I say let him have his.NET, is that's what he wants. After all, Red Hat's Bob Young gets some needed proof as to why Red Hat will never dominate the desktop.
Everybody there wins (sort of), and the rest of us use what what works!
The reason that Apple residuals are good is that there AREN'T ANY LOW COST NEW MACS AVAILABLE. if you want an expandable Mac for less than a thousand - you've got to go with the second user market.
This is quite true, and illustrates why Apple is shooting itself in the foot by failing to get its manufacturing act together.
They have a 15% (world) market-share potential, but currently carry way less than 5%. Such a small market share is a liability because many commercial software vendors aren't willing to write for Mac.
That's a good idea if you are comparing the options for the general user looking to buy a computer. In this case, they are reviewing the top-of-the-line processors (which people on a budget won't be buying anyway.) Only those with a large budget will be buying a machine with one of these processors anyway, so price shouldn't be an issue.
Well then if price is no consideration, then why don't they just benchmark the P4 against IBM's Power4?
I'm not sure that Rambus is all that optimal. It has horrible latencies compared to DDR. The DDR333 RAM in those SiS645 motherboards definitely keep up with the intel850-based rambus motherboards in reviews I've seen.
So if you look at the different benchmarks (if linuxhardware.org ever recovers) you'll quickly see that Rambus is only better for streaming large amounts of data, such as encoding video. And we all spend a lot of time encoding video, right?
For general purpose desktop computing or serving, the lower latencies of DDR, and in particular DDR333, are all over that Rambus crap.
1. Company A wants to improve their product.
1. Company A wants more profits. (real world)
2. Company A legally learns/purchases/adapts technologies from rival product.
2. Company buys rival company or company's product. They have virtually unlimited assets to do this because they are a monopoly (real world).
3. As a result, company A's product is improved.
2. Company A discontinues rival company's product. Company A's product gains total market share, even though it is inferior (real world).
A Mac does about 1/3 more work per cycle than an x86.
Not quite. When you compare integer ops, the Pentium3 and Athlon are at parity mhz for mhz with the G4. It's only when you compare vector ops (AltaVec) does the G4 shine. That's why Jobs uses Photoshop 6.0 for his infamous benchmark.
Of course, Adobe added some SSE2-enabled plugins for the Pentium 4 in Photoshop 6.0.1, so I don't expect Jobs to be using that comparison anymore because the Pentium 4, lame as it it is, smokes G4s in Photoshop now.
Apple has done a great job with design, ease-of-use, and bus speed.
Forget the bus speed. The new iMac seems to be an outgrowth of the Cube. It only has a 100mhz SDRAM bus. About the same level of memory throughput as a $500 Celeron computer.
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I do0n't think they will do that until the 64-bit Hammer comes out. By that time there will be enough OSX apps to make it worthwhile.
You can get an iBook for $1,200. They come with OSX.
Which reminds me that this week I realized that the coming commoditization of the laptop market is approaching very quickly. Check this $799 laptop out. Apple has done very well and remained competitive in the laptop market, but not for long now!
OSX uses Mach, which is more of a millstone at this point in time than a true benefit (NeXT used Mach's capability to support multiple CPU architectures once, with a Motorola 6040 for the main cpu, and with an Intel i960 for the PostScript interpreter/graphics card).
Apple truly isn't interested in the server market. It's iMac G3 motherboards would have made an excellent foundation for 1U servers, but they never produced anything of that ilk.
Aple's interests would be better served if they dumped Darwin and used Linux. Linux has better support for multiple CPUs, and has a wealth of device drivers. In the past NeXT built NeXTStep on top of both Sun's UNIX, HP's HP-UX and IBM's AIX. We know that Aqua isn't tied so tightly to Mach that the move would be expensive.
I'm delighted that at least one 1st world country (Japan) is not under the thumb of religious blowhards, who pretend to speak in the interests of 'god' but only perpetuate listless superstition.
By the way, there is nothing in any of the world's sacred texts which prohibit human beings from creating life forms, either from scratch or by recombining dna.
The real impetus behind religious condemnation of advanced genetics and cloning is pure fear.
I think this kind of thing can get way out of hand because the Developer BossMan doesn't adequately protect his turf from the IT guys. Once the IT folks can unilateraly do things that affect the developers, then the BossMan needs to go to turf war.
Developers always need to have an extraordinary relationship with IT, and it is the responsibility of Developer BossMan to have the political will to get what he needs from IT.
When you do one of those 'security' patches in Windows, you must reboot. In any UNIX-like system, one doesn't reboot except when the rare kernel update is needed.
No, I don't know all that much about.NET but I do know how much it would cost to serve their junk over the internet and it is a very innefficient way to run an app!
My take on the whole.NET situation is that it will evolve into an internal application server for corporations.
Hmm... maybe these are related. There could possible be a whole lot of palletes of Mandrake sitting at the printers waiting for payment before being shipped.
I add: What has HP done to market the PA-RISC? Does anybody at HP get embarrased by headlines such as HP Stealth Launches PA-8700 which I saw this week?
