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From the Google cache of pages 1, 2, and 3: Apple's Colossal Disappointment Updated: 06-19-2005 Submitted by: Michael Robertson I heard a rumor last week that Apple would announce they are switching to Intel chips. My first thought is that I hoped that Steve Job's success selling iTunes to the other 95% of the world - Microsoft Windows users - would embolden him to take a strategic step that could shake up the PC business as we know it. I was hoping that he would catch the openness wave sweeping the technology world and apply it to his business. I would love to see Apple's PC market share reverse its downward trend. Few people know it, but I started my tech career as a Macintosh user, ran a consulting company specializing in Macintosh, and even wrote my first commercial application, Network Security Guard, for the Macintosh. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with Apple's actual announcement on Monday, which revealed not a bold strategy embracing the openness movement but confirmation that Apple is still a company locked in the time warp of the go-it-alone '70s. Apple agreed to switch from processors made by IBM to special processors made from Intel over the next two years - that's it. This is only slightly more significant than Apple choosing to change the hard disk or memory supplier it puts into its computers. Instead of a brilliant strategic maneuver, it's a step necessitated by IBM's inability to keep pace with Intel. It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops. Mac users will eventually see the benefit of this move, but will first have to suffer through a period of uncertainty and forced upgrades. Eventually, this switch will enable Apple to offer speedier machines more in line with PC performance. Until then, however, customers will have to make a tough decision - purchase a new computer that is guaranteed to be made obsolete or wait two years for machines to be released and software to be natively working. My disappointment was captured by an Apple spokesman who commented on what the switch does not mean: "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac." Future "Mactel" computers will have specially designated Intel chips, not generic x86 compatible chips found in common PCs. My sources say that Jobs is going to use Intel's cryptographic technology called LaGrande to make sure OS X will only boot on Apple-branded hardware. This is a similar technique to the one that Microsoft used to make sure Linux could not be loaded on Xbox. The bottom line is that PC buyers will unfortunately not have the option to install and experience OS X. There will be no low-cost laptops from budget-minded Taiwanese manufacturers. There will be no generic AMD or Via white boxes sold by the millions capable of running OS X. Apple will not be reaching the 95% of the world buying Intel-compatible machines. I'm sure Jobs remembers a failed experiment in the '90s when Apple embraced a more open strategy. During that time, other companies were permitted to build Mac clones. Those companies targeted the most lucrative customers, siphoning off the high-end users who wanted the fastest machines. Apple depends on those customers to pay top dollar and uses those profits to fund their significant research and development costs. Losing them was a painful experience and Jobs shut down the clone business when he returned to the corner office at One Infinite

From the Google cache of pages 1, 2, and 3: Apple's Colossal Disappointment Updated: 06-19-2005 Submitted by: Michael Robertson I heard a rumor last week that Apple would announce they are switching to Intel chips. My first thought is that I hoped that Steve Job's success selling iTunes to the other 95% of the world - Microsoft Windows users - would embolden him to take a strategic step that could shake up the PC business as we know it. I was hoping that he would catch the openness wave sweeping the technology world and apply it to his business. I would love to see Apple's PC market share reverse its downward trend. Few people know it, but I started my tech career as a Macintosh user, ran a consulting company specializing in Macintosh, and even wrote my first commercial application, Network Security Guard, for the Macintosh. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with Apple's actual announcement on Monday, which revealed not a bold strategy embracing the openness movement but confirmation that Apple is still a company locked in the time warp of the go-it-alone '70s. Apple agreed to switch from processors made by IBM to special processors made from Intel over the next two years - that's it. This is only slightly more significant than Apple choosing to change the hard disk or memory supplier it puts into its computers. Instead of a brilliant strategic maneuver, it's a step necessitated by IBM's inability to keep pace with Intel. It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops. Mac users will eventually see the benefit of this move, but will first have to suffer through a period of uncertainty and forced upgrades. Eventually, this switch will enable Apple to offer speedier machines more in line with PC performance. Until then, however, customers will have to make a tough decision - purchase a new computer that is guaranteed to be made obsolete or wait two years for machines to be released and software to be natively working. My disappointment was captured by an Apple spokesman who commented on what the switch does not mean: "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac." Future "Mactel" computers will have specially designated Intel chips, not generic x86 compatible chips found in common PCs. My sources say that Jobs is going to use Intel's cryptographic technology called LaGrande to make sure OS X will only boot on Apple-branded hardware. This is a similar technique to the one that Microsoft used to make sure Linux could not be loaded on Xbox. The bottom line is that PC buyers will unfortunately not have the option to install and experience OS X. There will be no low-cost laptops from budget-minded Taiwanese manufacturers. There will be no generic AMD or Via white boxes sold by the millions capable of running OS X. Apple will not be reaching the 95% of the world buying Intel-compatible machines. I'm sure Jobs remembers a failed experiment in the '90s when Apple embraced a more open strategy. During that time, other companies were permitted to build Mac clones. Those companies targeted the most lucrative customers, siphoning off the high-end users who wanted the fastest machines. Apple depends on those customers to pay top dollar and uses those profits to fund their significant research and development costs. Losing them was a painful experience and Jobs shut down the clone business when he returned to the corner office at One Infinite

