You clearly haven't used a computer based on a Duron. This chip is very, very fast (especially for the price) - it works great as a gaming rig and for other so-called professional uses (web serving, file/print server, etc).
History Repeats: MSX, VIS failures
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Salon on the XBox
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The X-Box is not the first time Microsoft has chosen to go after this space. It has tried at least two times previously, failing both times. I hope that the lessons of the VIS are not going to be lost on them.
The first try was with the MSX standard - an attempt to create a computer/videogame hybrid that ultimately failed. More information can be found here.
More interesting was the failure of the VIS. The VIS was supposed to be a videogame/info dispenser. It ran a forerunner of Windows CE ("Modular Windows"), and it failed spectacularly.
Will MS learn from its mistakes? Well, they never did in the PDA arena. I'm guessing that the X-Box is going to be a nice also-ran.
If you're looking for a mind-in-neutral position, then reject all NDAs that you're asked to sign. I mean, if you're just a little cog in a big machine, it really doesn't matter what you know.
Believe it or not, some technical labor want to know and understand the business model that they might join. They want to get excited by what they do, and they want to be able to contribute to strategy and not just to the coding of a product.
If you want to do something exciting and get involved in big way, you'll need to totally understand the opportunity up front. And to do so, you'll have to sign an NDA.
BTW, most NDAs don't have non-compete language... but can become non-compete agreements effectively. Choose your potential employers wisely.
Will be shipping with new Radeon card...
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More Tivo Hacking
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Go to www.ati.com and read about the new Radeon all-in-wonder. Comes with a Tivo-work-alike-superset application.
I'm assuming that you've had quite a bit of "closed-door" access to companies over the years. What's the best product that you've seen that never crawled out of the lab? Why didn't it?
Just bought a SuperMicro 370DL3. Supports PC133 with no screwing around, either, and it has the goods: Dual CPU, 64bit slots, U3SCSI, etc. Not as big and bad as the Tyan, but easy to find, rock solid, and pretty cheap. Serverworks takes its products pretty seriously, and their chipsets power all of the big Dells. Seems that the writing is on the wall for Rambus.
C# is the dumbest name that I've seen trundled out in this space so far. I like that fact that harmonically, it is equal to D-flat:) Say what you want, but Java works as a name and got people really interested before they even knew what it was.
I can think of a couple of reasons why Intel is pushing rambus:
* Intel has a long tradition of moving the industry to a place where it benefits Intel while harming the consumer. How about Slot1/2? It drove the costs up in terms of producing machines, with scant little benefit to the industry. It did, however, throw up a new barrier to AMD and other cloners. Now that that advantage is gone, Intel has returned to sockets.
* Although $158 mm is chump change to Intel as a corp, who knows how many Rambus options found their way to the officers of the company? Imagine being in a situation where you can throw up barriers to your competition, while lining your own pockets. Even though it seems to be backfiring, there are probably many folks at Intel that will get very rich if they succeed at cramming this down the throats of the many clueless out there.
Intel knows that bringing out a successor to the BX chipset will have the maximum benefit to the consumer, but so what? They still control the industry. Itanium is another attempt at moving the industry somewhere else, but it will ultimately fail.
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You clearly haven't used a computer based on a Duron. This chip is very, very fast (especially for the price) - it works great as a gaming rig and for other so-called professional uses (web serving, file/print server, etc).
The X-Box is not the first time Microsoft has chosen to go after this space. It has tried at least two times previously, failing both times. I hope that the lessons of the VIS are not going to be lost on them.
The first try was with the MSX standard - an attempt to create a computer/videogame hybrid that ultimately failed. More information can be found here.
More interesting was the failure of the VIS. The VIS was supposed to be a videogame/info dispenser. It ran a forerunner of Windows CE ("Modular Windows"), and it failed spectacularly.
Will MS learn from its mistakes? Well, they never did in the PDA arena. I'm guessing that the X-Box is going to be a nice also-ran.
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If you're looking for a mind-in-neutral position, then reject all NDAs that you're asked to sign. I mean, if you're just a little cog in a big machine, it really doesn't matter what you know.
Believe it or not, some technical labor want to know and understand the business model that they might join. They want to get excited by what they do, and they want to be able to contribute to strategy and not just to the coding of a product.
If you want to do something exciting and get involved in big way, you'll need to totally understand the opportunity up front. And to do so, you'll have to sign an NDA.
BTW, most NDAs don't have non-compete language... but can become non-compete agreements effectively. Choose your potential employers wisely.
Go to www.ati.com and read about the new Radeon all-in-wonder. Comes with a Tivo-work-alike-superset application.
Robert:
I'm assuming that you've had quite a bit of "closed-door" access to companies over the years. What's the best product that you've seen that never crawled out of the lab? Why didn't it?
Yeah, but it another $12k package?
Just bought a SuperMicro 370DL3. Supports PC133 with no screwing around, either, and it has the goods: Dual CPU, 64bit slots, U3SCSI, etc. Not as big and bad as the Tyan, but easy to find, rock solid, and pretty cheap. Serverworks takes its products pretty seriously, and their chipsets power all of the big Dells. Seems that the writing is on the wall for Rambus.
C# is the dumbest name that I've seen trundled out in this space so far. I like that fact that harmonically, it is equal to D-flat :) Say what you want, but Java works as a name and got people really interested before they even knew what it was.
I can think of a couple of reasons why Intel is pushing rambus:
* Intel has a long tradition of moving the industry to a place where it benefits Intel while harming the consumer. How about Slot1/2? It drove the costs up in terms of producing machines, with scant little benefit to the industry. It did, however, throw up a new barrier to AMD and other cloners. Now that that advantage is gone, Intel has returned to sockets.
* Although $158 mm is chump change to Intel as a corp, who knows how many Rambus options found their way to the officers of the company? Imagine being in a situation where you can throw up barriers to your competition, while lining your own pockets. Even though it seems to be backfiring, there are probably many folks at Intel that will get very rich if they succeed at cramming this down the throats of the many clueless out there.
Intel knows that bringing out a successor to the BX chipset will have the maximum benefit to the consumer, but so what? They still control the industry. Itanium is another attempt at moving the industry somewhere else, but it will ultimately fail.