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Comment: Re:Good Grief (Score 1) 248
jythie speculated:
I suspect that even though the point that it feels far off has probably delayed reexamining the treaty, another big problem is it represents a rather significant can of worms that governments just do not want to deal with right now, not unless one of them has something significant to gain from it.
I suspect you're right.
That doesn't alter the fact that it's important to the future of the human race that the issue be addressed.
Comment: Re:If you can defend it .. it's yours (Score 1) 248
newcastlejon remonstrated:
pigiron quipped:
The moon is a harsh mistress.
That's not a quip, it's the title of a book. A rather well-known one.
Yes it is. One I read the year it was published.
But pigiron was trying to be funny. (I think he succeeded, btw.) That makes his post a QUIP. From Goggle's search page for the term:
noun: quip; plural noun: quips
a witty remark.
synonyms: joke, witty remark, witticism, jest, pun, bon mot, sally, pleasantry;
informal one-liner, gag, crack, wisecrack, funny
"the quip provoked a smile"
a verbal equivocation.
verb: quip; 3rd person present: quips; past tense: quipped; past participle: quipped; gerund or present participle: quipping
make a witty remark.
""Flattery will get you nowhere," she quipped"
synonyms: joke, jest, pun, sally;
Comment: Re:Good Grief (Score 3, Interesting) 248
MightyMartian sneered:
It's rather irrelevant what you think, Mr. Bigelow. There are currently international treaties banning any nation (and by extension any citizen of a nation) from claiming extraterrestrial territory. So bugger off and do something useful with your money.
There ARE current international treaties banning ownership of an extraterrestrial body. They're foolish and outdated, and they need to be amended. Bigelow is attempting to persuade the US government to begin negotiating that process.
I think Bigelow is a swine - but he's right about what it will take to give private capital the incentive to invest the blood and treasure necessary to colonize and exploit extraterrestrial resources. We're getting ever closer to the day when companies like SpaceX will be capable of creating conglomerates that possess the technology and financial resources to do exactly that - but they won't commit them until they see the possibility of getting sufficient return on their investment to make the risk worth taking.
I'm all for government funding - NASA, the ESA, and so on - for space exploration efforts. But we can't COLONIZE the Moon without first modifying the existing Moon Treaty. Nor can we conduct commercial operations (such as ice mining) without amending it, because that 50-year-old treaty prohibits them.
Anybody - including people you despise - can have a good idea. Ideas should be considered on their own merits, rather than being dismissed out of hand, simply because you dislike their source.
Comment: Re:If you can defend it .. it's yours (Score 1) 248
pigiron quipped:
The moon is a harsh mistress.
And Bob Bigelow is a slumlord.
I've lived in one of his bigger "residence hotels". It was a hellhole. Cop cars day and night, shootings and stabbings, bloodstains on the carpet.
I understand Bob Hsieh, co-founder of Zappos, has bought up a big chunk of Fremont Street, and is steadily redeveloping it into a pretty decent area - but, five years ago, downtown Vegas was a complete slum. And Bigelow helped create that slum.
BTW - I think he's probably right about private property rights being the key to giving private capital the incentive needed to invest in colonizing and economically exploiting Luna. That, however, does not change who he is.
Comment: Re:frivolous (Score 3, Interesting) 103
Sesostris III noted:
There is also Apple Corps Ltd, owned by the Beatles. There have been trademark disputes between Apple Inc and Apple Corp Ltd, none of which will affect you buying apples (the fruit)).
And Apple Computer was forced to negotiate a settlement with Apple Corps Ltd in every suit the Beatles' company filed. (They were all related to iTunes, which is all about music - and the Beatles worldwide trademark was established in 1968, so Apple Computers' conflicting mark had no legal leg to stand on.)
