The real story here isn't how the accountants jiggered the numbers, or how much they lost, or how much they didn't lose. The story is that they did better than they forcast.
True, but how much better? I'd be curious to know how creative the accounting was behind these numbers. I've heard rumors that the SEC is already eyeing RH's accountants. I'm pulling for them, just a little skeptical I guess. . .
After all, Mir had spent somewhere near 3.5 billion (million million for the UKians in the audience) miles and 15 years in space. <p>
Except a billion is a thousand million.
What AMD really needs is mindshare. When was the last time you saw an AMD commercial on TV?
I've seen a few AMD commercials, which is a few more than I expected considering their practically non-existant revenue compared to Intel.
Compare that with the Blue Man Group ads for the Pentium 4 that intel runs just about every hour on every channel. AMD can't get OEM agreements with the big PC manufacturers - did it ever occur to them that it might be because Joe Consumer doesn't ask Gateway or Compaq about the latest Athlon machines?
Joe consumer asks for the most bang for the buck, which AMD clearly delivers. AMD can't get a deal with mainstream PC manufacturers because noone makes (from an OEMs point of view) a good cheap motherboard for its Duron line, which is even more superior to Celeron than Athlon is to PIII (or P4 for that matter)
If the hardware support is right, and OEMs like Dell get their heads out of their ass and offer up some AMD boxes, the demand will materialize. . .
Can QNX on a regular PC still be considered "hard real time?" Obviously the code still is, but I was of the understanding that a hard real time system could only run in the most controlled hardware environment possible, since the goal was to guarantee an absolute upper bound on response times.
Tom Pabst IS concerned about stability. Have you seen what he's using to cool this thing? It basically amounts to a refrigeration unit. I'd say your desktop PC is more likely to overheat than this thing. I don't overclock, but I know it IS possible to do so and still have "stability", or as close as you can get to it with windows. Besides, all CPUs generally come off the same die, so once they get the process dialed in, even 800 Mhz Athlons are probably capable of running at 1Ghz + with little to no extra cooling. . .
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True, but how much better? I'd be curious to know how creative the accounting was behind these numbers. I've heard rumors that the SEC is already eyeing RH's accountants. I'm pulling for them, just a little skeptical I guess. . .
After all, Mir had spent somewhere near 3.5 billion (million million for the UKians in the audience) miles and 15 years in space.
<p>
Except a billion is a thousand million.
...but doesn't almost everyone on Slashdot not trust code signed by 'Microsfot Corporation' already??? ;-) Score 2, Funny
that most of us would otherwise trust code signed my Micro$haft. Score 0, Offtopic.
...And mine was first. Whatever.
I've seen a few AMD commercials, which is a few more than I expected considering their practically non-existant revenue compared to Intel.
Compare that with the Blue Man Group ads for the Pentium 4 that intel runs just about every hour on every channel. AMD can't get OEM agreements with the big PC manufacturers - did it ever occur to them that it might be because Joe Consumer doesn't ask Gateway or Compaq about the latest Athlon machines?
Joe consumer asks for the most bang for the buck, which AMD clearly delivers. AMD can't get a deal with mainstream PC manufacturers because noone makes (from an OEMs point of view) a good cheap motherboard for its Duron line, which is even more superior to Celeron than Athlon is to PIII (or P4 for that matter) If the hardware support is right, and OEMs like Dell get their heads out of their ass and offer up some AMD boxes, the demand will materialize. . .
So, now that we've got paper electronics, when do we get silicon Cotonelle?
Can QNX on a regular PC still be considered "hard real time?" Obviously the code still is, but I was of the understanding that a hard real time system could only run in the most controlled hardware environment possible, since the goal was to guarantee an absolute upper bound on response times.
Tom Pabst IS concerned about stability. Have you seen what he's using to cool this thing? It basically amounts to a refrigeration unit. I'd say your desktop PC is more likely to overheat than this thing. I don't overclock, but I know it IS possible to do so and still have "stability", or as close as you can get to it with windows. Besides, all CPUs generally come off the same die, so once they get the process dialed in, even 800 Mhz Athlons are probably capable of running at 1Ghz + with little to no extra cooling. . .