Their market was completely untapped by the other mainstream news outlets. The market demanded it.
If you don't like it, I have a suggestion for you: don't watch it!
I avoid all cable news like the plague myself - it's turned into a parody of talking heads desperate for ratings.
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Many European countries would be more analogous to US States, than to the entire US.
The larger and more heterogeneous a group of people are, the more difficult it is to find a neat little solution to a problem.
The US has States for this very reason! But the power of the States has been eroded with the growing power of the Federal Government. And it hasn't helped.
So please stop comparing the US to your nice little homogeneous mecca in Europe somewhere.
America is a fucked up mess. Capitalism is a fallacy.
Yeah because the communism of N. Korean and USSR are beacons of progress. Maybe your angst is misdirected.
People can use their skills (whatever they may be) to make money and that should be their right. Even if it means they make more money than you can with your skills. Tough cookies. Life is not fair.
The *real* problem here is with Carlos and how he made his money. His business has a monopoly on the Mexican (and many other latin american countries) Telecom industry. That is bad because it hinders others from making money in the same industry. Gates and his dirty company have a near monopoly in their market segment, but that's not quite the same, and they've already had to answer monopoly inquires to the US govt.
Capitalism in not a fallacy. Mexican trust regulation is just broken/non-existent/corrupt.
The richest guy in the world being from one of the most corrupt countries? Big surprise. When you own much of the industry in an entire country, you know some nasty deals have gone on somewhere.
I'm pro-capitalist, but if a single business/person owns controls that much, it ceases to be capitalism. There is no competition, no new investment, no invention. Nothing but collecting payment since there is no other option. The sad thing is the Mexican government probably couldn't break up Carlos' monopolies at this point even if they wanted to.
Congrats Carlos. You won. Everyone else in Mexico loses.
One of the reason this is so rare, though, is that patents and IP in graphics are in a bit of a mucky muck. Companies just cross-license and forget about it, but usually that means nothing gets opened up because it's too much work to determine if they can, legally, or it's too risky, legally.
I hope they keep this up.And some lawyer doesn't come and ruin it, which I guess is inevitable, but I hope it's not right away.
Looks like a cool chip. It will be interesting to see how Nvidia does in the marketplace when the don't have rabid enthusiast gamers subsidizing their development efforts every 6 months. Let's face it, who runs out to buy the latest graphics card anymore, when you get the same game on your 360/PS3 with no upgrade? They're mostly positioning this launch as a 'compute' GPU, so they certainly see the writing on the wall. With Fermi and beyond, Nvidia will have to provide tangible real-world profits for some company that needs things like this in order to make it.
Texas relies on property taxes quite a bit (along with sales tax) and has no state income tax at all. California on the other hand has much of their property taxes capped, I believe. When the economy goes down, there's no other stream of money coming in.
PS3s are more useful for prototyping before moving to IBM or Mercury Cell Blades (which have double prec)
And while we're stating broad generalizations, I would think the 256MB memory limit is the bigger impedance to using the PS3 is a meaningful way.
Anyway, it's a bit disingenuous to put a 4 year old chip up against a new one and claim proof that the same old architecture is better. There are certainly lessons to be learned from how Cell gets its performance.
It's not much to get upset about, most people do. Let me explain something to you and maybe next time you'll refrain from insulting generalizations.
America is populated by immigrants. A large portion of these people came to America because their prior communities failed them in one way or another and their desire for a better life drove them to move across the oceans to find work. Many of them have succeeded using hard work and conservative ideals to save themselves and their families. You can see how this can maybe switch ones priorities/values from having:
God family community self
to having priorities/values that look like:
God family self community
Of course, in Europe, those that still live there may have been better served by community in general, and therefore hold it dear. By the same token, someone who places less value on the community based on past deep-rooted misgivings and failure is not justified in being called an 'inbred moron'.
I'm not sure why cranky, hyperbolic posts like this get modded up.
Like any hardware, the value you get depends on how you want to use it. As for the SPUs being crippled, having them 'strapped on' to the main high bandwidth processor bus makes them much more usable as stream processors, in my opinion.
It's easy to pile shit on top of a new idea in an attempt to keep things the same. In the end, as we've seen, it's possible to design cool games on both machines and that's what matters.
In these discussions there is a serious misunderstanding and misuse of the term "bandwidth".
Typically, 'bandwidth' means the amount of data a specific part will be able to send at specific point in time.(the 'width' of your 'bands') It does *not* mean the aggregate amount of data the user of said part has sent/received between two points in time. That is more like 'throughput', but not even that.