Trademarks are, for the most part, geographically limited, and apply fairly narrowly to the product or service to which the mark applies. Thus the Saturn automobile company, the Sega Saturn console, and Saturn Internet Services ALL had trademarks on the name Saturn. None of them conflicted with each other, because each represented a different category of product (cars vs. game consoles) or service (an ISP). Very few trademarks are global. Apple Computer is, and so is Apple Corps Ltd. The conflict arose when Apple Computer decided to get into the music business - and ran into a trademark the Beatles had established more than thirty years earlier. So Steve Jobs changed the service's name to iTunes, paid Apple Corps an undisclosed (but clearly substantial) amount of money, and signed a quitclaim agreement to make it all go away. Once that happened, negotiations began between Apple Corps and Apple Computer to make the Beatles' music available on iTunes - which it now is.
In other news, Shuttleworth over-fucking-reached in a major way. The EFF has set him straight. Let's hope he stays that way.
Unless, y'know, he's gay.
Comment: Re:Off-topic, but ... (Score 1) 114
krs440 stated:
Sorry, you lost me. I did read your reference.
The aside was directed at the peanut gallery - not at you. (Your user number indicated that you ought to be familiar with the
Yes, it mentions the variation, which is what cause me to do a little searching to see the earliest documented reference I could find with minimal effort. I'm clearly not the expert you are on attribution. However, as a layperson, crediting Paul Mellon for a minimally reworded version of a phrase doesn't seem much better than crediting someone who bothered to use it for a book title.
Again, they're not the same quote. "I love it!" and "I'm lovin' it! (tm McDonalds) are not the same statement. They may well MEAN the same thing, but they are not the same quote.
I'm not a particular partisan of Mr. Mellon. If you can find an earlier citation for his exact statement, I'll happily acknowledge it. I'm equally sanguine about accepting that the "ain't" variant came first. My concern is with
As it happens, that someone turned out to be yours truly.
Comment: Re:Off-topic, but ... (Score 1) 114
krs440 noted:
Attribution can be tricky. You seem pretty sure that the original statement should be attributed to Paul Mellon, and mention it's from January, 1942. What about this? http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19380705&id=ZysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1516,6094461 It's the July 5th, 1938 edition of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, specifically, a story entitled "Economics in Eight Words". The last line is "There ain't no such thing as free lunch". I assume that the difference of "There aint" vs "There's" and the missing "a" aren't terribly important. I have no idea if this is the first occurrence of it either.
If you read the reference I cited (pause for derisive laughter from the peanut gallery), you'll note that IT draws a distinction between the two formulations. Like Friedman with the more formal phraseology, Robert A. Heinlein is frequently credited with "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." In fact, he DID come up with the acronym TANSTAAFL (in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress), which is now widely used, but, as you point out, he certainly didn't coin the parent observation.
So, yes, proper attribution can be obscure. But I still say that's NO excuse for obvious mis-attribution, and no excuse whatsoever for leaving out attribution of living authors' _bon mots_ altogether - especially when the source of those IS indisputable.
Comment: Off-topic, but ... (Score 1) 114
Slushdot's fortune cookies need a thorough overhaul.
Just as a for-instance, I keep seeing "There's no such thing as a free lunch" attributed to Milton Friedman. Phrase finder attributes the original statement to journalist Paul Mellon, in a January, 1942 editorial response to a speech by then-vice-President Henry Wallace. It notes that the phrase is associated with Friedman only because he appropriated it as the title of his 1975 book - but he would have been in grade school when Mellon's editorial was first published.
That's far from the only sin of mis-attribution (or, much worse, non-attribution) in the fortune database. I'm CONSTANTLY seeing quotes from Bill Griffith's fabulous Zippy the Pinhead strips (mostly Zippy's own non-sequiturs) show up without attribution to either Griffith (their actual author) or Zippy (his mouthpiece). The same is true of many great Steven Wright lines - and there have to be plenty of others whose authors I don't recognize.
Full disclosure: I'm a writer. Proper attribution is important to me. I'm known for the extent to which I research my work - which makes proper attribution all the more important from my perspective.
