I worked at a custom circuit board factory for $2.75 an hour when I was fresh out of high school. We did 5 6-layer boards the the Viking Mars Lander spacecraft, and since I worked in the lamination dept., I scratched my real name inside one of the layers.
this will allow the USA to same vehicles such as the amazing BMW 330d.
I wish. I bet most of the Europeans reading this don't know that US trade policy has effectively eliminated most European auto imports. FIAT, Alfa Romeo, all VWs smaller than Golf, Peugeot, Citroen , Rover, Renault, smaller Volvos, all have been eliminated. Mostly through 'safety' regulations that penalize smaller (more fuel efficient) cars via crash tests.
We'll never see the Audi A2, the Mercedes Smart Car or any BMV 330d in the Land of the Free (sic).
Of course, you can't buy a TDI Golf in California, because of the emissions regulations.
Yep. But you can buy a huge, lumbering V8 diesel 4 wheel drive SUV that gets about 25 miles per gallon. Exempt because it has 'legal' business use. Pretty sick if you ask me.
I have a 1982 Jetta with a tiny 1.6 liter pre-turbo diesel. It still gets 48 miles per gallon and has 330,000 miles on it. It is so that I never get traffic tickets.
Wrongo. That Moto ATX board wasn't designed to run MacOS, so Apple killing the clones had nothing to do with it.
I'm talking about the Motorola/Everex CHRP board that was fruitless to market because not only did Apple raise the MacOS price, they 'decided' not to support CHRP. You're talking about their earlier PowerPC systems designed as platforms for NT and Motorola's UNIX.
The reason Wondows users didn't buy PowerPC machines is because they were limited-production and very expensive. Motorola's ATX board was to be at a price point comparable to the then available x86 boards.
And even a 15% market share is more than triple the share PowerPCs have on the desktop today!
Steve Jobs was scared. There were warehouses full of unsold Mac 6500s, and the FUD about Apple's obsolete system software was cutting into the overall growth of the Mac market. Once MicroS**t invested in Apple, and MacOS8 hit the streets, the FUD stopped (even though the OS hadn't changed that much). But the ability to commoditize PowerPC-based computers was forever lost when Jobs killed the clones, and thus the Motorola ATX CHRP board... didn't I already say that?
The real end was when Apple cancelled all the clones. Motorola was readying an ATX board and was willing to sell it through mom-and-pop PC shops.
A brand new Apple doesn't count as a reasonable Linux platform, their hardware is the antithesis of an open system, and their prices are extremely absurd. IBM's attempt last year to make an 'open system' complete with a free schematic failed.
Despite the cheerful '2.0 ghz' (future, always sometime in the future) press release from IBM, the PowerPC lags considerably in cost and speed. Let's not try and get teary-eyed with unfounded hope of a cheap, high-performance, open PowerPC platform. It has found its home in the embedded market.
Just use curses. It is about the simplest lib out there. You really don't need a DOS workalike api. Really, it will take you about a day to get the hang of it.
MicroS**t is only addressing what I'd call the Permanent Underclass of IT people, and giving them hard copy for justification of their expensive software bills.
There once was a saying, "nobody gets fired for buying IBM." and for some ITs the same applies to MicroS**t software.
MS will keep trying, perhaps be a little more sophisticated in their efforts, but you can rest assured that Shared Source(tm) is a word that will be in the permanent IT vocabulary. We'll all be repeating it as if it actually meant something.
So back to this Permanent Underclass thing. Yes, some people are afraid of Linux, and mostly because they're afraid of change, afraid of the extra work they think they will have is they switch to Star Office for the secretary pool. Or Samba for their file and print servers.
MicroS**t seems to be dipping their toes in the waters, testing to see when the laughter will die down and people begin to actually believe their crap.
My father had a job in the mid sixties and he used a car phone in his company car. As I recall, he had to say his call letters to the operator and then have the operator dial the number he wanted.
P4s take up a lot more wafer real estate than Athlons. Add to that Intel's recent 68% drop in profits and you have the makings of a firesale. Surely, AMD's CPUs are a much better deal than Intel's even at their new low price. Intel is in the dumps until and if they succesfully move to.13u process.
The current P4 is a legacy CPU. It will have a different pin count by the time the leaves fall from the trees this year. Anyone who buys one now is either ignorant or works at a corporation with an IT department.
Darwin is open source right now. Steve Jobs could (and probably will) close it on a whim. Then all your hard work belongs to Apple.
Reverse engineering of software is probably legal under the US Constitution, but we will have to wait for a victim with very deep pockets before the issue goes all the way to the supreme court.
In the mean time, whe have arrogant slobs at Apple selling molded plastic and pretty pictures. Look hard: this is a house of cards.
Apple's doing their own x86 chipset, so installing their OSX-x86 to an off the shelf PC won't be trivial. The whole thing could be canned if Motorola somehow pulls their head out of their ass.
This is only a rumor, of course.
blessings,
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Assuming AMD stops all development dead in its tracks and Intel's managememt stops making mistakes.
What makes the article important is it exposes Intel's overinflated sales expectations for the P4. Going all the way back to the 820 fiasco, it's getting plain that there are serious problems with Intel's upper management.
No doubt, a.13 process with a 512 cache will improve the P4s performance. But what if Intel prices it too high? What if the DDR chipsets fail to exceed the performance of the RAMBO chipsets? I'm beginning to think that's likely.
I believe that Intel's.13 Pentium has the potential to be competitive in the short term, but what if Intel cripples it so it won't take market share from the P4?
