I heard on the BBC WS this morning that LG and Matsushita had settled some stink about IP and
plasma screens, which restricted markets in Korea and Japan, until settled, but didn't think it was 'News for Nerds' and was 'stuff that didn't matter'
With TiVo selling out to Comcast and pushing pop-up ads, I can't feel much positive about them anymore.
The 'Pentium Pro' comes to mind. I remember thinking, "What will they call the next special Pentium chip? The Pentium Pro GOLD?!" Heh. At 200 MHZ, the Pentium Pro isn't so 'Pro' anymore. Now they STILL haven't learned their lesson, calling their next special CPU the 'EXTREME!" That's Intel marketing for ya... EXTREMEly dull.
I have a pair of Pentium Pro 200 (w/256k cache) on my desk. The make very Pro paperweights.
Honestly, that was a pretty decent CPU and I still see quite a few of them around doing server duty, adequately.
If the processors that big how the heck will I fit it on my motherboard?!
That was the heatsink. The processor and motherboard were in a small brown box being crushed beneath it (as dictated by Galactic Shipping Directive 4.07a(7ii)
Then they'll call it "ExtremeX!"
I feel bad for the engineers who come up with these designs which are then crapped on by their marketting department.
Which probably has a lot to do with the success of the Dilbert strip.
This morning, on the way in to work, the BBC World Service had another feature on managment (flavor-of-the-day) trends. I suppose marketting does the same thing, but nobody has actually put their finger on it, yet.
we just call it what it is, a two-die module. This is not true dual core but two cores slapped into one chip package... Sure you'll only be using one socket but thats about the only different. Architectually, you will need to look at AMD's offerings for true dual-core.
Shush! You're taking the glimmer off the chrome, just as Intel, in a slap-dash manner, try to recapture some sort of legitimacy after getting spanked by AMD, right after totally dissing 64 bits.
You hear a tinny voice say, "32 bits should be enough for anyone."
On SlashMark? Namely, how many seconds does it take to compile the Linux kernel?:P
Early benchmarks should be taken with a rather large salt lick. While it does OK, it clearly should do better once the software catches up with it (the minute they discontinue it for the next advance.)
I'm sure it'll do a bang-up job with your email and word processing, though.
I love superlatives like 'Extreme' in a product name. It's so funny to look at, years later.
"Hey, remember this old clunker? It was 'EXTREME!'" "Yeah, by today's standards it's EXTREMELY slow!" "Only dual core, ha ha ha ha hah!"
I guess they can't very well call it 840i, as they've already used that for a chipset, but
maybe Intel should stick to names ending with -ium and -on instead of something which timelessly
proclaims some chunk of doped silicon as superior.
Next up from Intel, the Ultra-Spifftronic-Wowee-Zappo Triple Core, with extra schmaltz!
Warmonger Wolfowitz could show some of the humility and courage John Paul II has, change the world
through dialogue, rather than engineering tragic events so conveniently you may exert your will by force upon an unpopular adversary.
The Cold War is over, one hero lies dying, one monster is elevated to a position to restrict the flow of aid to countries which don't fall
into line. Call a Spade a Spade. That's what the 1st Amendment is really for.
Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; and the heart is sick,
And all the wheels of Being slow. -Tennyson
Maybe the shoes that fat people are wearing are what make it comfortable to be fat.
With out shoes the only natural option would be to lose weight.
I only wear Birkenstock clogs/sandals.
Cover floor with sharp spiky things, like broken glass. The less you weigh, the lest it presses into the bottoms of your feet.
On a serious note: wearing sneakers most of your life makes it rather painful to switch to boots or hard leather shoes.
I like sandals in the summer, but there's just something ewww about wearing socks in them if you want to wear them to work.
This is frikkin' awesome!I only got 1406MB, though, not the full 2GB. Not that I'm complaining about my free e-mail account. All that, and it's a real story.:)
You don't really want 2 GB of email. It's too damn much to wade through. Even downloading it would be painful.
The new Legue's CEO, Jeremy Bleats, noted that the length of Ms Hilton's legs were a great factor in the decision and was sure to deny any links to The Red-Headed Legue. Richard Stallman was quick to label the activity a 'cheap stunt'."
PSP an iPod replacement? HAH! Not with the expensive memory stick duos or w/o a umd burner it won't.
What kind of bandwidth are we talking here, to download a movie? They can pretty much cross of anyone still on dialup, which is quite a lot, yet. To watch movies on the PSP they'll probably require considerably less than for a TV or decent monitor, so that could help them. Obviously they have their eye on Microsoft and their media center stuff.
Sony is in a good position to make such an offering with the catalog of movies they own. Expect Microsoft, with their huge piles of cash to buy a studio or media company? Or maybe just buy enough stock to have a say.
Burglar goes down to airport and watches family get on a plane to Europe. He grabs your name, and from that gets your home address. Then he can go rob your house while you and family are out of town. Certainly makes scoping out houses much easier; your house could be cleaned out before you even reach your destination.
Seriously, you're pushing your cred here. What kind of burglar is going to be hanging out in airports looking for departing victims? An intelligent burglar would spend more time casing a target and keeping track of comings and goings of people. The newspaper, with funerals and such, has been a wealth of information for those vile enough to rob a house when someone's at a funeral or such.
Most burglaries are probably committed without much prior planning anyway, by someone looking for an easy target. Ambitious burglars or pros would probably be slower to adopt something like finding a prospective victim at an airport, as the still have no idea who's at home or what's worth taking, as they usually already have somthing in mind, like expsensive car or piece of artwork.
When will these people learn that independent sober second opinions are valuable.
When the government isn't loaded up with Neocons. I swear, in my lifetime I have never seen a federal government so sure of itself and at the same time unaccountable for it's errors.
