Slashdot Mirror

Also forgot to mention:

I can't wait for AMD's 65nm to start shipping once their process is all sorted out, since 90nm SOI has worked so well for them.

They'd better hurry.. Intel is planning on moving to 45nm in mid-2007.

...should the day Dell announce another battery recall on their new hydrogen-powered laptops ever arrive, I'll be the first to run for the hills.

This really isn't a surprise if HP wanted to hold together as a company. This damage may be deeper than you think as their Head of Global Operations, Giles Bouchard is leaving by October 31st. It doesn't indicate what his reasons are but he's been working there for two years, why now? Will we see others follow or will Dunn's resignation stop others from jumping ship?

in a related news..

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34 303

Actually, the dev kits currently out don't even have full hardware support. There's minimal networking support, the controllers are nowhere near final (no tilt, no final design...) It's been rumored that the GPU on the most recent dev kits are at only 80% the speed the final PS3 (which has been dropped again)...
I want to see EVERY console do well, for the greater good (in innovation, consumer costs, FUN!) that competition brings, so the fact that SONY is bunging this up as badly as they are is only depressing.......I mean come on, who wouldn't want to play Madden with 6 of your buds by your side?!?!?

7. ... No porn, ... 'Nuff said.

Yup, no porn over here, none under here, I can't find any porn over here either.

I wonder what they got on me? I know they looked, but I don't know to what extent. Time to call the Attorney General and see if they can help. That said, I work for a UK company, so there are all sorts of European privacy laws that come into efffect.

If they were looking into people laying into HP during that time, I am sure things like this got me in their sights.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=21 145
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=21 225
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=21 231

This is going to get mighty interesting, I am sure we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. It must be nice to know that all the board minutes are transcribed and kept. Anyone want to put money on Dunn eating some of her words in court?

            -Charlie

I wonder what they got on me? I know they looked, but I don't know to what extent. Time to call the Attorney General and see if they can help. That said, I work for a UK company, so there are all sorts of European privacy laws that come into efffect.

If they were looking into people laying into HP during that time, I am sure things like this got me in their sights.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=21 145
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=21 225
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=21 231

This is going to get mighty interesting, I am sure we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. It must be nice to know that all the board minutes are transcribed and kept. Anyone want to put money on Dunn eating some of her words in court?

            -Charlie

I wonder what they got on me? I know they looked, but I don't know to what extent. Time to call the Attorney General and see if they can help. That said, I work for a UK company, so there are all sorts of European privacy laws that come into efffect.

If they were looking into people laying into HP during that time, I am sure things like this got me in their sights.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=21 145
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=21 225
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=21 231

This is going to get mighty interesting, I am sure we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. It must be nice to know that all the board minutes are transcribed and kept. Anyone want to put money on Dunn eating some of her words in court?

            -Charlie

Windows Vista RC1 has been made available to the general public, with keys available here.

There are various websites that report this build is far more stable than previous versions, but as Microsoft themselves have said "quality will continue to improve. We'll keep plugging away on application compatibility, as well as fit and finish, until RTM"

These builds are set to expire on June 1st 2007

Actually, the MIPS chip could end up being the most widely deployed CPU on the planet. It's the basis of China's Godson series of chips. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=24 882

You know what a bigger problem is? Posting an article that's not in English. Here's a brief article from the Inquirer, but in English at least.

You might want to check this out as well:
http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=33462

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=31 660

OK, this is getting old, but lets put out a few more details than are floating. Sales and marketing are getting gutted, a bitch slap to Eric Kim, should he be employed wednesday. Indian operations are getting hit, as are Intel Capital, Oregon (bits) and a few other sites.

The numbers that are floating are 15K (including cuts already done), 30K and 35K. The latter two seem to be layoffs plus people gone from divisional sales and closing, so all the numbers could be correct.

If you work for Intel, take heart in the word that is reaching me that they are really getting the right people, not those who do a good job. This isn't mass cuts for the sake of mass cuts, but it is a lot more targeted than you might suspect.

                -Charlie

This article was far more trolling, and it was also on slashdot.

Computers are really great. With access to the internet in particular, you've got a wealth of knowledge (and lies and opinionations) at your fingertips. There are valuable computer skills that can be learned (programming, graphic design, even powerpoint, etc.), however, I don't feel that incorporating computer usage into every class is practical or useful. A notebook makes a hell of a lot more sense in a chemistry lab than a laptop... unless you set it on fire. Actually, the computer is not great set on fire either, so I'll strike that last comment.

