Dear God, how the hell can anyone justify selling a single CPU to anything approaching the "PC" market for that much nowadays!? Even for the cheapest, slowest one, I could get two Mac Minis, including in many locations the tax as well.
I take it you've never met the kind of PHB who, while cutting costs and headcount, always finds enough money to redecorate his/her office and have the latest power-user box on their desk.
I did work at at a few jobs where the boss didn't have some absurd toy beyond his/her requirements, but there usually was someone in the organisation who did and it was rather blatant. Sharp managers make sure those who do the actual work have the better tools.
Is this a launch launch, or a paper launch?
I kinda got tired of reading about product launches that you couldn't go to a store and buy.
They should preface these things with RSN or ADN.
Odds are you can get it, just not when you want it and when you are ready to buy it something else will be announced and you'll go back to start. This is why I had a Pentium (I) for so many years. I finally jumped off the fence and bought an Athlon 2600+ and two years later have a 64 bit MB to go into the box (if only I could bring myself to do it.)
the new Pentium Extreme Edition 955 scores well in encoding, desktop business and a few professional rendering tests but overall it's given a run for its money by AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ dual-core processor, especially in gaming scenarios."
Maybe it can help Intel figure out where they're screwing up, of course most processors we've had to look
at in the past two years haven't been able to crunch management code with all it's arcane logic through
layers of project management, from design to marketing through financial vetting ("What I want to know is, will it in
any way harm the value of stock?") around last minute bug fix and a** covering corners to actual production.
Dell has done their experiments before...outside of the US and most often in their server related products.
Wake me up when they install Firefox on their consumer desktops, in the U.S.
Yeah, when it's on an AMD 64 system. Until I'll keep hitting the Snooze on Dell related articles.
Microsoft at first took for granted the role lobbying could play for them and now is into it on all continents (excepting Antarctica, but give them time) playing hardball and complaining bitterly when governments turn on them for being the big multinational (primarily US though) which holds them hostage as long as they depend upon Windows software (such as Office.) Microsoft has effectively killed a lot of independent software development by "bundling". Sometimes what is bundled for 'free' is good, sometimes poor, but ultimately it is an uncustomisable black box which severely limits its usability. Never the less, idependent companies struggle to compete and then when a government body, such as the EU, says "You must unbundle" they piss and moan. They swore it would break Windows to have Explorer unbundled then had the audacity to fake system behaviour before a court. Lovely for them that the Bush administration went easy on them and overturned the recommendation to have the company split up. Even after such a near miss they continue in their clandestine dirty tricks, then whine when they get caught. Then they want US federal law to protect them from unwelcome publicity of security holes, on grounds it could pose a national security risk. Gawds.
They should reserve more of their energy to building be simple and hardened operating system instead of a bag of alley cats.
All in all, the deal with Stern has already been worth the money for Sirius.
I would be highly surprised by that. I have followed the fortunes of Sirius and XM so far and both have been cash burners to say the least. XM looked like they would be first to hit break even with Sirius far behind. Each needs something like 20 million subscribers to turn a profit. Not everyone who signs up stays, either. That was the old model based upon Sirius' old expenses, with the commitment of $100 million/yr to Mr. Stern I think they are going to need quite a few more subscribers.
I don't care for Stern and have stayed a customer for 5 years for the other programming and news. Occasionally they trample one or more of my channels for NBA or NCAA games. So far they're better than the alternative, going back to KFOX and 5 minutes of annoying commercials.
Howard Stern is definitely drawing new customers to Sirius radio. I work at Radioshack and my entire district is sold out of all Sirius recievers and we have waiting lists. 75% of the customers say they are buying because they wanted Howard Stern.
Sirius is paying him $500 million over 5 years. I just don't see them bringing in enough to cover that.
There will be 2 HS channels. One is Howard all the time, the other is some kind of Howard News Network.
Computers will become twice as powerful and so expensive only the 6 richest people in the world will be able to afford them.
By the last quarter of 2006 quad core 64 bit Athlons will be common place at Circuit City and be preinstalled with Windows Vista. ExtremeWhizzoHot Tech will review and find it 10% faster than an Athlon 64 3000 with XP.
2006 will be the year Duke Nukem Forever comes out!
