I refer, of course, to the comment that seemed to spark the submission of this article: "IBM says the new Apple chip will be of the 64-bit variety, which means it can process twice as much information per cycle as existing 32-bit chips."
OK, let's review. First off, this is not the regular "Byte of the Apple" columnist. Second, if I had a comment like that in my back pocket, I'd make damn sure that readers knew where I got it, who said it (if possible) and get as much detail as I could. This sounds too offhand to be authentic, and, really, the comment doesn't necessarily indicate that IBM will be building chips for the Apple. The author could simply be referring to a comment made at the Microprocessor Forum--where IBM and Moto executives deliberately avoid the A-word.
What we've got is not a smoking gun, but a shadowy silhouette of an unknown object that might be a gun and seems to be emitting some sort of vapor. If Business Week had something definite, this would be a news story and not something buried in a column.
(Pardon the troll: why does Business Week actually have a dedicated Apple columnist, anyway? They cover business: why not a column on Ford, or Charles Schwab, or Genentech? hell, it's not like it paid off for them--Apple gave the iMac story to Time.)
I have to disagree. Facts are different than opinions, even commonly held ones. "The earth is round" is fact. "There is a God" is an opinion, even if the majority of people believe in one. Furthermore, commonly held opinions are diluted by the breadth of one's audience. Markoff writes for the New York Times, not The Register.
I'm sure not everyone in Podunk, Iowa believes Markoff's version of the world to be the case--in fact, I'm sure some believe that Windows predated the Mac. That would be an incorrect fact. However, it's theoretically possible to argue that OS X stole features from an early version of Windows, even it's a difficult position to defend.
My point is, Markoff is a reporter, not an advocate. He crossed the line.
...but a troll carrying a New York Times byline. It's simply not important to note who's copying whom. Screaming "Bill's copying me! Stop it!" is, well, childish. It's a bid for eyeballs, pure and simple.
Some may argue that this is a point that needs to be argued, that Microsoft's talk of "innovation" needs to be debunked. Fine. That is an opinion which can be expressed.
But this is a "he said/she said" dime-a-dozen news piece, one of which can always be easily manufactured by interviewing representatives from both camps. It would be NEWS if Markoff discovered a memo or two proving that Microsoft lifted design details from OS X. Without that evidence, it's simply bird-cage liner.
Actually, that's not a bad analogy. The guy with the flashy red Porsche always gets pulled over.
The problem with that analogy is that a policeman is a human. The RIAA is more like Skynet, with unknown and potentially vast resources at its disposal.
If you look at the second page of Tom's configurations, you can see that he used the onboard Trident chip to conduct workstation benchmarks. Trident?!! This is really inexcusable. You may as well run Windows SQL Server on a Pentium M and compare it against the Itanium--it's not even apples to oranges any more, it's more like apples compared to lettuce.
Yeah, there's the solution: instead of making these things more accessible to the masses, let's make them more arcane by talking about the acronyms. This isn't a troll, seriously. The more "leet" you make an indy comic, the smaller the audience, and the less money the creator pulls in. At some point costs overrun potential profits, and the creator/publisher pulls the plug. Poof! No more comic.
Why not release the "origin" editions of an indy comic on the Web? Sure, they may be prized by collectors, but the value goes up if 6 million people have heard of 'em, not just 60.
Although it certainly matter what your former profession might be, as long as you can do your job (of network security, I mean). OTOH, it seems like the best methods of foiling spies and hackers is to think like one, and the best way to think like one, is to, well BE one.
Interestingly, I wonder exactly who the U.S. has employed in its counterterrorist operations.
So the question boils down to morality. And that's not so easily defined. IANAH, but I suppose one of the better methods would be double-blind security; one ex-hacker to design the system, one ex-hacker to try and defeat it, and never the twain shall meet.
Who wants to watch 5,000 unwashed geeks when he's kindly posted pics of some cute little busty blonde? (see original post for link)
Also, can you please just organize them into a folder called "cute blonde"? I hate clicking on all of the other pics and getting some dumb sunset. Thanks!
It seems like a number of games these days look really purty, even though the number of games that actually use the latest hardware or API seems woefully small. It's certainly true that Carmack's one of the key people pushing the industry forward, and that's an important point.
On the other hand, even the prettiest games sucks donkey balls if the AI sucks, or the physics are clunky. I like the suggestion made by another poster--why not code a real deformable physics engine, or come up with a decent AI package for enemies?
On a tangential note, I would be most eager to find out some add-on company bought some balls, some software engineers, some patents and/or R&D, and some cheap, cool X86 or RISC processors and said, OK, we're building an AI/physics daughtercard, and the industry tools to make it work. Oh, and that next-gen cards would be hybrid AI/physics/GPU systems. With PCI Express, we might just have the bandwidth to make it work.