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canadian_right confessed:
I've always enjoyed the movie Star Ship Troopers as a satire of fascism and chauvinism. I thought it conveyed the spirit of the book, if a bit skewed, quite well.
Oh, for criminy's sake! A "satire of fascism and chavinism" that "conveyed the spirit of the book"? Give to me a break.
The two things are ENTIRELY mutually exclusive. You can convey the spirit of Heinlein's final juvenile novel, or you can make a "satire of fascism and chauvinism", but you cannot do both. In fact, I'm reminded of Heinlein's own observation that, "A man may choose to follow the path of faith, or the path of reason. He cannot do both."
Starship Troopers, the novel, is a straightforward exposition of the process by which callow teenagers are transformed into trained soldiers. There's no trace of sexism in it, and no hint of fascism, either. (That Heinlein sets the story in a society in which an individual must serve the public for a period - remarks he made in response to interviews published over the years made it clear that he did not envision military service as the only option - before being granted the sovereign franchise does NOT amount to "fascism".) The movie, by contrast, discards every trace of what makes the book effective as a coming-of-age tale, replaces Heinlein's social model with a truly fascist one, and makes the military's leadership a clown college (Space marines using carbines against the Bugs? Really?), to boot. It has NOTHING to do with the book, besides sharing a title.
You, sir, are a ninnyhammer.
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Comment: Re:WASHINGTON NOT IMPLODING (Score 1) 299
Jeremiah Cornelius explained:
167 individual people control 37+ Trillion dollars of actual monetary wealth in the world. I am not the reductionist.
If you think that this concentration of wealth does not produce the outcome desired by those individuals? Then you don't see that this is how they got to that position, over the last 30 years, when thety were less than 1/3 as wealthy, and how they used this influence to drive them to the current concentration.
There is NO "tea party" - tho' the passions do actually run that high, 'mong the recruited rabble. There's just the Koch's. They are the "regressive, brute" funding team, of the monied elite.
No, what YOU don't understand it that the Kochs have taken a hit in the past two weeks' free fall on Wall Street. They therefore have sent forth the word that the Tea Party needs to cut it the fuck out.
And the Tea Party is ignoring them.
Thus my "Victor Frankenstein" comment.
I'm telling you that YOUR picture of the current state of Washington and the Repugnican Party is oversimplified. YOU live in California. *I* live in rural Ohio, in the heart of Tea Party country. I'm personally acquainted with far too many of these nit-wits. And they are NOT part of the "everybody in Washington works for the plutocrats" equation.


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This is awesome. Listening to the song now, and I absolutely love them. We need moar sybreed!
This is awesome. Listening to the song now, and I absolutely love them. We need moar sybreed!
Please tell me you are getting more from Sybreed, or trying too at least. This is some great stuff here.
Originally Posted by HMXMister_Game:
"Well Thom, why haven't you gotten on board to straighten us out? Sounds like it's time to *** up or shut up."
I was about to ask the same damn thing.
After checking out some more of their tracks.
We need these two :
So what's the word knuckles?
Is there more coming?
I wouldn't call that industrial metal.
I like the classification 'Death Wave'.
But New Wave is not a sub-genre of metal and I can't call it death metal.
Thank you Harmonix for Rust in Peace.
Where we at Knuckles? (Emma Zero from the Sybreed forums), still 25% reviewed? I was thinking of making an XNA account so help out around here.
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My god I wish this song would hurry up.. people are playtesting songs that have only just been added before this one which has been stuck at 25% for ages. Not cool.
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thanks for the memories KP but your knees are not worth big money, best of luck.
He is a fan favorite but they will have to move on. They don't have a lot if money and he has a history of injuries.
This is why it's premature to kick Rolle and Diehl to the curb. You have to know who you're going to have before you cut ties with players.
