Groves - although when Campbell went to school there may have been only one HS for Brimingham or not. But I think back in 75 - 79 Groves and Seaholm were operating HS's
Actually - look at the last time period whre the merced (the Itanium thank you very much whomever corrected me) ends.The time is now 2.5 years BUT - I think this is due to marketing and R & D practices, not the disproving of moores law
look at Moore's law in action
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Here is a link that has a simple graph from the 4004 to the P7 (Merced Pentium II) that shows how Intel has obeyed Moore's law (at least until the P2.)
Bruce, I went to same High School as you (Birmingham MI) and graduated about 8 - 10 years ago. You and Sam Rami are somewhat of a legend there and my 10th grade Drama teacher choregraphed the skeleton dance fron Evil Dead 2. My question is rather off beat - Back in high school, what were your goals? Did you ever imagine "making it" in acting as a carrer?
Also - all terrosists that we are suspecting have beef with America(ns) Why attack a flight that is majority Dom Rep. citizens? Maybe this could be a cleverly disguised assination of some high powered Domincan Republic drug overlord / politican / leader / rebel?
It takes weeks to find wreckage and figure what causes plane crashes (remember Flight 800 to Paris) ANyone ruling out ANYTHING right now is either a blatent falsehood OR propaganda meant to calm the American People
To put it in a truly different context - Music and Art have existed since the dawn of man. The fences we have built around them in the form of copyright stem from a capatalist mindset taken to the near extreme.
What is music? It is sound and the expression of an individual or group of individuals. Lets look at the sound aspect first: If music is to truly be copyrighted - wouldn't it make sense that only people who pay to listen to an album be allowed to hear it? If you hear someone elses music playing while walking down a street, are you violating copyright laws, should you be? How is trading music without profit different from letting your friends listen to it aside from the durability?
What about the artists expression - If we were really comitted to the ideal of individuals owning their own expression in copyright - most musical acts today would have to pay royalties to previous artists whom most new music is styled after (if not direct rip-off.)
I will be the first to admit that sharing music online is a violation of copyright laws. Maybe Napster / Morpheus etc. aren't just popular because people can get music without purchase, but maybe it is the twenty first century form of civil disobidence against capatalism gone too far. Look at the world today - we (American / Western Capatalist nations) obviously don't have everything right. Can we learn from this and adapt - or let corporations control us and dictate what our laws should be in our country. A Company is NOT a citizen.
It sounds to me that your punishments aren't grounded in a sense of jusitice, but a sense of rightousness
Some penalties I'd like to see:
1. Require open standards. No more proprietary protocols or file formats. All have to be published by the time Microsoft releases a product to the public.
I disagree - only because EVERY company does this. IBM, Novell, Intel, most ERP's / ERM's etc. - Just make the core kernal open - Linux can develop into a fully OS compatable format and start to be adopted by users who want a low cost no frills desktop that runs quicken. MS will be forced to compete and they could make propritary protocols and other crap but that won't be very effective.
2. Divest MSN, and X-Box divisions
How is X-box and Msn currently being owned by MS breaking the law or causing anti-competitive behavior in the desktop operating system market?
3. A fine of no less than 25% of Microsoft's yearly income. Not profit, income
Fines very well may be levied - but not a yearly level, a one time cost.
The remedy phase will be bad for MSFT short run for sure - economy depsies uncertainty. However, MS must see a potential in this case - or they would have fought harder for the settlement.
I fear that MS is betting that with fiscal conservatives in power and a economy going from bad to worse there would be a ton of pressure on the judicial branch to go easy on MS. I think it could be reasonable that MS will get a better deal.
Don't consider this post flamebait - I would like to see Windows OS kernals go open source - let the real developers (read academic types, not tied down by corporate PHB's) have a go at the kernal and watch *nix and Windows merge into a Uber-OS!.
Economics is not a game of proof - it is a game of risk. Your absolutly correct - and your argument would hold alot of water. But the fact remains that the current situation is the one that is easiest to deal with. In hard times, the economy is resistant against uncertainty.
