Once IBM gets done eviscerating SCO in court, they'll probably end up owning all SCO's IP and assets
Forgetting the $34,000,000 plus interest that the SCO Group owes Novell from the M$ and Sun license fees? Or the fact that Novell still own the UNIX copyrights, that tSCOg has no trade secrets or patents? Or the Red Hat suit?
A happy thought is these 3 passing round the hot, smoking corpse of Cald^H^H^H^H^H tSCOg: "Here, take it", "No, it's yours", "We insist" while trying to ignore the stench of napalm-burnt turd...
This is about as significant as Microsoft not releasing a PowerPC version of Vista.
Nope, this is much less significant.
Such announcement would be a huge boost for IBM and Motorola (the PowerPC makers), especially given the kick they have just taken from Apple (who for 15 years were 1/3 of the PowerPC trio of backers).
A revival of Microsoft OS support for the PPC processor family in Vista (NT 6.0) would be a huge deal, given that they dropped it from NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) and NT 5.1 (Windows XP and 2003), after it was supported in NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 (up to SP3, at least).
FYI, here's a snippet from Microsoft's NT 4.0 docs:
Portability means that Windows NT runs on both CISC and RISC processors. CISC includes computers running with Intel 486 or higher processors. RISC includes computers with MIPS R4000or Digital Alpha AXP, or PowerPC processors.
Vista is only going to run on x86, x86_64 and Itanium processors, but the odd thing is that it will need EFI support to boot on the latter anyway. Maybe MS have some toe-stepping avoidance deal with Apple?
Well, there's been tons of innovaton at Intel. Even just looking at the CPU side, between the speeds you list:
100 MHz (1994):
DX4 (P24C), Pentium (P54 version) - both, AFAICR were 0.6 um processes, and the DX4 had a 33 MHz bus and the P100 had a 50 MHz bus. I can't remember which was released first though.
600 MHz (Summer 1999):
Pentium III (Katmai), the first rev of Pentium III, which was a new revision of the P6 core used in the PPro and PII chips. It had a new instruction set, SSE, and 512MB (external) L2 cache and a 100 MHz bus. Like the Pentium II, it also had Intel's MMX instructions for 64-bit SIMD integer operations.
1 GHz (Spring 2000):
Still a Pentium III, though now with 133 MHz FSB and smaller (256MB), on-die L2 cache. No real changes from the 600 MHz version, but then it's only 2/3 faster again - and Intel were working on the Netburst architecture for the Pentium 4 and had somewhat taken their eye off the ball at this point.
4 GHz does not exist.
Currently P4EE is at 3.73 GHz, but the clock speed race is over.
Intel gambled on Netburst, which was designed to get faster rapidly, and scale all the way from the 1.4 GHz at launch to 6 or 7 by now. Yes, they lost, but that doesn't mean that they weren't innovative - it's just that their process teechnology couldn't keep up, and failed to meet predictions. That's not the CPU designers' fault.
The earlier processors did scale fantastically well (486 16->120 MHz; P6 150->1400 MHz) but they hit an unexpected brick wall this time, so they've gone around it with clever scheduling and power management, and doing dual core versions of what is essentially a new rev of the P6. There's plenty of innovation in that chip too...
Also, remember that during the same timeframe, they've invented and developed the PCI, PCI Express and Universal Serial Bus(es). Pretty innovative, really, IMHO.
And yes, I'm typing this on an Athlon 64 and all 3 of my home PCs are AMD-powered.
The NES was released 27 months before the Master System and won, despite being technically inferior.
The SNES was released a year after the Mega Drive and won, and was technically superior.
The N64 was released 18 months after the Playstation, and lost, despite being technically superior.
The GameCube was released 18 months after the PS2 and just before the Xbox, and lost, despite being technically superior to the former and inferior to the latter.
What matters seems to be the available games, though in the PS2 case a lot of people bought it as their first DVD player, justifying the purchase that way. That's what Sony were banking on with the PS3 too, but the BluRay capability has undoubtedly delayed their launch.
Add in the facts that their CPU is quite weird and hard to program, and that they'll be last to market in this generation, and they've some small difficulties to overcome.
