failure to correctly estimate market demand. failure to ramp up production to meet demand.
the failure to meet demand means the prices are driven up, which in turn means intel is selling less product than they could have -- it is lost revenue.
it also negatively impacts their product penetration, as cheaper alternatives can more easily compete -- so they lose market share as well.
intel seems to be succumbing to stubborn 'face-saving' rather than killing projects which are obviously broken beyond repair.
take ia64 for example. over a decade of development, billions and billions sunk into the project, and they have nothing to show for it. remember that intel intended ia64 to replace ia32. go ahead and point to a couple overpriced (terrible price/performance) top100 machines as "vindication" of ia64 -- but realize that intel expected ia64 to be on millions of desktops and servers by now -- not a tiny niche of a few custom built supercomputers.
project monterey is dead, core ia64 partners are abandoning ship. microsoft cancelled ia64 clustering in their products, which pretty much kills ia64 for business.
while intel is busy trying to save face by continuing to beat the ia64 dead horse, they are being eaten alive by amd.
the old intel killed off i860 and i432 when they didn't deliver on their promises. the old intel would have killed off ia64 by now.
it remains to be seen if today's intel can regain focus, or if they will continue to stubbornly "save face" instead.
Instead of whining about how "mysql sux0rz, postgresql r0x0rz", you should be asking yourself why mysql is dominant over postgresql.
If postgresql is so superior, why hasnt it been able to get any significant market share?
Why does mysql dominate webhosting?
Why are huge sites with hundreds or thousands of transactions/sec successfully using mysql without any problems? postgresql fanatics claim such sites simply cant exist because mysql can't handle "those kinds of loads".
Solve those questions and maybe postgresql will become more widely used.
This all reminds me of the "(free|net|open)bsd r0x0rz, linux sux0rz" fanatics, and nothing makes people tune you out faster than ranting on like a religious fundamentalist.
... by listening to the classic dead alewives skit:
NARRATOR: "Your children, like it or not, are attracted in their weaker years to the occult. And a game like D&D fuels their imagination and makes them feel special while drawing them deeper and deeper into the bowels of El Diablo. This afternoon, the Dead Alewives' Watchtower invites you to sit in on an actual gaming session, and observe the previously unobservable as a hidden camera takes you into the inner sanctum of Dungeons & Dragons."
(Session begins) Dungeon Master: "Galstaff, you have entered the door to the north. You are now standing by yourself in a dark room, the pungent stench of mildew emanates from the walls..." Player 1: "Where are the cheetos?" DM: "Next to you." Player 2: "I cast a spell!" P1: "Where is Mountain Dew?" DM: "In the fridge, duh!" P2: "I want to cast a spell!" P1: "Can i get one?" DM: "YES! You can have a Mountain Dew, just get it!" P2: "I can cast any of these on the list, yes?" DM: "Yes, any of the first level ones." P1: "I'm going to get one, any one else want one? Hey, I'm not in the room, right?" DM: "What room?" P2: "I want to cast... Magic Missile!" P1: "The room where he's casting all this stuff at!" DM: "He hasn't casted one yet." P2: "I am though, if you'd listen. I'm casting Magic Missile!" DM: "Why do you want to cast magic missile? There is nothing to attack here..." P2: "I'm attacking the darkness" (laughter) DM: "Fine, fine, you attack the darkness. There is an elf in front of you." P2: "Whoa!" Player 3: "That's me, right?" DM: "He's wearing a brown tunic, and he has grey hair, and blue eyes..." P3: "No I don't, I have grey eyes!" DM: "Let me see that sheet..." P3: "W... well, the sheet says I have blue eyes, but I decided I want grey eyes!" DM: "Whatever... ok, look, you guys can talk to each other now." P2: "Hello." P3: "Hello." P2: "I am Galstaff, sorcerer of light!" P3: "Then how come you had to cast magic missile?" (laughter) DM: "You guys are being attacked!" P1: "Do I see that happening?" DM: "NO! You are outside, by the tavern!" P1: "Cool, then I get drunk!" DM: "There are seven ogres surrounding you." P2: "How can they surround us? I had Mordenkainen's Magical Watchdog cast!" DM: "No, you didn't." P1: "I'm getting drunk, are there any girls there?" P2: "I totally did! You asked me if I wanted any equipment along before this adventure, and I said no. But I needed material components for all my spells so I cast Mordenkainen's magical watchdog!" DM: "But you never actually cast it!" P1: "Hey, roll the dice and see if I'm getting drunk!" DM (sighs) (rolls dice): "Yes, you are!" P1: "Are there any girls there?" DM: "YES!" P2: "I did though! I completely said when you asked me! DM: "No, you didn't! You didn't actually say you were casting any spells so now there are ogres, OK?" P1: "Ogres! Man, I got an ogre slaying knife! It's got a +9 against ogres!" DM: "But YOU ARE NOT THERE! You're getting drunk!" P1: "Ok but, if there are any girls there, I want to be able to DO THEM!"