Nope, it's the year we find out that the Pentagon has been secretly breeding sharks with lasers and the CIA has overthrown the government of Atlantis, to be replaced by a demoracy, while we drill for oil offshore of.. Hold on a second, someone at the door
1. Someone will challenge Moore's Law as not being true any longer.
2. Cell phone batteries will need longer life as people listen to music and watch video on them.
3. Nano physics will be all the rage, but nobody will still have made anything practical with them.
4. RIAA will continue to hound people who really don't affect their bottom line, then blame the loss of music sales for the expense.
5. Howard Stern will not have the new customer draw Sirius is betting on.
6. Red Wine will be found not to actually have any real impact on reducing heart disease when they find a bunch of drunken italian doctors made it all up.
7. Video Games will continue to be ballyhooed as more realistic than ever, but movement will still look terribly wooden.
8. New processors, mother boards, video cards will all come out and amazingly the top of the line will cost what the top of the line has cost for the past ten years.
9. Moore's Law will be reaffirmed.
10. Cheezy Poofs and Coke will be declared heart-healthy by firms in Plano, TX and Atlanta, GA, and the media will not question it one bit.
In the end, once you know one OOP language, you know 95%
of what you need to work in any OOP language
Exactly. And if you've intelligence greater than that of a gnat you pick the right language for the job.
Unfortunately there are the questions of support and "shop language", which will often overrule the most well reasoned case for using the best tool. I fought it a few times, ultimately losing in one costly case (costly because we eventually had to scrap the alternative and go back to what I'd argued for in the first place.)
When it's your own box, choose wisely, not fasionably.
This month I've conceded, again, to having a Cell Phone.
I was an early Adopter of cell phones back when they were bag phones (it still works and has
power and range a hand held only dreams of!) Then I moved to a hand held Motorola unit, which would
still nearly split a pocket in my jeans.
In 2000 I had been living in California and was searching for a while and found I needed one
to secure a new appartment. Being able to get in touch or be got in touch with was a necessity
as I found during the late dot-com era. I picked up one of those Micro Tac jobbies and found
little use for it after scoring a new domecile and dumped service.
After a crash while cycling it became apparent I should again have one in the event of another
serious injury (collar bone is healed nicely, but torn muscles are still giving me fits)
This go round is pay as I go. While doing some holiday shopping, however, I could scarcely believe
my eyes on how many outlets there are for cell services. This crap must be hugely profitable.
You know, in your heart that it's all ripping off profits of hardworking, honest, family-type people who really have to scrape to make ends meet in the record industry... you *
Ah, crap, I can't keep typing this with a straight face...
Just as soon as you send $1.00 each to the following people, then place your name on the top of the list and delete the last name from the bottom of the list! It's that simple and totally legal!*
How does this work in an apartment complex where the electricity costs are rolled into rent?
If your landlord has to pay for it in any way, he/she will pass it on to you.
I live in a flat where there's a communal waterheater. Water is rolled into the rent. The people behind me seem to have some mer-people in their unit because the damn tub is running about half the day. And when their kids are in there I swear it's like they are at the pool and spash it out the windows and have sodden the floor so much it leaks through that. I keep expecting my rent to go up.
It's already quite common in countries like China.
Easy for China, where infrastructure in many places is 100 years old or non-existent. In the US you have companies still amortizing copper laid in the 50's & 60's. Also doesn't hurt to have a strong central government which has made wiring every household in China a directive.
At a company the size of Ebay, typically web developers don't call the shots on when the changes will occur. This books is for web developers, not managers.
Sure, but if managers are so stupid as to propose changes at critical junctures, where are they going to learn if not from the programmers who say, "You really can't mean this. You can't really mean to roll out big changes during the biggest commercial period of the year and when a lot of staff will be on vacation. You really can't be serious." Or has the workplace become more Dilbert-like at eBay?
Christmas is by far e-bay's lowest traffic of the year.. There's a bunch of charts showing the huge drop off, year after year, on the number of auctions starting about a week before christmas..
If someone has the link, post it? I'll see if I can dig it up.
I'd like to see that. With all the time off work I imagine people spend more time online, shopping. I've moved a few things and find I tend to buy quite a bit over the period (often more than I should:-)
I think their biggest slack time is during the summer. Whenever I've listed items then I find sales to be very slow.
