$850 million to Microsoft? Pfft! They've probably lost that much on XBox sales and they're still going. Good thing they've got all those insanely profitable divisions and that $40 billion + cash reserve.
Of course IBM could, as the news suggests, hit them again for more money, it's hardly going to dent Microsoft. What they need is restraint or some measures with some teeth in them which raise the bar.
Some divers, upon seeing them, quit diving that same day.
European rivers have been home to some of the largest catfish ever observed, on par with this Mekong fish. Silurus glanis, which may grow to 3 meters in length, are considered scarce now, as commercial river traffic has apparently injured or killed many of the very large ones.
Don't assume these creatures get so large eating only refuse. They'll dine on dead or injured fish, animal carcasses and have been known to actually go after live prey. At 3 meters/600+ lbs I could imagine one of these capable of devouring a small human.
I know parent was mostly kidding but nobody that is even considering high fidelity 13.1 sound would be willing to take the audio performance hit inherit in wireless speaker setups.
Anyone even considering high fidelity is going to expend some effort on understanding the accoustics of their entertainment space and adjusting them as needed rather than just throwing a mess of speakers and amplifiers at it.
It's rather like those silly cars with the huge subwoofers (and soon to be hearing impaired drivers) which rattle and buzz because they don't understand anything beyond 'more power'.
I really felt the whole ST thing was beaten beyond the dying of the horse right on into the maggots.
If someone were to introduce a new space/sci-fi series I think there's enough excitement with what we are doing with comets, shuttles, ISS, etc. and the grim realities of going up and coming back on bombs or in tin pots. Enough cloaking/photon torpedoes/butt-ugly aliens, etc. Bring it back home.
I don't know what everyone else will think about 13.1, but it kind of seems like overkill to me. I already, at times, wonder if there is really that much advantage in a 6.1, or 7.1 system, over a 5.1 system.
No kidding.
You could overcome some of the wires with a wireless or IR set-up, but where and for what you need all these audio drivers is beyond me.
Center
Left-Front
Right-Front
Left-Rear
Right-Rear
Sub woofer
Subsonic house-shaker
Overhead driver
Chair shaker
Pacemaker, for when extreme percussion causes cardiac arrest
TV-shaker
Supercillious big speaker out in the lawn so everyone on the block knows you are just so incredibly cool with your 13.1
We should all thank GWB for protecting us from the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001. Oh, wait a second, his administration ignored the 40+ warnings during the preceding summer. Way to go, Bush! You deserve an award for gross negligence. Dereliction of Duty. Not just during Vietnam. But now for your own personal Vietnam II. Thank you for the quagmire, Sir Bush. You are a(n upper) class (fascist) act. Please, keep cutting the taxes for the top 1% and do nothing to stop THE HIGHEST OIL PRICES in history. Peak oil. It's not just a breakfast cereal. Sucks to be you if you don't have $250,000 saved in your (non-S&L) bank account. Even if you live in "fly-over" country.
George is finally going to Vietnam! No kidding, as the guest of the leader and all that.
About freaking time, after all that Texas Air National Guard training...
I hear George Bush is going for total elimination of all taxes and then further doubling the federal government's spending. It's some new theory called Implosion Economics I think...
The computer world is so full of people trying to be Apple that it's almost like anytime you do anything else, you instantly look like one in a million.
Worked quite well for Microsoft back in 1995. By the way, did you see the article about Microsoft and Toshiba cementing their HD DVD relationship?
Being a big player means being able to totally fsck-up the next generation of technology and still being able to walk away from it because your other enterprises are so wildly profitable you can afford the losses.
"We decided that we had to be radically different from Apple. Where Apple was sort of the ivory tower, we were going to be the dark rebel. Where Apple was very geometric, we were going to be smooth and curvy. Apple was so enamored with absolute pure, minimalist design that some designers may argue that ergonomics were compromised."
You'll know they've got it wrong when...
They silhouette the player instead of the dancer.
