AMD is sitting tight and refining their core business: solid, stable, speedy, and inexpensive chips that consumers can afford and that consumers actually want to buy.
Don't forget that Mom and Pop consumers and Linux users buy far more processors than corporations.. NOT.
This wouldn't be a bad thing if designers weren't such pricks that they insist on using the smallest fonts possible ("Hey, it looks great on my 3000 dollar 26" monitor!
Why would a designer use extra small fonts on such a larger monitor? Those fonts would appear EVEN SMALLER on their monitor than on your 12" VGA monitor.
The results were astounding with very little changes to the processor core. I heard that the next Alpha was slated to include SMT before Intel killed it.
If the SMT results were so impressive, why would Compaq kill the Alpha? I read an interview with the lead Alpha designer and he said that the Alpha processor had been stretched to its limits and could not support new improvements like EPIC or 64 bit addressing. He was part of Compaq's strategy team for choosing the Intel IA64 for Compaq's future server family.
I mean, 0-60 in 3.5 seconds. Top speed of 180+. You can outrun a good number of Ferraris and Lamborghinis in this baby. When it comes to transportation, why settle for anything else?
If Mercedes Benz also sold $10,000 cars, it would destroy the mystique of owning a Mercedes Benz. They would surely lose sales of their high-end cars. People in the USA drool over their Lexus sedans, but would they do the same if they knew it was just an overpriced Toyota?? Toyota/Lexus doesn't even sell Lexuses in Japan; they just called them Toyotas there.
Just because your competition is well funded does not mean you necessarily need to "sellout" to VCs. Check out Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon by Joel Spolsky. He compares Ben & Jerry's profitable, slow-growth business model to Amazon's get-big-fast model. Do Ben & Jerry style companies have to stay small? No. Consider that Microsoft has been successfully chugging along since the 1970s.. and growing.. and growing..
Lisp needs macros because it does not support lazy evaluation of function parameters, like Haskell. Lisp macros are used to create function-like operators that evaluate their parameters conditionally. Sounds like a hack to bandaid a language deficiency.
Nobody in America worried about airplane hijackings until it happened. Nobody in America worried about shoebombs until it happened. What about the underwear bombs? The terrorists are always innovating.
For those you are not aware of Rainmaker's technology, they use wavelet modulation. Wavelets are mathematical transforms that are typically used at higher levels of the network to compress images or digital video signals. In this instance of modulation, though, we aren't so much interested in wavelets' ability to compress data as much as their immunity to noise and ability to coexist both with other wavelets and with other modulation schemes. Because it is very resistant to noise, wavelet modulation can use the whole data pipe and not have to give up bandwidth on the margin to separate it from other traffic. Indeed, wavelet modulation can be thrown right on top of the current cable TV signal, so old and new systems can coexist. Old customers can have their 30 to 50 channel analog cable service, while new customers -- connected to the very same wire -- can have hundreds of video channels and very high speed data service.
As a modulation scheme, Rainmaker's technology exists on layer two of the OSI seven-layer networking model. If you are not familiar with the OSI model, just understand that layer two is the data link layer that specifies how signals fire over the wire. Level one is the wire, itself, and level three is the network layer that differentiates Ethernet from, say, Token ring. The beauty of the OSI model is that it allows designers to make changes in one layer that have little or no effect on the layers above or below. So Rainmaker's modulation scheme, which affects only the data link layer, can run on any physical layer (layer one) like twisted pair, coax, optical fiber, or wireless, and can serve up bits for any network layer like Ethernet, Token Ring, SONet, you name it. The modulation scheme on the cable, then, has no effect on your internal network other than to deliver viruses and worms 10 times faster.
I know what you mean, I'm really groovin' on this Open Sources Technology!! I mean, I've been installing Linux 7.0 at work and It's really cool. With Open Sources I like to have the C+ code right on my home machine. I can look at it and pretend I am programming it. I sent some patches to to Linux, but he forget to get back to me.
The reason that Robert Loves's pre-empt patch has not gone in is because that it can cause subtle bugs.
The kernel pre-empt patch does not introduce any bugs that are not already bugs on SMP kernels. If some driver cannot safely be pre-empted on a uniprocessor, how can it safely run on a multiprocessor machine?
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AMD is sitting tight and refining their core business: solid, stable, speedy, and inexpensive chips that consumers can afford and that consumers actually want to buy.
Don't forget that Mom and Pop consumers and Linux users buy far more processors than corporations.. NOT.
They Have to Make Money on a Product.
says who? Linux Torvalds does not charge anything for his Linux products, but he somehow manages to remain in business..
This wouldn't be a bad thing if designers weren't such pricks that they insist on using the smallest fonts possible ("Hey, it looks great on my 3000 dollar 26" monitor!
Why would a designer use extra small fonts on such a larger monitor? Those fonts would appear EVEN SMALLER on their monitor than on your 12" VGA monitor.
didn't someone actually think that people need more time to find the bugs???
