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More often than not, things don't go right.
Everyone has heard of Downs syndrome, when a child has an "extra" chromosome. Well, think of having twenty three extra pairs.
I am a fraternal twin, and I don't know if I am a chimera or not, but my wife and I have had trouble with a similar situation of too much DNA. Last year, we had a molar pregnancy.
"What is that?" you may ask. A molar pregnancy happens when an egg is fertilized, but no baby is formed. It happens when the egg "looses" the genetic information from the mother (complete molar), or has three sets of chromosomes (69 total, partial molar). Molar pregnancies are about 1 in 1500 births, with 98% of those being the complete type.
Either way, it is a horrific experience, and should be considered cancerous. The mother's hormone levels will climb to dangerous levels as the mass of cells that should have been an embryo rapidly grow and divide inside the womb. She will become extremely pregnant, without a child, and morning sickness becomes a 24 hour a day nightmare. Relief only comes with complete removal of all molar tissue. After this, the mother has to be monitored and be "pregnancy free" for a year, to tell if any of the molar tissue has become cancerous.
Our case was a partial molar. If things would have gone right, we would now have a set of identical twins, but it didn't. DNA is a funny and powerful thing and too much is never good.
For those who don't know, Coptic is Egyptian written in Greek, or at least the Greek alphabet. It would be similar to transcribing a language that uses glyphs for words by recording them with the phonemes and alphabet of another language.
A more modern example is what happened with the slavic Croatian language. The original speakers had a glyph based alphabet called Glagolitic, through the middle ages. This would be as foreign as Egyptian hieroglyphs to people today, and could stand in nicely for an alien text in any sci-fi movie.
Through falling under different feudal states (Venice, Austro-Hungary) the language was cast under both the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets. Today Croatian uses an accented Roman alphabet (like French), but each letter has only one pronunciation, like Russian.
There may be some hope though with WWDC next week. I heard rumblings that science and engineering (CAD/CAE) developers may be targeted because of their UNIX heritage. I know that last year I was told that Apple was targeting biotech first, and that they would evaluate where to go next. I made noise with a few managers at Apple, that in the companies that I had worked, engineering charted the course for the rest of the IT policies to follow. Most of this was because of the intensive hardware and software demands of running high-end CAD software.
One of those listed (Pro/E) has released a Linux version in cooperation with HP. With Apple's new machines and the fact that they have the largest installed base of UNIX (don't care what the Open Group says), there may be a few ISV's which may be persuaded to port to OS X.
I know that in the shops that I've worked in and or managed, the high-end stuff (Pro/E, I-deas, etc.) just doesn't work well enough on Windows to be valuable. The midrange stuff (Solidworks, SolidEdge, Mechanical Desktop) only exists on Windows, and can't touch the high-end stuff for utility. Apple could woo the high-end over, and open a can of whoop ass on Microsoft on the CAD front.
The only one who made out from that mess was Rocket Rick Beluzzo, who got a cushy job at M$ for hatching that brain fart. Although he isn't with MSFT anymore. I could see Steve playing Billy G's lap dog (yeah right).
Yeah, Apple should alienate their user base, force an inferior OS on them, with hardware that will be overpriced because they will feel compelled to use some of their own ASICs to do things more correctly than the PC/AT standard architecture. That will win them a big market share with people who already perceive them to be building non-compatible overpriced hardware. Otherwise, they could import whatever crap they can muster from Taiwan, and just call their decades of hardware engineering investment a write-off. That would obviously be the best course of action.
OK dumbass. It's Robocup, as in it uses the Robocup rules, but the American Open is only a regional competition. In most respects it is a test run for the real contest. Robocup 2003 in Padua Italy, as I've indicated before, is the real competition.
I've read the articles, before they were posted here, and have had in depth discussions with people at the contest so don't waste your shift key on me. CMU won the AIBO league, as expected, and also won the small size, which I didn't dispute. The factual error was that they played Cornell in the AIBO league.
CMU hasn't won the international competition for the small size league since Cornell entered four years ago. CMU did win the AIBO league last year.
The results of today's match will NOT knock Cornell from their first seed position in Italy. The American Open just doesn't matter.
This competition is not for Cornell or CMU, but for the newer teams this year like UChile, Laval and the Mexican Eagle Knights. These teams didn't make it into the international competition, and without this event, would not be competing against anyone.