I think it's important to remember that, unlike utilities which are metered because there is a finite amount of the resource, there is never a shortage of data. There may be a shortage of bandwidth at a particular moment, but as soon as a few people stop transmitting data, that bandwidth is available again. The worst that can happen is a slow down of network performance.
Comparisons of 'bandwidth' to utilities is folly.
Now if the ISPs somehow pay for access to the larger 'backbone' or other large networks by GB/month, then I can see why they would want to pass that cost on to the runaway downloaders, but technically there really is no sensible argument to it.
1- consumers buy games/DVDs over the latest music album 2- consumers don't have enough money for music 3- consumers download music
Based on their evidence, though, you could also conclude:
1- consumers download music 2- consumers still have money 3- consumers buy games/DVDs with saved money
Don't get me wrong. I don't think that downloading a song==lost sale, but I don't think the evidence stated necessarily means that people are choosing games/DVDs over music.
One thing that is not really debatable is that the music industry business model is outdated, overgrown with middlemen, and on it's way out. And the end won't come soon enough.
I'm no SCO-lover, or a lawyer for that matter, but isn't the whole point of Chapter 11 that you get *protection* from your creditors while you reorganize?
I'm just curious on how they can be forced into a Chapter 7? Failed reorganization?
Anand is alright..I've been reading his site for years. For info on consumer-level tech, he seems to know his stuff, although he seems to slant toward Intel a bit too much.
GP is right, though. He is basically just a geek that like to mess around with new HW that also gets to go to all of the consumer electronics shows and things. He just made a business out of it.
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In a way, yes.
Their market was completely untapped by the other mainstream news outlets. The market demanded it.
If you don't like it, I have a suggestion for you: don't watch it!
I avoid all cable news like the plague myself - it's turned into a parody of talking heads desperate for ratings.
Many European countries would be more analogous to US States, than to the entire US.
The larger and more heterogeneous a group of people are, the more difficult it is to find a neat little solution to a problem.
The US has States for this very reason! But the power of the States has been eroded with the growing power of the Federal Government. And it hasn't helped.
So please stop comparing the US to your nice little homogeneous mecca in Europe somewhere.
I always hear this knee-jerk Fox bashing.
Guess what? All news sources have a slant, and bashing Fox just shows your bias.
Right Slant
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Fox
Left Slant
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CNN
MSNBC
ABC
CBS
Comedy-f'king-Central
So watch your TV with your brain turned on at all times, I would think.
America is a fucked up mess. Capitalism is a fallacy.
Yeah because the communism of N. Korean and USSR are beacons of progress.
Maybe your angst is misdirected.
People can use their skills (whatever they may be) to make money and that should be their right. Even if it means they make more money than you can with your skills. Tough cookies. Life is not fair.
The *real* problem here is with Carlos and how he made his money. His business has a monopoly on the Mexican (and many other latin american countries) Telecom industry. That is bad because it hinders others from making money in the same industry. Gates and his dirty company have a near monopoly in their market segment, but that's not quite the same, and they've already had to answer monopoly inquires to the US govt.
Capitalism in not a fallacy. Mexican trust regulation is just broken/non-existent/corrupt.
The richest guy in the world being from one of the most corrupt countries? Big surprise. When you own much of the industry in an entire country, you know some nasty deals have gone on somewhere.
I'm pro-capitalist, but if a single business/person owns controls that much, it ceases to be capitalism. There is no competition, no new investment, no invention. Nothing but collecting payment since there is no other option. The sad thing is the Mexican government probably couldn't break up Carlos' monopolies at this point even if they wanted to.
Congrats Carlos. You won. Everyone else in Mexico loses.
Kudos to Disney for this! Very cool.
One of the reason this is so rare, though, is that patents and IP in graphics are in a bit of a mucky muck. Companies just cross-license and forget about it, but usually that means nothing gets opened up because it's too much work to determine if they can, legally, or it's too risky, legally.
I hope they keep this up.And some lawyer doesn't come and ruin it, which I guess is inevitable, but I hope it's not right away.
Looks like a cool chip. It will be interesting to see how Nvidia does in the marketplace when the don't have rabid enthusiast gamers subsidizing their development efforts every 6 months. Let's face it, who runs out to buy the latest graphics card anymore, when you get the same game on your 360/PS3 with no upgrade? They're mostly positioning this launch as a 'compute' GPU, so they certainly see the writing on the wall. With Fermi and beyond, Nvidia will have to provide tangible real-world profits for some company that needs things like this in order to make it.
Texas relies on property taxes quite a bit (along with sales tax) and has no state income tax at all. California on the other hand has much of their property taxes capped, I believe. When the economy goes down, there's no other stream of money coming in.
That's no moon... ... That's a BATTLE STATION!
There is an IBM site in Poughkeepsie, but the large Fab in Fishkill.
