... to provide line-of-sight for big high-speed meshes with fixed terrestrial components of the network at elevated ground locations? 10GB is a nice backbone to 1GB wired distribution points if the volume of traffic could be managed.
... you didn't have to rewind it. Sorry quality argument people. So the marginal quality difference between BruRay and DVD, which can only be perceived by a small faction of the population that have real HD monitors, is a very thin value propostion to most people for a move to BluRay. BluRay will happen in a few years when all units are DVD/BluRay combo units that cost ~$100US -and the vast majority of these people will use DVDs on them. Sorry BluRay vendors.
The point of this comparison is not the mass of existing entries, but how the two see a current relatively new, extremely relivant subject: Knol - in comparison to the incumbent Wikipedia. For Knol not to even have an entry for Wikipedia, it's major alternative is interesting. But Wikipedia has an extensive discussion about what's right and wrong with Knol. Perhaps I should have looked at Knol on Knol and Wikipedia on Wikipedia, but I'm fairly sure Wikipedia will be much better.
This is idiotic on so many levels. For one thing Intel is the one innovating right now, AMD is coasting, trying to stretch the K10 design into lasting the next 3 years. Also Intel is actually the strongest corporate force preventing Ms from dominating as it's support for Linux, esp in new small devices, is on the way to making Ms irrelevant.
...who fink back on them and your rapidly get the entire sex online industry gets blacklisted. Since people can't watch porn anymore, they start going to food and gardening and news sites - which get blacklisted eventually by angry ex-porn-site-owners who have no business anymore. Internet grinds to a halt in a few months. Interesting idea.
Apple has never made commodity hardware. People can try to dupe it, and in the general desktop/laptop space, put OS/X on generic stuff, but in handsets it's really hard to get close to the functionality and quality without the real deal. Note that Samsung/Nokia/Moto/LD etc STILL haven't come close to making an iPhone alternative that works as well. The only player I think Jobs worries about is RIM since they are vertically integrated (do the hdw+software+service-ecosystem ) and RIM has only casually attacked the consumer space - yet....
When AT&T noticed the difference between sales of iPhones and AT&T acctivations they went ballistic. The clear implication was that unlocked phones were being used in the US and elsewhere with OTHER providers thus depriving AT&T part of their revenue stream in the deal. Apple had all sorts of possible remedies (mostly involving changes to the software stack) that could have prevented non-AT&T use, but instead, put up only token resistance because, let's face it, they're making a lot more from the handset sale than the minor tithe that AT&T gives them for the acct. Which makes me beleive this crackdown on illict usage is more window dressing to appease AT&T or other authorized telcos. Watch and see, this won't make much difference to the unlocking trend - because Apple chooses to let it happen.
...into pricing arrangements with suppliers are convinced Intel is guity. AMD IS in a position to argue claims about Intel's behavior, but anyone who thinks AMD description of Intel's business practices isn't filtered though their bias is pretty naive. You can probably take anything you read on this subject skeptically - I'd wait until FTC or other 3rd party evaluations and I certainly would not take AMD's assertions as fact until proven.
Hmmm, the old Mini-ITX format had multiple vendors (VIa, Intel, others) using it and right now the only vendor using Mini-ITX 2.0 is VIA-NVidia. How is this more open? And in what sense was Intel making the old standard less open -other than jumping into that market and doing well?
BTW, I have to laugh at the sight of a Mini-ITX board with a relatively low power VIA cpu having a huge, power sucking NVidia discrete GPU board on it. Surely anybody that cares about performance graphics is not using this catagory of board. Logically , NVidia would do an integrated graphics chipset for the Mini-ITX format, but a PCI-Express external card that quadruples the chassis height (and probably quads the power consumption of the board) is a joke. Ask embedded systems developers (still the main market for Mini-ITX systems) if this is really what they're looking for. VIA and NVidia cobbled together a frankenstein combination of technologies just to make the Atom look bad with irrelevant perf specs.
...during periods when security bugs have been exposed in Internet Explorer. I guess the Ballmer Doctrine is that problematic Ms products must be endured while non-Ms products should be jettisoned at the first sign of problems.
I assume this means OLPC will stop it's persecution of Intel for selling a competitor to the XO since the new president's goal is to get laptops into the hands of children, one way or another. Maybe Intel will rejoin the OLPC (just in time to help spec an Atom processor for the XO v2.0) and make the Intel Classmate superfluous.
