Agreed, this announcement just sounds like a little PR, so folks will not direct their anger at DMA members, but at the trash.
I wouldn't particularly blame people who live in trailers for the rash of spam, it's likely fly by nighters or people (like the teenage stock pusher) doing it out of their house/appartment.
Scads of it coming from China these days. About time to move to a new ISP anyway.
Sure, but what it this on/off for Yamhill is software setable? i.e. Dorothy, you've had the ability to return to Kansas, all along.
It seems like they're aiming at:
Celeron
PIII (to be discontinued)
P IV
XEON
Yamhill
Itanium
Seems a little crowded, even with the P III gone. I figure the Yamhill (Prescott) will replace the PIV, but XEON was probably expected to be replaced by Itanium, which isn't happening, yet.
It's nice to hear they have a backup plan. I've always liked intel chips better than AMD for some
reason. (Yes I know I'm probably the only one, and I know there isn't any good reason to so don't
flame me for that).
The great irony here is the following:
When AMD released the specifications of its upcoming 64-bit chips in the summer of 2000, these ``cowboy'' engineers
decided that Intel needed to match its rival. They began developing their own 64-bit extensions to the Pentium line, making sure the code
was compatible with AMD's design.
This is Intel imitating AMD, the very same company Intel execs have derided as immitators, recognizing the threat of the upcoming AMD Claw and Sledge Hammers. Another post suggests this compatibility is Innovation. What's innovative, as you noted, is selling something with the big feature turned off. How long before the enlightened OCP weasels figure out how to turn it on and spoild Intel's party?
And to think, even as recently as a year or two ago, Intel was being called a monopoly by the FTC
and anti-capitalist socialist greens.
Doesn't it strike you as unusual that consumers would be paying for 64 bit architecture that they wouldn't be using, that the cost of this technology is rolled into the cost of the Pentium? Can you imagine consumers trying to sort out if they have a Yamhill compatible processor?
The real interesting issue, monopoly-wise, is if Microsoft would suddenly embrace Yamhill while they've given Hammer a lukewarm reception.
... that Intel is going to put a 64 bit architecture extension in upcoming Pentiums if it turns out the Itanium doesn't take off.
So that means they will.
I wonder how they'll announce to the world that they're going to be the last manufacturer to bring a 64 CPU to desktop machines for the masses. Couldn't be any worse than those alien commercials -- they can zip around in flying saucers from planet to planet, and can drop a chip into a puddle of clear liquid to connect it, but they don't have anything as sophisticated as a P4. Or is it that they just decode the patterns in silicon and it turns out to be disco?
Their specially trained Microsoft Certified Security Specialists will show you where it says "AS-IS" on the license for which your company shelled out a significant percentage of all company/enterprise purchases.
Why is it people will easily spend >$100,000 for software licences with include the cop-out "Software is Provided AS-IS", but if you saw a Ferrari and a Buick beside each other, they'd shy toward the Buick if there was an "AS-IS" sign in the window of the Ferrari? (Rhetorical question)
Is this really the -NEW- Microsoft, taking responsibility for security in their OS and applications OR is the the -SAME OLD- Microsoft doing this because they'll roll out their own Security Consulting Service or certified specialists (let's call them Microsoft Certified Security Specialists) to tell clients, "Yeah, that's one of our gaping holes, lemme call it in, by the way, it'll cost you a few thousand for Microsoft to repair this and issue the fix."
Sure the security gaps, shoddy Q/A (i.e. let the customer do this) and worms have made interesting press (including Gartner Groups suggestion business dump IIS, you may disagree with Gartner, but PHB's everywhere listen to them, not you) and is probably costing them a few bucks, but there's still an army of people out there who still buy M$ only, because "nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft."