-- Len
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FYI Cornell doesn't compete in the AIBO league.
Cornell does compete in the F180 small size league. The real test will be in Padua Italy in early July. As a reminder, Robocup 2003 is the real competition.
Seeing that CMU didn't place in the top four at Fukuoka last year, while Cornell took the title, congratulations to CMU. And good luck in Italy.
Because, as you noted, Linux isn't the only place where Samba is used.
Samba is found in many different commercial products on many unix-like and non-unix-like OS's. My first exposure to it was on HP-UX, followed by IRIX (on XFS, the best damn NT server I ever ran). Later, I had Samba running on OpenVMS, then Linux, and finally Mac OS X.
Your solution would be great for Linux, but would leave a large portion of commercial users out in the cold. How much benefit would this give Linux, and how much extra code would be required to set-up this Linux specific interface? Would it only cover file sharing, or would it include LDAP/AD, RPC, or print serving? What file systems would be required for full functionality?
In the article, Tridge alluded to a future where the file system backend (possibly in the kernel) would take the load off of what Samba now handles rather inefficiently. Maybe your kernel extension could fit in here. It would probably not be a trivial piece of code as you would have to redouble the effort that he is putting in to map to many different file systems' capabilities.
His new system may require kernel extensions for best performance of the full functionality. I would wager that if it did, most actively developed non-Linux systems would add the code to gain this functionality.
Medicine was allowed by the sanctions. Dual use materials and machinery is not allowed. Sadam didn't allow medicine to enter the country, so that he could blame the sanctions for causing harm to his people.
A company that I worked for sold a rather large number of bacterial/viral growing devices to Iraq, and the sale was approved by the Clinton administration. Why? Because it was sold to a medicine company owned by the government of Iraq. Oh, and the CEO made a $40,000 donation to the Democratic National Committee.
Nevermind that in one sale, they ordered almost as much as the yearly demand of the rest of the world for this device. This device was not forbidden by the sanctions (but it should have been).
By the way, it was Madeline Albright, but I don't recall her making such a statement. She was a hawk on Iraq in 1998, but is staunchly opposed to the current action.
Unfortunately, we are running some commercial software that has LAN-based licensing and resource locking. The latency hit we take when we travel over the CAT-3 wiring that we are forced to use, is enough to foul things up without another machine to hop through. Let alone the fact that Winders has problems with SMB when NAT'ed off like that.
I didn't mention that our $100 ports were limited to 10 M-bit theoretical (2 M-bit peak actual).
The problem is that each port will be monitored, as well as each IP. Already, the campus IT department charges prohibitive fees for attaching a hub or switch to a wall port. They want each port to be used by one and only one computer. You could probably share the movies with your roommates, but anyone else would require going through the wall jack.
They already moniter bandwidth by both physical port and IP address. They do this to try to curb things like Code Red and the like as well as P2P.
In my lab, I have several machines that are used only occasionally, as well as some machines that are used constantly. Unfortunately, the machines are physically separated by being in two different rooms and most of the machines are on mobile carts. I either have to rent a port for each machine (~$100 a month) or attach a switch to a wall port (~$1000/month). Our solution was to tie the rooms together with fiber, and switch away. In this way, we only have to pay for one $1000 port, but it is quite inconvenient.
They built a F'n huge plant for this stuff. IIRC, this one plant more than doubled their total production capacity for peroxide.
You have to understand that this company will contract for anyone but sub-contracts to no-one. They would sell the whole thing outright (not likely) rather than sell excess capacity to anybody who could be considered a potential customer or potential competitor.
I can't believe that I am responding to a John Carmack post, and that I would actually have something substantive to add.
Anyway, I used to work at FMC, although not in their chemical division. In the late nineties, FMC made a huge gamble by selling their defense interests, and diverting funds to hydrogen peroxide production, and lost big. The thought was that the demand for industrial hydrogen peroxide was going to skyrocket (pardon the pun), and it didn't.
When all was said and done, FMC had so much peroxide production capacity that went unused, that it became a huge liability. Where this is leading is that if you aren't going to use let's say more than 100,000 gallons of peroxide, they probably wouldn't think of selling any to you.
