Oh, I agree about the need to vote ¥€$ or ÑØ with money - I do not own a single piece of Sony gear, not even a Walkman. I do own an IBM ThinkPad, so I'm not really "independent", nor do I feel the need to be. It all just reminds me of the Road Runner cartoons, where everything's made by ACME..!
Is there any other company that has its fingers in so many pies? e.g. in the music world, OK, they don't make synthesisers, but they make mixing desks, recorders, mastering gear, CD-pressing kit, MiniDisc pressing kit, MiniDisc players & media, "MP3" players, and Memory Sticks. Oh, and they own the band and their music too (just ask Pearl Jam etc.)
TV? Same thing - film on Sony digital cameras, master to DVD on Sony kit, play it back on a Sony TV with a Sony DVD player.
Now they're invading the PDA world. Am I the only one who finds all this a bit disturbing?
On top of all the Locust problems, Jon must be getting a bit sick of being mistaken for a progressive rock singer..! (The other Jon Anderson is a member of Yes)
They have a Ministry for Culture and Communication, dedicated to promoting and watching over French culture. Its most obvious effects are in the French film industry, which (excepting the occasional crossover blockbuster) is heavily funded by the government to be "by the French, for the French"
Still, I had no problem getting a Royale avec Fromage on the Champs d'Elysee "un weekend"..!
Haven't seen any "pussy" jokes here yet... unless they're all moderated down to -2?!
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Officially? The Compaq name is going the same way as Digital and Tandem. There is no new company, where there were two, there will be one called Hewlett-Packard. Check out the Compaq press release and the linked fact sheet.
Here's a press release from May 2000 that says the main systems are Tandem Himalayas. Sorry, I mean Compaq Himalayas. I think the NASDAQ and London exchanges are on Himalaya too.
Nothing in the article suggests this is changing now, but in the long term? Does this mean Compaq is gradually losing the main NYSE account? Damn! At least Compaq got the whole Sabre account as compensation...
That's correct, you can search the AMPAS database for these awards here. If you search for keywords, you can see that Dolby, for example, has received 6 awards, Sony has 3, and Apple none...
This reminds me of an old Arthur C. Clarke story, where the Prince of Wales runs away to space, with help from the crew of an anti-grav freighter. Clarke worked around the thermodynamics problem by sticking a huge heatsink at the base of the spaceship, which dumped all that excess energy from the "engine", glowing visibly as it took off...
At least one UK company is selling PCs with cases designed to be really quiet - Carillon(slow website). Their target markets are recording and radio studios, and other "audiophile" applications. For example, if you buy a PC from them with Cubase VST/32 preinstalled, they tweak Windows settings to avoid performance problems, things like cache and power management. (I have no connection with these guys, but they're getting good press in the UK right now...)
I wonder... although Compaq are not (yet) actually relinquishing the rights to the Alpha, and so Intel can not legally challenge AMD's use of EV6, there may be scope for "pressure being brought to bear"..!
AMD may be the underdog now, but will they keep that status? Remember how Compaq (with Phoenix) were the first to challenge IBM's ownership of the PC, by producing their famous "clean-room" BIOS? Yesterday's underdog is tomorrow's monopoly, so I'd be careful about giving AMD special treatment..!
You can find any number of theories about this here and here
I'm sure I recall reading that Adams himself spoke about theory #11 - that he added up the spots on a pair of dice, because "the universe is a crap shoot" (paraphrasing). Of course, he had been drinking at the time...
He'll be back... after all, time is an illusion, and lunch-time doubly so.
I was thinking of the "big guys" - EMC, Compaq, IBM. There are a few FC-AL enclosures, but only their very biggest systems use FC-AL drives, the rest use SCSI for the drives via controllers / convertors. I wonder how long it will take for prices of all-FC systems to drop to "human" levels..?
I know, optical fibre is great, and it's confusing matters to call it "fibre channel" when there's no optical fibre involved. Here is an IBM page with schematics of the connectors on the SCSI and FC-AL drives. That 40-pin connector includes everything the drive needs, including power, so it can be hot-plugged. No glass involved. As you can imagine, cable lengths using this technology are very limited...
It's not just IBM, it's HP, Intel, Sun, Compaq, etc. Oh dear...
This stuff will be expensive, and will start off at the enterprise level, where speed and reliability are the only concerns. The consumer doesn't come into it at this level, rather the big corporate users who are not going to pay big bux for crippleware...