NARRATOR: "There you have it. A frightening look into America's most frightening pastime. Remember that it's not your children's fault that they've been drawn into a satanic cult of nightmare. It's their gym teacher's fault for making them feel like outcasts when they couldn't do a single pull up!"
If law enforcement doesnt want the public to get away with violating the law, then law enforcement shouldnt be suprised if the public requires law enforcement to follow the law as well. Thus law enforcement can get a subpoena or search warrant, or they can go pound sand.
its nice to have the same syntax, especially when youre working on multiple opensource projects using a mix of cvs and svn. (where the repositories arent under your control, youre just a developer)
1) Subversion doesnt use haskell 2) File and Directories Copies (big feature!) 3) Repository Permissions 4) Ability to Work only on One Directory of the Repository (svn is much more flexible in this regard) 5) Availability of Graphical User-Interfaces.
not likely. intel's 64bit extensions provide only the code compatibility with amd64, but none of the performance improvements amd made that go along with the design.
benchmarks show intel's 64bit code running much slower than amd's.
itanium price/performance is still terrible, and market penetration is basically nil. itanium was originally designed to replace ia32, but it is being forced into ever smaller niches. soon there will be no niches left for ia64 to fit into.
intel has sunk billions and billions into this architecture, they've been banging away at ia64 for a decade now (ia64 development began in 1994). and intel has nothing to show for it yet.
project monterey was cancelled, and support from core itanium partners has been drying up. microsoft cancelled ia64 clustering.
and now amd64 is eating into itanium's target markets.
how long will intel continue to beat the dead horse known as ia64?
of course with a population over 1 billion in a land area just over 1/3 the size of the US, they have quite different issues than the US does.
india has roughly 25% of the population below the poverty line (compared to the US' 12%), but this is pretty good for a developing country. of course as you pointed out, much of that 25% may be subsistence farmers and/or simple villagers -- quite different from the US where such things dont really exist.
any property used in the commission of a crime (in this case, relay rape, botnets, spamming, etc) is seized and auctioned off to the public.
it's even better than destroying their property -- its taking their property away from them altogether. their home, their car, their computer, everything.
it does not matter if it is automatic, merely giving the consumer the ability to edit commercials out is prohibited by this bill. any software with the ability to edit commercials (intentional or not) is prohibited, which pretty much means any video editing software, period.
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no it's not. it's a failure.
failure to correctly estimate market demand.
failure to ramp up production to meet demand.
the failure to meet demand means the prices are driven up, which in turn means intel is selling less product than they could have -- it is lost revenue.
it also negatively impacts their product penetration, as cheaper alternatives can more easily compete -- so they lose market share as well.
intel seems to be succumbing to stubborn 'face-saving' rather than killing projects which are obviously broken beyond repair.
take ia64 for example. over a decade of development, billions and billions sunk into the project, and they have nothing to show for it. remember that intel intended ia64 to replace ia32. go ahead and point to a couple overpriced ( terrible price/performance) top100 machines as "vindication" of ia64 -- but realize that intel expected ia64 to be on millions of desktops and servers by now -- not a tiny niche of a few custom built supercomputers.
project monterey is dead, core ia64 partners are abandoning ship. microsoft cancelled ia64 clustering in their products, which pretty much kills ia64 for business.
while intel is busy trying to save face by continuing to beat the ia64 dead horse, they are being eaten alive by amd.
the old intel killed off i860 and i432 when they didn't deliver on their promises. the old intel would have killed off ia64 by now.
it remains to be seen if today's intel can regain focus, or if they will continue to stubbornly "save face" instead.