Should include a chapter related to when to roll out changes and when not to.
Ebay changes their site, a week before Christmas. These people are stupid. These people are astoundingly stupid. If you looked up STUPID in the dictionary it wouldn't have the eBay logo, but direct you to an encyclopedia which has more space to go on about their profound acts of stupidity, when they've been stupid, how they've been stupid and how they've often failed to repeal their stupidity or even learn from it.
They aren't the only guilty ones. Less is More and too often I've had to deal with sites poorly constructed, as replacedments for sites which worked quite well.
Probably more along the lines of programing and some Gee-Whizzy things, but every web programming book should dedicate a chapter on when and how to make changes and common pitfalls to avoid.
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I take it you've never met the kind of PHB who, while cutting costs and headcount, always finds enough money to redecorate his/her office and have the latest power-user box on their desk.
I did work at at a few jobs where the boss didn't have some absurd toy beyond his/her requirements, but there usually was someone in the organisation who did and it was rather blatant. Sharp managers make sure those who do the actual work have the better tools.
They should preface these things with RSN or ADN.
Odds are you can get it, just not when you want it and when you are ready to buy it something else will be announced and you'll go back to start. This is why I had a Pentium (I) for so many years. I finally jumped off the fence and bought an Athlon 2600+ and two years later have a 64 bit MB to go into the box (if only I could bring myself to do it.)
the new Pentium Extreme Edition 955 scores well in encoding, desktop business and a few professional rendering tests but overall it's given a run for its money by AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ dual-core processor, especially in gaming scenarios."
Maybe it can help Intel figure out where they're screwing up, of course most processors we've had to look at in the past two years haven't been able to crunch management code with all it's arcane logic through layers of project management, from design to marketing through financial vetting ("What I want to know is, will it in any way harm the value of stock?") around last minute bug fix and a** covering corners to actual production.
Yeah, when it's on an AMD 64 system. Until I'll keep hitting the Snooze on Dell related articles.
Microsoft at first took for granted the role lobbying could play for them and now is into it on all continents (excepting Antarctica, but give them time) playing hardball and complaining bitterly when governments turn on them for being the big multinational (primarily US though) which holds them hostage as long as they depend upon Windows software (such as Office.) Microsoft has effectively killed a lot of independent software development by "bundling". Sometimes what is bundled for 'free' is good, sometimes poor, but ultimately it is an uncustomisable black box which severely limits its usability. Never the less, idependent companies struggle to compete and then when a government body, such as the EU, says "You must unbundle" they piss and moan. They swore it would break Windows to have Explorer unbundled then had the audacity to fake system behaviour before a court. Lovely for them that the Bush administration went easy on them and overturned the recommendation to have the company split up. Even after such a near miss they continue in their clandestine dirty tricks, then whine when they get caught. Then they want US federal law to protect them from unwelcome publicity of security holes, on grounds it could pose a national security risk. Gawds.
They should reserve more of their energy to building be simple and hardened operating system instead of a bag of alley cats.
I would be highly surprised by that. I have followed the fortunes of Sirius and XM so far and both have been cash burners to say the least. XM looked like they would be first to hit break even with Sirius far behind. Each needs something like 20 million subscribers to turn a profit. Not everyone who signs up stays, either. That was the old model based upon Sirius' old expenses, with the commitment of $100 million/yr to Mr. Stern I think they are going to need quite a few more subscribers.
I don't care for Stern and have stayed a customer for 5 years for the other programming and news. Occasionally they trample one or more of my channels for NBA or NCAA games. So far they're better than the alternative, going back to KFOX and 5 minutes of annoying commercials.
Sirius is paying him $500 million over 5 years. I just don't see them bringing in enough to cover that.
There will be 2 HS channels. One is Howard all the time, the other is some kind of Howard News Network.
By the last quarter of 2006 quad core 64 bit Athlons will be common place at Circuit City and be preinstalled with Windows Vista. ExtremeWhizzoHot Tech will review and find it 10% faster than an Athlon 64 3000 with XP.