Open Hardware? Sounds like a good idea, but any spec needs to be really stable before any "commodity" hardware will be built at all. Find a bug? Get out the soldering iron!
What about InfiniBand, which all the major PC hardware design people seem to be involved with? This takes a "switched fabric" approach to linking function blocks together, via Switches (which is where Brocade hopes to be the next Cisco). Need more CPU power or more memory? Hot-plug a module into the Infiniband Switch. Version 1.0 of the spec. is available for download at the site, for those interested.
The successor to IDE is already on the way: Serial ATA. Reportedly, PC makers like it because the thin cables allow them to build smaller systems with better cooling. V1.0 is not going to be much faster than UltraATA/100, but they say there's room for growth there.
Plus, you can have fibre channel (not fiber) hard drives right now, from Seagate (example), IBM (example), etc., and the big storage guys are heading that way too. Fibre Channel doesn't always mean Optical - these drives use a 40-pin "copper" connection, which can be a cable or a backplane (for hot-plugging). The SCSI-3 protocol is carried over the Fibre Channel interface, meaning that with a FC driver loaded, the drives look like SCSI devices.
Anyone see a trend here? It's the end of the parallel interface in all its forms, much as USB and FireWire are replacing the humble parallel port...
I think the keyword here is "production". Only 32 SR-71s were ever made, which makes it a custom job compared to the F-15. Still, the MiG-25 "Foxbat" was no slouch either, with reported figures of Mach 2.8 (sustained) and 3.1 (peak), with The Mig-31 "Foxhound" claiming better figures.
I like Gibson's books, especially "Mona Lisa Overdrive", which really benefitted from large parts of it being set in London (rather than Japan), but I'm a little sceptical about Gibson's factual writing. I'm thinking of his previous Wired article Disneyland with the Death Penalty, which started off well, but turned into a "gee, whiz" trawl through everything that's non-Western about Singapore. Over there, they go to some extreme measures to keep their lives quiet and orderly, but I would refer interested readers to Rem Koolhaas' book S,M,L,XL. It includes extensive essays on Globalization in general, and Japan and Singapore in particular. His focus is primarily architecture, but it's continually surprising just how dependent it is on society, and vice versa.
Still, I agree with Gibson's assesment of London's odd Japan-compatibility. The density has something to do with it, I think, In addition to those places he described, I recommend a visit to the Kyoto Garden in Holland Park (Kensington), which started off in 1990 as a traditional Japanese garden, but has gradually mutated into something less austere, and now looks like the Teletubbies would be at home there (complete with bunny-rabbits)!
Dolch have been doing "mil-spec" lunchbox PCs for well over a decade, and are still going strong. Just hand over your credit card, and don't look at the bill without a few shots of Jameson down yer...
... if you accept any major debt, particularly a mortgage on a home. Lenders make it a condition of the mortgage, particularly if the main mortgage signatory has any dependents.
So, you have the wrong genes? You're never going to own a home, either.
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Oh, I agree about the need to vote ¥€$ or ÑØ with money - I do not own a single piece of Sony gear, not even a Walkman. I do own an IBM ThinkPad, so I'm not really "independent", nor do I feel the need to be. It all just reminds me of the Road Runner cartoons, where everything's made by ACME..!
Is there any other company that has its fingers in so many pies? e.g. in the music world, OK, they don't make synthesisers, but they make mixing desks, recorders, mastering gear, CD-pressing kit, MiniDisc pressing kit, MiniDisc players & media, "MP3" players, and Memory Sticks. Oh, and they own the band and their music too (just ask Pearl Jam etc.)
TV? Same thing - film on Sony digital cameras, master to DVD on Sony kit, play it back on a Sony TV with a Sony DVD player.
Now they're invading the PDA world. Am I the only one who finds all this a bit disturbing?
On top of all the Locust problems, Jon must be getting a bit sick of being mistaken for a progressive rock singer..! (The other Jon Anderson is a member of Yes)
eventually? One word: France!
They have a Ministry for Culture and Communication, dedicated to promoting and watching over French culture. Its most obvious effects are in the French film industry, which (excepting the occasional crossover blockbuster) is heavily funded by the government to be "by the French, for the French"
Still, I had no problem getting a Royale avec Fromage on the Champs d'Elysee "un weekend"..!
Here, with specs and a decent photo.
Haven't seen any "pussy" jokes here yet... unless they're all moderated down to -2?!