I'd still bet that they will be a very strong contender this time round (not least due to backwards compatibility and the desire to keep game libraries while trashing the old machine), but unless MS continue to shoot themselves in both feet it'll probably be a lot closer this time round...
Seeing as the linked page is useless to those of us running non-Firefox 1.5 browsers (Mozilla 1.7.12 here), I looked up the details of what the winners actually are, and thought I'd share...
Grand Prize Category Winners:
Best New Extension Overall: Reveal by Michael Wu
See everything. Reveal allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want. Reveal also includes a magnifying glass to help you see everything.
Best Upgraded Extension: Web Developer by Chris Pederick
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
Best Use of New Firefox 1.5 Features: Firefox Showcase by Josep del Rio
Showcase is an extension thought to easily locate and select any open browser window in Firefox.
Our three grand prize winners will receive a Alienware Aurora 7500 Firefox Edition PC and a Firefox 1.5 Prize Pack including: T-shirt, cap, and laptop bag.
Best in Class Category Winners:
Most Innovative:
New: Viamatic foXpose by Vivek Jishtu
Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click.
Upgraded: Sage by Peter Andrews
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't. * Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds * Feed Discovery * Integrates with Firefox's bookmarks
Most Useful:
New: Separe by Massimo Mangoni
Helps you keeping tabs tidy by introducing a new kind of tab!
Upgraded: Scrapbook by Taiga Gomibuchi
ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are: Save Web page; Save snippet of Web page; Save Web site; Org
Best User Experience:
New: Reveal by Michael Wu
See everything. Reveal allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want. Reveal also includes a magnifying glass to help you see everything.
Upgraded: All-in-One Sidebar by Ingo Wennemaring
All-in-One Sidebar is a sidebar control, inspired by Opera's. It lets you quickly switch between sidebars, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source code or websites in the sidebar. It includes a slide
Best Integration with a Web Service:
New: My Stickies by Jacob Wright
Mystickies allows you to place sticky notes all over the web and organize them with tags. You can view, sort and edit your notes with our free web based tool at www.mystickies.com
Upgraded: Forecast Fox by Aaron Sarna
Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.
Prizes for Best in Class (8 awarded): Apple iPod Nano, $250 Gift Certificate for O'Reilly books, and a Firefox 1.5 Prize Pack - T-shirt, cap, and laptop bag.
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Hear, hear. With Blizzard making such huge profits from this game, it really sucks that I can't play with my friends in the US (I'm on a european server) - but I guess that's the way the game's designed.
Despite the constant moaning though, most of us are not going stop playing over such issues, so they're not going to fix them anytime soon. And WoW is the best game ever, sadly for my social life and wallet...
yep, and Core Duo and Solo are just the latest rev of the P6 core that's been in every IA32 chip except the Pentium 4, from the PPro to the Pentium M. In other words, all this news says is that Netburst is dead, and 32-bit computing lives a little longer.
The real new chip line is coming later in the year, when Intel's new architecture comes out: see these 2 great articles by Oleg Bessonov over at Digit Life on Conroe, the future, and Yonah, the current Intel CPU.
Of course, this is Slashdot, so about 3 people will read these through, and only 2 of those will grok 'em, but their server will get melted anyway...
Your new TV is already online - how else do you think the pictures get into it? The MTV pixies?
My TV's about 20 months old, and it bugs me every couple of months to update the firmware, which is done over the air via the integrated digital decoder. New features, annoying changes to menus and look-and-feel, the works.
In this brave new world, the only way to avoid such suckage is disconnecting the aerial and only watching VHS tapes. Expect at some point to have video playback devices and videogame consoles updating the firmware of the crypto chip in the TV from the latest media disc.
And with Pacifica and VT due to arrive in (respectively) AMD and Intel chips this year, you won't even need a VM - the hardware will allow you to run both at the same time (if you have enough RAM, of course)
the Chinese learn engrish about as well as our Indian friends...
WTF?
How many US-ians have bothered to learn a foreign language? What percentage even have passports?
Very many Chinese and Indians speak excellent English, and tens of millions of each speak better English than almost any Americans do Mandarin or Hindi.
How good is your Punjabi? How about your Cantonese? And how about your friends and neighbours?
