Are they screwed? That is not a good question because they were screwed when the first filed suit.
Seriously, even if SCO wins, a verdict to that effect will not come around for perhaps 5-10 years. SCO thinks that they will then rake in a ton of money on their licensing. Like anyone would even use their Unix code by the time this is all said and done. I'm sorry but they killed their own company when the started all the lawsuits. They were so scared of Linux that they thought they needed to fight and figured that the US is so sue happy that they would win easily. They could have sucked years more out of their code because the large companies that use it are to scared to change anything until there is no other choice. SCO = stupid
Does anyone remember when SCO was actually a large company worth a few billion dollars? Now their stock is worthless and either Novell or IBM will kill them. Personally, if the Novell evidence is as open and shut as it seems, SCO will have to pay up and they will die. IBM will probably laugh and go out for beers with Novell. Perhaps we'll even see a Novell and IBM merger down the roads, that would be pretty cool.
I know they are seperate movies but I think that the "real" 3 Star Wars movies should be grouped together, hell who just watches one of them at a time anymore.
To fill the 2 empty spots I think either of these should be added.
1. Dune, though more Sci-fi then true space 2. Babylon 5 In the Beginning. Technically a tv feature presentation, but it's long, on dvd and a damn good space movie to me...also a damn good series. 3. Stargate, I would put it above Contact personally, more entertaining than informative. 4. Event Horizon, interesting physics concepts...though that guy should have died instantly when he was spaced, especially since they where in the freakin atmosphere. 5. Bladerunner, see Dune. 6. Aliens, yeah not so much always in space but more entertaining than Alien.
Yeah, so some of those are more deserving than others, but I think there is just to much Trek and Star Wars heading their list. I do give props for Apollo at #1, it's always 2001 in these lists but Apollo is technically a tad more space oriented I guess...to bad the rest of the list was not as well thought out.
Once upon a time I recall something like this happened with DVD's.
So...
Years spent developing new DRM = 1 Billions of dollars spent changing everything = $6 Lines of Perl used to break DRM = ? Look on the CEOs faces when they find out = Priceless
Why don't they just give it up? Like Window$ bugs, if there is someone to think of a way to patch them, or make DRM for things, there is someone just as, if not smarter to find a way around it.
You'll see...when this fails they will blame a loss of $6 Billion dollars on piracy. Not because it was what they lost, just what they lost trying to combat it with failed DRM. Think about all the losses they have reported, it's not loss of sales, just losses that they get tax breaks on, and help their court cases with the politicians. Spend millions on DRM, then claim it a loss when someone covers the outside edge with a sharpie or holds shift when putting a cd in. Come on you idiots, why don't you just keep you billions and retire, you won't win the battle even if you win in court. Simply put, log in to a P2P client, even if half are illegal downloaders...who do you think will put 4 million people in jail?
Give it up and move on to gardening or something productive.
The new 939's do have the dual controller. But depending on the board a 200Mhz slower HT link and 200Mhz slower processor. This isn't Intel, it's AMD...200Mhz actually means something with chips that only use 12 stages. Now you can OC the 3500 and probably get closer results. The cache also might play a role depending on the benchmarks. Remember the FX-51 used to trounce everything in games and most everything else. All it had was a dual mem. controller and a little more clock frequency and cache. How did Intel answer...they put a mess load of cache on a P4 and sold it for a grand...that's all the EE was and it still can't keep up.
You mention the Opteron 250, I'm assuming that you compared benchmarks with the 3500 with the 150 in the article as the 250 is a dual setup.
Oh, also as someone mentioned below the benchmarks in the first article are not very well down. But if you want to go by them or even any others, the Opteron usually inches out the 64's and sometimes the FX. After all, servers usually have better constructed motherboards with lower tolerance for variation. I'll tell you what though, my 150 plays a hell of a game of Doom 3:P
The main difference between the two is rather simple. The Opteron uses a dual-channel memory controller. You'll see most mobo's for the Opteron require registered memory. The A64 on the other hand being a consumer based chip uses a single channel memory controller. All in all, the Opteron has double the theoretical memory bandwidth.
On the other hand, Intel's version of 64 bit computing still does not have a memory controller built into the chip. While using dual channel memory, they are still having the Northbridge bottleneck that AMD wanted to avoid from the beginning.
What would be nice to see, as others have commented would be a scalled series of benchmarks. You think the Opteron is impressive now, try 2 and 8 processor configurations vs. the Xeon's. You'll see how much the memory controller plays a role. In the end, add up the GHZ and price points and you'll be able to see how much bang you'll get for your server $.
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Yeah, they did.