Don't take it personally. Oh, and the current CEO was known internally as quite a hatchet man throughout his carreer at the company. Since I no longer work there, I can say that he was quite an asshole (unlike his predicessor). Whenever Neidermier showed up at our site, he canned people with something that approximated a dartboard method (in a large assembly of employees no less). He cuts operations and personnel on a whim, so his inner circle would probably not get on his bad side by giving some charity to a cool project. Sorry to spoil the benevolent VP dream.
Seriously, imagine the looks on everyone's face if this guy showed up at a potluck dinner. He would probably be the only one "immune" to the effects of his dish.
Unistrokes, or "Unistrokes for Computerized Interpretation of Handwriting", as it is referred to in Xerox's 1997 patent, is a system of text-entry using single-stroke symbols for computerized recognition of handwritten text.
Palm using Graffiti goes way back to the early nineties. One would think that they would have no problem proving prior art.
The link you presented says that Microsoft has given 70% more money to Republicans than to Democrats.
Don't say this isn't a political issue when it is one.
I don't know what you've been smoking, but 70% more is quite a stretch.
Since you obviously didn't follow his link, I'll fill in the blank for you.
Since 1990, 43% of Microsoft-related donations went to the Democrats, and 57% went to the republicans. The 2000 cycle, which is when Bush was elected had the split 46% Dems. and 53% Reps.
Since your figure is "70% more money" is a comparison of the larger to the smaller amount, the actual figure is 34%. This is distorted by the relatively recent interest that Microsoft developed in politics.
Anyway, this site is "News for Nerds", so if simple multiplication and division are too tough for you, you should hang out somewhere else where you can put your Liberal Arts degree to better use.
Microsoft has given a lot of money to the Republican party, so it's safe to assume that Ashcroft won't block this acquisition....
Supposing first that this rumored acquisition is true, it won't be political ties that permit it. Microsoft has given generously to both parties, almost equally.
No. If this deal is allowed, it will be because it wouldn't give Microsoft a monopoly, as Adobe still exists. With the Intuit case, MS Money and Quicken were two products that had a combined lock on 98% of the personal finance products on the market. While Flash is almost pervasive, Adobe exists with SVG and competitors to almost every other product that Macromedia offers.
Does anybody else think that his parents gave him that name? Also, did anyone else notice that his two names are inseperable in the review? This guy is probably the leader of one of those doomsday cults.
If Denise Clark is this guy's pseudonym, he should learn from Jon Katz, and just post reviews or treatises of oddball logic under his own name. Before long, he will have legions of devoted fans.
Taken together, US scientific research is destined to fall behind and stop making new breakthroughs. Seemingly, the only apparent solution to this is to increase the amount of public funding available for basic research. It would seem, though, this is not likely to happen given the current regime in Washington. A more likely outcome will be that our scientific institutions will all be doing R&D for the big corporations in the near future.
With all due respect, what are you smoking? As you said, private sector funding expects a return on investments, and they get what they expect. Many more breakthroughs happen under private funding, because that is what they are after.
Of the public (taxpayer) funded research that I see at my university, very little of it has potential for advancement of science, let alone breakthroughs. I take that back, the defense related things do show a lot of promise, but again, these are results oriented projects.
In today's most active research fields, it is corporate sponsorship that produces, and public research that regurgitates. There still is, and will be a lot of public funding, no matter who occupies the Whitehouse. It may be that you are worried that the "current regime" would require results for the taxpayer's money that they give for research. If that's the case, work on something worthwile and produce results.
It's non-productive to whine about the evil of corporations or the evils of a political party in power, because your funding may be in jeopardy. Suck it up, if you want money, then you are already playing the game, your principles aparently don't matter and you are in the wrong field.
To qote Dire Straights "You want your money for nuthin' and your chicks for free." This happens only for boy bands, Ozzy's kids, and for dot-commers pre dot-bomb.
it may be possible to use this reflection technique to boost electrical signal speeds in computers and telecommunications grids by more than 50 per cent. Electrons usually travel at about two-thirds of light speed in wires, slowed down as they bump into atoms. Hache says it may be possible to send usable electrical signals to near light speed.
Apple already does this stuff for their Faster Than Light(tm) G4 Processors.