I wish they had the details. I want to know how much guaranteed they offered
From his perspective, it must be tough for KP to see Rolle making all that money and then have the Giants offer him only a fraction of that type of money
Guessing KP got offered a similar contract to the one TT signed last year but probably more money involved.
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This article isn't about firmware, it's about driver code. The driver code runs on the host CPU, the firmware runs on the device. Intel have been releasing free driver code for years. Atheros are starting to catch up. Yay for Atheros, but don't imagine that tomorrow Atheros are going to publish the source code for their firmware.
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Posted Sep 27, 2008 12:57 UTC (Sat) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
You're making the same mistake as the people who insist that you need to drink several large glasses of water every day to stay healthy - they can't see the water in the vegetables they had at dinner, or the orange juice they had with breakfast, or the sandwiches they ate for lunch, but it was still there, and not seeing it doesn't change that.
Atheros are even proud enough of their firmware to trumpet the consistency of the firmware code base between newer and older members of the same chipset family, which gives them an advantage in maintaining good quality drivers across the whole range. And right there on their block diagrams you will see the ROM with the firmware in it.
What Atheros don't do, which Intel and many other vendors do, is include the firmware in the driver package and upload it to the chip during startup. That makes a huge difference if you have a tight storage budget (say you're building a $50 set top gadget) but for the vast majority of Linux users it just means one more package to install.
Posted Sep 27, 2008 13:34 UTC (Sat) by ledow (guest, #11753) [Link]
I don't care that much about on-board firmware that works. Network cards have it, video cards have it, usb devices have it, BIOS's ARE it. It doesn't mean that having the source code available for that is necessary for operation of that device, which it is in some cases and is for the HAL layer of Atheros cards.
The last time I updated a BIOS was about six or seven years ago, and I would only EVER do it from manufacturer-supplied sources. It's the same thing - although it would be lovely to get the source to my current laptop's BIOS, I wouldn't try to use it, compile it or update it and use of it would almost certainly void all warranties. User-land code very rarely voids a warranty (the only case I can think of are the IBM laptops that could have their EEPROM corrupted by loading an I2C driver - and I don't know if IBM assisted in replacing such machines). The original firmware works, under all operating systems, and is supported and that's good enough for me. Future operating systems won't work on this laptop so there's no point "upgrading" to an OS BIOS to add features that it can't make use of. This BIOS will last the lifetime of the laptop.
This is how the internal stored firmware of any device is treated too - so long as it works for everything, it's fine. When it doesn't work, few people are going to want to make a permanent and therefore dangerous change to it even if they have the source. Whereas, devices that can safely update firmware on every boot by a simple upload from the driver - they should have source available because it's part of the necessary operating of the device from the factory and also because people might well tinker.
I have madwifi-supported cards and the freedom of the HAL layer for them is the only thing that has or will ever interest me. It means my kernel won't taint. That's all I care about. I'd love to have the source for the BIOS, firmware, every stored byte on the machine, but that's a very purist view. Atheros cards are basically "non-firmware" because the drivers do not require knowledge of the firmware.
One set of "true" firmware-less cards are those based on RT2500 and similar chipsets, which have entirely GPL, non-firmware drivers. But I don't know (or care) if there's a small EEPROM on there that holds the MAC, or a tiny embedded chip which DMA's data across busses... so I'm don't care if the "firmware" for that EEPROM/chip is available - I'll never need to know it and if the device fails, I'm stuffed anyway, whether I have the source or not.
Posted Sep 29, 2008 9:55 UTC (Mon) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]
If the Linux kernel and downloadable firmware are not considered to be separate works but instead one program (the point at which the GPL becomes an issue), why wouldn't the same apply if the firmware was uploaded into the card from a ROM?
The only real problem with downloadable firmware is how to get it onto the system. If the firmware is freely redistributable, then it can be included by the distribution. If it isn't, then the user needs to get it some other way, which is the problem.