Well if you buy a Dell notebook you won't even have to set it on fire since it does a pretty good job on its own!

Great, I'm not the only one who found the summary an incomplete history. The original article is here, from July 21. This was not a "grass-roots blogosphere victory", this was picking up a story from a well known news site. Too few people give the proper credit to the Inq for breaking this story, which ultimately led to the Dell and Apple recalls.

Slow down, cowboy. I misstated my post a little: I agree that they're already a big player in embedded graphics. What I meant to say is that they're trying to gain ground in mid-level and possibly high-end graphics, where they definitely don't have products.

Why do I say this? Because of articles like these:

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10564

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 836

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 720

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 268

Slow down, cowboy. I misstated my post a little: I agree that they're already a big player in embedded graphics. What I meant to say is that they're trying to gain ground in mid-level and possibly high-end graphics, where they definitely don't have products.

Why do I say this? Because of articles like these:

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10564

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 836

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 720

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 268

Slow down, cowboy. I misstated my post a little: I agree that they're already a big player in embedded graphics. What I meant to say is that they're trying to gain ground in mid-level and possibly high-end graphics, where they definitely don't have products.

Why do I say this? Because of articles like these:

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10564

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 836

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 720

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 268

Oh well, in this case...

They did cut him a check for $10,000.

and not killing people in fiery laptop-related explosions

Seems like Dell is taking all the blame for Sony's problem. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 926

There's more things coming out as well. The Japanese have been working on toilets which analyse your urine content and warn you of any possible health issues, but this does seem to be taking a while to hit the market. Elsewhere someone came up with the idea of a Urinal that detects whether you've been drinking alcohol and then "recommends" that you don't go driving. This could prove VERY useful to me the-morning-after-the-previous-2-day-binge.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=10 137

- http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=482
- http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articl eid=861&cid=1
- http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6538
- http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3357/48/
- http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=287
- http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=33872
- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/23/review_ati _radeon_x1950_xtx/
- http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/X1950XTX
- http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=954
- http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/radeon-x1950x tx/index.x?pg=1
- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2007324 ,00.asp
- http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/23/ati_releases_rad eon_x1950/
- http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/375/
- http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/131
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2 020&cid=3&pg=1
- http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_x19 50_xtx_performance/
- http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/X1950XTXreview /

up to date list: http://www.madshrimps.be/forums/showthread.php?s=& threadid=26526

One of the main reasons that Indiana is using Linux is the cost. If it had to pay $100 for software on each machine it would set them back $100 million. Open Source cuts things down to $5 a computer a year, Huffman said.

On the flip side, Team OS/2's lack of structure meant that it was vulnerable. Various journalists have documented a "dirty tricks" campaign by Microsoft.[citation needed] Online, numerous individuals (nicknamed "Microsoft Munchkins" by John C. Dvorak[citation needed]) used pseudonyms to attack OS/2 and manipulate online discussions. Whittle was the target of a vicious character assassination campaign, and anyone friendly to OS/2 faced numerous vociferous attacks as well.[citation needed] Some journalists who were less than enthusiastic about OS/2 received death threats and other nasty e-mail from numerous sources, always identified in taglines as "Team OS/2".[citation needed] Ultimately, at least some of Microsoft's efforts were exposed on Will Zachmann's Canopus forum on CompuServe, where the owner of one particular account, ostensibly belonging to "Steve Barkto", (who had been attacking OS/2, David Barnes, Whittle, and other OS/2 fans) was discovered to be funded by the credit card of a high-level Microsoft employee / evangelist who had also been active in the forums.[citation needed] James Fallows, a nationally-renowned journalist, even weighed in to state that the stylistic fingerprint found in the Barkto posts were almost certainly a match with the stylistic fingerprints in the Microsoft evangelist's postings.[citation needed] Will Zachmann sent an open letter to Steve Ballmer, futilely demanding a public investigation into the business practices of the publicly traded Microsoft.[citation needed] What is clear is that Microsoft was taking seriously the threat posed by Team OS/2 and their online and real-world activities.

There is merit in defending the word "Google." After all, how many people (Simpsons fans excluded) associate the Dumpster brand with excellent trash bins? Similar to Google, the Xerox company has attempted to reclaim its name from generic use as a verb. After all, a TrashCo bin is not a dumpster. A store brand tissue is not a Kleenex. A bandage made by anyone other than J&J is not a BandAid. A Ricoh copier is not a Xerox machine. Yahoo! Search and Windows Live Search are not Google.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 642

I call bullsh*t as well. Apple fanboys will buy *anything* Jobs tells them to and pay dearly for it, even if it is just an incremental update in OS X. This cartoon illustrates the point quite nicely: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=14 568

Appearently your not alone. Infact the side lines will be pretty crowded according to this article here. I'll keep an eye out for you on teh sidelines.