Instead of whining about how "mysql sux0rz, postgresql r0x0rz", you should be asking yourself why mysql is dominant over postgresql.
If postgresql is so superior, why hasnt it been able to get any significant market share?
Why does mysql dominate webhosting?
Why are huge sites with hundreds or thousands of transactions/sec successfully using mysql without any problems? postgresql fanatics claim such sites simply cant exist because mysql can't handle "those kinds of loads".
Solve those questions and maybe postgresql will become more widely used.
This all reminds me of the "(free|net|open)bsd r0x0rz, linux sux0rz" fanatics, and nothing makes people tune you out faster than ranting on like a religious fundamentalist.
Instead of whining, address the issues.
... by listening to the classic dead alewives skit:
NARRATOR: "Your children, like it or not, are attracted in their weaker years to the occult. And a game like D&D fuels their imagination and makes them feel special while drawing them deeper and deeper into the bowels of El Diablo. This afternoon, the Dead Alewives' Watchtower invites you to sit in on an actual gaming session, and observe the previously unobservable as a hidden camera takes you into the inner sanctum of Dungeons & Dragons."
(Session begins)
Dungeon Master: "Galstaff, you have entered the door to the north. You are now standing by yourself in a dark room, the pungent stench of mildew emanates from the walls..."
Player 1: "Where are the cheetos?"
DM: "Next to you."
Player 2: "I cast a spell!"
P1: "Where is Mountain Dew?"
DM: "In the fridge, duh!"
P2: "I want to cast a spell!"
P1: "Can i get one?"
DM: "YES! You can have a Mountain Dew, just get it!"
P2: "I can cast any of these on the list, yes?"
DM: "Yes, any of the first level ones."
P1: "I'm going to get one, any one else want one? Hey, I'm not in the room, right?"
DM: "What room?"
P2: "I want to cast... Magic Missile!"
P1: "The room where he's casting all this stuff at!"
DM: "He hasn't casted one yet."
P2: "I am though, if you'd listen. I'm casting Magic Missile!"
DM: "Why do you want to cast magic missile? There is nothing to attack here..."
P2: "I'm attacking the darkness"
(laughter)
DM: "Fine, fine, you attack the darkness. There is an elf in front of you."
P2: "Whoa!"
Player 3: "That's me, right?"
DM: "He's wearing a brown tunic, and he has grey hair, and blue eyes..."
P3: "No I don't, I have grey eyes!"
DM: "Let me see that sheet..."
P3: "W... well, the sheet says I have blue eyes, but I decided I want grey eyes!"
DM: "Whatever... ok, look, you guys can talk to each other now."
P2: "Hello."
P3: "Hello."
P2: "I am Galstaff, sorcerer of light!"
P3: "Then how come you had to cast magic missile?"
(laughter)
DM: "You guys are being attacked!"
P1: "Do I see that happening?"
DM: "NO! You are outside, by the tavern!"
P1: "Cool, then I get drunk!"
DM: "There are seven ogres surrounding you."
P2: "How can they surround us? I had Mordenkainen's Magical Watchdog cast!"
DM: "No, you didn't."
P1: "I'm getting drunk, are there any girls there?"
P2: "I totally did! You asked me if I wanted any equipment along before this adventure, and I said no. But I needed material components for all my spells so I cast Mordenkainen's magical watchdog!"
DM: "But you never actually cast it!"
P1: "Hey, roll the dice and see if I'm getting drunk!"
DM (sighs) (rolls dice): "Yes, you are!"
P1: "Are there any girls there?"
DM: "YES!"
P2: "I did though! I completely said when you asked me!
DM: "No, you didn't! You didn't actually say you were casting any spells so now there are ogres, OK?"
