the 4004 was intel's chip, not TI's - it was released at 1972. it was made for busicom, a japanies calculator, so that part you got right - intel, however developed it in house - the original request was to make a chipset that could do calculations - the guys at intel thought it was a good idea to integrate all the functions into ONE chip, since the process technology evolved to the point where it was possible to do so.
still.. the point of what I'm saying, which you missed, apparantly - is that the space and arms race excelerated Americas R&D in the IC field - so america were leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else, they STILL are. one of the direct result of this lead is that Intel - which was a bunch of people who left fairchild semiconductors - was able to be the first to come out with said 4004.
Incidentily... guess who supplied the IC's to the onboard computer on apollo.
"The Apollo era was heroic, but beating the Soviets to the moon never provided a compelling economic reason to return. (We didn't even get Teflon or Tang as spinoffs--both were invented before 1960.)"
I may be nitpicking here, but the premiss is plain WRONG.
America's leadership in the semiconductor industry in general and the CPU industry in perticular is direct result of the space race and the arms race. I prefare the former rather then the latter. The challange of making apollos on-board computer directly influenced the development of ICs, and later the CPU. intel would'nt have been if it were not for apollo (or at least would have come much later).
it was better then I expected when - taking into account the fact that it was backed by disney. note: I'm a die hard H2G2 fan.
Not that it was perfect, far from it. It was a pretty good effort IMHO, with some great moments. some of them (the knitting stop-animation scene, for example) were great, even though I doubt DNA scripted them in. It was a worthy effort. Much better then the TV series, for example (and even better then some of the books).
Granted, the missed some of the better jokes ("I wish I listened to what my mother told me.." for example), but all in all, it was a good film. the fact that it wasn't a great success says more about the american audience then the quality of the flick - take a look at Kiss kiss, bang bang, which I thought was a great flick, but it totaly Bombed in the box office.
it's probably the worst story submision in the history of this site.
it is SO clueless - it is obvious that the submitor and (much worse) the submiting editor - are both clueless and have no buisness posting anything on a tech site. the headline "intel looks beyond the microchip" is missleading. I know that it hints about intels foray into platform, rather then componant solutions - but that IS'NT evident in the story submition.
VIIV and core have been ALL OVER the tech sites for two months (at least) - there is simply nothing new in this story.
you're wrong. apple is in the buisness of making money.
fyi, before Jobs got back to apple, in the end of the spindler era he made a pitch to at least one apple board member (at the time) that he wants to become CEO. his main point was that the mac, as a platform, lost the war with microsoft - apple should concintrate on the "next big thing" - when that board member asked what just is the "next big thing" Jobs said he does not know. yet.
the board member wasn't impressed.
a year or two later Jobs became the CEO (1998). it took 5 years for him to find that "next big thing".
Ah yeah. I read this little anicdote in 'on the firing line', Gil Amellio's self-serving autobiography. so you can guess who was that board member (hint: he's not a board member any more, and he published a self-serving autobiography called 'on the firing line').
that book is an interesting read, mostly becoase when reading it now - it's clear why amellio was not the right choice for CEO and steve jobs was.
Ive's first design at apple was the second generation newton. the 110, IIRC. I'm not sure if he designed the emate at all (though at arround the time that the emate was brought to market he became the head of the ID dept at apple).
"MP3.com was going towards that but was torpedoed and killed off."
as a former mp3.com artist that's NOT how I remember it.
Mp3.com started this way, and had a lot of potential. what REALLY happened is that they were after the traditional music market - and that's where they were headed - the idea of the music-suitcase (which, incidently, robertson is reviving now) - where mp3.com hold the traditional cataloge and people can access it anyware (I remember robertson talking about cellphones back then) as long as they have the original CDs, the plan was, probably, to move twards a download based buisness model after the database gets reasnably large.
I don't think the record companies really cared about mp3.com untill it started messing arround with the lables back cataloges.
it didn't last since the record companies layers were on that in no-time, with no itunes precident they just DIDN'T GET IT. in the end mp3.com got bought - first by universal and later by cnet - and ALL the cataloge was lost. here is the one lable who actually knowingly deleted their own back cataloge.
