I wrote the first story backing up Rahul's blog here: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30043 and then got more info the other day that also backed up the CNet and AMDZone versions, so I wrote this: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30289 Then the new CNet 'backpedal' piece came out, and it looks like someone is spreading hardcore FUD. So, I spent the morning tracking down rumors and leads, calling sources to see who their sources are and the like.
Short story, the sources are not talking to each other, and contrary to the CNet implications, it is not a grand plot by Rahul. I was told last week that it is a done deal, and nothing has changed that view since, but a lot has bolstered it.
The tepid denials (A friend of a guy who knew someone from Dell Australia) and the like are not what I would call good evidence. I have talked to three people who gave me some very convincing evidence about the purchase.
All that said, take it with a grain of salt, but when you start hearing about anouncement dates, it may be more than smoke and mirrors.
Does the lawsuit come for free, or is it extra? SCO sues their customers, so why again would I touch them, 10 foot pole or not?
Then again, lets see about the technical merits. Other than the underlying OS, it is the same as the LAMP package. That means the choice is Linux vs SCO. From what I gather, SCO is: 1) Less secure 2) More expensive 3) Prone to legal attacks toward users 4) Far less supported 5) Far less available software/plugins 6) Has serious questions about the company being there in a year 7) Laughably scalable 8) Drivers?
I could go on, but you get the point. The vultures are circling, and no amount of hand-waving is going to fix things.
What do you mean "how stupid they think we really are"? It should be how stupid they _KNOW_ we are. You forget the average American, the target audience here, is a bunch of mouth breathing, knuckle-dragging morons. Really. Where do you think they get the people who work the crap shifts at McD's from? Think there are more of them then there are of you?
Now, if you have net access, you are in the top 1/3 or so of the US intelligencia. Went to college? More like the top 10%. Active and aware of the political and technical aspects of issues like this? Lop off a few more points.
What gets me is how they phishing/spam/whatnot fails so often, not why they think we will fall for it.
The overarching point is that you surround yourself with people of like intelligence, and everyone posting here is WAY above average. You forget how rock stupid average is. Go get a refresher course, go into a bar in a rural area and discuss anything you would with your social circle.
Better yet, go watch a NASCAR race, and don't skip the commercials.:)
Hmmm, lets see. The math says that there are several dozen solid BT sites out there, and 7 have been threatened. If they all go away today, there are only a few dozen left to choose from, and there are 20 or so added a week.
Yup, this will show those little shits, they'll have to run to #8 on thier bookmark list now. Ha, take that.
YAWN. Stupid MPAA, no cookie. You are making the same mistake the US military is, fighting the wrong war, and losing both because of it.
What is this 'sunlight' thing you speak of? None of my admin friends have a clue as to what you are talking about. Does it plug into AGP, or is it a PCI-X thing? Voltage requirements? Driver compatibility?
You could make a lovely planter out of it. The two tiered pins would make for an exceptionally easy 'layered' approach, maybe some lucious greens in back, and shorter flowering bits in front.
You would simply be the envy of all the other sysadmins in the data center.
-Charlie
P.S. Paint your boxes in pastels to compliment the florals. Black and silver is so 2004.
It is part of it, but far from all. There is platforms, long term roadmaps, 'other' technologies, and an inbred dislike for Hector from his Motorola days. All play a part to one degree or another.
"B. The DRM can not be complex as to hinder third party companies making licensed games."
Unless something radically changed this time, that is not an issue. The DRM is applied after the game is done, it is part of the manufacturing process. Basically, the people give MS the gold code, MS applies the DRM infection, encrypts it, whatnot, and then makes a master.
This has been the same since day one, but I only have first hand knowledge going back to the Atari Jaguar.:)
"Even if the inquirer did manage to accurately report the status of Whitefield, Intel re-uses code names on purpose for the sake of ambiguity. So Whitefield a couple of months ago may not be the same chip as Whitefield today. Why throw away perfectly good code names?"
In this case, it isn't an issue, the article on Tom's is flat out wrong there, I checked.
"Five typos in two sentences, not bad for an Inquirer author. About EF, I think it will only accelerate piracy to the point of no longer being enforcable. The police already don't give a shit, the legal system just isn't willing to deal with massive lawsuits and bandwidth and software is constantly improving. DRM isn't putting the brakes on. DRM is making the pirated product superior, how can you win by that?"
Good points, it is basically what I am arguing to the people in charge of various projects. It is an unwinable war that only alienates the consumer. One of the big problems is that every time Intel tries to stand up, MS just says 'AMD will do what we want, and we will go to them if you say no'. Intel immediately buckles.
The hardware manufacturers have no voice here because none of them will stand up and try. It is fairly sad.
Yeah, I do, and I am only linking my articles where I have first hand knowledge. It saves me from having to type it all in again, and tends to be a more complete answer than a shorter one here.
Gee, you have a serious axe to grind, but as I said earlier, you are dead wrong, factually, and probebly on other levels.