Nope, it's the year we find out that the Pentagon has been secretly breeding sharks with lasers and the CIA has overthrown the government of Atlantis, to be replaced by a demoracy, while we drill for oil offshore of .. Hold on a second, someone at the door
[NO CARRIER]
I predict it will be the year after the year after the year after the year after the year after next year.
Maybe.
Definitely possibly.
Beyond a speculative doubt.
It's Santa Claus ffs! There is no "e" on the end of it!
"I say potato you say potatoe", said Dan Quayle.
How about tracking Syrianta ?
Putting the Mona Lisa Smile technology to use.
Exactly. And if you've intelligence greater than that of a gnat you pick the right language for the job.
Unfortunately there are the questions of support and "shop language", which will often overrule the most well reasoned case for using the best tool. I fought it a few times, ultimately losing in one costly case (costly because we eventually had to scrap the alternative and go back to what I'd argued for in the first place.)
When it's your own box, choose wisely, not fasionably.
I'd learn Snoo
This month I've conceded, again, to having a Cell Phone.
I was an early Adopter of cell phones back when they were bag phones (it still works and has power and range a hand held only dreams of!) Then I moved to a hand held Motorola unit, which would still nearly split a pocket in my jeans.
In 2000 I had been living in California and was searching for a while and found I needed one to secure a new appartment. Being able to get in touch or be got in touch with was a necessity as I found during the late dot-com era. I picked up one of those Micro Tac jobbies and found little use for it after scoring a new domecile and dumped service.
After a crash while cycling it became apparent I should again have one in the event of another serious injury (collar bone is healed nicely, but torn muscles are still giving me fits)
This go round is pay as I go. While doing some holiday shopping, however, I could scarcely believe my eyes on how many outlets there are for cell services. This crap must be hugely profitable.
Off topic humor, ">Not quite the Mona Lisa smile.
Ah, crap, I can't keep typing this with a straight face...
Just as soon as you send $1.00 each to the following people, then place your name on the top of the list and delete the last name from the bottom of the list! It's that simple and totally legal!*
* In Antarctica
If your landlord has to pay for it in any way, he/she will pass it on to you.
I live in a flat where there's a communal waterheater. Water is rolled into the rent. The people behind me seem to have some mer-people in their unit because the damn tub is running about half the day. And when their kids are in there I swear it's like they are at the pool and spash it out the windows and have sodden the floor so much it leaks through that. I keep expecting my rent to go up.
Easy for China, where infrastructure in many places is 100 years old or non-existent. In the US you have companies still amortizing copper laid in the 50's & 60's. Also doesn't hurt to have a strong central government which has made wiring every household in China a directive.
Probably a combination of too many air conditioners and another video of Paris Hilton and her beau of the day is making the rounds.
I am a lineman for the county.
And I've heard about SCO
I'm lookin' at a Sun, I see another overload.
I hear you trolling in the wire.
I can see RMS whine.
And a slashdotting in Houston,
Will saturate the line.
But of course, using joints.
You know, which rolling papers work best, do exploding seeds really detract from the experience, that sort of thing.
you want seeds? you'll shoot your eye out, kid!
Sure, but if managers are so stupid as to propose changes at critical junctures, where are they going to learn if not from the programmers who say, "You really can't mean this. You can't really mean to roll out big changes during the biggest commercial period of the year and when a lot of staff will be on vacation. You really can't be serious." Or has the workplace become more Dilbert-like at eBay?
If someone has the link, post it? I'll see if I can dig it up.
I'd like to see that. With all the time off work I imagine people spend more time online, shopping. I've moved a few things and find I tend to buy quite a bit over the period (often more than I should :-)
I think their biggest slack time is during the summer. Whenever I've listed items then I find sales to be very slow.
Ebay changes their site, a week before Christmas. These people are stupid. These people are astoundingly stupid. If you looked up STUPID in the dictionary it wouldn't have the eBay logo, but direct you to an encyclopedia which has more space to go on about their profound acts of stupidity, when they've been stupid, how they've been stupid and how they've often failed to repeal their stupidity or even learn from it.
They aren't the only guilty ones. Less is More and too often I've had to deal with sites poorly constructed, as replacedments for sites which worked quite well.
Probably more along the lines of programing and some Gee-Whizzy things, but every web programming book should dedicate a chapter on when and how to make changes and common pitfalls to avoid.