Did anyone actually watch the clip? It appeared to me that Putin gave a very mild rebuke to Dell, and then went on to do just as much marketing of Russian IT:-) It was not a big "F-You Dell, F-you The West" like the headlines imply.
In maybe 1974 my dad, a Civil Engineer bought an HP 35C. Even though it cost a fortune (in those days), he let his 10 year old son (me) play with it. I remember being so impressed with it that it cemented my impression that HP was THE company to work for, if you were an electrical engineer.
18 years later I joined HP.
15 years after that and I'm still at HP. It's not the same place that it was in 1992, but then again what place is? I'd still rather be here than at the other computer makers, but the software and services companies are where the real action is now. Unfortunately, few of them seem to have that same "engineer's company" feel that HP did back in the day.
FWIW I don't blame Carly, though I didn't like her either. It was inevitable, with commoditization of the hardware.
This was not a surprise and not quick. SGI has been limping for years and years. They succumbed to the increase in power of the mainstream PC. It's been a few years since a workstation was anything special other than a high-end PC with high-end graphics in it.
In a way, they were killed by Linux too. Who needs Irix on a purpose built workstation when you can do 95% of the work on a PC running Linux?
Forget any talk about CPU efficiency. This is a software licensing play first and foremost. Much of the most expensive software (*cough*Oracle*cough*) is licensed per CPU. There has been some browbeating by AMD and Intel to get ISVs to license per socket, and some have gone this way, but there has been a lot of acrimony. If you license per CPU, the software company makes out like a bandit as all the machines have twice as many CPUs in them. The result is some customers defer upgrading CPUs, and AMD/Intel lose out. If the ISVs charge per socket, AMD/Intel is very happy since it's a no-brainer for their customers to upgrade, but the ISV perceives a potential loss of revenue.
In the "old days" where CPUs just got faster and faster, the ISVs didn't complain about this. In fact, they benefitted since they could cram more bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures into each sequential release and the customer didn't complain. Now the prevalence of dual core CPUs makes them feel like they're potentially leaving money on the table.
Enter "reverse hyperthreading." Make a multicore CPU look like a single CPU, and those software licensing issues go away and we're back to the good old days.
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...of budding scientists and engineers? Today's mainstream society treats technology as a black box, never to be opened or touched. Inquisitive kids need to be shown that they can take things apart, learn about them, and experiment with them. I don't buy into the complaint that Mythbusters lacks scientific rigor. Better to try things out in your back yard with only one or two data points than to accept things without thought.
I watch the show with my 9-year-old daughter. The highest compliment I can pay is that the show makes her ask a continuous stream of questions about what you are doing.
...and I can still access my wifi through the walls. My house was built in the late 1940's and has steel lath walls. I've dulled carbide blades on a reciprocating saw just trying to cut holes to get at pipes. The plaster is backed by expanded steel mesh with holes about the same pitch as the holes on the window of a microwave oven. Usable wifi signals still manage to find a way out of the house.
If you hate wardrivers so much, why not use WEP or WPA and not broadcast your SSID? Seems like a lot less hassle than repainting the house.
Don't count the trilogy out after the baby. My second one is 2 months old right now, and you need SOMETHING to do during the seemingly endless hours of nursing (either the wife nursing, which takes longer, or you with the bottle). Plus, entertaining a months-old baby only takes about 5% of the adult human brain, so you need something to occupy the other 95%. Then they sleep, which is free time.
Once they're old enough to crawl, THAT'S when your free time ends.
I have several lawyer friends. They live the death march every day, unless they work for themselves. Those that work for themselves don't make so much money, but they make their own hours. Those that work for law firms DON'T get to see the money they bill for. They work on salary. If they don't put in 70 hour weeks, they'll never make partner, or they'll just be let go sooner or later. None of them have made partner (at which point they'll stop associating with the likes of IT maggots like myself), but once they do they'll be so brainwashed that this behavior will seem normal, and they will perpetrate it on the next generation. Of my 3 lawyer friends, one has already quit to enter law enforcement. He'd rather carry a badge and be shot at than continue the law job.