It's a start. My guess is that we'll see more of this, but it may take a couple of years.

It's been discussed that the point of the ATI acquisition is putting GPU cores onboard the CPU in future chips anyway, and outboard graphics card (and even discrete onboard chips) will start to decline in importance.

If that's true, you have to figure it will all end up open sourced eventually -- proprietary drivers for code that's onboard the CPU just aren't going to fly for very long.

I thought something was funny when I read about the suit being filed in East Texas.

According to techdirt, there's a federal judge in Marshall, Texas (a district in East Texas) who almost universally grants injunctions against patent infringers. Said judge is a favorite of patent trolls.

According to this pdf, the case is filed in...gasp...Marshall, TX.

Not terribly long ago, Inquirer ran a story about how the Cell processor in the PS3 suffered from a rather striking lack of local memory (e.g. cache) bandwidth. "Striking," as in the read bandwidth being something like 3 orders of magnitude slower than the corresponding write bandwidth. I'm curious whether this problem was fixed by spinning new silicon, or whether Sony must ship their flawed boxes as-is.

define: explotable - an exploit native to Windows and Linux machines which enables an attacker to remotely detonate the target machine, e.g. as if it were a bomb

Dell *do* offer both Linux and Windows as OS options, you know. ;-)

http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=33321

Unfortunately, the photos aren't visible any longer, although one gets a good idea of the extent of the damage from the description.

Also interesting was a link posted in the comments to the letters section of the inquirer regarding why Li-on batteries might catastrophically fail.

Yes, but not the same ones that explode, catch on fire or shock you.

Yes, but not the same ones that explode, catch on fire or shock you.

from the article and tagline of this thread:
"Symbian remains by far the top mobile device OS, according to Canalys, with a 67 percent share, well ahead of second-place Windows Mobile, with 15 percent of the market."

Why the switch from comparing smartphone OS's to the state of "mobile devices"?

There is enough in the article to make it look like valid research but this is a blatant flaw IMO. Most of the article is about smartphones except where it goes and switches to comparing marketshare of mobile devices. We all know that in the mobile device market, Microsoft has recorded about $10 billion in losses to 'win' that market. It is very interesting that it is used in this article to provide a 'low blow' to the prospects of Motorola and others in the smartphone market using Linux...

From what I had heard/read( http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8804000399.html ), when DoCoMo, in 2004, started using Linux( http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=19 750 ) in its smartphones, it catapulted Linux to became the #2 mobile phone OS, behind Symbian. All the other smartphone manufacturers in the Linux camp built the numbers up even further.

So, seeing that Linux is actually the #2 smartphone OS instead of Microsoft Windows, the article should have read more like it was a foregone conclusion that Motorola's use of Linux was going to be a win for Motorola and its shareholders.

It's amazing how one little bit of misleading information can change a story if not tarnish the perception one walks away with. But this is a CLASSIC ZiffDavis trick, one prefected in the OS/2 vs Windows war of the early 1990's. Notice how the last sections/paragraph(s) of the story end in such a way to put doubt in all that was laid out for you in the beginning of the story? This is CLASSIC ZiffDavis, or should I say classic Microsoft marketing.

LoB

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=27 139

'They' just don't know where to look.

            -Charlie (who is off to Vegas, coincidence?)

First google hit for Dual core 35 watts is:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 227

And to anonymous - I said a DUAL CORE will run at 35 watts. 2x4=8. Go back to 3rd grade.

I'm just waiting until US authorities start arresting people who run sites in foreign countries because they accepted logins from Americans.

What, you mean like the BetOnSports incident?

Oh, you were being ironic. Silly me. OK, as you were...

All manufacturers have problems with laptops. Diff is: If Apple has swelling batteries, the whole internet screams in agony. If Dell's laptops explode, it's just business as usual.

Automatic Updates will first notify people when IE 7 is ready to install and then show a welcome screen that presents key features and the choices to install, not install or postpone installation.

The story that you are citing is from May 2005 based upon initial speculation about these CPUs back at that time. I would suggest the following would be more appropriate starting points for information. There are many more articles available, of course, but these are current, relevant, and informative.

From Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx? i=2795 Intel's Core 2 Extreme & Core 2 Duo: The Empire Strikes Back
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=280 0 Conroe vs. AM2: Memory & Performance
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797 Conroe Buying Guide
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2793 Intel Woodcrest: the Birth of a New King
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2772 Intel Woodcrest, AMD's Opteron and Sun's UltraSparc T1: Server CPU Shoot-out

From XBit Labs:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-preview.html Getting Ready to Meet Intel Core 2 Duo: Core Microarchitecture Unleashed
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-e6300.html Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 + ASUS P5W DH Deluxe: Ideal Mainstream Platform?
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-shootout.html Contemporary Dual-Core
Desktop Processors Shootout
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-64bit.html Conroe and EM64T: Is There a
Problem?

From The Inquirer:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 842US government unit throws Intel out over RAID problems
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 818Conroe shows dodgy RAID performance anomalies
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 102Intel Merom to launch early
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 229Intel 965GM is considerably hotter than its predecessor

The story that you are citing is from May 2005 based upon initial speculation about these CPUs back at that time. I would suggest the following would be more appropriate starting points for information. There are many more articles available, of course, but these are current, relevant, and informative.

From Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx? i=2795 Intel's Core 2 Extreme & Core 2 Duo: The Empire Strikes Back
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=280 0 Conroe vs. AM2: Memory & Performance
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797 Conroe Buying Guide
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2793 Intel Woodcrest: the Birth of a New King
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2772 Intel Woodcrest, AMD's Opteron and Sun's UltraSparc T1: Server CPU Shoot-out

From XBit Labs:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-preview.html Getting Ready to Meet Intel Core 2 Duo: Core Microarchitecture Unleashed
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-e6300.html Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 + ASUS P5W DH Deluxe: Ideal Mainstream Platform?
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-shootout.html Contemporary Dual-Core
Desktop Processors Shootout
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-64bit.html Conroe and EM64T: Is There a
Problem?

From The Inquirer:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 842US government unit throws Intel out over RAID problems
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 818Conroe shows dodgy RAID performance anomalies
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 102Intel Merom to launch early
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 229Intel 965GM is considerably hotter than its predecessor

The story that you are citing is from May 2005 based upon initial speculation about these CPUs back at that time. I would suggest the following would be more appropriate starting points for information. There are many more articles available, of course, but these are current, relevant, and informative.

From Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx? i=2795 Intel's Core 2 Extreme & Core 2 Duo: The Empire Strikes Back
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=280 0 Conroe vs. AM2: Memory & Performance
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797 Conroe Buying Guide
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2793 Intel Woodcrest: the Birth of a New King
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2772 Intel Woodcrest, AMD's Opteron and Sun's UltraSparc T1: Server CPU Shoot-out

From XBit Labs:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-preview.html Getting Ready to Meet Intel Core 2 Duo: Core Microarchitecture Unleashed
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-e6300.html Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 + ASUS P5W DH Deluxe: Ideal Mainstream Platform?
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-shootout.html Contemporary Dual-Core
Desktop Processors Shootout
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-64bit.html Conroe and EM64T: Is There a
Problem?

From The Inquirer:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 842US government unit throws Intel out over RAID problems
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 818Conroe shows dodgy RAID performance anomalies
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 102Intel Merom to launch early
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 229Intel 965GM is considerably hotter than its predecessor

The story that you are citing is from May 2005 based upon initial speculation about these CPUs back at that time. I would suggest the following would be more appropriate starting points for information. There are many more articles available, of course, but these are current, relevant, and informative.

From Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx? i=2795 Intel's Core 2 Extreme & Core 2 Duo: The Empire Strikes Back
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=280 0 Conroe vs. AM2: Memory & Performance
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797 Conroe Buying Guide
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2793 Intel Woodcrest: the Birth of a New King
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2772 Intel Woodcrest, AMD's Opteron and Sun's UltraSparc T1: Server CPU Shoot-out

From XBit Labs:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-preview.html Getting Ready to Meet Intel Core 2 Duo: Core Microarchitecture Unleashed
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-e6300.html Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 + ASUS P5W DH Deluxe: Ideal Mainstream Platform?
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-shootout.html Contemporary Dual-Core
Desktop Processors Shootout
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2 duo-64bit.html Conroe and EM64T: Is There a
Problem?

From The Inquirer:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 842US government unit throws Intel out over RAID problems
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 818Conroe shows dodgy RAID performance anomalies
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 102Intel Merom to launch early
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33 229Intel 965GM is considerably hotter than its predecessor

Interesting notes in Inquirer.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=23 055

The unlimited RAM option looks like an interesting feature