Cheney was wrong, this won't be the New American Century. The Chinese and Indians are waking up, and there are more of them, they have more resources, better educations and still have actual industries. They understand us better than we do them, and they don't trust us either...
I'm going to shut up now as I'm starting to veer OT, but my point is, you'd do very well not to underestimate 37% of the world's people so casually (that's not including the Chinese and Indians living abroad)! For every American there are 4.5 Chinese and 3.6 Indians, and they are not dumb.
But what did the Impress-created slide show look like when he opened in PowerPoint?
I use OOo all the time, but only Writer, Calc and Draw, and these are great for my own work, but they still mis-render many documents sent to me. Anything important I usually end up having to get a Windows user to print out for me, as OOo just doesn't cut it. Some things are even worse than in the days of Star Office 4 (pre-Sun takeover) and MS Office 97.
This really sucks, as I'm quite a rabid Free software advocate and have nuked more Windows installs than I can count...
In the medium term it doesn't matter to the commercial software market how many Indians and Chinese there are, but how many individuals in any given region can afford to license which software.
There aren't enough Chinese or Indians who can afford Microsoft Office or Windows for MS to make up for leaving the EU, so they will stay.
Incidentally, there are plenty of opportunities in those 2 markets for localised Linux distros due to lower costs and long-standing governmental distrust of the US, which reflects back on MS.
Yup. The Precisions, Optiplexs and Latitudes have always been great PCs, but the Dimensions and Inspirons suck the big one.
Dell are great for business machines, but their consumer ranges are terrible. Every time someone here buys an Optiplex "because it's so much cheaper" I tell them it is, if they cost their own and my time at zero. Six months later they realise I was right...
Generally, we now buy Precisions, but we still have 7+ year old Optiplex boxen as mail and print servers, running RHEL 4.
and yet their graphics are the same as the Gamecube and Xbox
You're ignoring 2 things:
Playstation 2 hit the shelves 18 months before the Gamecube, and 20 months before the Xbox: that's a whole cycle of Moore's Law, and the same period as between the release of the Dreamcast and the PS2
the PS2's graphics are not the same as the Xbox or the 'cube - they don't look completely outclassed, but they're certainly not on a par
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Le éminence grise ?
Forgetting the $34,000,000 plus interest that the SCO Group owes Novell from the M$ and Sun license fees? Or the fact that Novell still own the UNIX copyrights, that tSCOg has no trade secrets or patents? Or the Red Hat suit?
A happy thought is these 3 passing round the hot, smoking corpse of Cald^H^H^H^H^H tSCOg: "Here, take it", "No, it's yours", "We insist" while trying to ignore the stench of napalm-burnt turd ...
Red Hat already supports EFI for Itanium systems, and has pledged to work on supporting the new x86 Macs' EFI.
Not really that surprising, as their free version runs on the older G3, G4 and G5 Macs...
Microsoft will have to support EFI in NT 6.0 (consumer version is called Vista) if they are to continue to produce the Itanium server version:
Nope, this is much less significant.
Such announcement would be a huge boost for IBM and Motorola (the PowerPC makers), especially given the kick they have just taken from Apple (who for 15 years were 1/3 of the PowerPC trio of backers).
A revival of Microsoft OS support for the PPC processor family in Vista (NT 6.0) would be a huge deal, given that they dropped it from NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) and NT 5.1 (Windows XP and 2003), after it was supported in NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 (up to SP3, at least).
FYI, here's a snippet from Microsoft's NT 4.0 docs:
Vista is only going to run on x86, x86_64 and Itanium processors, but the odd thing is that it will need EFI support to boot on the latter anyway. Maybe MS have some toe-stepping avoidance deal with Apple?