Google Cache :)

Search the following pdf for juicy phrases like "he had a gun to his head" and the word "threatened" to learn more about why vendors might allegedly be frightened to deliver AMD-based products.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Downl oadableAssets/AMD-Intel_Full_Complaint.pdf

You can view the PDF as HTML at:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:BK_UrlmGznsJ: www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Downloadable Assets/AMD-Intel_Full_Complaint.pdf+amd+intel&hl=e n&lr=lang_en

But Google's cache does have a copy.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2F www.intertwingly.net%2Fwiki%2Fpie%2FRss20AndAtom10 ComparedGoogle Cache, now that it's been defaced.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2F www.419eater.com%2Fhtml%2Fhall_of_shame.htm

oh, and I really hope the main site doesnt' really look like this (google's cache): http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:OEEftNB5m34J: www.drupal.org/+&hl=en

It looks like crap.

no no no... 2 ears, 2 speakers... 3D sound only requires 2 speakers... but we have only 2 ears thus as few as 2 channels ... [is]...sufficient.

Starting at HP labs, Ratnesh Sharma began work on the problem of cooling server farms two years ago.
Then work with the university of Virginia evolved from that research. Finally, in work done with Duke U. it paid off in the form of software tools that were reported at Usenix'05 [you can ignore password pop-up if you go thru the google cache] as saving 25% of cooling costs, thats can be over $1000000/year for large data centers by dynamically distributing work load to machines that are running cooler by using temperature data as input to the load balancer. [if you can get at the usenix art., Duke has basically the same paper on line. Or just read the the Usenix abstract]

Does anyone know if Google plans to open source Google File System?

Considering the competitive advantage it gives them? Not bloody likely. Besides, it's very much a system that's keyed to Google's usage patterns. Most regular businesses and users would see little to no benefit in Google's system. If you really think it's useful for your line of business, then read the paper (html) and implement a version more specific to your needs. Good luck!

And let me just say that Bess is completely annoying. I went to ELCO (which is another 20 minutes away from Kutztown past the parent's alma mater of Conrad Weiser) and then did a little computer work there (at ELCO) for a few years and Bess was always a step ahead of actual genuine student research. Valid sites were blocked, while some porn sites were not. Very frustrating, even to the teachers in whose classes we were doing the reports (because we'd show them this useful and informative page located on a reputable server that was blocked). Hopefully it's improved since then.

Here's a Reading-Eagle article about this.

By the way, looking at porn while one is at school is just stupid. Unlocking a computer that you've been given for nine months...not so stupid. What's it matter to the school district, it's not like they had sensative files on the laptops...sure, keep the network secure, but if getting admin access to a laptop equals admin network access, they've got more problems. But yes, hacking the network and doing illegal things on the school network is dumb.