Given that on the hardware manufacturer's side, the decision to go with downloadable firmware is economic (no need to include an extra ROM/flash on the board) rather than depending on whether they think users will want to modify it. So saying that downloadable firmware should be open source but firmware stored in ROM or flash shouldn't be seems quite arbitrary. Either it is okay or it isn't.
Posted Sep 29, 2008 13:10 UTC (Mon) by ledow (guest, #11753) [Link]
The difference is in what's required for operation. A firmware source is not required for operation if it's stored permanently on the card with which it ships. Every card has a version of it, it comes from the factory like that and it may not even be able to be changed. If the company goes bankrupt, you're in no worse a position than before. All hardware has that code loaded and ready to go.
There may be "bugfix" versions of the firmware but the device is essentially another "computer" which your PC is talking to via an established communications standard (i.e. the card's protocol). Knowledge of that firmware's exact innards achieves little at great cost and because it doesn't need to be distributed AT ALL as "software" (except by the manufacturer in the original device), then it doesn't come under legal problems.
However, to RUN a card which does *not* have permanent firmware storage, then you have to have the firmware blob and the firmware blob is a required part of the driver code, no matter what the OS is. Because the blob is part of the code, that brings it into the murky realm of "merging binary blob with GPL driver code" (nobody's quite sure if it's allowed or not, but there haven't been any complaints yet). That's the problem, the solutions to which are:
1) There can be no legal GPL driver. 2) The company releases the source code to the blob under the GPL and a full GPL driver is released.
The legal definitions would be mind-boggling. Is my USB stick a "computer" because it contains a chip capable of performing operations on a private memory area? Is a PIC chip? Is hard-coded logic? Does this communication with a computer device consitute or require distribution of software code? Is that use legal under trade laws (i.e. can you sell hardware that is dependent on YOUR firmware code to operate and then forbid use of YOUR code to person X for reason Y? Are you required to let other people produce their own firmware code etc.)?
It's an absolute minefield, which is why the more that is GPL'd or licensed under even "more free" licenses, the better. However, there has to be a realistic limit or you're into "I want source code for your son and daughter too" territory and all co-operation halts.
Firmware would be great to have open-sourced but if I don't have the facility to use it at all (it's burned into a ROM) or I don't need to ever change it, I *personally* don't care about the source code for it. It's much easier than the hardware equivalent of soft-modems - where having to have a firmware blob (or other proprietry, non-distributed software) downloaded to the device every time I use it, the possibility of uploading the wrong firmware, the possibility of trashing the hardware with a faulty upload, the possibility of that being the only firmware EVER that operates the device because the company goes bust etc.
A GPL-only *driver* that can run on all OS is the ultimate goal for most people. That means not having to distribute other people's code (e.g. blobs, layers and protocols) but being able to control every visible part of the device. Anything past that is a bonus.
Posted Sep 29, 2008 21:20 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]
According to the GPL (Section 3, last paragraph): "In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License."
You may not be able to stick the firmware in the driver as a hex constant, and the firmware license may prohibit redistribution, but distributing it alongside the driver is explicitly permitted by a plain reading of the GPL.
Posted Sep 30, 2008 2:33 UTC (Tue) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]
During the upload process, the firmware looks like data: it just sends whatever data was passed by userspace to the card. When the device is operational though, you have two cooperating programs: the driver on the main CPU and the firmware on the device CPU.
My contention is that there is no distinction between the cases where the firmware is uploaded or comes on ROM/flash: if the two cooperating programs are considered a single work then the GPL would cover the firmware. If they are separate, then the GPL does not extend to the firmware. So the ability to create a GPL'd driver for the hardware shouldn't depend on the method used to load the firmware.
You bring up the problem of how to get the firmware if the company producing the hardware goes bankrupt. The firmware is still distributed with the device: just on a CD rather than a ROM. In such a case, it is just a matter of extracting the firmware from the CD (perhaps extracting it from a Windows driver). This is what people already have to do in cases where the manufacturer hasn't provided permission to redistribute the firmware. If they have provided permission to redistribute the firmware, then your distro probably already includes it.