"Apple doesn't need Tivo, but Apple might need to keep Tivo away from a competitor."
and that my friend, is the reason your post should get +5 insightfull.
this is an interesting point most people don't see with regards to the apple-tivo rumors.
however, looking at past apple aquisitions, this is NOT a tactic apple uses (it's more microsofts style) - of all the aquisitions apple made that I know of the've all been to gain a software or hardware technology they wanted for products FAST - for example, they didn't buy konfabulator - which should have not cost them much, they did buy final cut from macromedia, idvd from astarte, logic and grageband from emagic, etc'.
but who knows. they might do that (or maybe ms will buy tivo - which I find more likely)
intel is not talking about that for obvious reasons (obvious to anyone who follows apple, annyway)
actually the article disscusses this, or in other words..
you didn't RTFA! nya nya nya!
"Corbett declined to comment on whether Apple Computer Inc. is participating in Viiv. Earlier this year, Apple announced that it would start using Intel microprocessors in its Macintosh computers, and it also has released entertainment PC-like software for its latest iMacs."
that was a direct quote from the article you didn't bother to read, for shame!
if you thought gattaca was about a space mission then you probably saw a different film then I did (or did you mean it as a joke) saying that gattaca was a space mission film is analogious to saying that shawshank redemption was a film about accounting..
if you'd say that gattaca was a film about genetic engeneering I could have handeled that (barely).. but a space mission? jeez!
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it was one of very few applications for said IC's, the others were ICBMS and other millitary uses.. no applications = no market = no IC's.
the 4004 was intel's chip, not TI's - it was released at 1972. it was made for busicom, a japanies calculator, so that part you got right - intel, however developed it in house - the original request was to make a chipset that could do calculations - the guys at intel thought it was a good idea to integrate all the functions into ONE chip, since the process technology evolved to the point where it was possible to do so.
still.. the point of what I'm saying, which you missed, apparantly - is that the space and arms race excelerated Americas R&D in the IC field - so america were leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else, they STILL are. one of the direct result of this lead is that Intel - which was a bunch of people who left fairchild semiconductors - was able to be the first to come out with said 4004.
Incidentily... guess who supplied the IC's to the onboard computer on apollo.
it wasn't TI.. it was fairchild semicon.
"The Apollo era was heroic, but beating the Soviets to the moon never provided a compelling economic reason to return. (We didn't even get Teflon or Tang as spinoffs--both were invented before 1960.)"
I may be nitpicking here, but the premiss is plain WRONG.
America's leadership in the semiconductor industry in general and the CPU industry in perticular is direct result of the space race and the arms race. I prefare the former rather then the latter. The challange of making apollos on-board computer directly influenced the development of ICs, and later the CPU. intel would'nt have been if it were not for apollo (or at least would have come much later).
I'd be content to send the man to a quale hunting expedition with the US V.P.
should have proff-read that before posting..
it was better then I expected when - taking into account the fact that it was backed by disney. note: I'm a die hard H2G2 fan.
Not that it was perfect, far from it. It was a pretty good effort IMHO, with some great moments. some of them (the knitting stop-animation scene, for example) were great, even though I doubt DNA scripted them in. It was a worthy effort. Much better then the TV series, for example (and even better then some of the books).
Granted, the missed some of the better jokes ("I wish I listened to what my mother told me.." for example), but all in all, it was a good film. the fact that it wasn't a great success says more about the american audience then the quality of the flick - take a look at Kiss kiss, bang bang, which I thought was a great flick, but it totaly Bombed in the box office.
it's probably the worst story submision in the history of this site.
it is SO clueless - it is obvious that the submitor and (much worse) the submiting editor - are both clueless and have no buisness posting anything on a tech site. the headline "intel looks beyond the microchip" is missleading. I know that it hints about intels foray into platform, rather then componant solutions - but that IS'NT evident in the story submition.
VIIV and core have been ALL OVER the tech sites for two months (at least) - there is simply nothing new in this story.
you're wrong. apple is in the buisness of making money.
fyi, before Jobs got back to apple, in the end of the spindler era he made a pitch to at least one apple board member (at the time) that he wants to become CEO. his main point was that the mac, as a platform, lost the war with microsoft - apple should concintrate on the "next big thing" - when that board member asked what just is the "next big thing" Jobs said he does not know. yet.
the board member wasn't impressed.
a year or two later Jobs became the CEO (1998). it took 5 years for him to find that "next big thing".