By the way, I'm a Kutztown University grad, not that it's really relevant to the story, but I did spend four years in town...it's weird to see such a small place make national news again. For the geeks: Kutztown Borough was the first community in PA to have fiber to the house. linky, another link, and Google Search.

This book was written by someone that doesn't appear to read or watch much in the way of SF beyond what they see at the movies.

This book was written by someone that doesn't appear to read or watch much in the way of SF beyond what they see at the movies.

One of these kids is not like the other. Arthur Anderson's conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court.

Finding that the prosecution violated rules does not mean that they're innocent. If they weren't essentially destroyed already, they'd likely be tried again. The best writeup of the decision I read was on the Motley Fool - Registration free google cache

...their roofs have been edited to conceal surface-to-air installations.

For those who do not know what the parent meant by "Sexy Cheerleading" legislation, check out these links.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:gEUWd6ysFhAJ: enews.earthlink.net/article/str%3Fguid%3D20050503/ 4276f740_3ca6_1552620050503281522295+sexy+cheerlea ding+legislation+tx&hl=en&start=5
[google cache]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7727886/
[news article]

You are President Truman in 1945. Your country has been dragged into a war by a sneak attack. The enemy fights to the last man, committing suicide rather than surrendering. They execute your POWs, amid repeated reports of cannibalism. They are taking airplanes and deliberately crashing them into your ships, at great cost to your soldiers. On Iwo Jima, of the twenty-two thousand defending Japanese soldiers, only thirty surrender and only a thousand are captured. The fight for Okinawa left America with 39,000 casualties. Okinawa, Iwo Jima: to you, these are hollow victories borne on the corpses of thousands of your young. Every day, your Secretary of Defense writes more and more letters to the kin of the fallen, expressing the thanks of a grateful nation for their sacrifices in our collective time of need. However sincere and noble those sentiments are, you know that they are just empty words to those who have lost a loved one to Japanese guns. The truth is that too many Americans are dying. The war has to end.

Military men present Operation Olympus, the invasion of the Japanese motherland. They estimate a million American casualties; hundreds of thousands of young Americans will fall on foreign shores--little more than jagged rocks--ten thousand miles from home. The Japanese have shown that they will not surrender without a show of absolute, total, and utter destruction. The military men also reveal the Manhattan Project to you: a superbomb that could end the war.

The decision is this: 200,000 men will die; choose whether these are American or Japanese lives. If 200,000 Japanese lives could be saved by sacrificing the lives of 75,000 Americans, would you? To any sane person the right choice is to let the Japanese pay the price for a war they started. The means by which the deed is done does not change the fact that it is indebateable that the Japanese must be forced to bear the cost of a war they started and ruthlessly prosecuted. Any debate is over the horrors of war, and let's face it, the Japanese started that one.

So reply to this instead of modding Overrated.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:nY-xrLLZCN4J: rbvhs.vusd.k12.ca.us/~groswell/apeuro/unit9/docs/A BombDecision.htm+japan+world+war+II+%22operation+o lympus%22&hl=en&start=4

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:h4zBYW1Yo8oJ: members.tripod.com/~FrySaturn/software.txt+%22soft +wares%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8(conveniently google cached to avoid the /. effect.) Enjoy!

The correct URLs:
mirror.dot
google cache

Yes. Google does, in fact.

The cache for the page, Linked here, has a link to the executable. The link still works. Get it while it's hot.

In fact, I think every person that makes a google utility should make an executable version for this very reason. It would save you bandwidth, it would save me loading time. Release it GPL and someone can make a multi-utility. Sounds great. Get to it, programmers!