They mix metaphors like 'ivory tower' and 'dark rebel'
They use words like 'synergy', 'user experience', 'radical' or 'extreme' to describe features.
It's got a remote control.
The player, software and services are heartily endorsed by the RIAA
They actually make a better product and price it competitively.
It doesn't look like a piece of tacky plastic jewelry.
The venice core is the new one. It's a few unimportant percent faster than the others. It's got a few not-terribly-important new features. It's rather more than a few percent less power-hungry. AMD doggedly sticks to its 89W max figure, but Venice maxes out at more like 50W, according to measurements / approximations.
I picked out the very bottom of the line of the new Venice core and look forward to ripping apart my PC over the 4th weekend and planting that baby in there. It's still going to run rings around what I have and use less power, which is all I ask. I couldn't care less about video games (as long as I can still play NetHack)
Monarch appear a decent source, as they put the CPU on the board and give it a test run before shipping.
APM (Agency Press Mars) - K'Breel reveals his control over the blue planet water bag 'Tom Cruise' and prospective temporary procreation mate 'Katie Holms' is almost as good as he had hoped, through the 'Relgion' 'Tom Cruise' subscribes to (placed in the mind of it's founder while under considerable chemical influence on the mind, which enabled K'Breel and his caste to plant the seed.) True, the current propaganda vehicle portrays us as a race capable of utterly crushing the ineffectual creatures, the expirement has gone somewhat awry in suggesting we can be defeated by microscopic fauna in their atmosphere. K'Breel assures APM that this could play to our favor, but luring them into a false sense of security, placing faith in non-existent vulnerabilities. K'Breel's caste continue to make headsway in promoting the 'religion' of the actors.
Those mean old Slashdot readers, pointing out the obvious all teh time!
It would have happened sooner or later, they should thank us for finding the bugs right away.
Well a big fat thanks to the hordes of slashdot, eh? Mischeivious, us? No, not really, we're as much victims of the same sort or maliciousness. Ever seen the trolls here before they get modded down? You think these people actually get something out of slashdot other than some place to post their rubbish and feel 1337?
To allege these crimes are from the actual readership or slashdot is tarring us with a brush and I don't much care for it.
Cantois is suffering because his interface looks like sh!t. Clearly this exhibit is geared to make things look as similar as possible, but it's still pretty weak.
Honestly, there's only so many ways you can do this kind of thing and patenting the obvious shouldn't stand up.
Because Disney isn't about animation anymore, its about Parks, Hotels, T-Shirts and films signed off by the sort of people who next week will sign off the building of a 500 room "luxury" hotel.
Until Disney drives its animation division as a seperate company run by people (business people) who understand that market it will be doomed.
Perhaps, but the same people were actually fairly successful for a long time. One of the problems I find, repeated through much of their films is lack of imagination. Most of their characters are terribly overused cliche's and the scripts are predictable. Pixar has been far less so as has Miyazaki. Robin Williams and Elton John saved Aladin and Lion King, where if you think about it, if they were pretty much any other people these films, too, would have been mediocre.
IMHO Disney has let the business of imagination be taken over by Dreamworks and others while they simply try to broker small, new talent for profit.
So the question on everyone's minds at this point is: What *will* Longhorn actually have in it? Avalon, Indigo, and WinFX are all being backported to XP/2003, WinFS has been dropped for the release, and now Monad (I love that name) is being cut. I'm not quite sure how Microsoft plans to sell the OS on such exciting features as "Better DRM!" and "We've got the security thing right this time. Promise!"
The code, mind you it's still very much beta...
void main()
{
printf("Hello wolrd");
}
Saw him in the evening and he was acting really strangely. I went
shopping in the afternoon with the girls and I did turn up a
bit late so thought it might be that. The bar was really crowded and loud
so I suggested we go somewhere quieter to talk. He was still very subdued and
distracted
so I suggested we go somewhere nice to eat. All through dinner he just
didn't seem himself; he hardly laughed and didn't seem to be paying
any attention to me or to what I was saying. I just knew that something
was wrong. He dropped me back home and I wondered if he was
going to come in; he hesitated but followed. I asked him again if
there was something the matter but he just half shook his head and
turned the television on. After about 10 minutes of Silence, I said I was
going
upstairs to bed. I put my arms around him and told him that I loved
him deeply. He just gave a sigh and a sad sort of smile. He
didn't follow me up but later he did, and I was surprised when we made
love. He
still seemed distant and a bit cold, and I started to think that he was
going to leave me and that he had found someone else. I cried myself to
sleep.
