Still, Apple chips are almost 1% of IBM's $99 billion revenue, that's a big chunk of money.
According to the NYT article announcing Apple's switch to Intel chips, IBM's microelectronics division accounts for about 3% of it's total revenue, and "...the chips I.B.M. makes for Apple represent less than 2 percent of chip production at its largest factory in East Fishkill, N.Y.". Doesn't sound like it adds up to 1% of the company's total revenue.
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Not to invalidate your point, but I'm pretty sure 100% of the 40 million aren't on OS X. Just sayin'.
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When will it be out? The premier issue of Make should ship to subscribers and single-issue purchasers in mid-February and hit bookstores and newsstands at the end of February.
It's a very interesting idea, but I wonder how it would work in practice. Who "randomly" picks the ballot? How do we trust it was random? If it wasn't random, how do we prove it wasn't random?...
when I saw this the other day, a friend and I were thinking it would be cool to put the chip on a PCI card, for use in a PC so that you could get direct VGA output to your monitor from the DC graphics processor, rather than through a VGA box like I do now with my DC console..
i agree with your points, though i think overall it was decently amusing. the thing that got me the most though, was that they couldn't find space in the whole two hours to even MENTION the Dreamcast...
Eclipse is an open-source Java IDE err, no it's not. from eclipse.org: "Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular"
Granted, i'm sure at this point that the most popular use of Eclipse is as a Java IDE, but let's not limit it's potential!
Sure, but I've never known any University that promoted certification exams. If they're taking a college course on Linux, chances are they're getting a piece of paper (their degree) that says a little bit more than some certification.
The fact that it may require an attacker to be physically in front of the computer is the -point-. As others have mentioned, it's a matter of being assigned a certain (low) level of access, and giving yourself a higher level. Sort of equivalent to a local root exploit under un*x.
Think of the "Family Computer". Mom + dad put some content blocking software on it in order to block their son/daughter from accessing some particular type of content on the web. Mom + dad also install, to use the example from the white paper, anti-virus software.
Little billy logs in as himself, uses the shatter exploit to give himself admin privledges, and disables the content blocker.
At least, that's the way I understood it...
(btw, if it was me 15 years ago, I'd probably lock out mom + dad's accounts just for kicks, but that's besides the point.)
I believe what MightyPhil was referring to was Yoda using the Force on himself, not against Dooku. In otherwords, there was no way the physically frail little one could move like he did without applying the Force, in some way, to his own movements. It's quite obvious that under normal circumstances, he barely has the ability to walk at any decent speed, let alone perform acrobatics.
I'm sorry, maybe it's just me, but you seem to be contradicting yourself.
You say you chose AMD because you decided it delivered better price/performance, but you're going to stop and move back to Intel because AMD has shown that it's partially in bed with M$ (as another poster noted, they're not totally there).
And yet, Intel has been in bed with M$ for years and years, but you "don't see why anyone should have or should have had political reasons against buying Intel".
Come again? Oh, and by the way, you might wanna take another look at AMD's "small edge w.r.t. price-performance ratio". Intel's new Pentium 4 2.4GHz does (apparently) slightly beat the Athlon XP 2100, however, it's almost TWICE the price.
You don't need to have full phone service on a line to use DSL across it, they're two different entities and don't rely on each other. In fact, I believe only ADSL -will- run over the same line as normal analog phones.
Apart from that, indeed my next CPU will no more be an AMD.
I'll assume that to mean that previously, you've bought AMD rather than Intel for political reasons. And I'll also assume that to mean that in the future you won't buy AMD because they've sunken down, politically, to an Intel-like level (although I wouldn't go that far, myself).
If so, however, why wouldn't you buy AMD, if they are (at the time of purchase) producing the best chips? Unless you're gonna go Alpha or Sparc or something. My point is, even if AMD has sunk a few levels with this announcement, they're certainly not as bad as Intel, and even if they were, wouldn't it then just come down to who made the better chips?
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That's what I get from it as well, but I thought there'd be more comments here about it. Maybe we're the only ones not getting something obvious?...
Still, Apple chips are almost 1% of IBM's $99 billion revenue, that's a big chunk of money.
According to the NYT article announcing Apple's switch to Intel chips, IBM's microelectronics division accounts for about 3% of it's total revenue, and "...the chips I.B.M. makes for Apple represent less than 2 percent of chip production at its largest factory in East Fishkill, N.Y.". Doesn't sound like it adds up to 1% of the company's total revenue.