P1: "Ogres! Man, I got an ogre slaying knife! It's got a +9 against ogres!"
DM: "But YOU ARE NOT THERE! You're getting drunk!"
P1: "Ok but, if there are any girls there, I want to be able to DO THEM !"
NARRATOR: "There you have it. A frightening look into America's most frightening pastime. Remember that it's not your children's fault that they've been drawn into a satanic cult of nightmare. It's their gym teacher's fault for making them feel like outcasts when they couldn't do a single pull up!"
1) Deface own website ...
2)
3) Profit!
Why didn't the Air Force at least evaluate these products to see if their situation was one in which they would work?
two words: intense lobbying.
(2 ea) 5 years federal pen
the semantics are exactly the same.
svn is superior to darcs in every way that matters to me -- darcs does not have a single point win over svn for me, and many point losses.
but the fact you're using arch instead of dacs speaks volumes.
nothing wrong with holding up the FBI to high standards. the FBI are supposed to be the elite of law enforcement.
after all, who watches the watchers?
If law enforcement doesnt want the public to get away with violating the law, then law enforcement shouldnt be suprised if the public requires law enforcement to follow the law as well. Thus law enforcement can get a subpoena or search warrant, or they can go pound sand.
No hypocrisy in that.
svn syntax is exactly the same as cvs for those:
svn init -- cvs init
svn checkout -- cvs checkout
svn update -- cvs update
svn commit -- cvs commit
svn diff -- cvs diff
svn log -- cvs log
its nice to have the same syntax, especially when youre working on multiple opensource projects using a mix of cvs and svn. (where the repositories arent under your control, youre just a developer)
1) Subversion doesnt use haskell
2) File and Directories Copies (big feature!)
3) Repository Permissions
4) Ability to Work only on One Directory of the Repository (svn is much more flexible in this regard)
5) Availability of Graphical User-Interfaces.
the cvs-ish syntax is also a plus.
you might want to try subversion?
going by that page, subversion looks like a better deal than darcs.
not likely. intel's 64bit extensions provide only the code compatibility with amd64, but none of the performance improvements amd made that go along with the design.
benchmarks show intel's 64bit code running much slower than amd's.
...like price/performance.
sure you can get faster intel chips, but you will pay far more for the privilege.
price/performance, amd completely wastes intel on all levels.
...remember when he claimed to have a Ph.D?
itanium price/performance is still terrible, and market penetration is basically nil. itanium was originally designed to replace ia32, but it is being forced into ever smaller niches. soon there will be no niches left for ia64 to fit into.
intel has sunk billions and billions into this architecture, they've been banging away at ia64 for a decade now (ia64 development began in 1994). and intel has nothing to show for it yet.
project monterey was cancelled, and support from core itanium partners has been drying up. microsoft cancelled ia64 clustering.
and now amd64 is eating into itanium's target markets.
how long will intel continue to beat the dead horse known as ia64?
You work at Electronic Arts, don't you.
of course with a population over 1 billion in a land area just over 1/3 the size of the US, they have quite different issues than the US does.
india has roughly 25% of the population below the poverty line (compared to the US' 12%), but this is pretty good for a developing country. of course as you pointed out, much of that 25% may be subsistence farmers and/or simple villagers -- quite different from the US where such things dont really exist.
im quite sure their house and car will make up for it.
ill gotten gains and all that. all forfeit.
...is forfeiture laws.
any property used in the commission of a crime (in this case, relay rape, botnets, spamming, etc) is seized and auctioned off to the public.
it's even better than destroying their property -- its taking their property away from them altogether. their home, their car, their computer, everything.
...how about long term stays on the lunar surface? As in months or years.
How about a lunar colony instead of a freaking space station?
Would seem to be a prerequisite for anything approaching a lunar space elevator.
And long term lunar stays would provide valuable practice for something like a martian colony.
it does not matter if it is automatic, merely giving the consumer the ability to edit commercials out is prohibited by this bill. any software with the ability to edit commercials (intentional or not) is prohibited, which pretty much means any video editing software, period.
Elevator from the Earth to the Sun? Where would you anchor the elevator? Both the earth and moon rotate...