Ah yeah. I read this little anicdote in 'on the firing line', Gil Amellio's self-serving autobiography. so you can guess who was that board member (hint: he's not a board member any more, and he published a self-serving autobiography called 'on the firing line').
that book is an interesting read, mostly becoase when reading it now - it's clear why amellio was not the right choice for CEO and steve jobs was.
and whos going to pay for my new screen and keyboard? damn orange juice!
1. it doesn't come WITH the OS. reread grandfather comment.
2. my post was a joke, or at least intended to be one.
you're wrong. symantec anti virus which is avaliable on google pack has no comparable software on osX
Ive's first design at apple was the second generation newton. the 110, IIRC. I'm not sure if he designed the emate at all (though at arround the time that the emate was brought to market he became the head of the ID dept at apple).
The o2 was NOT butifull. It was ugly.
It was better looking them most of the computers of it's age, but that didn't change the fact that it looks like a stubby troll.
and the O2 had very little influence and success. see where silico.. SGI.. no! silicon graphics are now.
and there is that little thing about Ive being a brit.
actually the fact that billg didn't donate to any charties was critisized by Bob Cringley in book Accidential empires.
In the 1996 reissue of the book he takes credit for that, but admits that he was wrong when he predicted that gates would never marry.
ironic.
"MP3.com was going towards that but was torpedoed and killed off."
as a former mp3.com artist that's NOT how I remember it.
Mp3.com started this way, and had a lot of potential. what REALLY happened is that they were after the traditional music market - and that's where they were headed - the idea of the music-suitcase (which, incidently, robertson is reviving now) - where mp3.com hold the traditional cataloge and people can access it anyware (I remember robertson talking about cellphones back then) as long as they have the original CDs, the plan was, probably, to move twards a download based buisness model after the database gets reasnably large.
I don't think the record companies really cared about mp3.com untill it started messing arround with the lables back cataloges.
it didn't last since the record companies layers were on that in no-time, with no itunes precident they just DIDN'T GET IT. in the end mp3.com got bought - first by universal and later by cnet - and ALL the cataloge was lost. here is the one lable who actually knowingly deleted their own back cataloge.
these guys have to keep their spending to a minimum since thier revenue sources will dry up in less then five years.
hoorah!
that's from the story of AMD and VIIV?
"Apple doesn't need Tivo, but Apple might need to keep Tivo away from a competitor."
and that my friend, is the reason your post should get +5 insightfull.
this is an interesting point most people don't see with regards to the apple-tivo rumors.
however, looking at past apple aquisitions, this is NOT a tactic apple uses (it's more microsofts style) - of all the aquisitions apple made that I know of the've all been to gain a software or hardware technology they wanted for products FAST - for example, they didn't buy konfabulator - which should have not cost them much, they did buy final cut from macromedia, idvd from astarte, logic and grageband from emagic, etc'.
but who knows. they might do that (or maybe ms will buy tivo - which I find more likely)
intel is not talking about that for obvious reasons (obvious to anyone who follows apple, annyway)
actually the article disscusses this, or in other words..
you didn't RTFA! nya nya nya!
"Corbett declined to comment on whether Apple Computer Inc. is participating in Viiv. Earlier this year, Apple announced that it would start using Intel microprocessors in its Macintosh computers, and it also has released entertainment PC-like software for its latest iMacs."
that was a direct quote from the article you didn't bother to read, for shame!
so true. true with this story, btw, which I missed the first time - I'm glad it was duped.
I think that when saying xbox and ps2 what you actually ment was.. ipod.
cringely uses the term industrial designers but I'm pretty to sure it doesn't mean what he thinks it means.
and yes, I AM an industrial designer you unsensitive clod!
if you thought gattaca was about a space mission then you probably saw a different film then I did (or did you mean it as a joke) saying that gattaca was a space mission film is analogious to saying that shawshank redemption was a film about accounting..
if you'd say that gattaca was a film about genetic engeneering I could have handeled that (barely).. but a space mission? jeez!
I'm dyslectic you insensitive clod!
jan 2006 - the onStar system is on-line.
feb 2006 - the onStar system gains awareness.
GM, in a panic tries to pull the plug, in turn the onStar system tries to defend it self.
march 2006 - everyone is in terror becoase of the killer cars.
april 2006 - giant cats eat all the killer cars - we are saved thanks to the mircal of atomic mutation!
but at what cost?