I DID post a link ot the one I wrote, or maybe you missed the off-colored underlined text in my post. What I could not find is the Slashdot article on the subject, if anything there seacrh is worse than ours.
I DID NOT write the slashdot one.
Go back to your hole little troll. If you mother catches you up this late, you might lose your allowance for the week.
That is the one I can think of, if you got more, I'd be glad to post them for you. You seem utterly incapable of finding them on your own, so that kind of disproves your point.
The short story is that Intel's new VIIV boxes are crushingly DRM infested, and can load more. There is remote key revocation and all the things MS wanted, they are playing AMD off of Intel. Don't look to AMD to be any better, they are being screwed too.
I predict massive failure and egg on Intel's face here.
The article is full of problems. Whitefield was canceled a couple of months ago: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27192 There is a lot wrong with the 45nm code names, and in general, it is lacking a lot of info.
If Intel gave him this info, it is blurring the lines for PR purposes, and somewhat flat out wrong. As of Friday, Whitefield was still dead, and the roadmap didn't match up with Intel's internal ones.
There is a bit of right there, but few if anything that can't be found at the usual places.
Sorry to hear about your low self worth, but I can assure you, mine is not that bad.
For the record, my first writing assignment was the Opteron launch, so you do the math, but about 10% of my life. If you start aspiring for the same goals, in a year and a half, you will be at the same percentage.
Also, I was a dev for the Atari Jaguar, project manager too. Guess that shoots down your other point. I'll let you keep the one on your head.
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I wrote the first story backing up Rahul's blog here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30043
and then got more info the other day that also backed up the CNet and AMDZone versions, so I wrote this:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30289
Then the new CNet 'backpedal' piece came out, and it looks like someone is spreading hardcore FUD. So, I spent the morning tracking down rumors and leads, calling sources to see who their sources are and the like.
Short story, the sources are not talking to each other, and contrary to the CNet implications, it is not a grand plot by Rahul. I was told last week that it is a done deal, and nothing has changed that view since, but a lot has bolstered it.
The tepid denials (A friend of a guy who knew someone from Dell Australia) and the like are not what I would call good evidence. I have talked to three people who gave me some very convincing evidence about the purchase.
All that said, take it with a grain of salt, but when you start hearing about anouncement dates, it may be more than smoke and mirrors.
-Charlie
Does the lawsuit come for free, or is it extra? SCO sues their customers, so why again would I touch them, 10 foot pole or not?
Then again, lets see about the technical merits. Other than the underlying OS, it is the same as the LAMP package. That means the choice is Linux vs SCO. From what I gather, SCO is:
1) Less secure
2) More expensive
3) Prone to legal attacks toward users
4) Far less supported
5) Far less available software/plugins
6) Has serious questions about the company being there in a year
7) Laughably scalable
8) Drivers?
I could go on, but you get the point. The vultures are circling, and no amount of hand-waving is going to fix things.
-Charlie
I think they got hung up on the 'if true' part..... :)
-Charlie
What do you mean "how stupid they think we really are"? It should be how stupid they _KNOW_ we are. You forget the average American, the target audience here, is a bunch of mouth breathing, knuckle-dragging morons. Really. Where do you think they get the people who work the crap shifts at McD's from? Think there are more of them then there are of you?
:)
Now, if you have net access, you are in the top 1/3 or so of the US intelligencia. Went to college? More like the top 10%. Active and aware of the political and technical aspects of issues like this? Lop off a few more points.
What gets me is how they phishing/spam/whatnot fails so often, not why they think we will fall for it.
The overarching point is that you surround yourself with people of like intelligence, and everyone posting here is WAY above average. You forget how rock stupid average is. Go get a refresher course, go into a bar in a rural area and discuss anything you would with your social circle.
Better yet, go watch a NASCAR race, and don't skip the commercials.
-Charlie
Would this mean that he is trying to get the best and the brightest to work in cerfdom?
-Charlie
(Apologies, could not resist. Must go make highbrow joke to a random person in the street as pennance.)
Hmmm, lets see. The math says that there are several dozen solid BT sites out there, and 7 have been threatened. If they all go away today, there are only a few dozen left to choose from, and there are 20 or so added a week.
Yup, this will show those little shits, they'll have to run to #8 on thier bookmark list now. Ha, take that.
YAWN. Stupid MPAA, no cookie. You are making the same mistake the US military is, fighting the wrong war, and losing both because of it.
-Charlie
"Are the boards the proc sit in designed to dump BIOS yet? Or are we still stuck?"
UEFI 2.0 isn't fully baked yet, but it will be soon. EFI 1.10 is an 'Intel' spec, and besides, it won't do 64-bit extensions. Moral, the suk.
Look for there to be UEFI 2.0 boards later this year, most likely at the Vista launch, but not before.
-Charlie
"Plants require sunlight, don't you know?"
What is this 'sunlight' thing you speak of? None of my admin friends have a clue as to what you are talking about. Does it plug into AGP, or is it a PCI-X thing? Voltage requirements? Driver compatibility?