Don't you remember GNOME 1.0??
The results were astounding with very little changes to the processor core. I heard that the next Alpha was slated to include SMT before Intel killed it.
If the SMT results were so impressive, why would Compaq kill the Alpha? I read an interview with the lead Alpha designer and he said that the Alpha processor had been stretched to its limits and could not support new improvements like EPIC or 64 bit addressing. He was part of Compaq's strategy team for choosing the Intel IA64 for Compaq's future server family.
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I mean, 0-60 in 3.5 seconds. Top speed of 180+. You can outrun a good number of Ferraris and Lamborghinis in this baby. When it comes to transportation, why settle for anything else?
are you talking about the Segway here?
I was glad to learn that the boys from ZZ Top have picked kernel hacking.
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I was thinking the same thing.
Sounds like you need to use a spell checker. Does Linux not have one? Maybe you can borrow the one used by Rob Malda..
If Mercedes Benz also sold $10,000 cars, it would destroy the mystique of owning a Mercedes Benz. They would surely lose sales of their high-end cars. People in the USA drool over their Lexus sedans, but would they do the same if they knew it was just an overpriced Toyota?? Toyota/Lexus doesn't even sell Lexuses in Japan; they just called them Toyotas there.
Just because your competition is well funded does not mean you necessarily need to "sellout" to VCs. Check out Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon by Joel Spolsky. He compares Ben & Jerry's profitable, slow-growth business model to Amazon's get-big-fast model. Do Ben & Jerry style companies have to stay small? No. Consider that Microsoft has been successfully chugging along since the 1970s.. and growing.. and growing..
I don't think milk counts as "health" food. If you a truly "Rational Scientific Type", you would realize that cow's milk is for calves, not humans.
That sounds a lot like IBM's OS/2 strategy: Windows 3.1 apps work great on OS/2, so developers will want to try out new OS/2 specific features. NOT.
Lisp needs macros because it does not support lazy evaluation of function parameters, like Haskell. Lisp macros are used to create function-like operators that evaluate their parameters conditionally. Sounds like a hack to bandaid a language deficiency.
Nobody in America worried about airplane hijackings until it happened. Nobody in America worried about shoebombs until it happened. What about the underwear bombs? The terrorists are always innovating.
It ended up being checked in as luggage, in an envelope and an enormous plastic bag. Must have cost the airline 3x what the knife was worth.
The price of your "not cheap" knife 3x the cost of a $0.30 envelope and plastic bag?
This explains why nobody calls the police when someone's car alarm goes off. That asshole's car is obviously not being stolen.
Most of the profiles are based on dry, boring math, just probabilities churned out by a computer somewhere.
You forget that computers are racists.
For those you are not aware of Rainmaker's technology, they use wavelet modulation. Wavelets are mathematical transforms that are typically used at higher levels of the network to compress images or digital video signals. In this instance of modulation, though, we aren't so much interested in wavelets' ability to compress data as much as their immunity to noise and ability to coexist both with other wavelets and with other modulation schemes. Because it is very resistant to noise, wavelet modulation can use the whole data pipe and not have to give up bandwidth on the margin to separate it from other traffic. Indeed, wavelet modulation can be thrown right on top of the current cable TV signal, so old and new systems can coexist. Old customers can have their 30 to 50 channel analog cable service, while new customers -- connected to the very same wire -- can have hundreds of video channels and very high speed data service.
As a modulation scheme, Rainmaker's technology exists on layer two of the OSI seven-layer networking model. If you are not familiar with the OSI model, just understand that layer two is the data link layer that specifies how signals fire over the wire. Level one is the wire, itself, and level three is the network layer that differentiates Ethernet from, say, Token ring. The beauty of the OSI model is that it allows designers to make changes in one layer that have little or no effect on the layers above or below. So Rainmaker's modulation scheme, which affects only the data link layer, can run on any physical layer (layer one) like twisted pair, coax, optical fiber, or wireless, and can serve up bits for any network layer like Ethernet, Token Ring, SONet, you name it. The modulation scheme on the cable, then, has no effect on your internal network other than to deliver viruses and worms 10 times faster.
I know what you mean, I'm really groovin' on this Open Sources Technology!! I mean, I've been installing Linux 7.0 at work and It's really cool. With Open Sources I like to have the C+ code right on my home machine. I can look at it and pretend I am programming it. I sent some patches to to Linux, but he forget to get back to me.
"Find pr0n featuring Traci Lord with two men wearing spandex."
Is Traci Lords wearing the spandex? or are the two men? That's what I'm talking about..
The reason that Robert Loves's pre-empt patch has not gone in is because that it can cause subtle bugs.
The kernel pre-empt patch does not introduce any bugs that are not already bugs on SMP kernels. If some driver cannot safely be pre-empted on a uniprocessor, how can it safely run on a multiprocessor machine?