Officially? The Compaq name is going the same way as Digital and Tandem. There is no new company, where there were two, there will be one called Hewlett-Packard. Check out the Compaq press release and the linked fact sheet.
Nothing in the article suggests this is changing now, but in the long term? Does this mean Compaq is gradually losing the main NYSE account? Damn! At least Compaq got the whole Sabre account as compensation...
That's correct, you can search the AMPAS database for these awards here. If you search for keywords, you can see that Dolby, for example, has received 6 awards, Sony has 3, and Apple none...
This reminds me of an old Arthur C. Clarke story, where the Prince of Wales runs away to space, with help from the crew of an anti-grav freighter. Clarke worked around the thermodynamics problem by sticking a huge heatsink at the base of the spaceship, which dumped all that excess energy from the "engine", glowing visibly as it took off...
(wibble)
I wonder... although Compaq are not (yet) actually relinquishing the rights to the Alpha, and so Intel can not legally challenge AMD's use of EV6, there may be scope for "pressure being brought to bear"..!
AMD may be the underdog now, but will they keep that status? Remember how Compaq (with Phoenix) were the first to challenge IBM's ownership of the PC, by producing their famous "clean-room" BIOS? Yesterday's underdog is tomorrow's monopoly, so I'd be careful about giving AMD special treatment..!
You can find any number of theories about this here and here
I'm sure I recall reading that Adams himself spoke about theory #11 - that he added up the spots on a pair of dice, because "the universe is a crap shoot" (paraphrasing). Of course, he had been drinking at the time...
He'll be back... after all, time is an illusion, and lunch-time doubly so.
Sorry to be pedantic... but $1,000,000 at 7.5c per tone = 13.33 million rings. Ouch!
I was thinking of the "big guys" - EMC, Compaq, IBM. There are a few FC-AL enclosures, but only their very biggest systems use FC-AL drives, the rest use SCSI for the drives via controllers / convertors. I wonder how long it will take for prices of all-FC systems to drop to "human" levels..?
I know, optical fibre is great, and it's confusing matters to call it "fibre channel" when there's no optical fibre involved. Here is an IBM page with schematics of the connectors on the SCSI and FC-AL drives. That 40-pin connector includes everything the drive needs, including power, so it can be hot-plugged. No glass involved. As you can imagine, cable lengths using this technology are very limited...
I meant tags. OK, I'm going home now.
Sorry, should have used the old tags. All I've seen about Infiniband so far is marketing, and we all know how far that goes... Piece, stereoroid
What about InfiniBand, which all the major PC hardware design people seem to be involved with? This takes a "switched fabric" approach to linking function blocks together, via Switches (which is where Brocade hopes to be the next Cisco). Need more CPU power or more memory? Hot-plug a module into the Infiniband Switch. Version 1.0 of the spec. is available for download at the site, for those interested.
The successor to IDE is already on the way: Serial ATA. Reportedly, PC makers like it because the thin cables allow them to build smaller systems with better cooling. V1.0 is not going to be much faster than UltraATA/100, but they say there's room for growth there.
Plus, you can have fibre channel (not fiber) hard drives right now, from Seagate (example), IBM (example), etc., and the big storage guys are heading that way too. Fibre Channel doesn't always mean Optical - these drives use a 40-pin "copper" connection, which can be a cable or a backplane (for hot-plugging). The SCSI-3 protocol is carried over the Fibre Channel interface, meaning that with a FC driver loaded, the drives look like SCSI devices.
Anyone see a trend here? It's the end of the parallel interface in all its forms, much as USB and FireWire are replacing the humble parallel port...
I think the keyword here is "production". Only 32 SR-71s were ever made, which makes it a custom job compared to the F-15. Still, the MiG-25 "Foxbat" was no slouch either, with reported figures of Mach 2.8 (sustained) and 3.1 (peak), with The Mig-31 "Foxhound" claiming better figures.
Still, I agree with Gibson's assesment of London's odd Japan-compatibility. The density has something to do with it, I think, In addition to those places he described, I recommend a visit to the Kyoto Garden in Holland Park (Kensington), which started off in 1990 as a traditional Japanese garden, but has gradually mutated into something less austere, and now looks like the Teletubbies would be at home there (complete with bunny-rabbits)!
Dolch have been doing "mil-spec" lunchbox PCs for well over a decade, and are still going strong. Just hand over your credit card, and don't look at the bill without a few shots of Jameson down yer...
So, you have the wrong genes? You're never going to own a home, either.