I'm too jaded to accept this as a genuine effort by Microsoft, which has left the security worry squarely on the shoulders of the client, to clean up their own mess and stop making them. I think there's an ulterior motive which we'll see later, like waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Atom sized, my foot. What kinda atom would this be? An atom of Hewlettpackardium with an atomic weight of 6 billion and has a life of 1.04e-77 seconds?
I'm fascinated by how much CPU packaging has grown. The 4004 was a tiny DIP package, 8088 a larger DIP package, 386-486 square and many pins, 586/Athlon/SPARC/Alpha/Itanium big square or rectangular package with lots and lots of pins. Add to this the power consumption and waste heat disposal. Shrinking tech isn't advancing as fast as performance requirements are making it grow.:)
If you're looking for 99 Bottles (99 actual different beers and about 40 on tap) in Santa Cruz, CA it's at N36 58.402, W122 1.590, you'll see something like 990 @ (lat, long) when they put up my brick for finishing 10 cards of 99 each. To think I could have spent all that money on a killer PC.... sigh... I need a beer.
What I read was that this is a document search, not just searching through mountains of junk and broken pages on the internet. Google offers their search engine to do similar things.
...from a specialized database of some 25 million research documents culled from 7,100
publications, including academic periodicals.
OT: This morning noticed the United Devices Cancer Research I've been running for several months now is displaying an ad for Microsoft.net Disturbing. I thought I was contributing cycles to a good cause and United Devices is placing ads on it.
Maybe this explains all the lost and delayed mail I've suffered lately...
Padded mailer sent from CA to CO, still not there after one week
Package sent from NV to CA, took 3 weeks
Letter from Singapore, overdue
I've never had so much trouble with USPS.
"Hey, maybe we could make a BSoD stamp, Jerry!"
"Shut up and reboot, the line is growing restive!"
Re:From the article: Amazon switching to Linux
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Amazon Makes a Profit
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So Linux helped making Amazon profitable-- a next to impossible event-- happen.
Yeah, amazin what happens when you don't have to look through the keyhole to see if it's the BSA here to shake you down for Microsoft license fees, even if you have bought every copy, but can't find the paperwork.
I wonder how much Wall Street will pay attention to that tidbit.
Still, that much growth during a downturn in the market, you'd think they were selling retraining manauls by the truckload.
Of course, I've done my little bit to help, going so far as to buy several books from.com and.co.uk (lykes UK covers, which now are showing up in US), but notice I didn't receive my customary Amazon coffee cup, like I did in years past. Guess that's the difference in making a profit.
I'm still giddy over Netscape vs M$.
Some good for Seattle area, some bad, all is in balance.
Is it just me or does the world's largest media company filing against the world's largest software company seem just a bit hipocritical?
Unless this is some sort of Marx/Engels thing, I don't follow you. Microsoft broke the law by leveraging their market to runoff a smaller competitor. AOL isn't giving away anything for free (except 1000 hours over 45 days, ~22.3 hours per day for you people on amphetamines), they just get bigger and ad more content.
I'd have been shocked if AOL hadn't made this move, though they'll likely get a large damage award, I'm interested to see what happens with this constant integration of competitors products. AOL is in the position to do the damage that Ashcroft's wimp-out isn't doing. About time.
Game shows, reality shows, cars, bikes, trains, PDA's, calculators, video games, fashions, dramas, movies, etc. You name it. If Og built a wheel, then Oot did, too, only different.
Before I'd say Microsoft lost, too strongly, I'd wonder what they're up to. They usually don't throw in the towel very easily and I expect the Xbox actually sprouts legs at night and walks around your house recording personal data and sending it on to Redmond.
Back in the day, the net (before it became internet) was the domain of techies. Now it's the internet and techies are the minority, like some great inclusive society it's got a little of every demographic in it, including spoilers. Spoilers can be crackers, pirates, thieves, conmen, spammers, childporners or simply ignorants, and do the most to abuse the gift of technological advancements. Don't be looking for someone like a child prodigy who could actually perform netowork admin functions when you seek out DoS perps, they're just jerks who found out how to do something and get a thrill, until someone tracks them down and parades them in front of the cameras and they get off with a slap on the wrist.