I think she's sucked bigtime. But I also blame the Board of Directors and Mr. Platt, too for hiring her in the first place.
HP has (had) no reason to look outside their company when they hired a new President. Fiorina was from Lucent, and probably played a big role in their current troubles. Why would any sane company hire a President with NO COMPUTER EXPERIENCE?
I agree.Hydrogen is also very inneficient to produce. It takes the same amount of energy to make hydrogen gas from water as it produces when it burns. And what's the easiest way to make hydrogen gas? Electricity! Electricity itself is quite expensive. Are we expecting to see huge hydrogen plants in California anytime soon? Ha ha.
Then we use huge amounts of energy to compress hydrogen into a liquid, and the usual energy expendetures to transport it to the fueling stations and then to transfer it to the station's tanks and on to the vehicle.
Nope. Hydrogen is not a panacea unless you are a pseudo-science corporation looking to get bug monetary grants and investments from idiots.
So if a naughty person made a shell script that said something like 'find root pipe rm descripter 1 and 2 redirect to/dev/null', all they would have to do is name it fun.sit and then binhex it, right?
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Everybody there wins (sort of), and the rest of us use what what works!
This is quite true, and illustrates why Apple is shooting itself in the foot by failing to get its manufacturing act together.
They have a 15% (world) market-share potential, but currently carry way less than 5%. Such a small market share is a liability because many commercial software vendors aren't willing to write for Mac.
Well then if price is no consideration, then why don't they just benchmark the P4 against IBM's Power4?
So if you look at the different benchmarks (if linuxhardware.org ever recovers) you'll quickly see that Rambus is only better for streaming large amounts of data, such as encoding video. And we all spend a lot of time encoding video, right?
For general purpose desktop computing or serving, the lower latencies of DDR, and in particular DDR333, are all over that Rambus crap.
1. Company A wants to improve their product.
1. Company A wants more profits. (real world)
2. Company A legally learns/purchases/adapts technologies from rival product.
2. Company buys rival company or company's product. They have virtually unlimited assets to do this because they are a monopoly (real world).
3. As a result, company A's product is improved.
2. Company A discontinues rival company's product. Company A's product gains total market share, even though it is inferior (real world).
Not quite. When you compare integer ops, the Pentium3 and Athlon are at parity mhz for mhz with the G4. It's only when you compare vector ops (AltaVec) does the G4 shine. That's why Jobs uses Photoshop 6.0 for his infamous benchmark.
Of course, Adobe added some SSE2-enabled plugins for the Pentium 4 in Photoshop 6.0.1, so I don't expect Jobs to be using that comparison anymore because the Pentium 4, lame as it it is, smokes G4s in Photoshop now.
Apple has done a great job with design, ease-of-use, and bus speed.
Forget the bus speed. The new iMac seems to be an outgrowth of the Cube. It only has a 100mhz SDRAM bus. About the same level of memory throughput as a $500 Celeron computer.
I do0n't think they will do that until the 64-bit Hammer comes out. By that time there will be enough OSX apps to make it worthwhile.
How about this.
Which reminds me that this week I realized that the coming commoditization of the laptop market is approaching very quickly. Check this $799 laptop out. Apple has done very well and remained competitive in the laptop market, but not for long now!
Apple truly isn't interested in the server market. It's iMac G3 motherboards would have made an excellent foundation for 1U servers, but they never produced anything of that ilk.
Aple's interests would be better served if they dumped Darwin and used Linux. Linux has better support for multiple CPUs, and has a wealth of device drivers. In the past NeXT built NeXTStep on top of both Sun's UNIX, HP's HP-UX and IBM's AIX. We know that Aqua isn't tied so tightly to Mach that the move would be expensive.
I'm delighted that at least one 1st world country (Japan) is not under the thumb of religious blowhards, who pretend to speak in the interests of 'god' but only perpetuate listless superstition.
By the way, there is nothing in any of the world's sacred texts which prohibit human beings from creating life forms, either from scratch or by recombining dna.
The real impetus behind religious condemnation of advanced genetics and cloning is pure fear.
In fact, almost all general news stories that Slashdot posts are links to the MSNBC site.
MSNBC puts money in Microsoft's coffers so they can better wage their war against open source. REAL BRILLIANT, SLASHDOT!
Developers always need to have an extraordinary relationship with IT, and it is the responsibility of Developer BossMan to have the political will to get what he needs from IT.
My take on the whole .NET situation is that it will evolve into an internal application server for corporations.
Welcome to the National Security State.
Hmm... maybe these are related. There could possible be a whole lot of palletes of Mandrake sitting at the printers waiting for payment before being shipped.
HP has (had) no reason to look outside their company when they hired a new President. Fiorina was from Lucent, and probably played a big role in their current troubles. Why would any sane company hire a President with NO COMPUTER EXPERIENCE?
Then we use huge amounts of energy to compress hydrogen into a liquid, and the usual energy expendetures to transport it to the fueling stations and then to transfer it to the station's tanks and on to the vehicle.
Nope. Hydrogen is not a panacea unless you are a pseudo-science corporation looking to get bug monetary grants and investments from idiots.