Well, there's been tons of innovaton at Intel. Even just looking at the CPU side, between the speeds you list:
100 MHz (1994): DX4 (P24C), Pentium (P54 version) - both, AFAICR were 0.6 um processes, and the DX4 had a 33 MHz bus and the P100 had a 50 MHz bus. I can't remember which was released first though. 600 MHz (Summer 1999): Pentium III (Katmai), the first rev of Pentium III, which was a new revision of the P6 core used in the PPro and PII chips. It had a new instruction set, SSE, and 512MB (external) L2 cache and a 100 MHz bus. Like the Pentium II, it also had Intel's MMX instructions for 64-bit SIMD integer operations. 1 GHz (Spring 2000): Still a Pentium III, though now with 133 MHz FSB and smaller (256MB), on-die L2 cache. No real changes from the 600 MHz version, but then it's only 2/3 faster again - and Intel were working on the Netburst architecture for the Pentium 4 and had somewhat taken their eye off the ball at this point. 4 GHz does not exist. Currently P4EE is at 3.73 GHz, but the clock speed race is over.Intel gambled on Netburst, which was designed to get faster rapidly, and scale all the way from the 1.4 GHz at launch to 6 or 7 by now. Yes, they lost, but that doesn't mean that they weren't innovative - it's just that their process teechnology couldn't keep up, and failed to meet predictions. That's not the CPU designers' fault.
The earlier processors did scale fantastically well (486 16->120 MHz; P6 150->1400 MHz) but they hit an unexpected brick wall this time, so they've gone around it with clever scheduling and power management, and doing dual core versions of what is essentially a new rev of the P6. There's plenty of innovation in that chip too...
Also, remember that during the same timeframe, they've invented and developed the PCI, PCI Express and Universal Serial Bus(es). Pretty innovative, really, IMHO.
And yes, I'm typing this on an Athlon 64 and all 3 of my home PCs are AMD-powered.
huh?
What matters seems to be the available games, though in the PS2 case a lot of people bought it as their first DVD player, justifying the purchase that way. That's what Sony were banking on with the PS3 too, but the BluRay capability has undoubtedly delayed their launch.
Add in the facts that their CPU is quite weird and hard to program, and that they'll be last to market in this generation, and they've some small difficulties to overcome.
I'd still bet that they will be a very strong contender this time round (not least due to backwards compatibility and the desire to keep game libraries while trashing the old machine), but unless MS continue to shoot themselves in both feet it'll probably be a lot closer this time round...
Seeing as the linked page is useless to those of us running non-Firefox 1.5 browsers (Mozilla 1.7.12 here), I looked up the details of what the winners actually are, and thought I'd share ...
Grand Prize Category Winners:
Best New Extension Overall: Reveal by Michael Wu See everything. Reveal allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want. Reveal also includes a magnifying glass to help you see everything. Best Upgraded Extension: Web Developer by Chris Pederick Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. Best Use of New Firefox 1.5 Features: Firefox Showcase by Josep del Rio Showcase is an extension thought to easily locate and select any open browser window in Firefox.Our three grand prize winners will receive a Alienware Aurora 7500 Firefox Edition PC and a Firefox 1.5 Prize Pack including: T-shirt, cap, and laptop bag.
Best in Class Category Winners:
Most Innovative: New: Viamatic foXpose by Vivek Jishtu Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click. Upgraded: Sage by Peter Andrews Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't. * Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds * Feed Discovery * Integrates with Firefox's bookmarks Most Useful: New: Separe by Massimo Mangoni Helps you keeping tabs tidy by introducing a new kind of tab! Upgraded: Scrapbook by Taiga Gomibuchi ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are: Save Web page; Save snippet of Web page; Save Web site; Org Best User Experience: New: Reveal by Michael Wu See everything. Reveal allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want. Reveal also includes a magnifying glass to help you see everything. Upgraded: All-in-One Sidebar by Ingo Wennemaring All-in-One Sidebar is a sidebar control, inspired by Opera's. It lets you quickly switch between sidebars, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source code or websites in the sidebar. It includes a slide Best Integration with a Web Service: New: My Stickies by Jacob Wright Mystickies allows you to place sticky notes all over the web and organize them with tags. You can view, sort and edit your notes with our free web based tool at www.mystickies.com Upgraded: Forecast Fox by Aaron Sarna Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.Prizes for Best in Class (8 awarded): Apple iPod Nano, $250 Gift Certificate for O'Reilly books, and a Firefox 1.5 Prize Pack - T-shirt, cap, and laptop bag.
Hear, hear. With Blizzard making such huge profits from this game, it really sucks that I can't play with my friends in the US (I'm on a european server) - but I guess that's the way the game's designed.
