It's about time the folks at Apple admitted defeat and left the dark side for the saving light and grace of the real PC world (Nasty troll dig I know, but it had to be said;). Of course I think many Applites will be shedding tears as it will remove one of their large arguements as to why their machines are so much better, the power processor.
My question is, if the current line of processors Apple uses are so much better than the Intel or AMD lineups, then why is Apple switching to Intel? To go to a worse CPU? I think not. I think Steve Jobs just pulled the rug out from under his overtly fanatical section of his following. Then again, perhaps that will aslo work to his benefit. It is hard to sell a machine to a person who perceives that association with it is bad. Many perceive the Apple as just such a beast. Quell the overspoken fanatical left and right wings and perhaps your product becomes more saleble to those in the middle. Contrary to what many current Apple followers may believe, this may actually broaden Apple's markets and allow it to become more than just the niche product it has so long been sequestered to.
Is this an Amish version of a web server or something? I know the Amish insist on doing things the hard way, such as plowing a field with a horse. Why would a person choose to build a system today using old tech such as this? Must be some religious thing or perhaps a new Amish Sect? Compish? Or is it simply Stupish?;)
"into the already half-closed coffin of mainstream PC gaming."
Whre does the author get this tidbit from? The toilet is my guess, as the PC game industry as a whole seems to be projecting continued growth on top of the astound growth they have already experienced up until now. So far there has been no indication of the PC industry slowing, so I don't see where the conjecture of existing decline is. The current projections seem to be between 20% and 45% over the next two years. That's growth not decline. Just because a ferari is a better car, doesn't mean that all toyotas are going to disappear. That is simply stupid to even assume.
I have a problem having someone check my code who can't spell or use proper grammer. A swift click on a spell checker sure would add a lot of credibility to some whois telling you their code will check your's for it's grammer and spelling.
agreed, and agreed. Perhaps technology will close the distance that many politicians percieve that they have from the public when they reach those higher levels of office.
In response to your local/state/federal politicians corrtuption bias; Perhaps those that have reached that higher level have only learned the 'game' from playing it well on the lower levels of government. It is but conjecture on my part, as I have not participated in those activities myself, but it would seem to be a common sense answer. It doesn't take much faith to believe one learns from past experience.
I do however feel that we as Americans tend to confuse 'mistakes' with 'corruption' though (I speak out of the context of the article this is in response to). I would sooner trust a man who has tried, failed and learned from that failure than from the person who has never tried or failed. We learn from failure. A success without failure along the way, while sweet, can be tenuous. That success is not fortified against the possible pitfalls that would have been learned as failures were dealt with along the way. A measure of a man is not if he succeeded in the task, for we can all succeed with enough effort, but how much we learned along the way. Corruption is one thing, the purposeful failure with that intent. In politics we seem to apply the same consequences to those who failed as we do to those that excercised corruption. We tend not to elect them again. It is the one who failed and learned that we had ought to place in the the position of authority, not the one who has not even tried.
What on god's green earth would make you possibly think CRT's will all of the sudden vanish? There is no history of anything like that happening ever in our earth's past. Heck, I can still go out and buy myself a horse drawn carriage and a good horse trained specifically to draw it. I can buy blacksmith tools, an anvil and a bellows driven furnace if I want to. I can buy a non-powered push lawn mower, an egg beater you don't plug in but crank by hand, etc, etc, etc.
I find even the suggestion that something like the CRT will suddenly vanish from the landscape and leave you stranded a ridiculuous statement at best. The market is driven by demand, not by someone else's pipedream for the future (even if it does turn out to be a great dream). If there is demand, even miniscule, it will be served. Fear not you intellectually challenged, the world will not end tomorrow because someone invented the LCD display!
Howdy Ben! I have to say that I find your comment(s) disturbng on a level not addressed here.
" Politicians are typically corrupt, whether they are Democrat, Republican, or other."
Have we as Americans become so accepting of a corrupt government as that? If we truely do believe that most politicians are corrupt, on any level, is it not time for a revamp of the system that they supposedly serve? Once corruption enters any system on such a widespread scale as you suggest, that system no longer serves the purpose to which it was created.
I agree with your comments. I simply wanted to point out that the majority of us seem to accept these things as widely held truths, and yet we accept them as things we cannot change. That is a sad thing when the work that you created to serve you, returns your work with lies and corruption. Perhaps it is time to clean the slate and start again, for the growth we see now appears to be malignant to the core.
