I am certainly not a processor design guru, but that doesn't stop anyone else from commenting so why not. Optimizations that use SSE should benefit the AMD64 architecture quite a bit more than the G5 architecture. Sadly there is too little optimization for the Altivec engine, it seems like such good technology.
Yeah but if you figure it has to cost them around $10/month to provide the service there isn't a whole lot of profit left. They are hoping that most takers will not switch after two or more years.
Hey go easy on those of us who can't afford a 486 with 16 MB of ram and a Voodoo 2 card. Just cause you have one doesn't mean you get to brag about it.
I think the numbers they are hoping for is about 9 million unit sales by year end. I can't remember if that was US only or world. Loss will be closer to $1 billion for the full year. The economics of video games are to sell em cheap at the beginning to get the installed base, so you get the best games, which allows you to rake in sales after you have a 30+ million installed base Then when TakeTwo wants to sell GTA 4 on the console with the best installed base, they will give you a cut of $15 per copy sold.
It seems that the average cellular customer doesn't realize that they are buying their phone over time, rather than upfront. The average cellular phone costs about $180, (that's Nokia's average price), new camera phones with color screens can sell for well over $300. Carriers are happy to offer these to you for a greatly reduced price, but are not in business to give phones away for the good of humanity. Additionally they pay a fat commission to the salesperson who signs you up, and other costs, the average signup cost is about $350 in total. If you don't want to sign a contract, keep your old phone, or pay for your phone up front, and I'm sure someone will be happy to sell you service without a contract. Don't bellyache about getting a state of the art phone for half the price up front, and then expect to get the rest free when you decide you want to switch.
I saw an article the other day in BW (it's only useful for seeing what trend occured 6 months ago) that profiled several Chinese companies who were beginning to brand their products under their own name, rather than just doing the manufacturing for someone else's brand. It's not software development yet, but in all industries they will begin to want to climb the value chain. They all currently want to emulate Samsung.
Perhaps it's just a regional thing (I live out West), but I always thought CalTech had the best and the brightest. Definitely not trying to start a flame war. Both schools are tip top.
The only advantage IBM can have would be being able to hire an expert in an specialized topic, say Cobal or Storage file systems who might spend 3 hrs a week helping one of 15 businesses who each could never afford to cut out the middle man and hire him full time. So they are happy to pay IBM 3 or 4 times his hourly salary to just use his skills occasionally. What I don't understand are the businesses that should be big enough to hire experts as needed that go with IBM.
You might chat with an accountant, I don't know tax law too well, but would think you could pay yourself a decent salary, and reinvest the majority of the salary in the business. On paper it would be two transactions, in reality it would be none. Now if you have a significant personal income tax or payroll taxes that might defeat the purpose.
My aunt is a pharmacist, and what I really appreciate is that she occasionally knows a good folk cure or cheap way to do something rather than buy a labeled drug. My best example was occasionally getting swimmers ear as a child, doctor told us about ear drops that would prevent it. Turns out the best remedy is ear drops of equal parts isypropal alcohol and vinegar (white is better if you don't want to stain anything. Drop a few drops in and let it drain after swimming, and you will never has swimmers ear again, you do smell a little like vinegar for a short time. The sad part is that pharmacists are so rare (and expensive) today, that there is usually a pharmacist there, but most of your pill counters are techs who don't know nearly as much.
I love the print ads that show a Dell or IBM system with monitor and the screen shot is from Mac OS 8 or 9. I think those are because the copy folks all use macs and just paste a screenshot. It could well be the same with movie and television production crews.
Yeah, I think that movie drove most of the very rapid consumer adoption of DVD players more than almost anything else. Almost everyone I knew who bought a DVD player before the price fell to $100 bought it specifically to watch the Matrix. Then they showed movies to friends, who bought them for the audio and video quality and other features.
When I first saw the trailer I thought the sliding scene was cool because I didn't see the shield and thought it neat that he was racing down those stairs with elven dexterity, which shouldn't have been a difficult trick.
That's not the weight of the A/C unit, its a measurment system. An A/C ton is the same as a 12,000 BTU system (~12.66 million joules). I have no idea where it comes from, perhaps the amount of coolant in a "standard" system?