Here is a google cache to a different article about the project http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:1NEgZD8tfMEJ: www.sevendaysvt.com/features/

The site is down (small newspaper hosted by a small local ISP) but I do have knowledge of this project. I am local resident and have been watching this since its inception. This project has had its share of problem like any government project some budget overruns, Verizon trying to stop it in its tracks, public saying this should not happen, etc. The most interesting objection I heard was that this (including telephone service) should be done from wireless. I would love to hear the screams when a thunderstorm disrupts 911 service. The initial budget was in the low 6 figures Burlington is a relatively small under 40k people.

So far the project is already getting some use. The city and schools are now connected together by a Gig connection (many were not doing much better than dialup). The company where I am the IT person is also their first (and only?) customer. We are getting a 1.5 Mbit through a local ISP. So far no one is making money but the ISP, http://www.sover.net/ is now able to sell to other in town businesses for cheap. I pay Burlington Telecom $200/month for as much bandwidth as the ISP will give me.

This in a city where Adelphia (soon to be Comcast) has a monopoly for many parts of the city this is a very good idea. Some may say that city government should stay out of this area but I disagree. The deregulation of utilities let them do whatever they want but also assumed that the market would help with prices and quality. How many choices do you have for cable TV?

But where is the programmer who gave Moriarty those capabilities? A new Moriarty program wasn't created, the existing one was modified. That means the existing programming in the holodeck already had the ability to create self-aware persons rather than simulated personas.

I took the liberty of reading over the relevant parts of "Elementary, My Dear Data", and I don't think that's clear at all. Data himself modifies the program before Geordi gives the command to create an opponent who can "defeat" and "confound" Data, so it's possible that Data's input -- whatever it was -- was a necessary catalyst for this to occur, much like the Bynars' input was necessary to create the much more humanlike holodeck character of Minuet. Speaking of the Bynars, it's worth remembering that at the end of "11001001", the humanlike Minuet character was gone, and Riker was unable to create one like her. This is a piece of evidence that would seem to favor the argument that normal holodeck characters do not bear the richness of simulated minds.

Back to "My Dear Data": Given the power surge that occurs immediately after Geordi's command, I think we can reasonably assume that the ship's computer is devoting extraordinary amounts of resources to the programming of this simulation, something it usually does not do. So this is one more element for the case that Moriarty is special, a unique creation programmed in a method different from normal holodeck characters.

Another possible piece of information to take into account is that Data's involvement likely made this program unique. I've always imagined that, in telling the computer to confound Data, the ship's computer must've accessed Data's schematics to design such an opponent. Perhaps Moriarty was designed with a combination of simulated positronics and the holodeck's human drama character program. If so, it might explain why Moriarty was so radically different from other holodeck characters, and from Data himself.

Voyager's doctor is an interesting case in that, unlike normal holodeck characters who exist for entertainment's sake, an Emergency Medical Hologram may legitimately be expected to engage in the highest levels of logical thought in the course of triage and diagnosis. I brought up Google in my original post only to highlight the idea that engaging in intelligent analysis does not necessarily entail anything like emotion. Just as Google doesn't desire to be freed from the task of analysing webpage relevance to search engine queries (because Google doesn't feel anything), there's no reason to believe that an EMH has a psyche that wishes to be freed from the task of doctoring the ship.

To be even clearer, the EMH might:

a) have no phenomenological existence (like Google)

b) have a phenomenological existence that enjoys the work it has been created to do (like the Ameglian Major Cow at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

c) have a phenomenological existence that feels oppressed -- or to use your term, enslaved -- by the work it has been programmed to do.

My contention is that the

Unless you're browsing at -1, you probably won't see this post for very long because someone will mark it as a troll or flamebait. It's neither. It's an honest, straitforward opinion.

I've been using Linux since '93. I'm writting this post on Firefox running on Gentoo, with a NAT'd internet connection supplied by a Debian server. I think SCO is a sleazy company looking to steal money and momentum from the success of Linux. I am extremely grateful for what PJ has done. Her contributions to the Linux community have been invaluable. But the simple fact is that PJ stepped up and made herself a public figure in an extremely controversial case. And there is no constitutional or guaranteed right to remain anonymous.