With the boom in CIA and FBI hiring I expect quietly there's growing an effort to track down how these things happen and then throttle the ISP's who don't do their own policing, universities or companies with an insecure server. I fully expect at some point in the future the anonymous internet will vanish and whatever you do will be logged somewhere and rogue servers will be blocked by international cooperation.
First computer pinball game I played was Bill Budge's Raster Blaster (which borrowed heavily from an actual pinball machine, which I played, too. IIRC Budge had to settle with Bally for copying it...)
There was a pinball construction set, IIRC, for the C-64, maybe someone's done like for the PC? With the speed of processors this should be a piece of cake, these days.
Now I know I missed something, what happened to Bally/Williams? Bust, buyout, or restructure?
Last, very OT, but if you want any of those cool
shrunken coins, check out eBay some are up, including the new Tenn. quarter. Bet it doesn't work in the pinball machine, now.
Possibly the distinction is that it's Fair Use if she copies it herself, but if the copy shop copies it and profits from copying a copyrighted work, then they would be in violation?
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I wouldn't particularly blame people who live in trailers for the rash of spam, it's likely fly by nighters or people (like the teenage stock pusher) doing it out of their house/appartment.
Scads of it coming from China these days. About time to move to a new ISP anyway.
It seems like they're aiming at:
Celeron
PIII (to be discontinued)
P IV
XEON
Yamhill
Itanium
Seems a little crowded, even with the P III gone. I figure the Yamhill (Prescott) will replace the PIV, but XEON was probably expected to be replaced by Itanium, which isn't happening, yet.
The great irony here is the following:
When AMD released the specifications of its upcoming 64-bit chips in the summer of 2000, these ``cowboy'' engineers decided that Intel needed to match its rival. They began developing their own 64-bit extensions to the Pentium line, making sure the code was compatible with AMD's design.
This is Intel imitating AMD, the very same company Intel execs have derided as immitators, recognizing the threat of the upcoming AMD Claw and Sledge Hammers. Another post suggests this compatibility is Innovation. What's innovative, as you noted, is selling something with the big feature turned off. How long before the enlightened OCP weasels figure out how to turn it on and spoild Intel's party?
Doesn't it strike you as unusual that consumers would be paying for 64 bit architecture that they wouldn't be using, that the cost of this technology is rolled into the cost of the Pentium? Can you imagine consumers trying to sort out if they have a Yamhill compatible processor?
The real interesting issue, monopoly-wise, is if Microsoft would suddenly embrace Yamhill while they've given Hammer a lukewarm reception.
I find this a strange game Intel is playing.
So that means they will.
I wonder how they'll announce to the world that they're going to be the last manufacturer to bring a 64 CPU to desktop machines for the masses. Couldn't be any worse than those alien commercials -- they can zip around in flying saucers from planet to planet, and can drop a chip into a puddle of clear liquid to connect it, but they don't have anything as sophisticated as a P4. Or is it that they just decode the patterns in silicon and it turns out to be disco?
Why is it people will easily spend >$100,000 for software licences with include the cop-out "Software is Provided AS-IS", but if you saw a Ferrari and a Buick beside each other, they'd shy toward the Buick if there was an "AS-IS" sign in the window of the Ferrari? (Rhetorical question)
Sure the security gaps, shoddy Q/A (i.e. let the customer do this) and worms have made interesting press (including Gartner Groups suggestion business dump IIS, you may disagree with Gartner, but PHB's everywhere listen to them, not you) and is probably costing them a few bucks, but there's still an army of people out there who still buy M$ only, because "nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft."