MS bo.b?
PS3s are more useful for prototyping before moving to IBM or Mercury Cell Blades (which have double prec)
And while we're stating broad generalizations, I would think the 256MB memory limit is the bigger impedance to using the PS3 is a meaningful way.
Anyway, it's a bit disingenuous to put a 4 year old chip up against a new one and claim proof that the same old architecture is better. There are certainly lessons to be learned from how Cell gets its performance.
You have a myopic world view.
It's not much to get upset about, most people do. Let me explain something to you and maybe next time you'll refrain from insulting generalizations.
America is populated by immigrants. A large portion of these people came to America because their prior communities failed them in one way or another and their desire for a better life drove them to move across the oceans to find work. Many of them have succeeded using hard work and conservative ideals to save themselves and their families. You can see how this can maybe switch ones priorities/values from having:
God
family
community
self
to having priorities/values that look like:
God
family
self
community
Of course, in Europe, those that still live there may have been better served by community in general, and therefore hold it dear.
By the same token, someone who places less value on the community based on past deep-rooted misgivings and failure is not justified in being called an 'inbred moron'.
I'm not sure why cranky, hyperbolic posts like this get modded up.
Like any hardware, the value you get depends on how you want to use it. As for the SPUs being crippled, having them 'strapped on' to the main high bandwidth processor bus makes them much more usable as stream processors, in my opinion.
It's easy to pile shit on top of a new idea in an attempt to keep things the same. In the end, as we've seen, it's possible to design cool games on both machines and that's what matters.
In these discussions there is a serious misunderstanding and misuse of the term "bandwidth".
Typically, 'bandwidth' means the amount of data a specific part will be able to send at specific point in time.(the 'width' of your 'bands') It does *not* mean the aggregate amount of data the user of said part has sent/received between two points in time. That is more like 'throughput', but not even that.
I think it's important to remember that, unlike utilities which are metered because there is a finite amount of the resource, there is never a shortage of data. There may be a shortage of bandwidth at a particular moment, but as soon as a few people stop transmitting data, that bandwidth is available again. The worst that can happen is a slow down of network performance.
Comparisons of 'bandwidth' to utilities is folly.
Now if the ISPs somehow pay for access to the larger 'backbone' or other large networks by GB/month, then I can see why they would want to pass that cost on to the runaway downloaders, but technically there really is no sensible argument to it.
I totally agree with you!
Now excuse me while I go pitch a Windows ME + celery + mySQL solution to eBay and give them the 'real' facts.
Well there's IBM. And they don't seem to be slowing down:
POWER 6
POWER 7
also:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/11/ibm_power7_ncsa/
POWER 7 sounds like crazy town...
The article claims:
1- consumers buy games/DVDs over the latest music album
2- consumers don't have enough money for music
3- consumers download music
Based on their evidence, though, you could also conclude:
1- consumers download music
2- consumers still have money
3- consumers buy games/DVDs with saved money
Don't get me wrong. I don't think that downloading a song==lost sale, but I don't think the evidence stated necessarily means that people are choosing games/DVDs over music.
One thing that is not really debatable is that the music industry business model is outdated, overgrown with middlemen, and on it's way out. And the end won't come soon enough.
Your post is a bit funny considering that Microsoft has actually contracted Johnny Lee to work on Natal.
Check it out: http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/
I'm holding out for the 10 Billion years version.
Technology changes so fast!
I'm no SCO-lover, or a lawyer for that matter, but isn't the whole point of Chapter 11 that you get *protection* from your creditors while you reorganize?
I'm just curious on how they can be forced into a Chapter 7? Failed reorganization?
Anand is alright ..I've been reading his site for years. For info on consumer-level tech, he seems to know his stuff, although he seems to slant toward Intel a bit too much.
GP is right, though. He is basically just a geek that like to mess around with new HW that also gets to go to all of the consumer electronics shows and things. He just made a business out of it.
I thought this article was about something totally different for second there!
But..yeah. I'm all for schoolers and science and experimentation.
I don't get it.
With fiber channel and infiniband becoming more common, servers are moving away from direct attach storage. It simply doesn't need to be there.
Also, the 2 most important things for server storage is capacity and bandwidth. Both of which SSDs are kind of poor at.
Maybe this is for smaller servers or something. Or just a marketing gimmick.
Correlations aren't meaningless.
A positive correlation exists when factor X increases/decreases and the same time as factor Y, with a negative correlation being the opposite.
Correlations do not prove causation, and should not be misinterpreted as that, but a truly defined correlation is almost as good in some cases.
Correlations can be misrepresented, however, which is why so many people on here deride research with correlations as outcomes, which is unfortunate.