Sure those errors show up. But when you yourself find dozens of them even before you ship the damn thing, you skipped at least one turn in the testing/fixing cycle. Jesus Christ, people here complain if software that buggy ships, and this is fucking hardware. Sorry, Intel fan boys, there is no excuse.
So, are you saying that you can check every single path in a CPU and judge them all to be completely correct? The design is very much like software in that you define a finite set of use cases and test them. You're bound to miss some things.
No, what I (quite unlike you) am saying is that you should not check the paths with the bugs after you start mass production. Fucking do it before, or stop bothering with it at all.
So Intel ships the very first silicon in mass? My point is: the maker of a chip should not find dozens of errors a few weeks around the official release of the chip. This points at a release way too early.
Yeah, not checking your design before you release it and then make the errata available immediatly is actually much better than not checking at all - NOT!
This is hardware, not software you can justsend the customer a patch for. You may be able to fix some bugs in microcode, or the BIOS, or work around them. But it is far better to find them before you release the very first production chip.
In Europe, there was a police raid on a couple of "Release Groups" today, supported by the the GVU (Geman leg of the MPA). Funny thing is, one of the places searched was the GVU's office, becasue they were actively involved in swapping the movies. Two stories about it (in German) one and two
Let me get this straight - if it weren't for the shipping and handling, Dell would make a loss on each sale. Not counting any of the rebates they often run.
If Dell made $50 on a $1300 machine I'd be shocked
Well, let's assume they do make only $50 on that computer. They will make another $100 on the shipping (wich is free from Apple). Unless of course it's one of those specials with free (3-5 days) shipping - then it's only $25 for the handling.
There are reports that Intel can not produce the volume of chips that Apple need.
"My source said there was some stuff, "some very, very cool stuff," that
Jobs couldn't unveil because of "supply issues."
"They can't get enough Core Duo (chips)," said my source.
And then there are reports that this is despite Apple getting top priority in shipments.
"CORPORATE BUYERS of notebooks from Dell and HP are fuming that people
can buy Duo Core machines from Apple now, while they will have to wait
for weeks for Yonah based notebooks."
As long as Sony puts their R&D in ways to make their customer's life miserable, no way. The last bit of innovation at Sony went away when they streamlined Aiwa a couple of years back.
Who said anything about an alternative to Quicktime? Are you one of the leet Windows coders I talked about - those who still don't have a fucking clue what Quicktime is? Quicktime is basically a set of APIs, and a player (like QT Amateur) is one possible aplication that calls them - in the good old days there were a dozen, and most of them still work with the latest version of QT. Now start coding.
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Good to hear that Intel stopped shipping compilers.
Sure those errors show up. But when you yourself find dozens of them even before you ship the damn thing, you skipped at least one turn in the testing/fixing cycle. Jesus Christ, people here complain if software that buggy ships, and this is fucking hardware. Sorry, Intel fan boys, there is no excuse.
God, you Intel fan boys are funny. Face it, the Core Duo shipped too early.
No, what I (quite unlike you) am saying is that you should not check the paths with the bugs after you start mass production. Fucking do it before, or stop bothering with it at all.
So Intel ships the very first silicon in mass? My point is: the maker of a chip should not find dozens of errors a few weeks around the official release of the chip. This points at a release way too early.
This is hardware, not software you can justsend the customer a patch for. You may be able to fix some bugs in microcode, or the BIOS, or work around them. But it is far better to find them before you release the very first production chip.
The question is: why did they find all those bugs after they released them?
In Europe, there was a police raid on a couple of "Release Groups" today, supported by the the GVU (Geman leg of the MPA). Funny thing is, one of the places searched was the GVU's office, becasue they were actively involved in swapping the movies. Two stories about it (in German) one and two
The richest man in the world studied law before he dropped out. Does that count?
And they call us Apple users Kool-Aid drinkers.
Well, let's assume they do make only $50 on that computer. They will make another $100 on the shipping (wich is free from Apple). Unless of course it's one of those specials with free (3-5 days) shipping - then it's only $25 for the handling.
Because
- They don't have a DVR.
- They don't get the network.
- The episode was pre-empted/censored/canceled here they live.
- They had a TV/Power outage.
- Their DVR is/was broken ATM.
I could go on.The real question is: how would it compare to a dual-core G5 iMac?
But only an idiot would claim that Dell did it first.
Sure, if less than 20% is almost 50%, you are right. Dell doesn't even have 50% of the US market.
As long as Sony puts their R&D in ways to make their customer's life miserable, no way. The last bit of innovation at Sony went away when they streamlined Aiwa a couple of years back.
Or think of it this way: How many years did Sony get out of the Walkman?
Well, DUH.
And why would I want that? Google it - VfW is just a lame copy of QuickTime.
And you still don't know what QuickTime is. It is not a "video" API.
Start here
Who said anything about an alternative to Quicktime? Are you one of the leet Windows coders I talked about - those who still don't have a fucking clue what Quicktime is? Quicktime is basically a set of APIs, and a player (like QT Amateur) is one possible aplication that calls them - in the good old days there were a dozen, and most of them still work with the latest version of QT. Now start coding.
QT Amateur. QuickTime is more than just a Media Player. Infact the player that ships with it is just some sort of demo for what can be done with QT.
Ohh, I see, this is a "I don't know what QuickTime actually is" problem on the part of all those leet Windows coders.