Posted Sep 29, 2008 13:08 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
Posted Sep 29, 2008 13:38 UTC (Mon) by ledow (guest, #11753) [Link]
Now that a free alternative to ath_hal exists, I can get non-tainting of my kernel. Which means I don't have to unload ath_hal in order to report bugs.
Posted Sep 27, 2008 13:44 UTC (Sat) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link]
Posted Sep 27, 2008 14:23 UTC (Sat) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
Posted Sep 27, 2008 17:13 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
It can be anything from some thin logic so people don't have to make a custom chip to play it to a entire embedded operating system.
The firmware for my Intel Iwl3945 is 184KB. That's a bigger binary then most of the programs in my /bin directory. It's bigger then the BSD-CSH. So it's obviously doing some very fancy things and is far removed from the traditional 'low level logic' that most people think of when they think of firmware.
It's not something that I particularly care deeply about and it's not worth getting into a war about, or anything. But all firmware is not made equal and if your in the market for a card then this is the sort of thing that I would like to know about. The drivers for Intel's cards are all pretty good, but the firmware has been a source of instabilities and trouble in the past for me.
Just last week, the reason I know about the Thinkpad error stuff, is that I was working on my Mother's Laptop I got for her off of Ebay. The stupid thing wouldn't hold a network connection for more then 7 seconds (XP's ping utility said 'hardware failure', then it would reconnect quickly), and when it did disconnect it would kill whatever downloads were occurring. This made it nearly impossible to install XP's service packs over the network.
So I booted it up in my USB flash drive I carry around for these sort of occasions and was able to download most of the software I needed using Linux and the Intel wireless. Now the same exact errors were happening in Linux, but Linux handled it much more gracefully. Instead of losing the connection the download would just get paused for the second it took to reconnect.
I tried reseting the router and all that happy stuff. We contacted the seller of the laptop and he sent a new Wifi card. Same freaking behavior. Eventually just gave up on the Intel 802.11b and bought a 802.11g cardbus card and it worked perfectly.
I am fairly certain that this behavior was due to Intel firmware bugs. I've had similar issues with my Iwl3945 device, and this is a OEM installed item with OEM Linux support. (Dell 1420n). Nothing earth shattering and the Linux drivers were more then capable of dealing with this stuff nowadays. But it took tracking the iwlwifi website for a while and a few firmware upgrades to get everything stable in Debian.
Like I said before, I use Intel wireless and am happy about the drivers and their Linux support, so I wouldn't put off buying a laptop with Intel stuff on it, but it's not ideal.
Here; I'll give a (counter) example of why it's you should not get all religious about firmware code:
(now don't take this as gospel, I am sure that I'll get several facts wrong)
The AMD/ATI 'Atom Bios' for their video cards. The Atom Bios is firmware provided to Linux/X Windows driver developers that take care of a lot of the low-level functionality that is necessary to do 2D drivers for their newer video cards.
Well the Atom Bios is a binary blob. So you ended up with 2 different sets of 2D drivers being developed in parallel, one that used the binary blob, and the other which said 'no binary blob' and they proceeded to learn how to bang bits about on the surface of the card.
Well the deal is that there _is_no_source_code_. The Atom Bios is mostly shipped as it's developed.. the code in the blob is the code that they more-or-less hand programmed.
Using the Atom Bios is not perfect, it's not ideal.. but the thing is is that with the next-generation of cards all the work on 2D drivers and related items are going to be totally worthless. They won't be programmable using 2D acceleration any more. That part in the video cards will be totally gone and replaced with all 3D-related logic. The newest cards now don't have a 2D acceleration core.. they use hardware emulation and the atom bios to allow code-level compatibility with older 2D drivers.