Despite the constant moaning though, most of us are not going stop playing over such issues, so they're not going to fix them anytime soon. And WoW is the best game ever, sadly for my social life and wallet...
yep, and Core Duo and Solo are just the latest rev of the P6 core that's been in every IA32 chip except the Pentium 4, from the PPro to the Pentium M. In other words, all this news says is that Netburst is dead, and 32-bit computing lives a little longer.
The real new chip line is coming later in the year, when Intel's new architecture comes out: see these 2 great articles by Oleg Bessonov over at Digit Life on Conroe, the future, and Yonah, the current Intel CPU.
Of course, this is Slashdot, so about 3 people will read these through, and only 2 of those will grok 'em, but their server will get melted anyway...
Your new TV is already online - how else do you think the pictures get into it? The MTV pixies?
My TV's about 20 months old, and it bugs me every couple of months to update the firmware, which is done over the air via the integrated digital decoder. New features, annoying changes to menus and look-and-feel, the works.
In this brave new world, the only way to avoid such suckage is disconnecting the aerial and only watching VHS tapes. Expect at some point to have video playback devices and videogame consoles updating the firmware of the crypto chip in the TV from the latest media disc.
Time to revert to my MegaDrive ...
And with Pacifica and VT due to arrive in (respectively) AMD and Intel chips this year, you won't even need a VM - the hardware will allow you to run both at the same time (if you have enough RAM, of course)
Hey, I am writing in Fortran!
Except now there's scientific evidence to base the suit on
At least 17 years, unless I'm getting senile in my old age...
WTF?
How many US-ians have bothered to learn a foreign language? What percentage even have passports?
Very many Chinese and Indians speak excellent English, and tens of millions of each speak better English than almost any Americans do Mandarin or Hindi.
How good is your Punjabi? How about your Cantonese? And how about your friends and neighbours?
Cheney was wrong, this won't be the New American Century. The Chinese and Indians are waking up, and there are more of them, they have more resources, better educations and still have actual industries. They understand us better than we do them, and they don't trust us either...
I'm going to shut up now as I'm starting to veer OT, but my point is, you'd do very well not to underestimate 37% of the world's people so casually (that's not including the Chinese and Indians living abroad)! For every American there are 4.5 Chinese and 3.6 Indians, and they are not dumb.
... is what doesn't run Linux ?
ADD ? Attention Defecit Disorder ? Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ? WTF??
It's more like sending C&D notices to force small fry to cough up the cash.
Linky
And you trust the DHS to map domain names to IP addresses better than they do with city names and geography ?
Exactly right.
To illustrate, according to this Kotaku story, Microsoft shipped 159,000 Xbox 360's to Japan, but only sold 42,000 of them in the first few days.
But what did the Impress-created slide show look like when he opened in PowerPoint?
I use OOo all the time, but only Writer, Calc and Draw, and these are great for my own work, but they still mis-render many documents sent to me. Anything important I usually end up having to get a Windows user to print out for me, as OOo just doesn't cut it. Some things are even worse than in the days of Star Office 4 (pre-Sun takeover) and MS Office 97.
This really sucks, as I'm quite a rabid Free software advocate and have nuked more Windows installs than I can count...
Three words:
Follow. The. Money.
In the medium term it doesn't matter to the commercial software market how many Indians and Chinese there are, but how many individuals in any given region can afford to license which software.
There aren't enough Chinese or Indians who can afford Microsoft Office or Windows for MS to make up for leaving the EU, so they will stay.
Incidentally, there are plenty of opportunities in those 2 markets for localised Linux distros due to lower costs and long-standing governmental distrust of the US, which reflects back on MS.
Yup. The Precisions, Optiplexs and Latitudes have always been great PCs, but the Dimensions and Inspirons suck the big one.
Dell are great for business machines, but their consumer ranges are terrible. Every time someone here buys an Optiplex "because it's so much cheaper" I tell them it is, if they cost their own and my time at zero. Six months later they realise I was right...
Generally, we now buy Precisions, but we still have 7+ year old Optiplex boxen as mail and print servers, running RHEL 4.
You're ignoring 2 things:
Or don't you remember 2000/01?