transmeta chips are alwredy in production at IBM fabs. This is scaring intel more then AMD. Amd has limited production capabilities and have a history of fabrication yield problems, that they are only now STARTING to come out from. IBM basicly has almost unlimited fabrication resources relative to AMD.
Up to this point no intel OEM customer has announced plans to use transmeta chips (other then SIII, who are not a intel mobile customer anyway). The lack of Customer announcements at transmeta's unvailing seemed very wierd and the argument that Transmeta gave was lame, in my view "we wanted to announce the chip first.." jeez, that's not the way things are done in this market, you have to announce support of third parties when introducing a chip, otherwize the technical press and the rest will think that something is wrong. And they do. hence the "S3 saves transmeta" headline I saw (don't remember if it was ZDnet or News.com).
Transmeta is herting intel in one of it's most lucrative markets, Intel makes a lot of profit on each mobile product, you can bet that it's going to fight back. How ethical that fight is going to be? hmmm..
This all may seem paranoid to you guys, so let's say it all together...
"only the paranoid survive"
It seems that it is possible that intel is pushing behind the scenes to influence other companies not to unvail transmeta based products, this is not something that hasn't happened before in this industry, so I guess it could be happening now. But maybe it isn't.
Intel was well aware of transmeta's plans for some time (hence the unvailing of powerstep PIII mobiles a day before the transmeta anouncement), --------------------------------
I find it hard to believe that Roblimo posted the story on slashdot the second he got it. Actualy the way the story was written proves this ("everyone submitted this...").
from the way Roblimo structured the story it looks like he waited untill there was confirmation on the deal (check out the subject...) , and only then decided to post. that's BAD, since Slashdot's advantige over traditional media is that it can afford to be more flexable in regard to posting news stories, without waiting for confirmation each time a story is submitted.
I rather have slashdot have the occasional error (and retraction/correction) then for/. editors waiting a few hours each time a interesting story comes allong just so they get real confirmation. --------------------------------
This is slightly off topic (which is why I'm posting this without my bonous point) but it has to be said..
Why did it take slashdot more then three hours to report this?
I know that this may sound somewhat pedantic, but this really IS major news and should have been put on slash the moment it got out. Instead, for some unknown reason (confirmation?) slash opted to wait. Roblimo has posted other, less important stories throught this period, so this really puzzles me.
Bad slashdot! BAD!
This delay denied the comunity from commenting on this story in real time, which is slashdot's true forte. And why I read slash religously. you have been warned. --------------------------------
The Keynote yesterday was extreemly cool. And the User interface for mac os X will set standards.
the coolness ocares when you minimze and maxime windows.. the window just liquifies and funnels it self into the icon doc window smoothly when being minimized you simply have to see this happening to fathom the whole coolness of the UI..
checkout the real Video stream here (start from about 1/3 into the stream to see the UI demo)
It really is extreemly cool.
This perticular story submision pisses me off. I hate it when cluless people write FUD about stuff they know nothing about whether it's about apple, linux, or what ever.
It's obvious that the guy who wrote the submission to slashdot did NOT see the keynote and does not understand the importance of what Jobs showed yesturday.
And the Icons size can be resized, they can be extreemly small, and then you can magnify them.. that magnification thing is also total coolness.
I remember an Intel exec (can't remember if it was Grove or Barret) saying a few years ago that if the code that suposed to emulate X86 code in merced will not work good enough - they would simply build a X86 along side merced (in the same die) and ship that... --------------------------------
Intel has been pissed at microsoft for years now. MS have been VERY slow in implementing diferant intel technologies, and as a result intel started looking at alternative OS's for some time. The best example of Intels annoyance at microsoft is the slow adoption of task switching (386 and higher I think) the chips intruduced in 1985 which had task switching didn't get a MS operating system until 1995. Another good example is MS slow adoption of USB. Although win95 versions (from OSR2.5) did include USB support, MS didn't do nothing to addvertize that fact to end users. They tryed to change that in win98 (3 years after the standard was finalized..). Intel is interested in getting people to buy intel chips. Not helping Microsoft. Intel has realized that a lot of high performance intel chips are going into machines that act as servers running linux and BSD and thouse comunities react much faster to improvments and changes that intel adds to their proccessors. --------------------------------
Yes.. I know that you are thinking I probably got the two sites mixed up in the title...