On Aragorn's doubts, he certainly seemed to be doubting near the beginning of the book to me. It seemed like he went through a transformation through the story as he prepared to become the king. It certainly makes sense that an exiled royal whose line was thought to be ended might have a few doubts about his worthiness to retake the throne.
It's a euphemism for Joe Sixpack (or more accuratly his wife). It came from the 1992 election. The dirty secret of American politics is that there is a reasonably large group of voters who are lower middle class and don't belong to a political party. The men are more socially conservative, and group is more than average fiscally liberal (more than average and occasionally embrace a cause that goes against those generalizations). This is the group that generally votes for the winning candidate in an election (its about 40% republicans (conservatives) and about 40% demacrats (liberals) with 20% in the middle. Well the political stratigests can't say go after the poor dumb people, so each Presidential election we have a new name applied to them (Joe Sixpack and silent majority came out of the 60s, Reagan Democrats from the 80s and one of Clinton's stratigests (Morris or Stephonopolus, I think) termed their wives soccer mom's and successfully woed them paving the road to victory.
The shorter answer is a middle aged married woman who probably gave up her career to raise her kids. The play sports and she drives a minivan ferring them to and from school and sporting events or other kid focused activities. She was supposedly more socially liberal, and attracted to Clinton in at least a small romantic sense, they campaigned him as a dashing worldly fellow, who was still a regular guy.
IBM got a pretty sweet incentive package from NY to build a simialr fab there. Not quite as nice, but this deal wouldn't have happened without tremendous funding from almost any potential location. It's fairly common for at a bare minimum property taxes to be rebated if you bring the hope of high paying jobs.
300mm (12") wafers are by and large cutting edge technology. Most fabs still use 200mm (8") stuff, only the most expensive chips, PLD CPU some cell and memory applications justify the sort of investment that new tools require. There is still some 6" stuff running, and I think a few analog companies still use 4" wafers. The only 300 mm fabs I know of are owned by TI, Intel, AMD, IBM, Taiwan Semi, and Samsung. I'd assume that Micron, Infeneon, United Micro, and ST Micro have one or plans for one soon. AFAIK all the 300mm stuff runs a 130 nm process and Intel and IBM are already trying to get 90 nm going. Everyone kinda slowed their 300mm migratin when unit demad fell in 2002. The cost advantage comes along with a huge increaes in chips produced, and there were some problems getting yields up to a decent level.
Tokyo and Nanking were also brutilized during WWII as well. Tokyo was firebombed with the intent of overwhelming the fire departments fighting all the wood and paper buildings. Just to keep it balanced the Japanese killed between 200,000 and 300,000 Chinese in Nanking near the begining of the war.
To reiterate your point, AMD gave out a plethora of details regardig this fab. In AMD's case the building costs about $300 million, the equipment cost an additional $2.4 billion (this is what mnost of the loan promises are for) and the company plans to employ about 1000 people. Figure a trained EE with microprocessor desing experince costs about what you have, and one with a lot of classwork (but little experince) might go for 20,000-30,000 in India or China, it just doesn't make a lot of sense to spend 2.5 billion on a fab and then try to save the little bit on wages while your brand new shiny equipment is wasted on training purposes while you improve yields. Not that the Indian or Chinese workers couldn't do a great job, but I'll let you risk your company in a place that doesn't already have a fab or two. I know Fishkill, NY and locations in the UK were under consideration. The new fab will be a nearly exact copy of the new IBM fab in NY.
Intel generates about 40% of their sales from Asia (ex Japan), I think that is not end use, but adds revenue for manufacturers in Asia that export to other areas, about a third from the US, about 20 percent from Europe (including the Middle East and Africa) and the last 10% from Japan. The EU has a similar GDP to the US (the two are within 5% of each other both at about 10 trillion), but buys fewer computers per economic unit. Japan also spends considerably less of their income on PCs (that use Intel chips), with an economy of about 5 trillion.
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I am certainly not a processor design guru, but that doesn't stop anyone else from commenting so why not. Optimizations that use SSE should benefit the AMD64 architecture quite a bit more than the G5 architecture. Sadly there is too little optimization for the Altivec engine, it seems like such good technology.