Making sure that the status quo of develpment jobs in America stays intact and bending over for Bill is the best decision if you want to avoid more economic instability.
Bush didn't sell out to MS - he just saw a bigger picture. IF MS got blugened, broken apart, fined, etc. that would mean problems with every software developer in the nation who writes apps for MS. If MS can't keep upgrading OS's - software companies can't keep upgrading applications. Everyone loses money and jobs. End of story
Political arguments on slashdot are usually stilted to liberal Neuromancer cum Utopian technologists (at least, mine are!) Bush doesn't care about.net, Gates grand scheme to own the internet, he doesn't know what a passport is and he probably dosen't care about software licenses. All Bush cares about his the economy, and all the other crap going on. Lets face it - this is a BAD time to try and break up the largest software company in the world.
Does anyone think it is a coincidence that on the day that the US reports first time negative growth, after 8 years of being fueled on booming technology The gov't strikes a deal with the largest Technology maker? Lets face it, Microsoft means jobs, they have a large market share and almost every software company in the nation writes software for its products. Think about how many hi tech upper middle class jobs that represents.
I think ANY president would do the same thing given the circumstances.
why release a propritary mp3 player when it should be so easy to add USB connectivity to it as well. It may suck compared to firewire - but I want my MP3's from my Windows 2K server, or my Linux server.
I think Apple is trying to pull a little "Mi[ro$of7" marketing on this one.
Hmmmm... The actual book looks fake, and it is sitting on the table at a truly odd tilt / angle. Also look around the picture, on the table is some Dell letterhead, a pack of Marlboros and a smeared copy. This isn't Apple HQ or a project lab but someones house (prob spymac's webmasters desk!) If it is real (not likely) then it is at someones house - that means an engineer who is able to take it home. If I was able to take home a secret work project, I wouldn't release pictures on the internet and have my PHB find them.
On the technical side look at the shadow for the Iwalk (alleged) it falls to the upper left of the Iwalk, however, no similar shadow falls on the marlboros. Also, light is reflecting off of the celophane wrapper on the cigarettes to the upper left. This would point that the light source of the picture was coming from the upper left, but the shadow placement on the Iwalk contradicts that. Also, under magnification there are pixels that border the Iwalk that are whiter then the surronding table. I would say a good 3D render, but it is a fake
Besides, YOU KNOW Mac's PDA will be translucent pink, or paisley or some shit like that!!
Superparamagnetisim is when ambient energy is equal to or exceeds the magnetic energy of an object. In hard drives, it is estimated that the superparamagnetisim barrier is 150GB per Sq Inch. We are not at this level yet, but once we are (est 3 years time) we will no longer be able to increase HDD size (at least in the current 3.5" format) so we will need to either investigate other technologies (like solid state.) OR we will see the return of giant platters, disk farms, jbod's, etc. like the old mainframe days.
Utilizing superconductive material to utilize the 3rd (z) plane magnetically between platters is also a possibility.
I agree - you are right on the money. I feel your statements of "Simple OS Layer" and Microsoft opening integration are indirect cries for MS to FINALLY open source on its kernal(s).
Imagine, what a cheap cost effective way for the goevernment to hand down punishment - instead of breaking up a company, or executing oversight committees - just say "open your source for windows by Friday" and shut the door on them.
If Microsoft was worth its brass in development engineering, they would want open source kernals for Windows, so then everyone would have a platform to run their truly advanced software that integrates into Windows that makes it so unique and special - software like A MP3 player!! and A WEB BROWESER (oohhhh!!) oh wait A LOG IN WITH PICTURES!!!!
Of course, MS could just be 95% marketing and 5% actual innovation..
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Groves - although when Campbell went to school there may have been only one HS for Brimingham or not. But I think back in 75 - 79 Groves and Seaholm were operating HS's
Actually - look at the last time period whre the merced (the Itanium thank you very much whomever corrected me) ends.The time is now 2.5 years BUT - I think this is due to marketing and R & D practices, not the disproving of moores law
my bad -
Here is a link that has a simple graph from the 4004 to the P7 (Merced Pentium II) that shows how Intel has obeyed Moore's law (at least until the P2.)