"Oh no, I couldn't accept your resignation for a total fubar which resulted in the death of thousands. Hey, I need scapegoats!"
Opponents also argue that the lack of encryption, which Moss said would slow down the processing of passports, adds another vulnerability.
I don't get it. I mean, they State Dept. could easily have a reader connected to a network which passes along some hash which is stored on the card, to a server which would verify what passport they should be looking at. Slow? Wtf kind of technology are they using where 64K of stuff would take any time?
"Only contractors who sign up to our foreign policy will be allowed to bid -- We welcome your bid, Halliburton Vacuum Tube Company!"
I think the Space Staton is scheduled to arrive about six months after my nuclear-powered flying car.
I think we're closer to it's decommissioning. They'll finish the ISS just before it plummets in a great fiery storm over the Southern Pacific (and subsequent sale of bits on eBay.)
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It has too much fascination with pr0n.
With TiVo selling out to Comcast and pushing pop-up ads, I can't feel much positive about them anymore.
I have a pair of Pentium Pro 200 (w/256k cache) on my desk. The make very Pro paperweights.
Honestly, that was a pretty decent CPU and I still see quite a few of them around doing server duty, adequately.
That was the heatsink. The processor and motherboard were in a small brown box being crushed beneath it (as dictated by Galactic Shipping Directive 4.07a(7ii)
Which probably has a lot to do with the success of the Dilbert strip.
This morning, on the way in to work, the BBC World Service had another feature on managment (flavor-of-the-day) trends. I suppose marketting does the same thing, but nobody has actually put their finger on it, yet.
Shush! You're taking the glimmer off the chrome, just as Intel, in a slap-dash manner, try to recapture some sort of legitimacy after getting spanked by AMD, right after totally dissing 64 bits.
You hear a tinny voice say, "32 bits should be enough for anyone."
What? I didn't see the part about frying eggs or bacon on it. Does it emit heat like the first P4's did (they ove the 1 Lb. heatsink, remember em?)
Early benchmarks should be taken with a rather large salt lick. While it does OK, it clearly should do better once the software catches up with it (the minute they discontinue it for the next advance.)
I'm sure it'll do a bang-up job with your email and word processing, though.
"Yeah, by today's standards it's EXTREMELY slow!"
"Only dual core, ha ha ha ha hah!"
I guess they can't very well call it 840i, as they've already used that for a chipset, but maybe Intel should stick to names ending with -ium and -on instead of something which timelessly proclaims some chunk of doped silicon as superior.
Next up from Intel, the Ultra-Spifftronic-Wowee-Zappo Triple Core, with extra schmaltz!
Go on, pull the other one, it's got bells on
The Cold War is over, one hero lies dying, one monster is elevated to a position to restrict the flow of aid to countries which don't fall into line. Call a Spade a Spade. That's what the 1st Amendment is really for.
Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; and the heart is sick,
And all the wheels of Being slow. -Tennyson
How much did the seller pay you to take it of their hands?
Cover floor with sharp spiky things, like broken glass. The less you weigh, the lest it presses into the bottoms of your feet.
On a serious note: wearing sneakers most of your life makes it rather painful to switch to boots or hard leather shoes.
I like sandals in the summer, but there's just something ewww about wearing socks in them if you want to wear them to work.
just for my trusty 360/40 here keeping the house warm. man, look at that electical meter spin...
But since it's beta, is it really a birthday or is a a beta birthday?
You don't really want 2 GB of email. It's too damn much to wade through. Even downloading it would be painful.
oh, shit, it's true, what's up with that?
Ok, so since I read me email as ASCII text, I supposed they translate these Rich Text feature for email going outside the Gmail system?
I'd agree, Stallman has better legs.
better face, too, without the make-up
What kind of bandwidth are we talking here, to download a movie? They can pretty much cross of anyone still on dialup, which is quite a lot, yet. To watch movies on the PSP they'll probably require considerably less than for a TV or decent monitor, so that could help them. Obviously they have their eye on Microsoft and their media center stuff.
Sony is in a good position to make such an offering with the catalog of movies they own. Expect Microsoft, with their huge piles of cash to buy a studio or media company? Or maybe just buy enough stock to have a say.
Think "Windows ME".
Remember, this is the U.S. Gov.
The State Dept is an advocate and user of Open Source Software.
Seriously, you're pushing your cred here. What kind of burglar is going to be hanging out in airports looking for departing victims? An intelligent burglar would spend more time casing a target and keeping track of comings and goings of people. The newspaper, with funerals and such, has been a wealth of information for those vile enough to rob a house when someone's at a funeral or such.
Most burglaries are probably committed without much prior planning anyway, by someone looking for an easy target. Ambitious burglars or pros would probably be slower to adopt something like finding a prospective victim at an airport, as the still have no idea who's at home or what's worth taking, as they usually already have somthing in mind, like expsensive car or piece of artwork.
When the government isn't loaded up with Neocons. I swear, in my lifetime I have never seen a federal government so sure of itself and at the same time unaccountable for it's errors.
"Oh no, I couldn't accept your resignation for a total fubar which resulted in the death of thousands. Hey, I need scapegoats!"
I don't get it. I mean, they State Dept. could easily have a reader connected to a network which passes along some hash which is stored on the card, to a server which would verify what passport they should be looking at. Slow? Wtf kind of technology are they using where 64K of stuff would take any time?
"Only contractors who sign up to our foreign policy will be allowed to bid -- We welcome your bid, Halliburton Vacuum Tube Company!"
Meanwhile, Russia gets by on old-tech rockets.
I think we're closer to it's decommissioning. They'll finish the ISS just before it plummets in a great fiery storm over the Southern Pacific (and subsequent sale of bits on eBay.)