I'm too jaded to accept this as a genuine effort by Microsoft, which has left the security worry squarely on the shoulders of the client, to clean up their own mess and stop making them. I think there's an ulterior motive which we'll see later, like waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I'm fascinated by how much CPU packaging has grown. The 4004 was a tiny DIP package, 8088 a larger DIP package, 386-486 square and many pins, 586/Athlon/SPARC/Alpha/Itanium big square or rectangular package with lots and lots of pins. Add to this the power consumption and waste heat disposal. Shrinking tech isn't advancing as fast as performance requirements are making it grow. :)
If you're looking for 99 Bottles (99 actual different beers and about 40 on tap) in Santa Cruz, CA it's at N36 58.402, W122 1.590, you'll see something like 990 @ (lat, long) when they put up my brick for finishing 10 cards of 99 each. To think I could have spent all that money on a killer PC.... sigh... I need a beer.
You can lead a horse to Google but you can't make him read.
OT: This morning noticed the United Devices Cancer Research I've been running for several months now is displaying an ad for Microsoft .net Disturbing. I thought I was contributing cycles to a good cause and United Devices is placing ads on it.
Padded mailer sent from CA to CO, still not there after one week
Package sent from NV to CA, took 3 weeks
Letter from Singapore, overdue
I've never had so much trouble with USPS.
"Hey, maybe we could make a BSoD stamp, Jerry!"
"Shut up and reboot, the line is growing restive!"
Yeah, amazin what happens when you don't have to look through the keyhole to see if it's the BSA here to shake you down for Microsoft license fees, even if you have bought every copy, but can't find the paperwork.
I wonder how much Wall Street will pay attention to that tidbit.
Still, that much growth during a downturn in the market, you'd think they were selling retraining manauls by the truckload.
I'm still giddy over Netscape vs M$.
Some good for Seattle area, some bad, all is in balance.
Unless this is some sort of Marx/Engels thing, I don't follow you. Microsoft broke the law by leveraging their market to runoff a smaller competitor. AOL isn't giving away anything for free (except 1000 hours over 45 days, ~22.3 hours per day for you people on amphetamines), they just get bigger and ad more content.
I'd have been shocked if AOL hadn't made this move, though they'll likely get a large damage award, I'm interested to see what happens with this constant integration of competitors products. AOL is in the position to do the damage that Ashcroft's wimp-out isn't doing. About time.
Game shows, reality shows, cars, bikes, trains, PDA's, calculators, video games, fashions, dramas, movies, etc. You name it. If Og built a wheel, then Oot did, too, only different.
Before I'd say Microsoft lost, too strongly, I'd wonder what they're up to. They usually don't throw in the towel very easily and I expect the Xbox actually sprouts legs at night and walks around your house recording personal data and sending it on to Redmond.
With the boom in CIA and FBI hiring I expect quietly there's growing an effort to track down how these things happen and then throttle the ISP's who don't do their own policing, universities or companies with an insecure server. I fully expect at some point in the future the anonymous internet will vanish and whatever you do will be logged somewhere and rogue servers will be blocked by international cooperation.
There was a pinball construction set, IIRC, for the C-64, maybe someone's done like for the PC? With the speed of processors this should be a piece of cake, these days.
Now I know I missed something, what happened to Bally/Williams? Bust, buyout, or restructure?
Last, very OT, but if you want any of those cool shrunken coins, check out eBay some are up, including the new Tenn. quarter. Bet it doesn't work in the pinball machine, now.
Possibly the distinction is that it's Fair Use if she copies it herself, but if the copy shop copies it and profits from copying a copyrighted work, then they would be in violation?
Well, they did bring us N'Sync and Britney Spears, without whom I'd only have Lars Ulrich to boo.
As for Scribe's Unions, you've been reading The Truth, eh? Good book, but it's copyrighted, same way as lame crap is.
Sure it is, it's supposed to muck up your ability to copy it right!
I got the demo CD about a month ago... did this just become a news item?
"And they thought Stalin was the devil!"
I wonder if there's a blue medal of death for systems that freeze up.