If you want to suggest that showing drunk driving is WRONG, aren't you suggesting that all the other reprehensible behavior in the game is ok, somehow? Why can't a game be about a BAD PERSON doing BAD things (incl drunk driving). I think the more important question is how dangerous is it for us to BE and IDENTIFY with the bad guys. What I've always hoped for is that someone would create a mod/virus that infects any GTA game and causes the player to be the target of vengeance by their previous victims who are now empowered with serious firepower. As you "succeed" in the game, you acquire more deadly enemies, made up of characters you thought it was safe to abuse (hookers etc) until it's impossible for you to live. If anyone would care to code and release the "GTA Vigilante Justice Virus", I think a lot of us would cheer.
...comparing a high end IBM and Sun server processors with a desktop Intel processor. Something like a Xeon X5482 (3.2GHz, 12MB cache 1600 FSB) would have been a much better comparison and, on some benchmarks , probably would beat the P6.
...for Linux, Mac and Windows supporting multicore and also cluster architectures. Obviously it would be better if these worked better and were easier to use, but many people are unaware of the tools that are available right now.
Surely this is simply a misunderstanding on the part of users who do not wish to use mobile phones at night themselves who think that it is necessary to shut down the towers and take away everyone's service. Ideally, the Afgani telcos will understand who the noctually-sensitive customers are and simply shut off service to THOSE handsets at night. In any case, Any user that are discourtious enough to wish ALL users to be off the air at night won't be able to tell the difference between their phone being unable to connect and the entire tower being shutdown.
Seriously, the Talaban are caught in a contradiction here. Either they need the towers operational for their own purposes during the day (in which case, blowing up the towers is counter productive) or they don't need them, in which case why ask the telcos to do the nightly shutdown and simply blow them up anyway. I suspect the answer is that destroying the towers would be incredibly unpopular and there's a internal struggle going on between the luddite faction in the Taliban that wants to blow them anyway and the more rational faction that realizes this will be a huge PR mistake.
One wonders what this will do to Sun's relationship with Oracle. Previously, Sun and HP were database allies and IBM was a database competitor. Now, Sun is a db competitor. This is actually pretty logical anyway, since Sun was was already lined up to be an Oracle competitor anyway due to the Oracle/BEA deal so there are now 3 main Enterprise Java camps: Sun (the mothership), IBM and, now, Oracle/BEA. Now neither Oracle (nor IBM) would say they take MySQL seriously as a competing product - but the mere presence of lightweight FOSS database has certainly affected database license fees, esp in SMB segments. If Sun intends to monetize their billion dollar spend, I assume they'll try to drive commercial MySQL into the enterprise in an aggressive way -which should really tweak Oracle... Watch Oracle get even closer to HP now...
There's only two cases here and neither depends on Apple:
1) Sending the drive to Apple is silly if a wonky drive contains data you really need - you want to send it to a professional recovery facility like OnTrack or others -and they'll certainly send you the pieces of your drive back (along with DVDs or other drive with your data) after they've taken it apart and recovered the contents you need. (This isn't cheap, but when you really need it...) Then do step 2) and send the parts to Apple.
2) If you don't have data you need to recover, but want to keep data secure, put snap the broken drive onto a big industrial magnet for a day or so. The drive should be devoid of data at that point and you can ship it to Apple. (Probably should let Apple know you did this or their diagnosis about what's wrong with your drive will be quite different than your original complaint:-) )
Sorry, I mean I love that they're giving silicon designs out the world, but if there was any really important innovation in the intellectual property behind the Niagara II that would give Sun an advantage in the marketplace they would not be exposing it to all their competitors.
The only business reason I can imagine that Sun would do this is the hope that lot's of Niagara foundries would bloom and thereby cut their costs for sourcing the part.
Microsoft's renewed interest in participating in OLPC might be viewed by skeptics as an admission that a rival offering for developing markets called Classmate -- which uses an Intel processor on Microsoft software -- has failed to catch on Wrong.. 1) As I've said several times Classmate PC doesn't necessarily run Windows and MFST doens't necessarily like it. 2) Actually, Classmate has sold more units than OLPC, I believe - so if it has failed to catch on, then presumably the OLPC has failed as well.
Frankly the LAST application that would still be Mac native, if OS/X could run Win32 apps would be Photoshop. You want a big application like that to be native. I think you're right about the intention of PE format giving.NET support though.
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... to provide line-of-sight for big high-speed meshes with fixed terrestrial components of the network at elevated ground locations? 10GB is a nice backbone to 1GB wired distribution points if the volume of traffic could be managed.
is a very interesting read
... you didn't have to rewind it.