So instead of putting all the effort into 3D driver development, which is the only thing that is going to be sustainable long-term, we have 2 or 3 different competing 2D drivers; one of the major reasons we have this issue is because of the black-n-white 'no binary blob' outlook. I mean it's nobody's fault how this all worked out.. it seemed correct at the time to shun the Atom Bios, so don't think I am putting the driver developers down or anything. (I think what they are doing is great.)
Posted Sep 28, 2008 8:10 UTC (Sun) by PO8 (guest, #41661) [Link]
Posted Sep 28, 2008 10:27 UTC (Sun) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
There probably is some sort of source code for the AtomBIOS data itself, since the BIOS has to be customised for each product and there's no reason not to make that as painless as possible for the engineer assigned to do it. But since re-flashing people's Radeon cards isn't a practical solution to any conceivable Linux-specific problem there's no reason for anyone in the community to care.
Intel Wireless Probs?
Posted Sep 29, 2008 13:00 UTC (Mon) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]
Posted Sep 29, 2008 14:32 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Keep in mind that it is happening on both Linux and Windows.
Posted Sep 27, 2008 17:26 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
Posted Sep 28, 2008 7:59 UTC (Sun) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
Posted Sep 28, 2008 11:02 UTC (Sun) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
"A single driver and firmware code base supports all Atheros chipsets"
Let me reiterate, there is no reason in general why we should care about firmware or indeed care whether a binary blob we find on a device is in fact firmware (as opposed to a manufacturer's serial number, built-in presets, a look-up table to simplify some mathematics, or a vanity logo). There's no reason why the host driver should care how the host interface is implemented - what we need, to secure Free Software, is just the host interface itself, and Atheros, like Intel have done enough to provide us with that (though doubtless Theo doesn't agree with me). For all I know, the AHCI implementation in my laptop is just a painstaking gate-level design from scratch, while the implementation in the chipset for my server actually uses a tiny embedded microprocessor and forty thousand lines of C++. I doubt it in both cases, but more importantly I don't see any reason we should care - they both speak AHCI just fine.
Posted Sep 28, 2008 16:24 UTC (Sun) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
Anyhow, I agree with you, it doesn't matter much to me; although we have almost successfully reverse engineered Broadcom's firmware, which isn't possible if it's burned into a ROM. It just seems weird to me to burn it into ROM if you could save that cost which is why I always believed it was simply in the HDL. But yeah, it doesn't matter much since you can always treat firmware+cpu as one thing and combine it into new HDL too.
Posted Sep 29, 2008 20:15 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]
Atheros cards would satisfy every distribution because no blobs need to be distributed at all. Sure, there are tables for register initialization in the driver, but I don't think anyone would treat them as binary blobs.
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The quarterly results beat analysts' estimates on both the top and the bottom line.
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Possibly to gain a from up failed multi billion dollar deal involving two Telecom giants.
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AT&T stops spending a lot and they're one of your customers do you think the spending will come back to the levels that it had been in the past.
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So although.
There's been a lot of nervousness in the industry and a lot of nervousness from the financial community about what that pullback means for the vendors face I would say we actually made it through most of this year if not the entire year.
Pretty much unscathed by that and been able to post.
Could year over year growth I think were up 18% over last year in part -- that we're 25% so.
Hmmm I do think that you know there's a lot of talk about spending returning back but as far as we're concerned where we're we're moving forward either way.
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Who filled the void who is really stepping up to the plate with spending.
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And -- the century linked quest combination.
And then you have the tier two carriers which -- -- frontiers fair points.
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And we saw strength really from.
That segment in a way that we hadn't seen prior to this year really started coming on last year and then continued on through 2011.
We also saw strength in the a combined century -- quest properties where they were really focused on building out there no -- concerning to deliver higher speed services.
OK so so the sort of a little -- guys are are stepping up to the plate.
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Our -- hiring I mean sometimes that really is that it is the real sign that a company is doing well.
