Firstly, for Paul Steed to have been hired by id no doubt implies that he was a very talented employee.
Remember that JC's.plan is the voice of one employee in a company. A lot of posts seem to revere his words as the gospel truth. I'm sure management has their side of the story. I greatly respect JC's opinion when it comes to the tech side of things and performing sacriligious surgery on ferrari engines but for internal company politics his voice should be weighed as heavily as any other id employee.
My suspicion is that Steed's firing must have been a result of more than just this one incident. It may have been the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. I don't think management would draw sticks or do the poisoned donut routine to determine who-gets-the-shaft-so-we-can-get-back-at-cormack. There must have been some reasoning behind their move.
Making a soap opera of id's internal politics may be entertaining for us, but personally I don't think it is any of our business. How many companies would allow employees to publically release information about internal politics like JC did?
It's a shame when any skilled employee has to leave a company because of social reasons and not because of lack of proficiency. I hope Steed's career goes well (I'm sure it will), and that life at id will continue normally (not likely).
Over at Epicware, Eric Payton and company have released a msging client called Fire. http://www.epicware.com/fire.html
Current it handlers AIM, ICQ and Yahoo.
The application runs on MacOS X/OpenStep, not the current MacOS. It also runs on NT if you have WebObjects installed (and hence the YellowBox/Cocoa/NeXTSTEP libraries)
It is an opensource project. It's only a matter of time before someone brings it to linux.
The USB 2.0 specs are indeed respectable. Think of all the irq's you wil save. But it won't eclipse firewire anytime soon.
Right now 400 Mbps is not a bottle neck for most consumer end hard drive setups. Firewire and Sony's iLink (both IEE1394) are being pushed in the DV realm, where this fat a pipe is really needed.
On an earlier post, someone speculated that Firewire supports more devices than USB. It does not. The USB 1.0 supports up to 128 devices (which, ironically, was proven true by Apple's employee's during in a bier-garten, not by Intel employees), whereas Firewire supports 63 in it's current incarnation. But if USB 2.0 does support it's 480 Mbps claimed speed, one doubts that it will be able to support 128 devices.
There are Firewire port prototypes at 800 Mbps (this is due out next year), and the 1600 Mbps versions are in the works. In any case, more development has been done on 1600 Mbps Firewire than USB 2.0.
Everything seems to point to Intel launching a FUD war against IEEE 1394 technology. I suppose announcing a product months ahead(or perhaps years in this case) is typical of any large corporation, but there are other indices. 480Mbps is a minimal improvement over Firewire 1.0's 400 Mbps, but just enough to convince consumers and vendors. And, as speculated by SuperScan, USB 2.0, like USB will utilize CPU power to get by, whereas Firewire delegates this task to the Firewire controller.
Firewire is a part of the "PC2000" standard that was proposed by Intel and Microsoft. Maybe Intel wants to revise that proposal.
Recall that Firewire is not solely an Apple technology. Sony is hard core on IEEE 1394 (PSX2 will have Firewire ports), as well as others. If intel wants to dominate all bands of the peripheral device spectrum with USB + USB 2.0, they're going to meet some stiff resistance.
This kind of move just shows how intent Intel is on being the MS of the hardware world. By selling a CPU reliant standard, they get to dip in your wallet twice.
Btw, does anyone know if it's true that Apple cancelled it's 1 dollar licensing charge for Firewire ports? (By (un)popular demand?)
As reported on http://appleinsider.com I'd just like to inform/.'s that the 400 mHz "currently available" model is based on the same motherboard as current G3's, and that the delayed 450, 500mHz configurations are based on the next gen motherboard, Sawtooth.
I'll get one as soon as they get into Canada (1 month).
Question: Did they revamp the keyboard/mouse? Outlook not so good....
Is there a hierachy concerning audio compression standards? Does anyone have listing of different standards and their size ratios/audio quality/security(if any)?
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Firstly, for Paul Steed to have been hired by id no doubt implies that he was a very talented employee.
.plan is the voice of one employee in a company. A lot of posts seem to revere his words as the gospel truth. I'm sure management has their side of the story. I greatly respect JC's opinion when it comes to the tech side of things and performing sacriligious surgery on ferrari engines but for internal company politics his voice should be weighed as heavily as any other id employee.