Sorry quality argument people.
So the marginal quality difference between BruRay and DVD, which can only be perceived by a small faction of the population that have real HD monitors, is a very thin value propostion to most people for a move to BluRay. BluRay will happen in a few years when all units are DVD/BluRay combo units that cost ~$100US -and the vast majority of these people will use DVDs on them.
Sorry BluRay vendors.
The point of this comparison is not the mass of existing entries, but how the two see a current relatively new, extremely relivant subject: Knol - in comparison to the incumbent Wikipedia. For Knol not to even have an entry for Wikipedia, it's major alternative is interesting. But Wikipedia has an extensive discussion about what's right and wrong with Knol.
Perhaps I should have looked at Knol on Knol and Wikipedia on Wikipedia, but I'm fairly sure Wikipedia will be much better.
Knol on Wikipedia is pretty empty. Whereas
Wikipedia on Knol is very informative.
Is that an indicator?
This is idiotic on so many levels. For one thing Intel is the one innovating right now, AMD is coasting, trying to stretch the K10 design into lasting the next 3 years.
Also Intel is actually the strongest corporate force preventing Ms from dominating as it's support for Linux, esp in new small devices, is on the way to making Ms irrelevant.
...who fink back on them and your rapidly get the entire sex online industry gets blacklisted. Since people can't watch porn anymore, they start going to food and gardening and news sites - which get blacklisted eventually by angry ex-porn-site-owners who have no business anymore.
Internet grinds to a halt in a few months.
Interesting idea.
Apple has never made commodity hardware. People can try to dupe it, and in the general desktop/laptop space, put OS/X on generic stuff, but in handsets it's really hard to get close to the functionality and quality without the real deal.
Note that Samsung/Nokia/Moto/LD etc STILL haven't come close to making an iPhone alternative that works as well. The only player I think Jobs worries about is RIM since they are vertically integrated (do the hdw+software+service-ecosystem ) and RIM has only casually attacked the consumer space - yet....
When AT&T noticed the difference between sales of iPhones and AT&T acctivations they went ballistic. The clear implication was that unlocked phones were being used in the US and elsewhere with OTHER providers thus depriving AT&T part of their revenue stream in the deal. Apple had all sorts of possible remedies (mostly involving changes to the software stack) that could have prevented non-AT&T use, but instead, put up only token resistance because, let's face it, they're making a lot more from the handset sale than the minor tithe that AT&T gives them for the acct. Which makes me beleive this crackdown on illict usage is more window dressing to appease AT&T or other authorized telcos. Watch and see, this won't make much difference to the unlocking trend - because Apple chooses to let it happen.
...into pricing arrangements with suppliers are convinced Intel is guity. AMD IS in a position to argue claims about Intel's behavior, but anyone who thinks AMD description of Intel's business practices isn't filtered though their bias is pretty naive. You can probably take anything you read on this subject skeptically - I'd wait until FTC or other 3rd party evaluations and I certainly would not take AMD's assertions as fact until proven.
Hmmm, the old Mini-ITX format had multiple vendors (VIa, Intel, others) using it and right now the only vendor using Mini-ITX 2.0 is VIA-NVidia. How is this more open? And in what sense was Intel making the old standard less open -other than jumping into that market and doing well?
BTW, I have to laugh at the sight of a Mini-ITX board with a relatively low power VIA cpu having a huge, power sucking NVidia discrete GPU board on it. Surely anybody that cares about performance graphics is not using this catagory of board. Logically , NVidia would do an integrated graphics chipset for the Mini-ITX format, but a PCI-Express external card that quadruples the chassis height (and probably quads the power consumption of the board) is a joke. Ask embedded systems developers (still the main market for Mini-ITX systems) if this is really what they're looking for. VIA and NVidia cobbled together a frankenstein combination of technologies just to make the Atom look bad with irrelevant perf specs.
...during periods when security bugs have been exposed in Internet Explorer. I guess the Ballmer Doctrine is that problematic Ms products must be endured while non-Ms products should be jettisoned at the first sign of problems.
using the Moblin stack that will ultimately surpass the XO no matter what's running on it.
I assume this means OLPC will stop it's persecution of Intel for selling a competitor to the XO since the new president's goal is to get laptops into the hands of children, one way or another. Maybe Intel will rejoin the OLPC (just in time to help spec an Atom processor for the XO v2.0) and make the Intel Classmate superfluous.