Unless my Google powers are sadly lacking (and it's a possibility; I stopped clicking after the third page of results) I fail to see how this story has been proved to be legitimate. Yes, Nikkei reported it, but you would think a company with intentions to be a real player would at least have a web site. The only mention I can find of Cornice on the 'net is a circular chain of stories, all linking back to the Nikkei piece.
Mea culpa, mea culpa! I, Obiwan, was young, an innocent lad of just 22, and I succumbed to the stinking moral quagmire that is the games industry. But look! I've recovered, I've seen the error of my ways, ansd have come asking for forgiveness...Hallelujah!
Oh, for Chrissake. Just link to the damn story, and then add a comment in the forums. Or at least make it an amusing tirade, such as the awful darkness of caffeine addiction.
How many times have you waited for your plate of microwavable chicken wings to cool down before you can eat them? This will speed the process up immensely.;)
And I bet defrosting the fridge would go like *that*...
A year ago, I was pretty gung-ho about Tivo--their service makes it extremely easy to find shows that my friends want to watch, and record them. But with Sonicblue selling ReplayTV, Tivo essentially has a monopoly. Add this to the suit that the studios previously filed against ReplayTV asking them to reengineer their product and ask for personal information, and it gets scarier.
IMO, Tivo now offers two services: the ability to find and record shows easily, and the ability to stream information stored on a PC to consumer electronics devices. This last bit will probably be quite useful for those with video clips (*cough*) stored on their PC.
Still, it's worth checking out the alternatives, especially PC-centric ones like ATI's All-In-Wonder cards. Competition is good.
About the ethics of searching for and plagarizing other students' papers found on the Internet.
I would also suggest, like others, that the students consider the ethics of warez and the downloading MP3s, and examining the motivations of all parties who have weighed in on the issue.
And I'm not sure that "new technology" has affected the patent situation in this country, but the prof could examine the issue of patenting technology that later becomes used in industry standards (Rambus) or selecting an obscure patent and trying to enforce it upon the rest of the industry.
Let me introduce you to this wonderful command: it's called "copy", and it actually REPRODUCES the highlighted text, if linked to a complementary command, called "paste". This prevents dumb spelling errors, like misspelling the name of the company both in the headline and in the body of the article: it's "Acacia", not "Acadia". Acadia promotes "communication and critical thinking regarding the use of computers". I'd say the author needs a little of each.:)
Most if not all of the traditional motherboard companies either are producing or have the capability to produce barebones systems: a chassis, a motherboard, and some additional parts. The reason Apple won't let this take off is that the third party barebones makers could try this same strategy, transforming authorized Apple service shops into resellers for Apple components. Cupertino will likely see this as degrading the quality of the brand, and act accordingly.
Conclusion: sorry, Charlie. It ain't gonna happen.
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OK, let's review. First off, this is not the regular "Byte of the Apple" columnist. Second, if I had a comment like that in my back pocket, I'd make damn sure that readers knew where I got it, who said it (if possible) and get as much detail as I could. This sounds too offhand to be authentic, and, really, the comment doesn't necessarily indicate that IBM will be building chips for the Apple. The author could simply be referring to a comment made at the Microprocessor Forum--where IBM and Moto executives deliberately avoid the A-word.
What we've got is not a smoking gun, but a shadowy silhouette of an unknown object that might be a gun and seems to be emitting some sort of vapor. If Business Week had something definite, this would be a news story and not something buried in a column.
(Pardon the troll: why does Business Week actually have a dedicated Apple columnist, anyway? They cover business: why not a column on Ford, or Charles Schwab, or Genentech? hell, it's not like it paid off for them--Apple gave the iMac story to Time.)
I'd bet it would get modded down as a troll. :)
I'm sure not everyone in Podunk, Iowa believes Markoff's version of the world to be the case--in fact, I'm sure some believe that Windows predated the Mac. That would be an incorrect fact. However, it's theoretically possible to argue that OS X stole features from an early version of Windows, even it's a difficult position to defend.
My point is, Markoff is a reporter, not an advocate. He crossed the line.
Other media have previously done this, and done this better. Case in point: Fox News.
(Although that channel uses "humans" (or they were at one point in their lives)).
But somehow, I still suspect that he could have done a port of Space Invaders and there would still have been a warehouse level. With crates.
Earth to Romero--we've moved on.
...but a troll carrying a New York Times byline. It's simply not important to note who's copying whom. Screaming "Bill's copying me! Stop it!" is, well, childish. It's a bid for eyeballs, pure and simple.
Some may argue that this is a point that needs to be argued, that Microsoft's talk of "innovation" needs to be debunked. Fine. That is an opinion which can be expressed.
But this is a "he said/she said" dime-a-dozen news piece, one of which can always be easily manufactured by interviewing representatives from both camps. It would be NEWS if Markoff discovered a memo or two proving that Microsoft lifted design details from OS X. Without that evidence, it's simply bird-cage liner.