Yeah but if you figure it has to cost them around $10/month to provide the service there isn't a whole lot of profit left. They are hoping that most takers will not switch after two or more years.
Hey go easy on those of us who can't afford a 486 with 16 MB of ram and a Voodoo 2 card. Just cause you have one doesn't mean you get to brag about it.
I think the numbers they are hoping for is about 9 million unit sales by year end. I can't remember if that was US only or world. Loss will be closer to $1 billion for the full year. The economics of video games are to sell em cheap at the beginning to get the installed base, so you get the best games, which allows you to rake in sales after you have a 30+ million installed base Then when TakeTwo wants to sell GTA 4 on the console with the best installed base, they will give you a cut of $15 per copy sold.
It seems that the average cellular customer doesn't realize that they are buying their phone over time, rather than upfront. The average cellular phone costs about $180, (that's Nokia's average price), new camera phones with color screens can sell for well over $300. Carriers are happy to offer these to you for a greatly reduced price, but are not in business to give phones away for the good of humanity. Additionally they pay a fat commission to the salesperson who signs you up, and other costs, the average signup cost is about $350 in total. If you don't want to sign a contract, keep your old phone, or pay for your phone up front, and I'm sure someone will be happy to sell you service without a contract. Don't bellyache about getting a state of the art phone for half the price up front, and then expect to get the rest free when you decide you want to switch.
I think most /.ers use newegg for diy projects.
I saw an article the other day in BW (it's only useful for seeing what trend occured 6 months ago) that profiled several Chinese companies who were beginning to brand their products under their own name, rather than just doing the manufacturing for someone else's brand. It's not software development yet, but in all industries they will begin to want to climb the value chain. They all currently want to emulate Samsung.
Perhaps it's just a regional thing (I live out West), but I always thought CalTech had the best and the brightest. Definitely not trying to start a flame war. Both schools are tip top.
The only advantage IBM can have would be being able to hire an expert in an specialized topic, say Cobal or Storage file systems who might spend 3 hrs a week helping one of 15 businesses who each could never afford to cut out the middle man and hire him full time. So they are happy to pay IBM 3 or 4 times his hourly salary to just use his skills occasionally. What I don't understand are the businesses that should be big enough to hire experts as needed that go with IBM.
You might chat with an accountant, I don't know tax law too well, but would think you could pay yourself a decent salary, and reinvest the majority of the salary in the business. On paper it would be two transactions, in reality it would be none. Now if you have a significant personal income tax or payroll taxes that might defeat the purpose.
My aunt is a pharmacist, and what I really appreciate is that she occasionally knows a good folk cure or cheap way to do something rather than buy a labeled drug. My best example was occasionally getting swimmers ear as a child, doctor told us about ear drops that would prevent it. Turns out the best remedy is ear drops of equal parts isypropal alcohol and vinegar (white is better if you don't want to stain anything. Drop a few drops in and let it drain after swimming, and you will never has swimmers ear again, you do smell a little like vinegar for a short time. The sad part is that pharmacists are so rare (and expensive) today, that there is usually a pharmacist there, but most of your pill counters are techs who don't know nearly as much.
I love the print ads that show a Dell or IBM system with monitor and the screen shot is from Mac OS 8 or 9. I think those are because the copy folks all use macs and just paste a screenshot. It could well be the same with movie and television production crews.
Yeah, I think that movie drove most of the very rapid consumer adoption of DVD players more than almost anything else. Almost everyone I knew who bought a DVD player before the price fell to $100 bought it specifically to watch the Matrix. Then they showed movies to friends, who bought them for the audio and video quality and other features.
When I first saw the trailer I thought the sliding scene was cool because I didn't see the shield and thought it neat that he was racing down those stairs with elven dexterity, which shouldn't have been a difficult trick.
That's not the weight of the A/C unit, its a measurment system. An A/C ton is the same as a 12,000 BTU system (~12.66 million joules). I have no idea where it comes from, perhaps the amount of coolant in a "standard" system?