We have hired have been hiring now for about a year and a half for two years as I mentioned we had gone through -- have been going through quite a growth spot in our in our business.
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And 2010.
Maybe a little earlier than that and have been selectively hiring through that now we have slow down.
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The stock up today.
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The recent news about the arrest of Baylor basketball player LaceDarius Dunn on a domestic-violence charge focused on what happened and when (if ever) he will be able to return to the Bears lineup.
The follow-up story is likely to be renewed attention on the issue of athlete violence. ESPN's Dana O'Neil produced a quality examination of the issue yesterday.
In case you missed it, Dunn was arrested Oct. 5 after a Sept. 27 incident. The attorney for his long-time girlfriend told Yahoo! sports that she suffered a fractured jaw after she was struck in the face but that she did not want to file charges. The local police eventually arrested Dunn anyway. Baylor coach Scott Drew suspended Dunn indefinitely after news of the arrest broke. On Oct. 6, various media reported that the young woman issued a statement denying that Dunn struck her and that her jaw was broken. Dunn reportedly was suspended from school in the days following the incident but now appears to be back in class after action by a university judicial body.
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New NCAA President Mark Emmert talked about the topic with ESPN's O'Neil.
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The project was created for Sparkfun's microcontroller competition 2011 and aims to demonstrate an number of useful design techniques which can be used when working with low-pin count microcontrollers. The code is written entirely in C and fits neatly into the 2K of available program flash on the chip. The PCB is only 1.5 inches square and uses both SMD and through-hole components, however it is perfectly possible to recreate the project using larger components on a breadboard or a small piece of strip-board.
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it is great! :)
congradulation Colin!
Keep the good work!
do you have a bigger schematic please? i don't see much on this one
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Really nice project! Congratulations!
I have one problem though. How can I assemble all these .c and .h files to an .asm file in order to load them to the PIC microcontroller? I tried microC for PIC and MPLab IDE but I couldn't managed it.
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It's good to know that a 20mhz overclock just puts this card only 3% behind the 5870. It does seem to be quite a dud overclocker though.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150506 Picked up this...wish I would have wait for the HIS... they make great cards..
You, as well as I know, the Bench marks vary from test to test, the 5970 kicks ass imo... and Im not grabbing a 6 series gpu till I see the best the 69** has to offer. Nice try AMD :shadedshu
Hmmm....The performance summary seems to be off...In most of the tests, the turbo 6870 is equivalent to a 470 in most games; particularly at higher res. Even the stock 6870 only marginally trails it. How did the 470 jump 5-8% in performance, when last week it was only 3%?
I think the relative is skewed from the 2560x1600 tests, with the 480 having a massive lead most likely from the higher vram (per gpu).
ok guys this is a noob question. (no sarcasm intended here I just want to be enlightened) I am wondering why is it when an ATI/AMD card is reviewed the "no CUDA support" is a con? (I know that CUDA is for nvidia) and an nvidia card is reviewed the "ATI stream" is not a con. Both ATI stream(now APP) and CUDA are a GPGPU technology right? am i wrong?
Don't know why AMD didnt settle for around 950MHz Core and 1200MHz memory, gives some 10 fps boost with what 10-15W power trade-off...
hey guys 1st post here i just build my AMD PC 2 days ago i got the Standard 6870 xfire, but do you guys think this turbo one is more worth to get? i mean, it's only a 20MhZ bump and 70MHz for clock. and also it's only a mere 2-3 frames upgrade but i heard that the Turbo has the iceQ cooling? is that true? or this turbo version is purely just overclocked version without any other new features? ( other than the HD3D which i dont think many people will use that feature for now )
It's simply a marketing name. The cooler is the same as the reference one. The ONLY difference is the clocks.
there are now.. LOTS of them i am 2 weeks too fast in buying 6870... oh well... i'll wait for the HD 7xxx series next year..
Can always buy custom cooler, it's like getting non reference only you can get horrendously large heatsinks on!


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