The Apple ][ BASIC file format was straight ASCII text. The.BAS file format was incompatible because those files were compiled for the 65C02 processor and called AppleSoft specific "tokens" that resided in AppleSoft BASIC in ROM. Essentially, this code is the same concept as Java bytecode, in that the ASCII coded BASIC programs were pre-compiled into calls for ROM based tokens. This used less disk space for the program, and translated to faster execution as it would remove the ASCII parsing step.
Microsoft reverse engineered much of Apple's ROM (a task made easier by the fact that they produced an earlier version of Apple BASIC), and sold this IP to other companies which made 100% compatible clones (Franklin, Laser 128). Nothing prevented any Apple II series programs from running on these clones, as they shared the same processors as the Apple IIs.
If Microsoft wanted to, it could have made code translators for AppleSoft Basic files, but it didn't see a need. Most ASCII basic files would directly translate. The.BAS files would need a 6502 -> 80x86, big ->little endian conversion and a token library to mimic Apple's.
Visiontek had a lot of the OEM nVidia business. They produce the special ADC cards for Apple, and I believe that they are also the nVidia OEM producer for Dell.
With Just In Time (JIT) manufacturing, a fold of a major OEM supplier creates many problems for their customers. Apple may have seen this coming as witnessed by their switch to the ATI 9000 for the default in their high end models.
IBM won't license Altivec from Motorola, so they can't make the "G4" Chips that Apple wants and needs. Actually, if I remember right, it was an Apple Engineer who came up with Altivec, and Motorola implemented it because they could also benefit from it.
Unfortunately the AIM alliance partners seem to have increasingly divergent needs from the partnership. IBM wanted PowerPC for servers, and sees Altivec as a gaudy tack-on to their architecture. They still produce the "G3" chips, at ever higher and higher clock speeds. Apple can't use them though because of the MHz. myth. IBM's stance towards Altivec appears to be weakening though with their upcoming chip.
Motorola wants PowerPC for embedded stuff, and Altivec makes it easy to do DSP like functions in a general purpose processor.
Apple needs the PowerPC for everything but the iPod. They need Altivec to make MacOS X so cool for consumers and scientists. Since IBM won't license it, they are stuck with the only producer, Motorola.
It's times like these that I wish there were some truth to the old rumors about Apple buying Motorola's PowerPC fabs. If that were the case, Apple could produce the exact chips that Apple needs, not what IBM or Moto wants. Unfortunately, there isn't any indication that this would be profitable or feasible for them.
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More often than not, things don't go right.
Everyone has heard of Downs syndrome, when a child has an "extra" chromosome. Well, think of having twenty three extra pairs.
I am a fraternal twin, and I don't know if I am a chimera or not, but my wife and I have had trouble with a similar situation of too much DNA. Last year, we had a molar pregnancy.
"What is that?" you may ask. A molar pregnancy happens when an egg is fertilized, but no baby is formed. It happens when the egg "looses" the genetic information from the mother (complete molar), or has three sets of chromosomes (69 total, partial molar). Molar pregnancies are about 1 in 1500 births, with 98% of those being the complete type.
Either way, it is a horrific experience, and should be considered cancerous. The mother's hormone levels will climb to dangerous levels as the mass of cells that should have been an embryo rapidly grow and divide inside the womb. She will become extremely pregnant, without a child, and morning sickness becomes a 24 hour a day nightmare. Relief only comes with complete removal of all molar tissue. After this, the mother has to be monitored and be "pregnancy free" for a year, to tell if any of the molar tissue has become cancerous.
Our case was a partial molar. If things would have gone right, we would now have a set of identical twins, but it didn't. DNA is a funny and powerful thing and too much is never good.
-- Len
For those who don't know, Coptic is Egyptian written in Greek, or at least the Greek alphabet. It would be similar to transcribing a language that uses glyphs for words by recording them with the phonemes and alphabet of another language.
A more modern example is what happened with the slavic Croatian language. The original speakers had a glyph based alphabet called Glagolitic, through the middle ages. This would be as foreign as Egyptian hieroglyphs to people today, and could stand in nicely for an alien text in any sci-fi movie.
Through falling under different feudal states (Venice, Austro-Hungary) the language was cast under both the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets. Today Croatian uses an accented Roman alphabet (like French), but each letter has only one pronunciation, like Russian.
-- Len
You beat me to it.