Not to invalidate your point, but I'm pretty sure 100% of the 40 million aren't on OS X. Just sayin'.
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The premier issue of Make should ship to subscribers and single-issue purchasers in mid-February and hit bookstores and newsstands at the end of February.
It's a very interesting idea, but I wonder how it would work in practice. Who "randomly" picks the ballot? How do we trust it was random? If it wasn't random, how do we prove it wasn't random?...
when I saw this the other day, a friend and I were thinking it would be cool to put the chip on a PCI card, for use in a PC so that you could get direct VGA output to your monitor from the DC graphics processor, rather than through a VGA box like I do now with my DC console..
i agree with your points, though i think overall it was decently amusing. the thing that got me the most though, was that they couldn't find space in the whole two hours to even MENTION the Dreamcast...
Seems to be working now, I got the email a few minutes after registering, and I just logged in for the first time, successfully.
Mozilla Thunderbird uses an arrow-pointing-into-the-folder icon.
GBA-SP has backlighting.
No it doesn't.
This release of Mozilla is significant ALSO in that it heralds an impending release of FireBird.
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What's the point? According to the roadmap, they're regressing from Firebird 0.9 back to Firebird 0.10 in late March anyways!
Eclipse is an open-source Java IDE
err, no it's not. from eclipse.org:
"Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular"
Granted, i'm sure at this point that the most popular use of Eclipse is as a Java IDE, but let's not limit it's potential!
Sure, but I've never known any University that promoted certification exams. If they're taking a college course on Linux, chances are they're getting a piece of paper (their degree) that says a little bit more than some certification.
So, can't you script your own?
Water? Coke? I always thought it was shots of tequila...
*sigh*
The fact that it may require an attacker to be physically in front of the computer is the -point-. As others have mentioned, it's a matter of being assigned a certain (low) level of access, and giving yourself a higher level. Sort of equivalent to a local root exploit under un*x.
Think of the "Family Computer". Mom + dad put some content blocking software on it in order to block their son/daughter from accessing some particular type of content on the web. Mom + dad also install, to use the example from the white paper, anti-virus software.
Little billy logs in as himself, uses the shatter exploit to give himself admin privledges, and disables the content blocker.
At least, that's the way I understood it...
(btw, if it was me 15 years ago, I'd probably lock out mom + dad's accounts just for kicks, but that's besides the point.)
Obviously, you've never bought a Red Bull + Vodka in NYC. At ~$10 a pop, there's not much chance of you drinking too fast =)
The order page itself is not secure, but the page for entering your CC#, which is through Verisign, is.
I believe what MightyPhil was referring to was Yoda using the Force on himself, not against Dooku. In otherwords, there was no way the physically frail little one could move like he did without applying the Force, in some way, to his own movements. It's quite obvious that under normal circumstances, he barely has the ability to walk at any decent speed, let alone perform acrobatics.
Seems like that's not exactly true, there are legal (NON-hardware) workarounds to do raw PS2 development...
At least, that's what this FAQ seems to indicate.
Nonono, don't you remember? AMD is evil this week.
I'm sorry, maybe it's just me, but you seem to be contradicting yourself.
You say you chose AMD because you decided it delivered better price/performance, but you're going to stop and move back to Intel because AMD has shown that it's partially in bed with M$ (as another poster noted, they're not totally there).
And yet, Intel has been in bed with M$ for years and years, but you "don't see why anyone should have or should have had political reasons against buying Intel".
Come again? Oh, and by the way, you might wanna take another look at AMD's "small edge w.r.t. price-performance ratio". Intel's new Pentium 4 2.4GHz does (apparently) slightly beat the Athlon XP 2100, however, it's almost TWICE the price.
You don't need to have full phone service on a line to use DSL across it, they're two different entities and don't rely on each other. In fact, I believe only ADSL -will- run over the same line as normal analog phones.
If so, however, why wouldn't you buy AMD, if they are (at the time of purchase) producing the best chips? Unless you're gonna go Alpha or Sparc or something. My point is, even if AMD has sunk a few levels with this announcement, they're certainly not as bad as Intel, and even if they were, wouldn't it then just come down to who made the better chips?