On Aragorn's doubts, he certainly seemed to be doubting near the beginning of the book to me. It seemed like he went through a transformation through the story as he prepared to become the king. It certainly makes sense that an exiled royal whose line was thought to be ended might have a few doubts about his worthiness to retake the throne.
His response was not rude, provided a useful link and useful information, no harm no foul.
I think we all know that Vanilla Pepsi is the crux of the problem in this story.
It's a euphemism for Joe Sixpack (or more accuratly his wife). It came from the 1992 election. The dirty secret of American politics is that there is a reasonably large group of voters who are lower middle class and don't belong to a political party. The men are more socially conservative, and group is more than average fiscally liberal (more than average and occasionally embrace a cause that goes against those generalizations). This is the group that generally votes for the winning candidate in an election (its about 40% republicans (conservatives) and about 40% demacrats (liberals) with 20% in the middle. Well the political stratigests can't say go after the poor dumb people, so each Presidential election we have a new name applied to them (Joe Sixpack and silent majority came out of the 60s, Reagan Democrats from the 80s and one of Clinton's stratigests (Morris or Stephonopolus, I think) termed their wives soccer mom's and successfully woed them paving the road to victory.
The shorter answer is a middle aged married woman who probably gave up her career to raise her kids. The play sports and she drives a minivan ferring them to and from school and sporting events or other kid focused activities. She was supposedly more socially liberal, and attracted to Clinton in at least a small romantic sense, they campaigned him as a dashing worldly fellow, who was still a regular guy.
IBM got a pretty sweet incentive package from NY to build a simialr fab there. Not quite as nice, but this deal wouldn't have happened without tremendous funding from almost any potential location. It's fairly common for at a bare minimum property taxes to be rebated if you bring the hope of high paying jobs.
300mm (12") wafers are by and large cutting edge technology. Most fabs still use 200mm (8") stuff, only the most expensive chips, PLD CPU some cell and memory applications justify the sort of investment that new tools require. There is still some 6" stuff running, and I think a few analog companies still use 4" wafers. The only 300 mm fabs I know of are owned by TI, Intel, AMD, IBM, Taiwan Semi, and Samsung. I'd assume that Micron, Infeneon, United Micro, and ST Micro have one or plans for one soon. AFAIK all the 300mm stuff runs a 130 nm process and Intel and IBM are already trying to get 90 nm going. Everyone kinda slowed their 300mm migratin when unit demad fell in 2002. The cost advantage comes along with a huge increaes in chips produced, and there were some problems getting yields up to a decent level.
Tokyo and Nanking were also brutilized during WWII as well. Tokyo was firebombed with the intent of overwhelming the fire departments fighting all the wood and paper buildings. Just to keep it balanced the Japanese killed between 200,000 and 300,000 Chinese in Nanking near the begining of the war.
To reiterate your point, AMD gave out a plethora of details regardig this fab. In AMD's case the building costs about $300 million, the equipment cost an additional $2.4 billion (this is what mnost of the loan promises are for) and the company plans to employ about 1000 people. Figure a trained EE with microprocessor desing experince costs about what you have, and one with a lot of classwork (but little experince) might go for 20,000-30,000 in India or China, it just doesn't make a lot of sense to spend 2.5 billion on a fab and then try to save the little bit on wages while your brand new shiny equipment is wasted on training purposes while you improve yields. Not that the Indian or Chinese workers couldn't do a great job, but I'll let you risk your company in a place that doesn't already have a fab or two. I know Fishkill, NY and locations in the UK were under consideration. The new fab will be a nearly exact copy of the new IBM fab in NY.
I think they have a big one in or around Arizona, they have quite a few. A recent 10-K should have a list of them.
Intel generates about 40% of their sales from Asia (ex Japan), I think that is not end use, but adds revenue for manufacturers in Asia that export to other areas, about a third from the US, about 20 percent from Europe (including the Middle East and Africa) and the last 10% from Japan. The EU has a similar GDP to the US (the two are within 5% of each other both at about 10 trillion), but buys fewer computers per economic unit. Japan also spends considerably less of their income on PCs (that use Intel chips), with an economy of about 5 trillion.