Slashdot is, imho, more influential then all the sites Andover owns put together. Untill this linux/Open-source craze came along and Andover.net bought/. and FM very few people actually HEARD of andover at all..
Andover is now a public company, and as such it holds certain responsabilities to it's shareholders, growth being the most obvious one.
To do this Andover needs to exploite Slashdot's brand, as I see very little other value within Andover's arsenal. The current situation of Andovers stock is a good indication of pressure that might build on you guys to "sell out" in various ways (some of them might actually be good, IMHO) like expanding the focus of/. to non technical issues and some even more radical posibilities.
how do you guys see Slashdot and that your small insignificate Andover part collaborating together, through this? what's going to happen? should I buy the stock or not?? (just kidding)
you missunderstud what I wrote, or maybe I wasn't clear enough.
I am not commenting about Andover or VAlinux's market cap. I was refaring to the precentage of shares that Rob holds in andover - which is (?) 143K/15M - arround 1% of andover's outstanding shares (if that information is true). That's kind of low, since Slashdot is responsible for 50% of the advertizing revenues of andover - as well as being the strongest brand they have (come on.. who ever HEARD of andover.net before they bought slashdot).
And I DON'T think VAlinux is overrated. They are one of the key companies developing the merced port (together with SGI) and are going to always have an advantage over other linux box makers. They have the best people (and the highest amount of high quality HR) and have a strong brandname - where that brandname counts - the IT professionals who make the decisions what hardware to buy.
teh result of the auction was 24$ per share. Andover decided to price it at 18, after all, since it would take an additional filling with SEC to change the offering price to 24. that would take time and aparantly Andover didn't want to delay the ipo. Can't blaim them. --------------------------------
actually, 143K is not that much, based on the value/. has added to andover.
I beleave that/. itself is worth more then 50% of the rest of andover.
My fear is that slashdot will get neglected ammong all of the other projects in Andover. other then that I think 60$+ for/. alone is fair value based on potential. --------------------------------
3) making SMART tech design decisions - embracing USB is the biggest one, imho since it forced all USB perifiral vendors to seriously concider developing mac drivers.
4) FINALY fully capitalizing on one of apples majors advantages: a Kick ass Industrial design team, probably the best in the industry. (the emate and 20th mac, are not mainstream products).
5) last but not least: the mac comunity and Apples STRONG culture - which in turn means that a bunch of people who will NOT convert to other platforms if thier life depended on it (not a bad thing..) And most Geeks have fond memories of Apple products, if not the Mac then Apple II.
Look at SGI and tell me if any of this things might apply...
non of them do. the only two things that resemble this are the industial design (which isn;t internal in SGI - they usealy hire Frogdesign), and they might theoretcly take a lead in graphics if they cancel OpenGL... But it's a little too late for that, isn't it..
SGI does not have much culture, the little they has was KILLED when they changed their name to SGI and scratched the 3d box LOGO. IMHO the stupidest image move a company made this year (tied up with ArtX..)
I personaly can't see how SGI might find a way to stage a comeback.. unless they make a very bold move. They do have some nice tech even leading tech in some ereas (Maya being the most obvious, IMHO). but nothing that I can see that might make them a power player again.
Slashdot Mirror
No Linux system?
It's a price for performance... no linux system??
This looks bogous to me.
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Ah but driving home after playing Carmaggedon.. Now that's and expirience..
hmmm, extra style points!
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transmeta chips are alwredy in production at IBM fabs. This is scaring intel more then AMD. Amd has limited production capabilities and have a history of fabrication yield problems, that they are only now STARTING to come out from. IBM basicly has almost unlimited fabrication resources relative to AMD.
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Up to this point no intel OEM customer has announced plans to use transmeta chips (other then SIII, who are not a intel mobile customer anyway). The lack of Customer announcements at transmeta's unvailing seemed very wierd and the argument that Transmeta gave was lame, in my view "we wanted to announce the chip first.." jeez, that's not the way things are done in this market, you have to announce support of third parties when introducing a chip, otherwize the technical press and the rest will think that something is wrong. And they do. hence the "S3 saves transmeta" headline I saw (don't remember if it was ZDnet or News.com).
