even operate a compiler. I could make a 99.9999999% foolproof algorithm for allowing only songs which the author gave permission to distribute to be listed on Napster, in my sleep. The judge also came up with one, and she's not even an engineer.
The guys at intel seem to be far more comfortable sticking with what they "know" than moving ahead. This explains why the ISA bus has lasted far longer than it should have, why they haven't substantially changed CPU architectures in ages, and why they have decided that the next big graphics bus will be, again, serial.
And then you go on to praise AMD. Intel invented the microprocessor, semiconductor memory, and the IEEE floating point format, has plenty of new technologies such as MMX and SSE, and is the main innovator of the newest technologies such as AGP, USB, and PCI. What has AMD done comparable? AMD uses the technologies which Intel invented (X86 architecture, Socket 7, PCI, etc.) and has yet to invent a new technology (e.g. the Athlon bus was bought from Compaq).
Intel has not done a new architecture in years? Merced is the most revolutionary new architecture since the advent of RISC (20 years ago), yet gets dogged becaused it's too different. Instead, people praise the Sledgehammer, which is merely a 64 bit extension but nothing revolutionary. Make up your mind!
Let's make a song with gorilla's credit card numbers, social security numbers, phone number, birthdate, address, and medical history. Obviously, this is speech; how else would you be able to sing it?
Re:What we want is information, not ads or hype.
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The nightly news is too heavily influenced by advertisers, politics, and personal bias.
And Slashdot isn't?
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And you're going to promptly send refunds to the people who bought the book, instead of waiting 9 months for the online version, since you held an illegal monopoly on distribution of paper goods?
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TCP/IP (which, last I checked, was created by the US government by paid employees, rather than hackers working for free into the night) itself may have been created open source, but much better networking protocols were developed before TCP/IP.
TCP/IP didn't become popular because it was good, but because it was open. You can argue that a technology will become pervasive if it is open, but you can't argue that the most popular technology is the best.
Few of the technologies you mention are revolutionary; for example, the concept of WWW was derived directly from HyperCard which was a closed, proprietary technology.
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Microprocessors
Transistors
Bit-mapped graphics.
Next question?
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What's being singled out for Napster is not the technology (i.e. the actual client, protocol spec., server software), but the service (the central servers which index the music). Napster is not responsible for creating the technology, but for operating the service.
Please give proof of this outrageous claim (a specific quote that Browne and/or the Libertarian Party does not support IP). Ayn Rand wasn't a Libertarian, but she was pretty close, and she was in full support of IP, and wrotes quite a few articles about it.
This is extremely true, and there are many companies out there who transfer old data to modern media, and handle all sorts of media including 9 track tapes, paper type, all sorts of disk packs, and zillions of different floppy formats. A data conversion service would be an extremely good excuse to keep the old machines up & running, and you would probably make a few bucks from it, especially as the machines got rarer and out of commission.
Old computers, depending on your view of "old", can be extremely useful. There are still lots of PDP-11's in service, which was started in the early 1970's, and there are still VAX-11/780's in service, which was started in 1977 or so. I have a plethora of VAX'es at home which range in age from 15 years or so old, whose software does most things better than the modern Linux/Windows PC, and whose capabilities are fairly comparable to fairly new PC's. The uses include programming, and things like servers, and these types of machines are very capable for this use (but not the most efficient use of power).
Re:This *should* be a position at every University
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IMHO, a course on computer history belongs as much in the computer science department, as a course on the history of the automobile belongs in the mechanical engineering department. History which is technical in nature will be a natural part of a course (e.g. an OS course will cover the different types of systems), but things like the names and who invented what are not technical, but sociological, and have no place whatsoever in a technical department.
The author of that quote was clueless and should have said "microarchitecture". The architecture of Pentium 4 is very similar to Pentium III, but the microarchitecture is 100% different, and is a complete overhaul.
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You fundamentally misunderstand the goal of Transmeta. The product's goal is to compete against _Intel_ in mobile _PC_ products. In PDA products like Palm (i.e. where X86 compatibility is not needed) non-X86 products (particularly, Intel's StrongARM) are much better because they use less power, are faster, and are cheaper. Transmeta specifically said that they are NOT competing in this market. Transmeta will only compete where X86 compatibility is needed in lower power devices, and there has yet to be a market for that (aside from laptops, and Transmeta has yet to demonstrate superiority to Intel in that market).
Igor Stravinsky once said that there are only two types of music - good music and bad music.
YM "Duke Ellington".
And don't you forget: you can also print an Emulex press release on a t-shirt. Therefore, stock price manipulation MUST be legal. The people who don't agree don't understand the internet. Information wants to be free!!!
Hypocritical isn't it? Commander Taco doesn't "get it". As everybody knows, most web site developers get almost all of their income from developing web sites live in front of an audience, and from selling t-shirts. The actual web site is free because it can be copied. The internet makes all IP laws irrelevant since anything can be copied without a trace.
Well, we do know that Bill Joy has a Windows-based laptop. There is a Sun/Solaris based laptop, but apparently Bill prefers Windows.
Sun also runs its entire accounting system on VMS. Apparently Solaris is too fragile, and crashes constantly, so it can't handle mission critical things such as a large company's accounting system.