Geez, you just don't get it, do you? Can't see the forest for all the damn trees in the way?
You can ONLY buy a box that runs the operating system from APPLE. That is NOT COMMODITY hardware, no matter it's made up of commodity bits and pieces. The box comes from only ONE vendor, APPLE.
Consider OS-X running on an off the shelf PC box. Consider that there are hundreds of manufacturers (probably less than 100 of any real quality and providing any kind of support), which crank out 10's of millions of these PC boxes every year and suddenly, you can run all your OS-X apps on them.
BAM!
A huge market has opened up for Apple. The very market Microsoft has tried to keep Apple out of, direct competition on the same piece of hardware. Why the heck should Apple keep making hardware when there are Dell, Lenovo, HP/Compaq, etc, who do this very, very well and with intense competition could beat anything on the scale Apple could produce. Get out of the hardware business, the real money is in the operating system, software and support. Microsoft has shown that for years. Is anyone paying attention.
Move OS-X to commodity hardware and compete head to head with Microsoft, on the merits of the product.
The processor will be intel x86, but I suspect the parts to be controlled by apple as always, and that will be how they can confirm that the machine is indeed a mac to 'allow' OSX to run.
Why would they do only that? There's 10's of millions of PC boxes made every year around the world. If they move OS-X to run on them then the field is wide open for them to bite into Microsoft's market.
If they stick with proprietary hardware, they only limit their sales.
My Mac Mini shipped to me direct from China. [point]Apple doesn't manufacture.[/point]
Null pointer exception.
Made for Apple, by whomever, but not for the manufacturer to sell to anyone else. Apple can do that, as they have most of the way since the Apple ][ (excepting all the Apple ][ clones which required dubious ROMS, etc. and the brief period where Mac Hardware was produced by several firms before Jobs yanked the hardware production back in house.) With OS-X running on Intel, it would be pointless for Apple to compete with vendors who do it very well. Besides, as Microsoft has shown, the money isn't in the hardware, but the software.
the Macintosh has been built on commodity hardware with the exception of the CPU and motherboard.
Yep, that's exactly it.
Remember the split between Microsoft and Apple? Apple hemming and hawing about moving their operating system to the same hardware Windows runs on, which would then put Apple into very direct competition with Microsoft?
Geez, don't tell me you forgot all about it! This was why Microsoft was pulling support for the Mac. If OS-X runs on the same hardware that you've been running Windows on, you suddenly have a choice. Not exactly what the monopolist wants to see, is it?
It's the death of the Mac, because Apple will likely be forced away from designing and manufacturing their own hardware, as Taiwan Inc., Dell, Lenovo, HP/Compaq, etc. etc. etc. will be able to beat their price every time.
If Apple does this half way, meaning there's still some proprietary bit on the motherboard which you have to have to run OS-X then it's only an improvement in the delivery and innovation of chips, but will always lag what Windows can run on, which would be folly.
If anything, Apple moving closer toward commodity hardware may be the undoing of the Mac, but it's the attraction of Linux I believe is there regardless of Apple's existence.
The case deals with the interoperability between the Windows PC and servers. The next step is for the proposal to be "market tested" with other industry players before a final assessment is given by the EU."
Clever EU. To monitor, with other industry players, the compliance. Unlike in the US where it was pretty much business as usual once everyone left the court house.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course IBM could, as the news suggests, hit them again for more money, it's hardly going to dent Microsoft. What they need is restraint or some measures with some teeth in them which raise the bar.
