The article is wrong, both companies were doomed by hopelessly incompetant managers who either failed to see the coming end of film, or else saw it but failed to act (exercise for the student to decide which is worse.)
It didn't have to be like this, look at Fuji to see how a company could switch its main product and survive.
Pity, so many people lost jobs because of a few retarded managers at the top of their companies.
> It had better, since Atom currently provides about 1/4 of the power efficiency of the > ARM processors that run IOS and Android devices.
Don't bet on it. The ARM design in itself is more efficient for sure, but Intel are frankly well ahead of anyone else in actual manufacture.
If they decide to build these with their Finfets and the latest node they have, then the gap between Intel Atoms and ARMs made at Samsung, TSMC or anyone else won't be so noticeable, unless that is that the Atoms actually pull ahead.
It will mean Intel using their latest high cost Fabs for Atoms though, rather than server or high end desktop chips.
Yes, because there were no billionairs in Roman times. Probably the whole value of the entire Roman empire was less than a billion (maybe a million considering inflation) so the difference between one billionair and one unemployed person now is greater than it could have been then.
Sure, the maths in maths books is great because mathematicians know better - so says a mathematician.
Alternately, mathematicians have their heads so far up their arses they completely miss the real physical significance of whatever they are supposed to be doing - so says a physicist.
If you want to know physics, read a physics book: Essential Pre-university Physics by Patrick Michael Whelan is a nice quick one since I assume you don't want to put aside 6 months of your time to wade through Feynman.
I would limit it by setting an artificial and arbitrary (but also awkwardly low) maximum allowed speed for the transfer of information... say around 300,000 km/s?
Notice how there is already some creep in specs and price, none of the ones anounced since the first eeepc (including the new 9" version) is lighter or cheaper and most of them seem to be quite a bit more.
Instead I would like to see them stick at 300 euros and just gradually improve the spec.
Worse than that, this is so obviously wrong it looks more like it is deliberat FUD.
Most big universities in the UK would have more than that many linux users, with a big proportion of them going to the BBC site at some time.
He is happy to state their 20 million visitors, putting linux at even 0.1% of users (it is higher) would make that 20,000, and besides, how does he think he can tell the operating system from a webbrowser anyhow, given that lots are set to with their ID to make them look like something else.
If he is the BBC's head tech man, he would know all this... so why was he lying?
but it will give you a better understanding of business process
so why are all of the (mis)managers that I've come across completely clueless about technology, buisness, social skills etc etc.
Most people with MBA did them because they couldn't manage but wished they could.
Once they had the qualification, they were still just as incompetant, the only difference was that now someone gives the a job doing it.
MBA are simply the ultimate one-of-us qualifications. If you run a company and want a good manager, take someone who's got the brains to understand the technical details, a modicum of 'people skills' and get him doing the job wether he wants to or not (preferably with a big pay increase.)
> It's not VMS. VMS is in ALOT of places and has > been for a LONG time.
But not for much longer - VMS is dead in the water and NT is taking over its workload fast.
This is one gaping hole that Linux should be targeting but doesn't seem to be.
> OS/9 or Concurrent maybe?
He was probably thinking of VxWorks, which is rather cool but can hardly be described as unix (as it often is).
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TEX of course!!!!
A certain Mr D. Knuth has laid down a yearly increasing prize to anyone who can find a bug in the Tex code. It's been there some years and so far as I know, no one has come up with one yet.
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The article is wrong, both companies were doomed by hopelessly incompetant managers who either failed to see the coming end of film, or else saw it but failed to act (exercise for the student to decide which is worse.)
It didn't have to be like this, look at Fuji to see how a company could switch its main product and survive.
Pity, so many people lost jobs because of a few retarded managers at the top of their companies.
> It had better, since Atom currently provides about 1/4 of the power efficiency of the
> ARM processors that run IOS and Android devices.
Don't bet on it. The ARM design in itself is more efficient for sure, but Intel are frankly well ahead of anyone else in actual manufacture.
If they decide to build these with their Finfets and the latest node they have, then the gap between Intel Atoms and ARMs made at Samsung, TSMC or anyone else won't be so noticeable, unless that is that the Atoms actually pull ahead.
It will mean Intel using their latest high cost Fabs for Atoms though, rather than server or high end desktop chips.
Yes, because there were no billionairs in Roman times. Probably the whole value of the entire Roman empire was less than a billion (maybe a million considering inflation) so the difference between one billionair and one unemployed person now is greater than it could have been then.
Maybe I am just getting old, but if you don't understand what dns is, why are you reading and posting on slashdot?
...had to rush over to the TimeOn site to register. If it is doubling in size every year soon the whole world will be on it!!!
...the mighty herds of MS lobbyists swarming in their 1000s down to texas at this very moment.
> Never lived on a farm, did you.
Thankfully, no. (Squeal like a pig Boy!)
No kidding, broadcom are well known as the most total bunch of f***ers going.
If you use their chips in your product don't expect any support and do expect prices to be pushed up hard once you are locked into them.
But having said that its MS who basically fucked up bluetooth support in windows.
Oh please, who modded this up?
Sure, the maths in maths books is great because mathematicians know better - so says a mathematician.
Alternately, mathematicians have their heads so far up their arses they completely miss the real physical significance of whatever they are supposed to be doing - so says a physicist.
If you want to know physics, read a physics book: Essential Pre-university Physics by Patrick Michael Whelan is a nice quick one since I assume you don't want to put aside 6 months of your time to wade through Feynman.
I would limit it by setting an artificial and arbitrary (but also awkwardly low) maximum allowed speed for the transfer of information... say around 300,000 km/s?
Notice how there is already some creep in specs and price, none of the ones anounced since the first eeepc (including the new 9" version) is lighter or cheaper and most of them seem to be quite a bit more.
Instead I would like to see them stick at 300 euros and just gradually improve the spec.
Just in case you weren't sure, now you *know* that net neutrality is a good thing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint_step1.shtml
Worse than that, this is so obviously wrong it looks more like it is deliberat FUD.
Most big universities in the UK would have more than that many linux users, with a big proportion of them going to the BBC site at some time.
He is happy to state their 20 million visitors, putting linux at even 0.1% of users (it is higher) would make that 20,000, and besides, how does he think he can tell the operating system from a webbrowser anyhow, given that lots are set to with their ID to make them look like something else.
If he is the BBC's head tech man, he would know all this... so why was he lying?
so why are all of the (mis)managers that I've come across completely clueless about technology, buisness, social skills etc etc.
Most people with MBA did them because they couldn't manage but wished they could.
Once they had the qualification, they were still just as incompetant, the only difference was that now someone gives the a job doing it.
MBA are simply the ultimate one-of-us qualifications. If you run a company and want a good manager, take someone who's got the brains to understand the technical details, a modicum of 'people skills' and get him doing the job wether he wants to or not (preferably with a big pay increase.)
> been for a LONG time.
But not for much longer - VMS is dead in the water and NT is taking over its workload fast.
This is one gaping hole that Linux should be targeting but doesn't seem to be.
> OS/9 or Concurrent maybe?
He was probably thinking of VxWorks, which is rather cool but can hardly be described as unix (as it often is).
A certain Mr D. Knuth has laid down a yearly increasing prize to anyone who can find a bug in the Tex code. It's been there some years and so far as I know, no one has come up with one yet.