Don't leave us hanging there guy.
-Charlie
You could make a lovely planter out of it. The two tiered pins would make for an exceptionally easy 'layered' approach, maybe some lucious greens in back, and shorter flowering bits in front.
You would simply be the envy of all the other sysadmins in the data center.
-Charlie
P.S. Paint your boxes in pastels to compliment the florals. Black and silver is so 2004.
"Would this be why Apple went with Intel?"
It is part of it, but far from all. There is platforms, long term roadmaps, 'other' technologies, and an inbred dislike for Hector from his Motorola days. All play a part to one degree or another.
-Charlie
Wow, who would have guessed? Me.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29550
Want to know what the problem is? Near the bottom here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25349
(Yes, I know I spelled it wrong, it was a verbal tip....)
-Charlie
Do tell....
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28454
-Charlie
"B. The DRM can not be complex as to hinder third party companies making licensed games."
:)
Unless something radically changed this time, that is not an issue. The DRM is applied after the game is done, it is part of the manufacturing process. Basically, the people give MS the gold code, MS applies the DRM infection, encrypts it, whatnot, and then makes a master.
This has been the same since day one, but I only have first hand knowledge going back to the Atari Jaguar.
-Charlie
"Even if the inquirer did manage to accurately report the status of Whitefield, Intel re-uses code names on purpose for the sake of ambiguity. So Whitefield a couple of months ago may not be the same chip as Whitefield today. Why throw away perfectly good code names?"
In this case, it isn't an issue, the article on Tom's is flat out wrong there, I checked.
-Charlie
"Five typos in two sentences, not bad for an Inquirer author. About EF, I think it will only accelerate piracy to the point of no longer being enforcable. The police already don't give a shit, the legal system just isn't willing to deal with massive lawsuits and bandwidth and software is constantly improving. DRM isn't putting the brakes on. DRM is making the pirated product superior, how can you win by that?"
Good points, it is basically what I am arguing to the people in charge of various projects. It is an unwinable war that only alienates the consumer. One of the big problems is that every time Intel tries to stand up, MS just says 'AMD will do what we want, and we will go to them if you say no'. Intel immediately buckles.
The hardware manufacturers have no voice here because none of them will stand up and try. It is fairly sad.
-Charlie
Yeah, I do, and I am only linking my articles where I have first hand knowledge. It saves me from having to type it all in again, and tends to be a more complete answer than a shorter one here.
-Charlie
Of the list, one of them is mine, and at the time, ATI was going to ship when I said it was.
Go back to the Anandtech forums, you'll look smarter there.
-Charlie
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27957
Yup, not a problem. The last two are by far the best.
-Charlie
Gee, you have a serious axe to grind, but as I said earlier, you are dead wrong, factually, and probebly on other levels.
I DID post a link ot the one I wrote, or maybe you missed the off-colored underlined text in my post. What I could not find is the Slashdot article on the subject, if anything there seacrh is worse than ours.
I DID NOT write the slashdot one.
Go back to your hole little troll. If you mother catches you up this late, you might lose your allowance for the week.
-Charlie
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13153
This one was wrong.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13171
Here is the correction.
That is the one I can think of, if you got more, I'd be glad to post them for you. You seem utterly incapable of finding them on your own, so that kind of disproves your point.
-Charlie
I guess I must guess well then.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11588
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11668
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25591
There is a ton more, but that is all I feel like looking up for now.
-Charlie
P.S. You are not that stupid for real, are you?
Your dates are a tad out of la-la land, but your heart is in the right place.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638
It was linked here, but I can't find it.
The short story is that Intel's new VIIV boxes are crushingly DRM infested, and can load more. There is remote key revocation and all the things MS wanted, they are playing AMD off of Intel. Don't look to AMD to be any better, they are being screwed too.
I predict massive failure and egg on Intel's face here.
-Charlie
The article is full of problems. Whitefield was canceled a couple of months ago:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27192
There is a lot wrong with the 45nm code names, and in general, it is lacking a lot of info.
If Intel gave him this info, it is blurring the lines for PR purposes, and somewhat flat out wrong. As of Friday, Whitefield was still dead, and the roadmap didn't match up with Intel's internal ones.
There is a bit of right there, but few if anything that can't be found at the usual places.
-Charlie
Sorry to hear about your low self worth, but I can assure you, mine is not that bad.
For the record, my first writing assignment was the Opteron launch, so you do the math, but about 10% of my life. If you start aspiring for the same goals, in a year and a half, you will be at the same percentage.
Also, I was a dev for the Atari Jaguar, project manager too. Guess that shoots down your other point. I'll let you keep the one on your head.
-Charlie
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27893
80 or 110W CPU (I have heard both ways), a GPU equivalent to the ~100W R520, a HD, RAM and a constantly spinning DVD in a box how big?
And people wonder why they crash. Anyone who has one want to comment on how hot they get?
-Charlie