Well no you see why those tax breaks for the rich really do work don't they;-) They don't have a salary and they only pay capital gains at 15%. George's tax breaks in action:-)
The study merely proved that Microsoft's current operatings systems can run on the smae hardware. It didn't prove a single thing about the ability of linux to "run on anything." It was entirely limited in scope - they just installed straight out of the box linux distros and Microsoft's OS on old hardware. The myth they were actually trying to disprove is that Windows doesn't run on old hardware.
Sorry but this is a non story. They are just cookies. When they found out that the upgrade hadn't gone according to plan, they immediately fixed it. I am more worried about their extensive wire tapping. Jesus get a clue.
Dude being off THREE years isn't really an estimate - It's just a number designed to show he was hanging around the net in '95 (ie 10 years ago). It's not even close. If he were off a year that would be better.
That used to be the case at the patent office till about 1900 ~ it simply got too expensive to store the crap - Most of the prototypes got destroyed in a fire.
Wow - That's amazing I wasn't aware that Google had a time travel component. You searched using Google three years before they launched. Absolutely amazing!
Well if Google print worked that way that would be a problem. Of course it doesn't as you cannot "download an entire book." Your post like the article mischaracterizes Google Print.
The article highly suggests that you cannot load your own MP3s on it.
"For example, using an optional 1GB removable memory card, customers will be able to store up to 1,000 songs purchased from the Sprint Music Store. Downloads are expected to take about 30 seconds per track."
The key phrase there is "purchased from the Sprint Music Store." It's entirely a closed box. I mean what's the revenue stream if you can load your own MP3s on it?
Sorry but no where does it indicate that in the article. I mean sure it would be cool. I am just willing to bet that it doesn't do that as you would eliminate the revenue stream that make the phone possible. How do you make money off the phone if people aren't buying the songs?
At those prices the market is DECIDELY not teenagers - Yah you can put 1,000 songs on it but that will run you $2500. Most teenagers I know do not have that sort of discretionary income. The market is the mobile professional who doesn't mind "paying a bit more on the go" or at least that's the rational cited. If the product costs 2.5 times as much and doesn't offer any real value (How is it better than iTunes in any way?), it will flop. A big honking red belly flop.
This yet another attempt by the labels to screw their customers. I mean who wants to pay 2.5 times for a song just because you are "on the go." Last time I checked I use a WiFi connection to iTunes "on the go." This reminds of the Blue Media debacle a few years ago where the labels came out with this really crappy DRM music format and tried to force it to the retailers. I was director of marketing for Penny Lane Records, a music chain in LA. Yet another sucky product designed to prove they are smarter than Steve Jobs. Oh that's right - they aren't.
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When attempting to replicate one of the biggest bloatware software packages out there, that they make a version even bigger and bloatier!
I read that whole article. He has a bunch of sentence fragments and an occasional run on sentence in his replies. It's like he has seriously horrific ADD or he had just done a huge line of Bolivian marching powder. Here's an example.
Q: What kind of themes will there be? Are they only first-party ones?
Allard: Oh, no. There are many others. There's a Dead or Alive one, and EA tiles. Same thing with gamer tiles. There's Tony Hawk American Wasteland, so we're opening it up. The tricky part is, to be frank, it hasn't been a primary focus with us to establish what the right business model is, what the right price points are, how do we manage the portfolio, what's the right number of gamer tiles on day one?
and another
Q: Your shipping schedule is very ambitious. Nobody has tried to ship to three different territories simultaneously and for a good reason. It's very difficult. You've got chip manufacturers hopefully churning out perfect chips, and how is your yield of good to bad chips? Then you have assembly, manufacturing, shipping all over the world. So, how are you going to do it? How many units will you ship to North America, and how many do you plan on shipping total in North America?
Allard: We have a term for this. It's a very technical term. It's called a very hard problem. It's just hard. So, the first thing is, I cannot comment on the numbers. You can try all you want, but I won't give any up. Partly because we're only in the beginning of manufacturing.
or another
Q: How about Microsoft? Will you be shipping your first-party games a week before launch?