Bruce, I went to same High School as you (Birmingham MI) and graduated about 8 - 10 years ago. You and Sam Rami are somewhat of a legend there and my 10th grade Drama teacher choregraphed the skeleton dance fron Evil Dead 2. My question is rather off beat - Back in high school, what were your goals? Did you ever imagine "making it" in acting as a carrer?
Also - all terrosists that we are suspecting have beef with America(ns) Why attack a flight that is majority Dom Rep. citizens? Maybe this could be a cleverly disguised assination of some high powered Domincan Republic drug overlord / politican / leader / rebel?
It takes weeks to find wreckage and figure what causes plane crashes (remember Flight 800 to Paris) ANyone ruling out ANYTHING right now is either a blatent falsehood OR propaganda meant to calm the American People
bet you $100 it was a bomb in cargo area
This could be just the thing I need to convinve my wife that we should get a ps2, xbox, and gamecube.
What is music? It is sound and the expression of an individual or group of individuals. Lets look at the sound aspect first: If music is to truly be copyrighted - wouldn't it make sense that only people who pay to listen to an album be allowed to hear it? If you hear someone elses music playing while walking down a street, are you violating copyright laws, should you be? How is trading music without profit different from letting your friends listen to it aside from the durability?
What about the artists expression - If we were really comitted to the ideal of individuals owning their own expression in copyright - most musical acts today would have to pay royalties to previous artists whom most new music is styled after (if not direct rip-off.)
I will be the first to admit that sharing music online is a violation of copyright laws. Maybe Napster / Morpheus etc. aren't just popular because people can get music without purchase, but maybe it is the twenty first century form of civil disobidence against capatalism gone too far. Look at the world today - we (American / Western Capatalist nations) obviously don't have everything right. Can we learn from this and adapt - or let corporations control us and dictate what our laws should be in our country. A Company is NOT a citizen.
not really - But that is what I forsee happening at the desktop level.
Some penalties I'd like to see:
1. Require open standards. No more proprietary protocols or file formats. All have to be published by the time Microsoft releases a product to the public.
I disagree - only because EVERY company does this. IBM, Novell, Intel, most ERP's / ERM's etc. - Just make the core kernal open - Linux can develop into a fully OS compatable format and start to be adopted by users who want a low cost no frills desktop that runs quicken. MS will be forced to compete and they could make propritary protocols and other crap but that won't be very effective.
2. Divest MSN, and X-Box divisions
How is X-box and Msn currently being owned by MS breaking the law or causing anti-competitive behavior in the desktop operating system market?
3. A fine of no less than 25% of Microsoft's yearly income. Not profit, income
Fines very well may be levied - but not a yearly level, a one time cost.
The remedy phase will be bad for MSFT short run for sure - economy depsies uncertainty. However, MS must see a potential in this case - or they would have fought harder for the settlement.
I fear that MS is betting that with fiscal conservatives in power and a economy going from bad to worse there would be a ton of pressure on the judicial branch to go easy on MS. I think it could be reasonable that MS will get a better deal.
Don't consider this post flamebait - I would like to see Windows OS kernals go open source - let the real developers (read academic types, not tied down by corporate PHB's) have a go at the kernal and watch *nix and Windows merge into a Uber-OS!.
Economics is not a game of proof - it is a game of risk. Your absolutly correct - and your argument would hold alot of water. But the fact remains that the current situation is the one that is easiest to deal with. In hard times, the economy is resistant against uncertainty.
Making sure that the status quo of develpment jobs in America stays intact and bending over for Bill is the best decision if you want to avoid more economic instability.
just being a realist
the ideals of youth give way to stark realities.
.net, Gates grand scheme to own the internet, he doesn't know what a passport is and he probably dosen't care about software licenses. All Bush cares about his the economy, and all the other crap going on. Lets face it - this is a BAD time to try and break up the largest software company in the world.