Transmeta is herting intel in one of it's most lucrative markets, Intel makes a lot of profit on each mobile product, you can bet that it's going to fight back. How ethical that fight is going to be? hmmm..
This all may seem paranoid to you guys, so let's say it all together...
"only the paranoid survive"
It seems that it is possible that intel is pushing behind the scenes to influence other companies not to unvail transmeta based products, this is not something that hasn't happened before in this industry, so I guess it could be happening now. But maybe it isn't.
Intel was well aware of transmeta's plans for some time (hence the unvailing of powerstep PIII mobiles a day before the transmeta anouncement),
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I find it hard to believe that Roblimo posted the story on slashdot the second he got it. Actualy the way the story was written proves this ("everyone submitted this...").
/. editors waiting a few hours each time a interesting story comes allong just so they get real confirmation.
from the way Roblimo structured the story it looks like he waited untill there was confirmation on the deal (check out the subject...) , and only then decided to post. that's BAD, since Slashdot's advantige over traditional media is that it can afford to be more flexable in regard to posting news stories, without waiting for confirmation each time a story is submitted.
I rather have slashdot have the occasional error (and retraction/correction) then for
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This is slightly off topic (which is why I'm posting this without my bonous point) but it has to be said..
Why did it take slashdot more then three hours to report this?
I know that this may sound somewhat pedantic, but this really IS major news and should have been put on slash the moment it got out. Instead, for some unknown reason (confirmation?) slash opted to wait. Roblimo has posted other, less important stories throught this period, so this really puzzles me.
Bad slashdot! BAD!
This delay denied the comunity from commenting on this story in real time, which is slashdot's true forte. And why I read slash religously. you have been warned.
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I hope that the funneling trick can be turned off. Some people would not want that for that reason.
but you have to agree that some people might want it, too..
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The Keynote yesterday was extreemly cool. And the User interface for mac os X will set standards.
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the coolness ocares when you minimze and maxime windows.. the window just liquifies and funnels it self into the icon doc window smoothly when being minimized you simply have to see this happening to fathom the whole coolness of the UI..
checkout the real Video stream here (start from about 1/3 into the stream to see the UI demo)
It really is extreemly cool.
This perticular story submision pisses me off. I hate it when cluless people write FUD about stuff they know nothing about whether it's about apple, linux, or what ever.
It's obvious that the guy who wrote the submission to slashdot did NOT see the keynote and does not understand the importance of what Jobs showed yesturday.
And the Icons size can be resized, they can be extreemly small, and then you can magnify them.. that magnification thing is also total coolness.
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watch that realvideo stream, it's damn cool! **********************************************
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I agree.
I remember an Intel exec (can't remember if it was Grove or Barret) saying a few years ago that if the code that suposed to emulate X86 code in merced will not work good enough - they would simply build a X86 along side merced (in the same die) and ship that...
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Intel has been pissed at microsoft for years now. MS have been VERY slow in implementing diferant intel technologies, and as a result intel started looking at alternative OS's for some time. The best example of Intels annoyance at microsoft is the slow adoption of task switching (386 and higher I think) the chips intruduced in 1985 which had task switching didn't get a MS operating system until 1995. Another good example is MS slow adoption of USB. Although win95 versions (from OSR2.5) did include USB support, MS didn't do nothing to addvertize that fact to end users. They tryed to change that in win98 (3 years after the standard was finalized..). Intel is interested in getting people to buy intel chips. Not helping Microsoft. Intel has realized that a lot of high performance intel chips are going into machines that act as servers running linux and BSD and thouse comunities react much faster to improvments and changes that intel adds to their proccessors.
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Yes.. I know that you are thinking I probably got the two sites mixed up in the title...
/. and FM very few people actually HEARD of andover at all..
/. to non technical issues and some even more radical posibilities.
Slashdot is, imho, more influential then all the sites Andover owns put together. Untill this linux/Open-source craze came along and Andover.net bought
Andover is now a public company, and as such it holds certain responsabilities to it's shareholders, growth being the most obvious one.