I'm not convinced AT ALL that Intel will continue to dominate the platform war, as you suggest. All I've seen for the past year and a half from them are serious strategic and engineering blunders.
Corporations have an innocent and noble aim, to make money. ...later...
It [govt.] has a moral outloook, and if your morals are different you are screwed
Making money is not necessarily noble or innocent. Greed as motivator completely lacks morality. It is the lowest common denominator which corrupts not only the people's government, but also the philosophy of the libertarians.
'I, me, mine' always ignores the fact that 6 billion people live in the same place in which you flush your toilet.
One more thing, the 'news' section on the ybos site is pathetic. Fill it up right now, that's where your press kit and logos and photos should be. Put in photos of the geeks that ybos staff.
Right now, lame news is better for you than no news.
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It didn't change my life.
blessings,
If they repeat the lie often enough, people will begin beLIEving them.
blessings,
blessings,
I wish. I bet most of the Europeans reading this don't know that US trade policy has effectively eliminated most European auto imports. FIAT, Alfa Romeo, all VWs smaller than Golf, Peugeot, Citroen , Rover, Renault, smaller Volvos, all have been eliminated. Mostly through 'safety' regulations that penalize smaller (more fuel efficient) cars via crash tests.
We'll never see the Audi A2, the Mercedes Smart Car or any BMV 330d in the Land of the Free (sic).
blessings,
Yep. But you can buy a huge, lumbering V8 diesel 4 wheel drive SUV that gets about 25 miles per gallon. Exempt because it has 'legal' business use. Pretty sick if you ask me.
I have a 1982 Jetta with a tiny 1.6 liter pre-turbo diesel. It still gets 48 miles per gallon and has 330,000 miles on it. It is so that I never get traffic tickets.
blessings,
blessings,
Gosh! I've been waiting since NeXTStep 1.0 for them to remove all that debugging code.
blessings,
blessings,
I'm talking about the Motorola/Everex CHRP board that was fruitless to market because not only did Apple raise the MacOS price, they 'decided' not to support CHRP. You're talking about their earlier PowerPC systems designed as platforms for NT and Motorola's UNIX.
The reason Wondows users didn't buy PowerPC machines is because they were limited-production and very expensive. Motorola's ATX board was to be at a price point comparable to the then available x86 boards.
And even a 15% market share is more than triple the share PowerPCs have on the desktop today!
Steve Jobs was scared. There were warehouses full of unsold Mac 6500s, and the FUD about Apple's obsolete system software was cutting into the overall growth of the Mac market. Once MicroS**t invested in Apple, and MacOS8 hit the streets, the FUD stopped (even though the OS hadn't changed that much). But the ability to commoditize PowerPC-based computers was forever lost when Jobs killed the clones, and thus the Motorola ATX CHRP board... didn't I already say that?
blessings,
A brand new Apple doesn't count as a reasonable Linux platform, their hardware is the antithesis of an open system, and their prices are extremely absurd. IBM's attempt last year to make an 'open system' complete with a free schematic failed.
Despite the cheerful '2.0 ghz' (future, always sometime in the future) press release from IBM, the PowerPC lags considerably in cost and speed. Let's not try and get teary-eyed with unfounded hope of a cheap, high-performance, open PowerPC platform. It has found its home in the embedded market.
blessings,
blessings,
There once was a saying, "nobody gets fired for buying IBM." and for some ITs the same applies to MicroS**t software.
MS will keep trying, perhaps be a little more sophisticated in their efforts, but you can rest assured that Shared Source(tm) is a word that will be in the permanent IT vocabulary. We'll all be repeating it as if it actually meant something.
So back to this Permanent Underclass thing. Yes, some people are afraid of Linux, and mostly because they're afraid of change, afraid of the extra work they think they will have is they switch to Star Office for the secretary pool. Or Samba for their file and print servers.
MicroS**t seems to be dipping their toes in the waters, testing to see when the laughter will die down and people begin to actually believe their crap.
blessings,
The only inefficiency in having 8,000 separate servers is the cost of electricity. Smart that they're leaving California.
blessings,
blessings,
The current P4 is a legacy CPU. It will have a different pin count by the time the leaves fall from the trees this year. Anyone who buys one now is either ignorant or works at a corporation with an IT department.
blessings,
Reverse engineering of software is probably legal under the US Constitution, but we will have to wait for a victim with very deep pockets before the issue goes all the way to the supreme court.
In the mean time, whe have arrogant slobs at Apple selling molded plastic and pretty pictures. Look hard: this is a house of cards.
blessings,
This is only a rumor, of course.
blessings,
blessings,
No doubt, a .13 process with a 512 cache will improve the P4s performance. But what if Intel prices it too high? What if the DDR chipsets fail to exceed the performance of the RAMBO chipsets? I'm beginning to think that's likely.
I believe that Intel's .13 Pentium has the potential to be competitive in the short term, but what if Intel cripples it so it won't take market share from the P4?
I'm not convinced AT ALL that Intel will continue to dominate the platform war, as you suggest. All I've seen for the past year and a half from them are serious strategic and engineering blunders.
blessings,
Making money is not necessarily noble or innocent. Greed as motivator completely lacks morality. It is the lowest common denominator which corrupts not only the people's government, but also the philosophy of the libertarians.
'I, me, mine' always ignores the fact that 6 billion people live in the same place in which you flush your toilet.
blessings,
blessings,
blessings,
Yah, I'd be very surprised to see people trying to put that round peg in a square hole.
blessings,
blessings,
Right now, lame news is better for you than no news.
blessings,