Bush didn't sell out to MS - he just saw a bigger picture. IF MS got blugened, broken apart, fined, etc. that would mean problems with every software developer in the nation who writes apps for MS. If MS can't keep upgrading OS's - software companies can't keep upgrading applications. Everyone loses money and jobs. End of story
Political arguments on slashdot are usually stilted to liberal Neuromancer cum Utopian technologists (at least, mine are!) Bush doesn't care about
Does anyone think it is a coincidence that on the day that the US reports first time negative growth, after 8 years of being fueled on booming technology The gov't strikes a deal with the largest Technology maker? Lets face it, Microsoft means jobs, they have a large market share and almost every software company in the nation writes software for its products. Think about how many hi tech upper middle class jobs that represents.
I think ANY president would do the same thing given the circumstances.
Thanks - I was not aware that Firewire was PC compatable. Just never have seen it implemented, but then again, we have germs don't we?
why release a propritary mp3 player when it should be so easy to add USB connectivity to it as well. It may suck compared to firewire - but I want my MP3's from my Windows 2K server, or my Linux server.
I think Apple is trying to pull a little "Mi[ro$of7" marketing on this one.
Hmmmm... The actual book looks fake, and it is sitting on the table at a truly odd tilt / angle. Also look around the picture, on the table is some Dell letterhead, a pack of Marlboros and a smeared copy. This isn't Apple HQ or a project lab but someones house (prob spymac's webmasters desk!) If it is real (not likely) then it is at someones house - that means an engineer who is able to take it home. If I was able to take home a secret work project, I wouldn't release pictures on the internet and have my PHB find them.
On the technical side look at the shadow for the Iwalk (alleged) it falls to the upper left of the Iwalk, however, no similar shadow falls on the marlboros. Also, light is reflecting off of the celophane wrapper on the cigarettes to the upper left. This would point that the light source of the picture was coming from the upper left, but the shadow placement on the Iwalk contradicts that. Also, under magnification there are pixels that border the Iwalk that are whiter then the surronding table. I would say a good 3D render, but it is a fake
Besides, YOU KNOW Mac's PDA will be translucent pink, or paisley or some shit like that!!
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In 1960 Willard Frank Libby won a Nobel Prize for his work on radiocarbon dating, a technique that truly revolutionize archaeology
doing nothing for the english language, which is still in caveman speak...
The RIAA hackers are gonna hook themselves up to a cable modem with Windoze and double click the network neighboorhood icon.
Just another wonderful way to alienate their user base even more than they already have.
all your base are belong to us
Superparamagnetisim is when ambient energy is equal to or exceeds the magnetic energy of an object. In hard drives, it is estimated that the superparamagnetisim barrier is 150GB per Sq Inch. We are not at this level yet, but once we are (est 3 years time) we will no longer be able to increase HDD size (at least in the current 3.5" format) so we will need to either investigate other technologies (like solid state.) OR we will see the return of giant platters, disk farms, jbod's, etc. like the old mainframe days.
Utilizing superconductive material to utilize the 3rd (z) plane magnetically between platters is also a possibility.
I agree - you are right on the money. I feel your statements of "Simple OS Layer" and Microsoft opening integration are indirect cries for MS to FINALLY open source on its kernal(s).
Imagine, what a cheap cost effective way for the goevernment to hand down punishment - instead of breaking up a company, or executing oversight committees - just say "open your source for windows by Friday" and shut the door on them.
If Microsoft was worth its brass in development engineering, they would want open source kernals for Windows, so then everyone would have a platform to run their truly advanced software that integrates into Windows that makes it so unique and special - software like A MP3 player!! and A WEB BROWESER (oohhhh!!) oh wait A LOG IN WITH PICTURES!!!!
Of course, MS could just be 95% marketing and 5% actual innovation..
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mod this guy OUTTA here.. Slashdot is not the spot for spam, go post on some newsgroup for lunatics.