This is bad. What is becoming of the American citizenry? It is already sad to see the Vehicular addicts each morning, and now this? Yes, Vehicular Addicts. Those people who must satiate their addiction to vehicles by driving one each day. The worst of them actually 'shoot up' by driving first thing each morning, sometimes even before coffee (double addiction jeapordy there my friends!)! It is sad to see people being enslaved by their cars, and now even by email. What a sad sad people we have become. We need to appoint a presidential commission to combat these addictions before lest consume our society!
I think in twenty years people will look back on those that tried to flag the acceptance and inclusion of technologies into our lives as 'addictions', will scoff and use the surnames of those who did the calling as jokes in themselves.
"Rollie Hawk writes "Are you addicted to email?
Are you a 'Rollie' Head too? Shall we check you into the clinic now? Ha Ha Ha!
lol, I think if you look back on MS's history, you will find this is exactly the future they have seen for themselves for years. Next, take a look at their patent portfolio, that is full of web enable application delivery tools and applications readied for such an event. I think if you had the opportunity to look under the hood at MS headquarters you would find them distinctly poised to 'corner' this market too, as they have others. I would not take MS's suppression of knowledge of such internal activities as a lack of preparation in that area.
"...making copyright protections essential to their survival.""
That is so wrong. Copyright has nothing to do with their survival as it has not played a real role in publishing profits for centuries(expect for betwixt publishers). Libraries have always provided copyrighted materials to the public free of charge to a limited use. The publishers have relied upon the library as being too bothersome, too far away, too hard to use, etc for their survival. Most people would rather order a book than sift through their local library to try to garner the same material or item. Publishers have depended on that, not the copyright, as books have always been free for the asking.
Now Google is poised to remove a significant portion of the 'library hurdle' that stops most people from using that resource before their local Barnes and Noble retail outlet. That is what they are upset over, not the copyright. The copyright is the only legal paper the have to hang onto and cry into. Therefore they try to raise your ire over that and hope you will miss the real point.
Do you really know anyone that steals books? Do you know anyone who downloads books illegally? Doesn't that sound a bit proposeterous when the same material can be had in an hour or two from your local library? It sure does to me.
As information moves to the electronic format, as most all of it will in the coming years, are we ready and or willing to lose our access to published materials freely? Will information truely become a comodity for the wealthy only too? Shame on the publishers for clouding the issue in such a way. We are not the dumb (are we?).
I agree with you. I think it will be even worse though. They will institute these new DRM schemes and then they will blame theft as the reason for the decrease in revenues and use that twisted logic to go after them with a vengence.
I stopped buying music cd's when they started adding the purposeful errors to the cd's to keep you from copying them. Not because I was mad at the technology, but because they were no longer useful to me as they would not play well in my high end car stereo. I have since even sold the stereo and listen nothing but FM radioo again. They are the ones who hurt their own bottom line. Theft is just an excuse to justify their underhanded actions.
I still disagree with you, respectfully. I think possibly your perspective is different.
"My main point being that the target audience for the XBOX and PS2 are NO LONGER the target audience"
That statement seems to say that you think they are trying to sell to the wrong group now. The truth is that you moved out of that group by aging. They aren't targeting you any more, at least with the diligence that they did when you were in that age group. Perhaps we are saying the same thing, but your choice of words certainly suggested otherwise. Perhaps it is because of the ambiguous language you used.
"Expense is no longer the factor as we all support ourselves now, time is, and we don't have as much to devote to gaming as before."
I agree with that with the above perspective, you again aged and moved into a different age group where the average person has more responsibility and thus less time for gaming. It does not however represent the current batch of people who fit in that 18-23 age group. Their characteristics are only moving toward more time for gaming than in the past and more access to the platforms to do it on. Here again, perhaps we are saying the same thing. It just needs to be clarified that it is you that changed, not the characteristics of any of the age groups that you mentioned. You moved out of their target, their target did not change.
That was your assumption, not my words. I simply stated that the small faction of outspoken people in the whole group are painting the picture that is perceived by the public. I called this small faction "left wing blowhards". Again, it is exactly this type of word twisting that causes the problem we are discussing. If you consider yourself one of those, (and by your posts, we almost have to assume that), the wear the shoes with pride, if you so choose.
Your conjectures on what others think are just that, conjectures. I did not pick up that brush, you did. You seem to want to ride on both sides of the fence. It can't be done. There is not a company out there that wants employees that will cause their company to be associated with something that is 'perceived' to bring a negative image to that company. That is where the perception issue falls in place. MArketing is all about perceptions, nothing else. It is not a misplaced judgement and you of all people, if you truely want to see linux and open-source move into the main stream, had ought to want to change.
