This is an interesting examples of one of the pitfalls of being a market driven company instead of an engineering driven one. Intel's marketing department tried to score a win over AMD and succeeded in jeopardizing their own reputation. Surely Intel's engineers knew the chip wasn't ready for prime-time but here business needs won out over engineering. AMD returned to their engineering roots out of necessitiy after their difficulty in the early-mid 90s and it is clear that they know set the tone.
This also underscores the strength of sites such as Tom's and the Open Source community when it comes to keeping big corporations honest. While Intel may be able to pull the wool over the public's eyes (much as M$ does) they can't pull it over everyone's and now we are able to shout load enough for them to listen.
Actually, DSS and satellite services DO have problems in the rain because the wavelength is of the same order of magnitude as the size of the rain drops so a significant amount of the energy goes into heating up the rain, not into your dish. In fact, on stormy days DirecTV (the only service I have specific knowledge of) goes in and out so much that it isn't really watchable and we switch to brodcast TV service.
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This has to be one of the dumbest stories I have ever read on/. Pseudo-scientists just love to make completely inappropriate comparisons and then to draw Startling Conclusions from them. Give me a break. Comparing "information" to an ecosystem?! (for you non-chess players, ?! means "BLUNDER!") That's even dumber then those ya-yas who say things like "Computer X has 1/100th the power of the human brain". They simply have no idea what they are talking about.
At the risk of legitimizing this ridiculous idea, I'll bite. Information and media absolutely have predators, they are called "customers". If their weren't "predators" how come these media corporations compete and fight so damn hard? Money is the sword by which these media producers live and die. The idea they will proliferate ad nauseum is absurd.
Jon Katz asks for input from physicists and biologists. I am an ex-physicist and current Electrical Engineer and my wife is a neuroscientist. My input is the question is wrong. There is no Regulon. It is an exceedingly lame theory put forth by an idiot who calls himself a "futurist". By the way, the word "futurist" is a pretty good idiot detector.
The field of information theory is a hard science concerned with the ability to code, store, and transmit information between two points in an optimally efficient manner. This crap has nothing to do with information theory, it is just a loser beating off to a DVD of "The Matrix".
If you're reading this Jon, let me say I enjoy some of the things you post and I've actually read one of your books. BUT, I think you focus way too much on this kind of useless, meaningless, pompous B.S. Just saying things are so doesn't make them so.
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This is an interesting examples of one of the pitfalls of being a market driven company instead of an engineering driven one. Intel's marketing department tried to score a win over AMD and succeeded in jeopardizing their own reputation. Surely Intel's engineers knew the chip wasn't ready for prime-time but here business needs won out over engineering. AMD returned to their engineering roots out of necessitiy after their difficulty in the early-mid 90s and it is clear that they know set the tone. This also underscores the strength of sites such as Tom's and the Open Source community when it comes to keeping big corporations honest. While Intel may be able to pull the wool over the public's eyes (much as M$ does) they can't pull it over everyone's and now we are able to shout load enough for them to listen.
Actually, DSS and satellite services DO have problems in the rain because the wavelength is of the same order of magnitude as the size of the rain drops so a significant amount of the energy goes into heating up the rain, not into your dish. In fact, on stormy days DirecTV (the only service I have specific knowledge of) goes in and out so much that it isn't really watchable and we switch to brodcast TV service.
At the risk of legitimizing this ridiculous idea, I'll bite. Information and media absolutely have predators, they are called "customers". If their weren't "predators" how come these media corporations compete and fight so damn hard? Money is the sword by which these media producers live and die. The idea they will proliferate ad nauseum is absurd.
Jon Katz asks for input from physicists and biologists. I am an ex-physicist and current Electrical Engineer and my wife is a neuroscientist. My input is the question is wrong. There is no Regulon. It is an exceedingly lame theory put forth by an idiot who calls himself a "futurist". By the way, the word "futurist" is a pretty good idiot detector.
The field of information theory is a hard science concerned with the ability to code, store, and transmit information between two points in an optimally efficient manner. This crap has nothing to do with information theory, it is just a loser beating off to a DVD of "The Matrix".
If you're reading this Jon, let me say I enjoy some of the things you post and I've actually read one of your books. BUT, I think you focus way too much on this kind of useless, meaningless, pompous B.S. Just saying things are so doesn't make them so.