Some divers, upon seeing them, quit diving that same day.
European rivers have been home to some of the largest catfish ever observed, on par with this Mekong fish. Silurus glanis, which may grow to 3 meters in length, are considered scarce now, as commercial river traffic has apparently injured or killed many of the very large ones.
Don't assume these creatures get so large eating only refuse. They'll dine on dead or injured fish, animal carcasses and have been known to actually go after live prey. At 3 meters/600+ lbs I could imagine one of these capable of devouring a small human.
Anyone even considering high fidelity is going to expend some effort on understanding the accoustics of their entertainment space and adjusting them as needed rather than just throwing a mess of speakers and amplifiers at it.
It's rather like those silly cars with the huge subwoofers (and soon to be hearing impaired drivers) which rattle and buzz because they don't understand anything beyond 'more power'.
It's a malaprop, silly. Pool-shark becomes Card-shark to those with too much wax in their ears.
If someone were to introduce a new space/sci-fi series I think there's enough excitement with what we are doing with comets, shuttles, ISS, etc. and the grim realities of going up and coming back on bombs or in tin pots. Enough cloaking/photon torpedoes/butt-ugly aliens, etc. Bring it back home.
No kidding.
You could overcome some of the wires with a wireless or IR set-up, but where and for what you need all these audio drivers is beyond me.
George is finally going to Vietnam! No kidding, as the guest of the leader and all that.
About freaking time, after all that Texas Air National Guard training...
I hear George Bush is going for total elimination of all taxes and then further doubling the federal government's spending. It's some new theory called Implosion Economics I think...
Worked quite well for Microsoft back in 1995. By the way, did you see the article about Microsoft and Toshiba cementing their HD DVD relationship?
Being a big player means being able to totally fsck-up the next generation of technology and still being able to walk away from it because your other enterprises are so wildly profitable you can afford the losses.
You'll know they've got it wrong when...
The venice core is the new one. It's a few unimportant percent faster than the others. It's got a few not-terribly-important new features. It's rather more than a few percent less power-hungry. AMD doggedly sticks to its 89W max figure, but Venice maxes out at more like 50W, according to measurements / approximations.
I picked out the very bottom of the line of the new Venice core and look forward to ripping apart my PC over the 4th weekend and planting that baby in there. It's still going to run rings around what I have and use less power, which is all I ask. I couldn't care less about video games (as long as I can still play NetHack)
Monarch appear a decent source, as they put the CPU on the board and give it a test run before shipping.
Spreadsheets, heck, I can't wait to get this baby on my 56K dial up line and see how fast it can render /. pages!
that's what it's all really about, isn't it?
No. Complaints about aquarium supplies. Why make better products when you can sue to shut the complainers up?
It would have happened sooner or later, they should thank us for finding the bugs right away.
Well a big fat thanks to the hordes of slashdot, eh? Mischeivious, us? No, not really, we're as much victims of the same sort or maliciousness. Ever seen the trolls here before they get modded down? You think these people actually get something out of slashdot other than some place to post their rubbish and feel 1337?
To allege these crimes are from the actual readership or slashdot is tarring us with a brush and I don't much care for it.
Honestly, there's only so many ways you can do this kind of thing and patenting the obvious shouldn't stand up.
Because Disney isn't about animation anymore, its about Parks, Hotels, T-Shirts and films signed off by the sort of people who next week will sign off the building of a 500 room "luxury" hotel.
Until Disney drives its animation division as a seperate company run by people (business people) who understand that market it will be doomed.
Perhaps, but the same people were actually fairly successful for a long time. One of the problems I find, repeated through much of their films is lack of imagination. Most of their characters are terribly overused cliche's and the scripts are predictable. Pixar has been far less so as has Miyazaki. Robin Williams and Elton John saved Aladin and Lion King, where if you think about it, if they were pretty much any other people these films, too, would have been mediocre.
IMHO Disney has let the business of imagination be taken over by Dreamworks and others while they simply try to broker small, new talent for profit.