Are they screwed? That is not a good question because they were screwed when the first filed suit.
Seriously, even if SCO wins, a verdict to that effect will not come around for perhaps 5-10 years. SCO thinks that they will then rake in a ton of money on their licensing. Like anyone would even use their Unix code by the time this is all said and done. I'm sorry but they killed their own company when the started all the lawsuits. They were so scared of Linux that they thought they needed to fight and figured that the US is so sue happy that they would win easily. They could have sucked years more out of their code because the large companies that use it are to scared to change anything until there is no other choice. SCO = stupid
Does anyone remember when SCO was actually a large company worth a few billion dollars? Now their stock is worthless and either Novell or IBM will kill them. Personally, if the Novell evidence is as open and shut as it seems, SCO will have to pay up and they will die. IBM will probably laugh and go out for beers with Novell. Perhaps we'll even see a Novell and IBM merger down the roads, that would be pretty cool.
I know they are seperate movies but I think that the "real" 3 Star Wars movies should be grouped together, hell who just watches one of them at a time anymore.
To fill the 2 empty spots I think either of these should be added.
1. Dune, though more Sci-fi then true space
2. Babylon 5 In the Beginning. Technically a tv feature presentation, but it's long, on dvd and a damn good space movie to me...also a damn good series.
3. Stargate, I would put it above Contact personally, more entertaining than informative.
4. Event Horizon, interesting physics concepts...though that guy should have died instantly when he was spaced, especially since they where in the freakin atmosphere.
5. Bladerunner, see Dune.
6. Aliens, yeah not so much always in space but more entertaining than Alien.
Yeah, so some of those are more deserving than others, but I think there is just to much Trek and Star Wars heading their list. I do give props for Apollo at #1, it's always 2001 in these lists but Apollo is technically a tad more space oriented I guess...to bad the rest of the list was not as well thought out.
Once upon a time I recall something like this happened with DVD's.
So...
Years spent developing new DRM = 1
Billions of dollars spent changing everything = $6
Lines of Perl used to break DRM = ?
Look on the CEOs faces when they find out = Priceless
Why don't they just give it up? Like Window$ bugs, if there is someone to think of a way to patch them, or make DRM for things, there is someone just as, if not smarter to find a way around it.
You'll see...when this fails they will blame a loss of $6 Billion dollars on piracy. Not because it was what they lost, just what they lost trying to combat it with failed DRM. Think about all the losses they have reported, it's not loss of sales, just losses that they get tax breaks on, and help their court cases with the politicians. Spend millions on DRM, then claim it a loss when someone covers the outside edge with a sharpie or holds shift when putting a cd in. Come on you idiots, why don't you just keep you billions and retire, you won't win the battle even if you win in court. Simply put, log in to a P2P client, even if half are illegal downloaders...who do you think will put 4 million people in jail?
Give it up and move on to gardening or something productive.
The new 939's do have the dual controller. But depending on the board a 200Mhz slower HT link and 200Mhz slower processor. This isn't Intel, it's AMD...200Mhz actually means something with chips that only use 12 stages. Now you can OC the 3500 and probably get closer results. The cache also might play a role depending on the benchmarks. Remember the FX-51 used to trounce everything in games and most everything else. All it had was a dual mem. controller and a little more clock frequency and cache. How did Intel answer...they put a mess load of cache on a P4 and sold it for a grand...that's all the EE was and it still can't keep up.
:P
You mention the Opteron 250, I'm assuming that you compared benchmarks with the 3500 with the 150 in the article as the 250 is a dual setup.
Oh, also as someone mentioned below the benchmarks in the first article are not very well down. But if you want to go by them or even any others, the Opteron usually inches out the 64's and sometimes the FX. After all, servers usually have better constructed motherboards with lower tolerance for variation. I'll tell you what though, my 150 plays a hell of a game of Doom 3
The main difference between the two is rather simple. The Opteron uses a dual-channel memory controller. You'll see most mobo's for the Opteron require registered memory. The A64 on the other hand being a consumer based chip uses a single channel memory controller. All in all, the Opteron has double the theoretical memory bandwidth.
On the other hand, Intel's version of 64 bit computing still does not have a memory controller built into the chip. While using dual channel memory, they are still having the Northbridge bottleneck that AMD wanted to avoid from the beginning.
What would be nice to see, as others have commented would be a scalled series of benchmarks. You think the Opteron is impressive now, try 2 and 8 processor configurations vs. the Xeon's. You'll see how much the memory controller plays a role. In the end, add up the GHZ and price points and you'll be able to see how much bang you'll get for your server $.