If you want to suggest that showing drunk driving is WRONG, aren't you suggesting that all the other reprehensible behavior in the game is ok, somehow?
Why can't a game be about a BAD PERSON doing BAD things (incl drunk driving).
I think the more important question is how dangerous is it for us to BE and IDENTIFY with the bad guys.
What I've always hoped for is that someone would create a mod/virus that infects any GTA game and causes the player to be the target of vengeance by their previous victims who are now empowered with serious firepower. As you "succeed" in the game, you acquire more deadly enemies, made up of characters you thought it was safe to abuse (hookers etc) until it's impossible for you to live.
If anyone would care to code and release the "GTA Vigilante Justice Virus", I think a lot of us would cheer.
...comparing a high end IBM and Sun server processors with a desktop Intel processor. Something like a Xeon X5482 (3.2GHz, 12MB cache 1600 FSB) would have been a much better comparison and, on some benchmarks , probably would beat the P6.
...for Linux, Mac and Windows supporting multicore and also cluster architectures.
Obviously it would be better if these worked better and were easier to use, but many people are unaware of the tools that are available right now.
Surely this is simply a misunderstanding on the part of users who do not wish to use mobile phones at night themselves who think that it is necessary to shut down the towers and take away everyone's service. Ideally, the Afgani telcos will understand who the noctually-sensitive customers are and simply shut off service to THOSE handsets at night. In any case, Any user that are discourtious enough to wish ALL users to be off the air at night won't be able to tell the difference between their phone being unable to connect and the entire tower being shutdown.
Seriously, the Talaban are caught in a contradiction here. Either they need the towers operational for their own purposes during the day (in which case, blowing up the towers is counter productive) or they don't need them, in which case why ask the telcos to do the nightly shutdown and simply blow them up anyway. I suspect the answer is that destroying the towers would be incredibly unpopular and there's a internal struggle going on between the luddite faction in the Taliban that wants to blow them anyway and the more rational faction that realizes this will be a huge PR mistake.
...the safest option. :-)
One wonders what this will do to Sun's relationship with Oracle. Previously, Sun and HP were database allies and IBM was a database competitor. Now, Sun is a db competitor. This is actually pretty logical anyway, since Sun was was already lined up to be an Oracle competitor anyway due to the Oracle/BEA deal so there are now 3 main Enterprise Java camps: Sun (the mothership), IBM and, now, Oracle/BEA.
Now neither Oracle (nor IBM) would say they take MySQL seriously as a competing product - but the mere presence of lightweight FOSS database has certainly affected database license fees, esp in SMB segments.
If Sun intends to monetize their billion dollar spend, I assume they'll try to drive commercial MySQL into the enterprise in an aggressive way -which should really tweak Oracle...
Watch Oracle get even closer to HP now...
...wearing that Armani suit without Georgio Armani's permission then?
Seems like the same thing.
Kevin
There's only two cases here and neither depends on Apple:
:-) )
1) Sending the drive to Apple is silly if a wonky drive contains data you really need - you want to send it to a professional recovery facility like OnTrack or others -and they'll certainly send you the pieces of your drive back (along with DVDs or other drive with your data) after they've taken it apart and recovered the contents you need. (This isn't cheap, but when you really need it...) Then do step 2) and send the parts to Apple.
2) If you don't have data you need to recover, but want to keep data secure, put snap the broken drive onto a big industrial magnet for a day or so. The drive should be devoid of data at that point and you can ship it to Apple. (Probably should let Apple know you did this or their diagnosis about what's wrong with your drive will be quite different than your original complaint
Sorry, I mean I love that they're giving silicon designs out the world, but if there was any really important innovation in the intellectual property behind the Niagara II that would give Sun an advantage in the marketplace they would not be exposing it to all their competitors.
The only business reason I can imagine that Sun would do this is the hope that lot's of Niagara foundries would bloom and thereby cut their costs for sourcing the part.
Microsoft's renewed interest in participating in OLPC might be viewed by skeptics as an admission that a rival offering for developing markets called Classmate -- which uses an Intel processor on Microsoft software -- has failed to catch on
Wrong..
1) As I've said several times Classmate PC doesn't necessarily run Windows and MFST doens't necessarily like it.
2) Actually, Classmate has sold more units than OLPC, I believe - so if it has failed to catch on, then presumably the OLPC has failed as well.
Frankly the LAST application that would still be Mac native, if OS/X could run Win32 apps would be Photoshop. You want a big application like that to be native. .NET support though.
I think you're right about the intention of PE format giving