The code, mind you it's still very much beta... void main()
{
printf("Hello wolrd");
}
Windows Longhorn? How about some other names:
Saturday, May 21st 2005
Saw him in the evening and he was acting really strangely. I went shopping in the afternoon with the girls and I did turn up a bit late so thought it might be that. The bar was really crowded and loud so I suggested we go somewhere quieter to talk. He was still very subdued and distracted so I suggested we go somewhere nice to eat. All through dinner he just didn't seem himself; he hardly laughed and didn't seem to be paying any attention to me or to what I was saying. I just knew that something was wrong. He dropped me back home and I wondered if he was going to come in; he hesitated but followed. I asked him again if there was something the matter but he just half shook his head and turned the television on. After about 10 minutes of Silence, I said I was going upstairs to bed. I put my arms around him and told him that I loved him deeply. He just gave a sigh and a sad sort of smile. He didn't follow me up but later he did, and I was surprised when we made love. He still seemed distant and a bit cold, and I started to think that he was going to leave me and that he had found someone else. I cried myself to sleep.
MAN'S DIARY:
Saturday, May 21st 2005
Apple switched to Intel.
Absolutely gutted.
Got a shag though.
Geez, you just don't get it, do you? Can't see the forest for all the damn trees in the way?
You can ONLY buy a box that runs the operating system from APPLE. That is NOT COMMODITY hardware, no matter it's made up of commodity bits and pieces. The box comes from only ONE vendor, APPLE.
Consider OS-X running on an off the shelf PC box. Consider that there are hundreds of manufacturers (probably less than 100 of any real quality and providing any kind of support), which crank out 10's of millions of these PC boxes every year and suddenly, you can run all your OS-X apps on them.
BAM!
A huge market has opened up for Apple. The very market Microsoft has tried to keep Apple out of, direct competition on the same piece of hardware. Why the heck should Apple keep making hardware when there are Dell, Lenovo, HP/Compaq, etc, who do this very, very well and with intense competition could beat anything on the scale Apple could produce. Get out of the hardware business, the real money is in the operating system, software and support. Microsoft has shown that for years. Is anyone paying attention.
Move OS-X to commodity hardware and compete head to head with Microsoft, on the merits of the product.
Why would they do only that? There's 10's of millions of PC boxes made every year around the world. If they move OS-X to run on them then the field is wide open for them to bite into Microsoft's market.
If they stick with proprietary hardware, they only limit their sales.
Null pointer exception.
Made for Apple, by whomever, but not for the manufacturer to sell to anyone else. Apple can do that, as they have most of the way since the Apple ][ (excepting all the Apple ][ clones which required dubious ROMS, etc. and the brief period where Mac Hardware was produced by several firms before Jobs yanked the hardware production back in house.) With OS-X running on Intel, it would be pointless for Apple to compete with vendors who do it very well. Besides, as Microsoft has shown, the money isn't in the hardware, but the software.
Yep, that's exactly it.
Remember the split between Microsoft and Apple? Apple hemming and hawing about moving their operating system to the same hardware Windows runs on, which would then put Apple into very direct competition with Microsoft?
Geez, don't tell me you forgot all about it! This was why Microsoft was pulling support for the Mac. If OS-X runs on the same hardware that you've been running Windows on, you suddenly have a choice. Not exactly what the monopolist wants to see, is it?
It's the death of the Mac, because Apple will likely be forced away from designing and manufacturing their own hardware, as Taiwan Inc., Dell, Lenovo, HP/Compaq, etc. etc. etc. will be able to beat their price every time.
If Apple does this half way, meaning there's still some proprietary bit on the motherboard which you have to have to run OS-X then it's only an improvement in the delivery and innovation of chips, but will always lag what Windows can run on, which would be folly.
If anything, Apple moving closer toward commodity hardware may be the undoing of the Mac, but it's the attraction of Linux I believe is there regardless of Apple's existence.
Clever EU. To monitor, with other industry players, the compliance. Unlike in the US where it was pretty much business as usual once everyone left the court house.