There may be some hope though with WWDC next week. I heard rumblings that science and engineering (CAD/CAE) developers may be targeted because of their UNIX heritage. I know that last year I was told that Apple was targeting biotech first, and that they would evaluate where to go next. I made noise with a few managers at Apple, that in the companies that I had worked, engineering charted the course for the rest of the IT policies to follow. Most of this was because of the intensive hardware and software demands of running high-end CAD software.
One of those listed (Pro/E) has released a Linux version in cooperation with HP. With Apple's new machines and the fact that they have the largest installed base of UNIX (don't care what the Open Group says), there may be a few ISV's which may be persuaded to port to OS X.
I know that in the shops that I've worked in and or managed, the high-end stuff (Pro/E, I-deas, etc.) just doesn't work well enough on Windows to be valuable. The midrange stuff (Solidworks, SolidEdge, Mechanical Desktop) only exists on Windows, and can't touch the high-end stuff for utility. Apple could woo the high-end over, and open a can of whoop ass on Microsoft on the CAD front.
We'll have to just wait and see.
-- Len
That strategy worked so well for sgi.
The only one who made out from that mess was Rocket Rick Beluzzo, who got a cushy job at M$ for hatching that brain fart. Although he isn't with MSFT anymore. I could see Steve playing Billy G's lap dog (yeah right).
Yeah, Apple should alienate their user base, force an inferior OS on them, with hardware that will be overpriced because they will feel compelled to use some of their own ASICs to do things more correctly than the PC/AT standard architecture. That will win them a big market share with people who already perceive them to be building non-compatible overpriced hardware. Otherwise, they could import whatever crap they can muster from Taiwan, and just call their decades of hardware engineering investment a write-off. That would obviously be the best course of action.
This smells like it was funded by Redmond.
-- Len
OK dumbass. It's Robocup, as in it uses the Robocup rules, but the American Open is only a regional competition. In most respects it is a test run for the real contest. Robocup 2003 in Padua Italy, as I've indicated before, is the real competition.
I've read the articles, before they were posted here, and have had in depth discussions with people at the contest so don't waste your shift key on me. CMU won the AIBO league, as expected, and also won the small size, which I didn't dispute. The factual error was that they played Cornell in the AIBO league.
CMU hasn't won the international competition for the small size league since Cornell entered four years ago. CMU did win the AIBO league last year.
The results of today's match will NOT knock Cornell from their first seed position in Italy. The American Open just doesn't matter.
This competition is not for Cornell or CMU, but for the newer teams this year like UChile, Laval and the Mexican Eagle Knights. These teams didn't make it into the international competition, and without this event, would not be competing against anyone.
-- Len
FYI Cornell doesn't compete in the AIBO league.
Cornell does compete in the F180 small size league. The real test will be in Padua Italy in early July. As a reminder, Robocup 2003 is the real competition.
Seeing that CMU didn't place in the top four at Fukuoka last year, while Cornell took the title, congratulations to CMU. And good luck in Italy.
-- Len
Because, as you noted, Linux isn't the only place where Samba is used.
Samba is found in many different commercial products on many unix-like and non-unix-like OS's. My first exposure to it was on HP-UX, followed by IRIX (on XFS, the best damn NT server I ever ran). Later, I had Samba running on OpenVMS, then Linux, and finally Mac OS X.
Your solution would be great for Linux, but would leave a large portion of commercial users out in the cold. How much benefit would this give Linux, and how much extra code would be required to set-up this Linux specific interface? Would it only cover file sharing, or would it include LDAP/AD, RPC, or print serving? What file systems would be required for full functionality?
In the article, Tridge alluded to a future where the file system backend (possibly in the kernel) would take the load off of what Samba now handles rather inefficiently. Maybe your kernel extension could fit in here. It would probably not be a trivial piece of code as you would have to redouble the effort that he is putting in to map to many different file systems' capabilities.
His new system may require kernel extensions for best performance of the full functionality. I would wager that if it did, most actively developed non-Linux systems would add the code to gain this functionality.
-- Len
Medicine was allowed by the sanctions. Dual use materials and machinery is not allowed. Sadam didn't allow medicine to enter the country, so that he could blame the sanctions for causing harm to his people.
A company that I worked for sold a rather large number of bacterial/viral growing devices to Iraq, and the sale was approved by the Clinton administration. Why? Because it was sold to a medicine company owned by the government of Iraq. Oh, and the CEO made a $40,000 donation to the Democratic National Committee.