To do this Andover needs to exploite Slashdot's brand, as I see very little other value within Andover's arsenal. The current situation of Andovers stock is a good indication of pressure that might build on you guys to "sell out" in various ways (some of them might actually be good, IMHO) like expanding the focus of
how do you guys see Slashdot and that your small insignificate Andover part collaborating together, through this? what's going to happen? should I buy the stock or not?? (just kidding)
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according to
this story on News.com, Startrek- voyeger's web site claims that the next episode will be aired.. 99 years and 364 days ago.
check it out here.
(and it's running a ASP script... why isn't this suprising?)
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Cool idea.
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I for one would love to see the original "chips and dips" which preceded
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you missunderstud what I wrote, or maybe I wasn't clear enough.
I am not commenting about Andover or VAlinux's market cap. I was refaring to the precentage of shares that Rob holds in andover - which is (?) 143K/15M - arround 1% of andover's outstanding shares (if that information is true). That's kind of low, since Slashdot is responsible for 50% of the advertizing revenues of andover - as well as being the strongest brand they have (come on.. who ever HEARD of andover.net before they bought slashdot).
And I DON'T think VAlinux is overrated. They are one of the key companies developing the merced port (together with SGI) and are going to always have an advantage over other linux box makers. They have the best people (and the highest amount of high quality HR) and have a strong brandname - where that brandname counts - the IT professionals who make the decisions what hardware to buy.
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teh result of the auction was 24$ per share. Andover decided to price it at 18, after all, since it would take an additional filling with SEC to change the offering price to 24. that would take time and aparantly Andover didn't want to delay the ipo. Can't blaim them.
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actually, 143K is not that much, based on the value /. has added to andover.
/. itself is worth more then 50% of the rest of andover.
/. alone is fair value based on potential.
I beleave that
My fear is that slashdot will get neglected ammong all of the other projects in Andover. other then that I think 60$+ for
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it's probably the most moderated comment on slashdot, ever.
so far people waisted 12 moderation points on this, so far:
6 offtopic, 5 funny, 1 flamebate.
It's a battle between the light side and the dark side (or should I say the petrified side?)
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I see Rob fixed this. Good thing too.
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not even close..
Apple got saved becoase of these reasons:
1) killing of the clones - apple got monopoly of the mac market again = no mac competition = higher revenew streams + higher profit margins.
2) Killing non-esential projects: newton, 6 slot motherboards.
3) making SMART tech design decisions - embracing USB is the biggest one, imho since it forced all USB perifiral vendors to seriously concider developing mac drivers.
4) FINALY fully capitalizing on one of apples majors advantages: a Kick ass Industrial design team, probably the best in the industry. (the emate and 20th mac, are not mainstream products).
5) last but not least: the mac comunity and Apples STRONG culture - which in turn means that a bunch of people who will NOT convert to other platforms if thier life depended on it (not a bad thing..) And most Geeks have fond memories of Apple products, if not the Mac then Apple II.
Look at SGI and tell me if any of this things might apply...
non of them do. the only two things that resemble this are the industial design (which isn;t internal in SGI - they usealy hire Frogdesign), and they might theoretcly take a lead in graphics if they cancel OpenGL... But it's a little too late for that, isn't it..
SGI does not have much culture, the little they has was KILLED when they changed their name to SGI and scratched the 3d box LOGO. IMHO the stupidest image move a company made this year (tied up with ArtX..)
I personaly can't see how SGI might find a way to stage a comeback.. unless they make a very bold move. They do have some nice tech even leading tech in some ereas (Maya being the most obvious, IMHO). but nothing that I can see that might make them a power player again.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
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yup..
:-)
this one is my favorite..
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The SGI investor page says it all
www.sgi.com/investors
(press reload a few time for maximum effect)
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:-)
(old joke)
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god has been slashdotted.
he created the world in seven days (well actualy six).
/. knocked the site in 5 minutes.. so much for god.
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Yup.. But that was Amilleo's plan.. not Steves.
Big difference.
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Amarok rulez..
lamer!
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