Allard: I don't know. Haven't certified a game yet. There is no game in manufacturing yet, that's the only thing I can attest to. And when we do, you know, retailers did that a little with Xbox, it's going to be a retail by retail decision. I don't think we're doing anything to try and coordinate that.
and later
Q: Have you heard any rumblings of anybody saying they do want to work with Microsoft?
Allard: Oh, Steve (Jobs, president of Apple) asked me for one. He's like, "Hey, when this thing comes out, I want to get one, they're pretty cool." And I'll be like, "You didn't give me much of a break on those 7,000 G5s I bought Steve...you know, Jeez. (Laughter) We'll ship you as many as you want, full retail, baby. (Laughter.)
I mean he sounds totally scattered in the interview.
I think you are confusing the article with the company itself. They are pretty clear with what they are about. Try their about page or check out the company bios. The CEO has designed a chip or two in his time - namely the DEC Alpha processor.
Well except the guys at PA Semi have actually designed and shipped chips. Here's some Bios Dan Dobberpuhl, President and CEO
Dan Dobberpuhl, President and CEODan Dobberpuhl, who cofounded P.A. Semi in July 2003, has been credited with developing fundamental breakthroughs in the evolution of high-speed and low-power microprocessors. Prior to founding P.A. Semi, Dobberpuhl was vice president and general manager of the Broadband Processor division of Broadcom Corporation. He came to Broadcom via an acquisition of his previous company, SiByte Inc., founded in 1998, which Broadcom acquired in 2000. Before that, Dobberpuhl worked for Digital Equipment Corporation for more than 20 years, where was credited with some of the most fundamental breakthroughs in microprocessor technology. In 1998, EE Times named Dobberpuhl as one of the "40 forces to shape the future of the Semiconductor Industry." In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious IEEE Solid State Circuits Award for "Pioneering design of high-speed and low-power microprocessors."
Dobberpuhl holds 15 patents and has many publications related to integrated circuits and CPUs, including coauthorship of the seminal textbook Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits, published by Addison-Wesley in 1985. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.
Nah - he knows nothing about processor design - but random dude at slashdot know more.
It is amazing expecially when you consider that many current Intel chips suck down 150 watts at 2.8 GHZ. This isn't like Transmeta either. The team at PA Semi are some pretty heavy hitters in the chip design world.
Wikipedia isn't quite 'open source.' Any open source project has a core group of engineers who have the final say. Think Linus for Linux, etc. So there is some final decision making going on, typically by quality engineers. Wikipedia has no quality control at all. As a result much of Wikipedia is wrong, poorly written and inaccurate. The Register article isn't nearly as good as the blog post that inspired it Nicholas Carr writes about the Wikipedia's shortcomings here
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Well no you see why those tax breaks for the rich really do work don't they ;-) They don't have a salary and they only pay capital gains at 15%. George's tax breaks in action :-)
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Two Words - Ad Impressions.
It's really that simple. Even a total troll story lik this will generate them. Maybe even more since it's not true.
Well I am pretty sure prisons suck not matter what country you are in. Except for Canada - of course :-)
Dude drop the sig - I am not sure how CNN is classified as Jewish media. It's just plain anti-semitic.
Enjoy pound me in the ass federal prison then. That sort of things leads to extended vacations at Club Fed.
The study merely proved that Microsoft's current operatings systems can run on the smae hardware. It didn't prove a single thing about the ability of linux to "run on anything." It was entirely limited in scope - they just installed straight out of the box linux distros and Microsoft's OS on old hardware. The myth they were actually trying to disprove is that Windows doesn't run on old hardware.
The film was released in 1997. It hardly qualifies as a classic.
Sorry but this is a non story. They are just cookies. When they found out that the upgrade hadn't gone according to plan, they immediately fixed it. I am more worried about their extensive wire tapping. Jesus get a clue.
Dude being off THREE years isn't really an estimate - It's just a number designed to show he was hanging around the net in '95 (ie 10 years ago). It's not even close. If he were off a year that would be better.
That used to be the case at the patent office till about 1900 ~ it simply got too expensive to store the crap - Most of the prototypes got destroyed in a fire.