Nevermind that in one sale, they ordered almost as much as the yearly demand of the rest of the world for this device. This device was not forbidden by the sanctions (but it should have been).
By the way, it was Madeline Albright, but I don't recall her making such a statement. She was a hawk on Iraq in 1998, but is staunchly opposed to the current action.
-- Len
Unfortunately, we are running some commercial software that has LAN-based licensing and resource locking. The latency hit we take when we travel over the CAT-3 wiring that we are forced to use, is enough to foul things up without another machine to hop through. Let alone the fact that Winders has problems with SMB when NAT'ed off like that.
I didn't mention that our $100 ports were limited to 10 M-bit theoretical (2 M-bit peak actual).
-- Len
The problem is that each port will be monitored, as well as each IP. Already, the campus IT department charges prohibitive fees for attaching a hub or switch to a wall port. They want each port to be used by one and only one computer. You could probably share the movies with your roommates, but anyone else would require going through the wall jack.
They already moniter bandwidth by both physical port and IP address. They do this to try to curb things like Code Red and the like as well as P2P.
In my lab, I have several machines that are used only occasionally, as well as some machines that are used constantly. Unfortunately, the machines are physically separated by being in two different rooms and most of the machines are on mobile carts. I either have to rent a port for each machine (~$100 a month) or attach a switch to a wall port (~$1000/month). Our solution was to tie the rooms together with fiber, and switch away. In this way, we only have to pay for one $1000 port, but it is quite inconvenient.
-- Len
They built a F'n huge plant for this stuff. IIRC, this one plant more than doubled their total production capacity for peroxide.
You have to understand that this company will contract for anyone but sub-contracts to no-one. They would sell the whole thing outright (not likely) rather than sell excess capacity to anybody who could be considered a potential customer or potential competitor.
-- Len
I know it's bad form to reply to myself, but that should be 100,000 gallons per week, for an annual contract.
-- Len
I can't believe that I am responding to a John Carmack post, and that I would actually have something substantive to add.
Anyway, I used to work at FMC, although not in their chemical division. In the late nineties, FMC made a huge gamble by selling their defense interests, and diverting funds to hydrogen peroxide production, and lost big. The thought was that the demand for industrial hydrogen peroxide was going to skyrocket (pardon the pun), and it didn't.
When all was said and done, FMC had so much peroxide production capacity that went unused, that it became a huge liability. Where this is leading is that if you aren't going to use let's say more than 100,000 gallons of peroxide, they probably wouldn't think of selling any to you.
Don't take it personally. Oh, and the current CEO was known internally as quite a hatchet man throughout his carreer at the company. Since I no longer work there, I can say that he was quite an asshole (unlike his predicessor). Whenever Neidermier showed up at our site, he canned people with something that approximated a dartboard method (in a large assembly of employees no less). He cuts operations and personnel on a whim, so his inner circle would probably not get on his bad side by giving some charity to a cool project. Sorry to spoil the benevolent VP dream.
-- Len
Pot Luck Dinner!
Seriously, imagine the looks on everyone's face if this guy showed up at a potluck dinner. He would probably be the only one "immune" to the effects of his dish.
-- Len
Palm using Graffiti goes way back to the early nineties. One would think that they would have no problem proving prior art.
-- Len
I don't know what you've been smoking, but 70% more is quite a stretch.
Since you obviously didn't follow his link, I'll fill in the blank for you.
Since 1990, 43% of Microsoft-related donations went to the Democrats, and 57% went to the republicans. The 2000 cycle, which is when Bush was elected had the split 46% Dems. and 53% Reps.
Since your figure is "70% more money" is a comparison of the larger to the smaller amount, the actual figure is 34%. This is distorted by the relatively recent interest that Microsoft developed in politics.
Anyway, this site is "News for Nerds", so if simple multiplication and division are too tough for you, you should hang out somewhere else where you can put your Liberal Arts degree to better use.
-- Len
Supposing first that this rumored acquisition is true, it won't be political ties that permit it. Microsoft has given generously to both parties, almost equally.