First off, it would have ALL the music. iTunes was missing three artist I was hunting for last night, and I am frustrated. Heck, iTunes doesn't even have the *good* Elvis Costello!
Encoders: mp3 is fine for me. I think it would be nice if you could choose the bitrate though. Maybe you could get 128 kbps for one price, 64 kbps for something a bit cheaper, VBR for a bit more money.
DRM: I'd be OK with "storm door" DRM. The kind that keeps honest people honest but doesn't get in the way when I switch to a new computer. Tight DRM always seems to make it too hard to actually enjoy the music the way I want to.
Pricing: iTunes is blowing it with the flat-rate $0.99 per song. Some songs should be cheaper, some should be more expensive. The hot single that's getting airplay every 10 minutes on ClearChannel could go for $2, while old Dixie Dregs that nobody but me wants to hear could go for $0.20 per song. Wasn't a Nobel prize given out recently for some economists who showed that it was best to price things this way (Black-Shoales, no?).
There should also be a discount for buying the whole album. This would incent people to listen to some of those tracks that aren't geting heavy rotation. Some of my favorite songs were the ones that grew on me over time as I played a CD through. Now with iTunes I tend to cherry pick only the new songs that I've heard or been recommended.
There are a million other pricing schemes that could be done that might make both the artist and the buyer happy. How about an artist offering a single flat-fee for access to their entire catalog? Maybe a subscription to an artist who promises to release songs on a regular basis?
maybe 1 Gb is all that each single processor can handle and still have cycles left over for computation. Pumping a 1 Gb ethernet at nearly full capacity eats up more than half the cycles on a single CPU for most server type boxes. Then again, maybe the machine uses some lightweight protocol internally rather than TCP/IP. In the plain old server world the manufacturers are heading rapidly towards TCP offload engines (TOE) and RDMA (lightweight stacks) for 1 Gb and 10 Gb ethernet for just this reason.
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Did anyone actually watch the clip? It appeared to me that Putin gave a very mild rebuke to Dell, and then went on to do just as much marketing of Russian IT :-) It was not a big "F-You Dell, F-you The West" like the headlines imply.
You beat me to it. I work with several Wall Street firms, and they were operating with a virtual skeleton crew of IT prior to the sh*t hitting the fan
Not just drugs, but ink can be delivered with inkjet technology
Automated, 9-color 300 dpi tattoos?
In maybe 1974 my dad, a Civil Engineer bought an HP 35C. Even though it cost a fortune (in those days), he let his 10 year old son (me) play with it. I remember being so impressed with it that it cemented my impression that HP was THE company to work for, if you were an electrical engineer.
18 years later I joined HP.
15 years after that and I'm still at HP. It's not the same place that it was in 1992, but then again what place is? I'd still rather be here than at the other computer makers, but the software and services companies are where the real action is now. Unfortunately, few of them seem to have that same "engineer's company" feel that HP did back in the day.
FWIW I don't blame Carly, though I didn't like her either. It was inevitable, with commoditization of the hardware.
This was not a surprise and not quick. SGI has been limping for years and years. They succumbed to the increase in power of the mainstream PC. It's been a few years since a workstation was anything special other than a high-end PC with high-end graphics in it.
In a way, they were killed by Linux too. Who needs Irix on a purpose built workstation when you can do 95% of the work on a PC running Linux?
Forget any talk about CPU efficiency. This is a software licensing play first and foremost. Much of the most expensive software (*cough*Oracle*cough*) is licensed per CPU. There has been some browbeating by AMD and Intel to get ISVs to license per socket, and some have gone this way, but there has been a lot of acrimony. If you license per CPU, the software company makes out like a bandit as all the machines have twice as many CPUs in them. The result is some customers defer upgrading CPUs, and AMD/Intel lose out. If the ISVs charge per socket, AMD/Intel is very happy since it's a no-brainer for their customers to upgrade, but the ISV perceives a potential loss of revenue.
In the "old days" where CPUs just got faster and faster, the ISVs didn't complain about this. In fact, they benefitted since they could cram more bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures into each sequential release and the customer didn't complain. Now the prevalence of dual core CPUs makes them feel like they're potentially leaving money on the table.