Intel uses VMS in their fab's.
Possibly the only company which doesn't use much invented outside is the ultimate progenitor of NIH - Compaq. IBM, also?
At one point in time Intel stock split fairly regularly, but hasn't in awhile.
Intel stock split last month.
It is also at an all time high. AMD is not; it's 30% off of its 52 week high. Please refrain from spreading FUD on the internet, and please check your facts before you post next time.
How do you explain that SDRAM can't saturate more than 1/3 of the P4 bus, but RDRAM can? The benchmarks on real systems are today's systems, but systems about to come out (e.g. the P4) have busses much faster (3x-4x) than what is out now, and will need RDRAM to keep up. That's what RDRAM is needed for. Save your benchmarks until P4 comes out (the first system to actually take advantage of RDRAM).
If that was really Napster's defense, then they are not very smart, and one wonders how somebody who couldn't innovate the simplest of concepts could even operate a compiler. I could make a 99.9999999% foolproof algorithm for allowing only songs which the author gave permission to distribute to be listed on Napster, in my sleep. The judge also came up with one, and she's not even an engineer.
The guys at intel seem to be far more comfortable sticking with what they "know" than moving ahead. This explains why the ISA bus has lasted far longer than it should have, why they haven't substantially changed CPU architectures in ages, and why they have decided that the next big graphics bus will be, again, serial.
And then you go on to praise AMD. Intel invented the microprocessor, semiconductor memory, and the IEEE floating point format, has plenty of new technologies such as MMX and SSE, and is the main innovator of the newest technologies such as AGP, USB, and PCI. What has AMD done comparable? AMD uses the technologies which Intel invented (X86 architecture, Socket 7, PCI, etc.) and has yet to invent a new technology (e.g. the Athlon bus was bought from Compaq).
Intel has not done a new architecture in years? Merced is the most revolutionary new architecture since the advent of RISC (20 years ago), yet gets dogged becaused it's too different. Instead, people praise the Sledgehammer, which is merely a 64 bit extension but nothing revolutionary. Make up your mind!
Let's make a song with gorilla's credit card numbers, social security numbers, phone number, birthdate, address, and medical history. Obviously, this is speech; how else would you be able to sing it?
The nightly news is too heavily influenced by advertisers, politics, and personal bias.
And Slashdot isn't?
And you're going to promptly send refunds to the people who bought the book, instead of waiting 9 months for the online version, since you held an illegal monopoly on distribution of paper goods?
TCP/IP (which, last I checked, was created by the US government by paid employees, rather than hackers working for free into the night) itself may have been created open source, but much better networking protocols were developed before TCP/IP.
TCP/IP didn't become popular because it was good, but because it was open. You can argue that a technology will become pervasive if it is open, but you can't argue that the most popular technology is the best.
Few of the technologies you mention are revolutionary; for example, the concept of WWW was derived directly from HyperCard which was a closed, proprietary technology.
Microprocessors
Transistors
Bit-mapped graphics.
Next question?
a. I design micrprocessors for a living
b. Sure I do
c. Nope - Computer Science
d. Sure!
I have no idea what MP3board is, but why is Gnutella somehow responsible for it? Is MP3board actually a service which runs Gnutella?
No it's not. AOL is not part Time Warner.
What's being singled out for Napster is not the technology (i.e. the actual client, protocol spec., server software), but the service (the central servers which index the music). Napster is not responsible for creating the technology, but for operating the service.
Please give proof of this outrageous claim (a specific quote that Browne and/or the Libertarian Party does not support IP). Ayn Rand wasn't a Libertarian, but she was pretty close, and she was in full support of IP, and wrotes quite a few articles about it.
This is extremely true, and there are many companies out there who transfer old data to modern media, and handle all sorts of media including 9 track tapes, paper type, all sorts of disk packs, and zillions of different floppy formats. A data conversion service would be an extremely good excuse to keep the old machines up & running, and you would probably make a few bucks from it, especially as the machines got rarer and out of commission.
Old computers, depending on your view of "old", can be extremely useful. There are still lots of PDP-11's in service, which was started in the early 1970's, and there are still VAX-11/780's in service, which was started in 1977 or so. I have a plethora of VAX'es at home which range in age from 15 years or so old, whose software does most things better than the modern Linux/Windows PC, and whose capabilities are fairly comparable to fairly new PC's. The uses include programming, and things like servers, and these types of machines are very capable for this use (but not the most efficient use of power).
IMHO, a course on computer history belongs as much in the computer science department, as a course on the history of the automobile belongs in the mechanical engineering department. History which is technical in nature will be a natural part of a course (e.g. an OS course will cover the different types of systems), but things like the names and who invented what are not technical, but sociological, and have no place whatsoever in a technical department.
Um, Branch Prediction is not an "Alpha feature". The IBM 360 had branch prediction in the mid-1960's.
Mainly because only part of the chip is running at that speed, not the whole thing.
The author of that quote was clueless and should have said "microarchitecture". The architecture of Pentium 4 is very similar to Pentium III, but the microarchitecture is 100% different, and is a complete overhaul.