Remember that JC's
My suspicion is that Steed's firing must have been a result of more than just this one incident. It may have been the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. I don't think management would draw sticks or do the poisoned donut routine to determine who-gets-the-shaft-so-we-can-get-back-at-cormack. There must have been some reasoning behind their move.
Making a soap opera of id's internal politics may be entertaining for us, but personally I don't think it is any of our business. How many companies would allow employees to publically release information about internal politics like JC did?
It's a shame when any skilled employee has to leave a company because of social reasons and not because of lack of proficiency. I hope Steed's career goes well (I'm sure it will), and that life at id will continue normally (not likely).
My sympathies to Steed and id.
remember... it's just a game.
- j
After examining the clues and interviewing several people at the museum, I suspect that she is in Rio De Janiero.
/. forum in order to take action and take a flight there.
She *always* ends up there!
:)
I'll just need the general consensus of the
Over at Epicware, Eric Payton and company have released a msging client called Fire.
http://www.epicware.com/fire.html
Current it handlers AIM, ICQ and Yahoo.
The application runs on MacOS X/OpenStep, not the current MacOS. It also runs on NT if you have WebObjects installed (and hence the YellowBox/Cocoa/NeXTSTEP libraries)
It is an opensource project. It's only a matter of time before someone brings it to linux.
cheers,
-j
The USB 2.0 specs are indeed respectable. Think of all the irq's you wil save. But it won't eclipse firewire anytime soon.
Right now 400 Mbps is not a bottle neck for most consumer end hard drive setups. Firewire and Sony's iLink (both IEE1394) are being pushed in the DV realm, where this fat a pipe is really needed.
On an earlier post, someone speculated that Firewire supports more devices than USB. It does not. The USB 1.0 supports up to 128 devices (which, ironically, was proven true by Apple's employee's during in a bier-garten, not by Intel employees), whereas Firewire supports 63 in it's current incarnation. But if USB 2.0 does support it's 480 Mbps claimed speed, one doubts that it will be able to support 128 devices.
There are Firewire port prototypes at 800 Mbps (this is due out next year), and the 1600 Mbps versions are in the works. In any case, more development has been done on 1600 Mbps Firewire than USB 2.0.
Everything seems to point to Intel launching a FUD war against IEEE 1394 technology. I suppose announcing a product months ahead(or perhaps years in this case) is typical of any large corporation, but there are other indices. 480Mbps is a minimal improvement over Firewire 1.0's 400 Mbps, but just enough to convince consumers and vendors. And, as speculated by SuperScan, USB 2.0, like USB will utilize CPU power to get by, whereas Firewire delegates this task to the Firewire controller.
Firewire is a part of the "PC2000" standard that was proposed by Intel and Microsoft. Maybe Intel wants to revise that proposal.
Recall that Firewire is not solely an Apple technology. Sony is hard core on IEEE 1394 (PSX2 will have Firewire ports), as well as others. If intel wants to dominate all bands of the peripheral device spectrum with USB + USB 2.0, they're going to meet some stiff resistance.
This kind of move just shows how intent Intel is on being the MS of the hardware world. By selling a CPU reliant standard, they get to dip in your wallet twice.
Btw, does anyone know if it's true that Apple cancelled it's 1 dollar licensing charge for Firewire ports? (By (un)popular demand?)
As reported on http://appleinsider.com I'd just like to inform /.'s that the 400 mHz "currently available" model is based on the same motherboard as current G3's, and that the delayed 450, 500mHz configurations are based on the next gen motherboard, Sawtooth.
I'll get one as soon as they get into Canada (1 month).
Question: Did they revamp the keyboard/mouse? Outlook not so good....
And you thought SDMI was dead...
Is there a hierachy concerning audio compression standards? Does anyone have listing of different standards and their size ratios/audio quality/security(if any)?
What ever happened to Bell Lab's PAC?
thanks,
- j
The entire point of Carbon is to provide a transition to yellow box. Yellow Box == NextStep, and stevie boy isn't going to toss it.
Where are you getting your info from?
Someone earlier posted that Sony gets moolah for each CD-ROM that ships...
can anyone else cite any major components which have licensing fees? e.g. anything from intel? just curious.
-j