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Wow - That's amazing I wasn't aware that Google had a time travel component. You searched using Google three years before they launched. Absolutely amazing!
Well if Google print worked that way that would be a problem. Of course it doesn't as you cannot "download an entire book." Your post like the article mischaracterizes Google Print.
The article highly suggests that you cannot load your own MP3s on it.
"For example, using an optional 1GB removable memory card, customers will be able to store up to 1,000 songs purchased from the Sprint Music Store. Downloads are expected to take about 30 seconds per track."
The key phrase there is "purchased from the Sprint Music Store." It's entirely a closed box. I mean what's the revenue stream if you can load your own MP3s on it?
Sorry but no where does it indicate that in the article. I mean sure it would be cool. I am just willing to bet that it doesn't do that as you would eliminate the revenue stream that make the phone possible. How do you make money off the phone if people aren't buying the songs?
At those prices the market is DECIDELY not teenagers - Yah you can put 1,000 songs on it but that will run you $2500. Most teenagers I know do not have that sort of discretionary income. The market is the mobile professional who doesn't mind "paying a bit more on the go" or at least that's the rational cited. If the product costs 2.5 times as much and doesn't offer any real value (How is it better than iTunes in any way?), it will flop. A big honking red belly flop.
This yet another attempt by the labels to screw their customers. I mean who wants to pay 2.5 times for a song just because you are "on the go." Last time I checked I use a WiFi connection to iTunes "on the go." This reminds of the Blue Media debacle a few years ago where the labels came out with this really crappy DRM music format and tried to force it to the retailers. I was director of marketing for Penny Lane Records, a music chain in LA. Yet another sucky product designed to prove they are smarter than Steve Jobs. Oh that's right - they aren't.
When attempting to replicate one of the biggest bloatware software packages out there, that they make a version even bigger and bloatier!
I think you are confusing the article with the company itself. They are pretty clear with what they are about. Try their about page or check out the company bios. The CEO has designed a chip or two in his time - namely the DEC Alpha processor.
Jeesh guys - I guess I should have named said markets such as signal processing. I feel like a pinata.
Well except the guys at PA Semi have actually designed and shipped chips.
Here's some Bios
Dan Dobberpuhl, President and CEO
Dan Dobberpuhl, President and CEODan Dobberpuhl, who cofounded P.A. Semi in July 2003, has been credited with developing fundamental breakthroughs in the evolution of high-speed and low-power microprocessors. Prior to founding P.A. Semi, Dobberpuhl was vice president and general manager of the Broadband Processor division of Broadcom Corporation. He came to Broadcom via an acquisition of his previous company, SiByte Inc., founded in 1998, which Broadcom acquired in 2000. Before that, Dobberpuhl worked for Digital Equipment Corporation for more than 20 years, where was credited with some of the most fundamental breakthroughs in microprocessor technology. In 1998, EE Times named Dobberpuhl as one of the "40 forces to shape the future of the Semiconductor Industry." In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious IEEE Solid State Circuits Award for "Pioneering design of high-speed and low-power microprocessors."
Dobberpuhl holds 15 patents and has many publications related to integrated circuits and CPUs, including coauthorship of the seminal textbook Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits, published by Addison-Wesley in 1985. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.
Nah - he knows nothing about processor design - but random dude at slashdot know more.
Rest of the team's bios
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It is amazing expecially when you consider that many current Intel chips suck down 150 watts at 2.8 GHZ. This isn't like Transmeta either. The team at PA Semi are some pretty heavy hitters in the chip design world.
According to the article they are going to focus on the embedded market. I guess they mean the embedded market that need 2 GHZ embedded chips.
Wikipedia isn't quite 'open source.' Any open source project has a core group of engineers who have the final say. Think Linus for Linux, etc. So there is some final decision making going on, typically by quality engineers. Wikipedia has no quality control at all. As a result much of Wikipedia is wrong, poorly written and inaccurate. The Register article isn't nearly as good as the blog post that inspired it Nicholas Carr writes about the Wikipedia's shortcomings here
Can you imagine running a wiki on your corporate web site?