Enter "reverse hyperthreading." Make a multicore CPU look like a single CPU, and those software licensing issues go away and we're back to the good old days.
...of budding scientists and engineers? Today's mainstream society treats technology as a black box, never to be opened or touched. Inquisitive kids need to be shown that they can take things apart, learn about them, and experiment with them. I don't buy into the complaint that Mythbusters lacks scientific rigor. Better to try things out in your back yard with only one or two data points than to accept things without thought.
I watch the show with my 9-year-old daughter. The highest compliment I can pay is that the show makes her ask a continuous stream of questions about what you are doing.
Wasn't one of these gone way wrong the premise of an Australian SF novel called "Souls in the Great Machine?"
...and I can still access my wifi through the walls. My house was built in the late 1940's and has steel lath walls. I've dulled carbide blades on a reciprocating saw just trying to cut holes to get at pipes. The plaster is backed by expanded steel mesh with holes about the same pitch as the holes on the window of a microwave oven. Usable wifi signals still manage to find a way out of the house.
If you hate wardrivers so much, why not use WEP or WPA and not broadcast your SSID? Seems like a lot less hassle than repainting the house.
It's $650? The HP hx4700 is $650, and it has the VGA screen. Odd to price two machines on top of each other like that.
Don't count the trilogy out after the baby. My second one is 2 months old right now, and you need SOMETHING to do during the seemingly endless hours of nursing (either the wife nursing, which takes longer, or you with the bottle). Plus, entertaining a months-old baby only takes about 5% of the adult human brain, so you need something to occupy the other 95%. Then they sleep, which is free time.
Once they're old enough to crawl, THAT'S when your free time ends.
I have several lawyer friends. They live the death march every day, unless they work for themselves. Those that work for themselves don't make so much money, but they make their own hours. Those that work for law firms DON'T get to see the money they bill for. They work on salary. If they don't put in 70 hour weeks, they'll never make partner, or they'll just be let go sooner or later. None of them have made partner (at which point they'll stop associating with the likes of IT maggots like myself), but once they do they'll be so brainwashed that this behavior will seem normal, and they will perpetrate it on the next generation. Of my 3 lawyer friends, one has already quit to enter law enforcement. He'd rather carry a badge and be shot at than continue the law job.
First off, it would have ALL the music. iTunes was missing three artist I was hunting for last night, and I am frustrated. Heck, iTunes doesn't even have the *good* Elvis Costello!
Encoders: mp3 is fine for me. I think it would be nice if you could choose the bitrate though. Maybe you could get 128 kbps for one price, 64 kbps for something a bit cheaper, VBR for a bit more money.
DRM: I'd be OK with "storm door" DRM. The kind that keeps honest people honest but doesn't get in the way when I switch to a new computer. Tight DRM always seems to make it too hard to actually enjoy the music the way I want to.
Pricing: iTunes is blowing it with the flat-rate $0.99 per song. Some songs should be cheaper, some should be more expensive. The hot single that's getting airplay every 10 minutes on ClearChannel could go for $2, while old Dixie Dregs that nobody but me wants to hear could go for $0.20 per song. Wasn't a Nobel prize given out recently for some economists who showed that it was best to price things this way (Black-Shoales, no?).
There should also be a discount for buying the whole album. This would incent people to listen to some of those tracks that aren't geting heavy rotation. Some of my favorite songs were the ones that grew on me over time as I played a CD through. Now with iTunes I tend to cherry pick only the new songs that I've heard or been recommended.
There are a million other pricing schemes that could be done that might make both the artist and the buyer happy. How about an artist offering a single flat-fee for access to their entire catalog? Maybe a subscription to an artist who promises to release songs on a regular basis?
maybe 1 Gb is all that each single processor can handle and still have cycles left over for computation. Pumping a 1 Gb ethernet at nearly full capacity eats up more than half the cycles on a single CPU for most server type boxes. Then again, maybe the machine uses some lightweight protocol internally rather than TCP/IP. In the plain old server world the manufacturers are heading rapidly towards TCP offload engines (TOE) and RDMA (lightweight stacks) for 1 Gb and 10 Gb ethernet for just this reason.