I see "FreeNetworks" costs $250 to attend. I wonder if that comes with a free slot pull to allow you to try and win some of it back.
Does anyone know how much of a cut the artist gets with this new deal? Is it fixed, or variable? I'm eager to hear Janis Ian weigh in.
Actually, that's not a bad analogy. The guy with the flashy red Porsche always gets pulled over.
The problem with that analogy is that a policeman is a human. The RIAA is more like Skynet, with unknown and potentially vast resources at its disposal.
Bah! You and your foolish logic have added nothing to our amusement!
I heard the manuscript was actually an e-book.
If you look at the second page of Tom's configurations, you can see that he used the onboard Trident chip to conduct workstation benchmarks. Trident?!! This is really inexcusable. You may as well run Windows SQL Server on a Pentium M and compare it against the Itanium--it's not even apples to oranges any more, it's more like apples compared to lettuce.
Why not release the "origin" editions of an indy comic on the Web? Sure, they may be prized by collectors, but the value goes up if 6 million people have heard of 'em, not just 60.
Oh... Science fiction.
Then how about Bill Gates wandering the halls, a la Frankenstein or The Mummy (Or singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to Barbara Walters?
Oh... Science fiction.
How about monkeyboy exhorting the troops?
Oh... OK, we've moved completely into the horror section now.
You know the rest.
Although it certainly matter what your former profession might be, as long as you can do your job (of network security, I mean). OTOH, it seems like the best methods of foiling spies and hackers is to think like one, and the best way to think like one, is to, well BE one.
Interestingly, I wonder exactly who the U.S. has employed in its counterterrorist operations.
So the question boils down to morality. And that's not so easily defined. IANAH, but I suppose one of the better methods would be double-blind security; one ex-hacker to design the system, one ex-hacker to try and defeat it, and never the twain shall meet.
Who wants to watch 5,000 unwashed geeks when he's kindly posted pics of some cute little busty blonde? (see original post for link)
Also, can you please just organize them into a folder called "cute blonde"? I hate clicking on all of the other pics and getting some dumb sunset. Thanks!
It seems like a number of games these days look really purty, even though the number of games that actually use the latest hardware or API seems woefully small. It's certainly true that Carmack's one of the key people pushing the industry forward, and that's an important point.
On the other hand, even the prettiest games sucks donkey balls if the AI sucks, or the physics are clunky. I like the suggestion made by another poster--why not code a real deformable physics engine, or come up with a decent AI package for enemies?
On a tangential note, I would be most eager to find out some add-on company bought some balls, some software engineers, some patents and/or R&D, and some cheap, cool X86 or RISC processors and said, OK, we're building an AI/physics daughtercard, and the industry tools to make it work. Oh, and that next-gen cards would be hybrid AI/physics/GPU systems. With PCI Express, we might just have the bandwidth to make it work.
Unless my Google powers are sadly lacking (and it's a possibility; I stopped clicking after the third page of results) I fail to see how this story has been proved to be legitimate. Yes, Nikkei reported it, but you would think a company with intentions to be a real player would at least have a web site. The only mention I can find of Cornice on the 'net is a circular chain of stories, all linking back to the Nikkei piece.
Mea culpa, mea culpa! I, Obiwan, was young, an innocent lad of just 22, and I succumbed to the stinking moral quagmire that is the games industry. But look! I've recovered, I've seen the error of my ways, ansd have come asking for forgiveness...Hallelujah!
Oh, for Chrissake. Just link to the damn story, and then add a comment in the forums. Or at least make it an amusing tirade, such as the awful darkness of caffeine addiction.
Talk about a cry for attention.
And I bet defrosting the fridge would go like *that*...
IMO, Tivo now offers two services: the ability to find and record shows easily, and the ability to stream information stored on a PC to consumer electronics devices. This last bit will probably be quite useful for those with video clips (*cough*) stored on their PC.
Still, it's worth checking out the alternatives, especially PC-centric ones like ATI's All-In-Wonder cards. Competition is good.
About the ethics of searching for and plagarizing other students' papers found on the Internet.
I would also suggest, like others, that the students consider the ethics of warez and the downloading MP3s, and examining the motivations of all parties who have weighed in on the issue.
And I'm not sure that "new technology" has affected the patent situation in this country, but the prof could examine the issue of patenting technology that later becomes used in industry standards (Rambus) or selecting an obscure patent and trying to enforce it upon the rest of the industry.
Tomorrow we'll try "select all" and "find".
Most if not all of the traditional motherboard companies either are producing or have the capability to produce barebones systems: a chassis, a motherboard, and some additional parts. The reason Apple won't let this take off is that the third party barebones makers could try this same strategy, transforming authorized Apple service shops into resellers for Apple components. Cupertino will likely see this as degrading the quality of the brand, and act accordingly.
Conclusion: sorry, Charlie. It ain't gonna happen.