Public figures deal with this kind of poking and prying all the time. Celebrities deal with paparazi. Politicians deal with people digging into every nook and cranny of their life. Innocent, ordinary people who are thrust into the spotlight have all sorts of private details published and pored over.

I'm no fan of O'Gara. But she's no worse than scores of other reporters out there, and to claim her story was a gross violation of journalistic ethics is a biased response. (The Google cache of her story is still available. If you haven't read it, read it yourself.) If Daryl McBride's personal information had been published (and it seems like at some point it was, although I can't find the story now), everyone would be cheering the public's "right to know." Daryl has complained about threatening letters and phone calls, and fearing attack, and we haven't leaped to his defense and insisted on his right to privacy. But since it's our ox being gored, we're all ready to go to war.

The response to this piece by many zealots has been much more unethical than the publishing of the article. I realize that the response, in particular the DOS and threatening email, is attributal to only a small minority of OSS and Linux supporters, and that many of the leaders in the field have spoken out against them. But the denial of those actions has been almost perfunctory. We should be screaming about those who smear the Linux and OSS name with illegal and unethical attacks at least at the same volume we're screaming about O'Gara and Sys-Con.

If you choose to put yourself in the spotlight, you can expect to have the press breathing down your neck. You don't have to like it but you might as well get used to it. It's a part of American life. It's the obverse side of the "freedom of the press" coin. Would you really prefer to live in a place where the press is constrained? There are those reading Slashdot who do, in fact, live in such a place. Ask them which is preferable.

In all documented cases where Plutonium (a common alpha emitter) was accidently ingested, it was found to pass through the digestive tract without issue.

This doesn't Jive with what I have been previously lead to believe that Plutonium is in fact quite chemically poisonous.

Plutonium is radioactive and highly toxic if you breathe it or eat it. We take very strict protection measures at each stage of the handling process to make sure the plutonium doesn't get into the body, by breathing or eating it, or through cuts in the skin. (via bnfl.com)

For the love of all that is holy, don't link to the real article. Blindly questing for page hits is what got us in this mess to begin with.

Google cache, text only.

WHAS Radio (and Clear Channel Entertainment) fired John Ziegler a few years ago because of similar personal attacks against a fellow "personality".

Up until that point, his talk-show was the highest rated program in the market, and he was getting a pass on a lot of his attitute because he did bring in the advertising money.

But he also went too far, and ultimately got punished for it.

So, here's how we help get rid of Ms. O'Gara:

Check the local bookstores and supermarket magazine racks. For any company that carries this magazine - write them a letter of COMPLAIN about Ms. O'Gara.

Don'y give them any unneccessary page hits.

Use the Google cache of the article instead.

It looks like a hacker alias, but it really stands for French Security Incident Response Team. Exploit description cached here.

Here's the google cache: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:hSMZiuSnGJEJ: www.walmartfoundation.org/+walmart-foundation&hl=e n

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Dg6iYBJcF_sJ: www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_5048_gallery _01.asp+&hl=en&client=firefox-a
They don't look very good to me. In the shots of the control panel, I can really see why Job's is accusing Microsoft of shamelessly copying OSX.
-Mak

Text-only google cache

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:SIuztravpJIJ: www.jellyslab.com/~bteo/hacker.htm+&hl=en&lr=&clie nt=firefox-a&strip=1

This is similar to Edward Tufte's argument on Engineers' presentation of previously known O-ring problem in Challenger to management.

This is the best link, i could find while googling. Could not find Tufte's article
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:iPpRSV0eSlYJ: www.rit.edu/~wlrgsh/FINRobison.pdf+challenger+and+ Edward+Tufte&hl=en

Actually yes and yes, because payroll taxes and income taxes are not the same.

The term "Payroll Taxes" generally refers to the deductions for Social Security and Medicare, as well as the ones employers pay for unemployment insurance.

Income taxes are withheld based on your projected annual income, are graduated, have exemptions, and all the rest.