No. If this deal is allowed, it will be because it wouldn't give Microsoft a monopoly, as Adobe still exists. With the Intuit case, MS Money and Quicken were two products that had a combined lock on 98% of the personal finance products on the market. While Flash is almost pervasive, Adobe exists with SVG and competitors to almost every other product that Macromedia offers.
-- Len
Does anybody else think that his parents gave him that name? Also, did anyone else notice that his two names are inseperable in the review? This guy is probably the leader of one of those doomsday cults.
-- Len
If Denise Clark is this guy's pseudonym, he should learn from Jon Katz, and just post reviews or treatises of oddball logic under his own name. Before long, he will have legions of devoted fans.
-- Len
With all due respect, what are you smoking? As you said, private sector funding expects a return on investments, and they get what they expect. Many more breakthroughs happen under private funding, because that is what they are after.
Of the public (taxpayer) funded research that I see at my university, very little of it has potential for advancement of science, let alone breakthroughs. I take that back, the defense related things do show a lot of promise, but again, these are results oriented projects.
In today's most active research fields, it is corporate sponsorship that produces, and public research that regurgitates. There still is, and will be a lot of public funding, no matter who occupies the Whitehouse. It may be that you are worried that the "current regime" would require results for the taxpayer's money that they give for research. If that's the case, work on something worthwile and produce results.
It's non-productive to whine about the evil of corporations or the evils of a political party in power, because your funding may be in jeopardy. Suck it up, if you want money, then you are already playing the game, your principles aparently don't matter and you are in the wrong field.
To qote Dire Straights "You want your money for nuthin' and your chicks for free." This happens only for boy bands, Ozzy's kids, and for dot-commers pre dot-bomb.
-- Len
Apple already does this stuff for their Faster Than Light(tm) G4 Processors.
Oh wait, take that back. They removed that line.
-- Len
I call bullshit!
.BAS file format was incompatible because those files were compiled for the 65C02 processor and called AppleSoft specific "tokens" that resided in AppleSoft BASIC in ROM. Essentially, this code is the same concept as Java bytecode, in that the ASCII coded BASIC programs were pre-compiled into calls for ROM based tokens. This used less disk space for the program, and translated to faster execution as it would remove the ASCII parsing step.
.BAS files would need a 6502 -> 80x86, big ->little endian conversion and a token library to mimic Apple's.
The Apple ][ BASIC file format was straight ASCII text. The
Microsoft reverse engineered much of Apple's ROM (a task made easier by the fact that they produced an earlier version of Apple BASIC), and sold this IP to other companies which made 100% compatible clones (Franklin, Laser 128). Nothing prevented any Apple II series programs from running on these clones, as they shared the same processors as the Apple IIs.
If Microsoft wanted to, it could have made code translators for AppleSoft Basic files, but it didn't see a need. Most ASCII basic files would directly translate. The
-- Len
Visiontek had a lot of the OEM nVidia business. They produce the special ADC cards for Apple, and I believe that they are also the nVidia OEM producer for Dell.
With Just In Time (JIT) manufacturing, a fold of a major OEM supplier creates many problems for their customers. Apple may have seen this coming as witnessed by their switch to the ATI 9000 for the default in their high end models.
-- Len
IBM won't license Altivec from Motorola, so they can't make the "G4" Chips that Apple wants and needs. Actually, if I remember right, it was an Apple Engineer who came up with Altivec, and Motorola implemented it because they could also benefit from it.
Unfortunately the AIM alliance partners seem to have increasingly divergent needs from the partnership. IBM wanted PowerPC for servers, and sees Altivec as a gaudy tack-on to their architecture. They still produce the "G3" chips, at ever higher and higher clock speeds. Apple can't use them though because of the MHz. myth. IBM's stance towards Altivec appears to be weakening though with their upcoming chip.
Motorola wants PowerPC for embedded stuff, and Altivec makes it easy to do DSP like functions in a general purpose processor.
Apple needs the PowerPC for everything but the iPod. They need Altivec to make MacOS X so cool for consumers and scientists. Since IBM won't license it, they are stuck with the only producer, Motorola.
It's times like these that I wish there were some truth to the old rumors about Apple buying Motorola's PowerPC fabs. If that were the case, Apple could produce the exact chips that Apple needs, not what IBM or Moto wants. Unfortunately, there isn't any indication that this would be profitable or feasible for them.
-- Len
Did you get iTunes3 or some other iPod software?
-- Len