Also, as this site (Google cache) explains, you pay state income taxes to the state where you establish your legal residence, not the one where you "used to live in before enlisting". As a point of pride, I'd like to point out that VA income taxes are not that high, although you might be "amazed" if you were used to paying 0% I guess.

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...in Josh Berkus' article The Five Types of Open Source Projects (site is down at the moment, so the link goes to the Google cache).

Josh characterized Bricolage as a "solo" project, but maybe it's moving onwards...

we do not deal/prepare with/for these types of threats well that have small probability but have large casualties. maybe something to do with innate gambling nature.

With Microsoft my relationship goes deeper. A few years back, when I was first starting out as an analyst, I got myself into a lot of hot water by doing something I knew was wrong to prevent a crime from being committed. I am both an ex-auditor and an ex-sheriff and took the related vows very seriously and still, for the most part, live by them. By all accounts I would have lost my job and probably had to change careers again if it weren't for Bill Gates personally coming to my defense and pointing out that what I did probably kept a lot of folks out of jail. He didn't have to do that and, to this day I doubt he even remembers he did,

but I remember.

Further, Ms. Didio has pumped out more than one "independent survey" that is a little less than independent. From exactly how the questions are worded, to using multiple choices that don't allow alternative answers, to using pro-Microsoft audiences as the target audience for the surveys:

"Located in Tampa Bay, Florida, Sunbelt Software is the first and one of the largest providers of "best-of-breed" Windows NT, 2000/2003 utilities, supplying the tools necessary to support a Windows NT/2000 infrastructure. Working in partnership with innovative software developers, Sunbelt Software produces leading edge utilities and provides mainframe quality technical support. Sunbelt Software Inc. is a member of the 2001 Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing companies. . . .

"Sunbelt is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner interested in what Windows network administrators need to solve their NT/2000 problems. We are constantly surveying NT/2000 administrators to determine which utilities

Ok, I looked it up. You're confusing Sistina's (now Red Hat) Global File System with the Google File System. The two ARE NOT THE SAME.

Here's Red Hat:

http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/

Here's Google:

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-g hemawat.pdf (PDF)
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:m0TMQYgIlIoJ: www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-ghemawat .pdf+Google+File+System&hl=en&client=safari (HTML)

There's a better way. And I think the marketing types at Apple should pester some of their techies to make it happen.

I want to install a new program on my work computer (running WinXP Pro) that will track every program I run for two weeks or so. At the end of that period it should report to me how much of what I ran is available under Mac OS X.

I've written more details (same from google cache) on this, but some key points are that it can show alternatives even if the same program exists (e.g. Office), it must be open source, it must be honest about the mac capabilities (e.g. "program X will work for most users, but may not be compatible with a corporate server environment because of blah blah").

Of course, this might work to convince people to switch to a linux desktop as well, but the linux desktop has bigger issues to cover than just application compatibility.

in case someone needs a proof: Google Cache from PR

You could just point the camera in the other direction then you would be able to watch out for ninjas, tanks (it's no wonder they got rid of 'em), bosses, and other hostile mobs. Seems like it would be a whole lot more useful anyway.

Couple of months back Boing Boing pointed to a news story reporting that global warming has created such favorable conditions for squids that the cephalopod biomass is now greater than the human biomass. We don't know how many there are or how big they get. We are NOT ready. Play it smart.

I just noticed that the mplayer site had a 'shut down' notice, now it's not responding at all, altho google has a cached
version of the "closed for patent infringement" statement. Hmmm, it was just updated with a redirection to the closed notice.

A cache of the report is here.

Reading your comment, and comparing it with the report, I see no evidence you actually read the report.

The report focuses on GDP, not income after taxes as you claim.

Maybe you read a different report.

Here is the Google cache of said photo's.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:LTHUaSakSz8J: www.e-scrabble.com/+e-scrabble&hl=en&client=firefo x-a Google cache of the site in question. I hadn't seen it posted.