"the flag wavers are citing a 1 in 10 arrest rate for black people here"
You are right about the arrest rates. The trouble with rates is that they are based on a period, such as a year. If you even consider you low number of 1%, over the cousre of 30 years, that is a substantial percentage of the total population. 1% per year over a period of years turns out to be straight multiplication (with a bias for re-arrests), that number becomes quite large. I should think that a 20% number would be easily explained with such easy math. Any other arguement is simply contrary to the governments own published numbers.
"After covering videogame news for years I know this all to well"
You think sales are going to dwindle because you and your friends are getting older? That would probably be true if no children where born after you and your friends. That is not how it works however, and the population continues to grow (albiet slowly now in the states). That only means that the market is growing, (past customers plus new customers coming into the age group). I think that you will be surprised if you look at the real numbers. The percentage of youngsters (and you are still one in my eyes) in that 18-23 age group who will pruchase is always growing. The later age groups do slow, but surprisingly at the same rate as the death rate for the group. That is tantamount to saying that these consoles and games do not lose customers to anything other than death. Console and Game sales have do nothing but increase, and at a fantastic rate. Now even faster than Hollywood with more total revenue. I find your prediction of failure surprising and unsuportable in the face of the facts and history.
I should think that the open-source community would be in favor of this. It only hurts Microsoft as they 'sell' their product. Linux and other open-source software would not be effected, as it is not sold, but free.
"If I were a potential employer of yours, I'd be fairly insulted at your low opinion of me. I think I'd not want to hire you for that reason."
Interesting. I made no mention of my opinion of you. I was speaking of the public's perception as a whole, as was Dvorak. Your insistance on painting a picture of something that is not there to make your point, is exactly what this is all about. I, in fact, mentioned that I use Linux, I love Linux and am saddened to see it's perception illustrated in this way. Where did I ever insult you by discussing someone elses opinion? Secondly if you make rash judgements such as that, based on as little knowledge of me as you have, then perhaps it would be a good thing if I did not work for you. I would not tolerate decisions made based on little o no facts. Sorry.
"30 percent of them had previously been arrested, including arrests for violent offenses (18 percent), alcohol or drug-related offenses (11 percent), and non-financial-fraud related theft offenses (11 percent)."
These numbers also represent the population of the United states as a whole. Yes 30 percent of the US population has been arrested before. more than 20% have a felony on their record and so on. So to paint these people as anything other than ordinary citizens is silly. They simply represent the whole equally as the whole represents itself. Nothing unusual here.
I have to agree with Dvorak on this one. I have been saying this for months on Slashdot and usually get modded to troll or flamebait for it. The fanatic members of the linux community are going to bring it to it's knees. I am an IT professional who has made a living in this fashion for 20 years. Yea, that's a long time for IT. I don't flaunt it, because it actually means nothing. I do however know that to be successful, you HAVE TO be able to weight the pros and cons objectively on every software/hardware decision that is made. Quite frankly, those decisions end up being an MS product much of the time. I am not saying MS's products are great, heck I am not even saying that they work decently sometimes, but it is necessary in many cases, due to the constraints of the software, the job/project needs and so on. It's a fact of life right now, It's not a Linux world out there,... yet.
With all of that said, I cannot survive in the industry, if I am viewed as belonging to a group of fanatical left wing blow hards who absolutely refuse to look at the pros of anything that competes with their prize product. It would shut the door for me as professional. I have also long stated that the fanatical representations of Linux and the over-bashing of MS shed a poor light on the community and cause outsiders to shy away. Very few people wish to be associated with a group that refuses to acknowledge that any choice but theirs is a ticket to damnation (accept maybe in the case of the factional Christian faith denominations). If Dvorak is stating this, should it not be clear to everyone that there are a fair number of ot Iher important people who also have this perception? I am not saying it is right, but we HAVE TO do something to correct it, or we all are going to painted in the same light. That is not what Linux is and it is not what it's future could be. If the perception rules over the facts, as Dvorak said, the trash heap of history is where this (linux) is - headed.
Newsworthy or not, just look at the response he illicets here on slashdot. The largest response of any article in quite a while. Polarization can be a powerful marketing tool in itself. Quite possibly it was said in that frame of mind to begin with. It would be shrewd. All they have to do is say something once and they get hundreds of voices piping up to talk about it. It's free publicity and they win with that, even if they do lose the war with the iPod. They got the free marketing. Apple has spent millions. When you rile the masses opposed to you, those who are indifferent inevitably take notice of the issues involved. There are a great deal of indifferent people out there, as MS's own sales numbers show. We are only serving their purpose now with our loud retort.
They are speak of CPU's that shipped inside of PC's sold in the retail market. That includes OEM sales. Why do people not what to believe things when the facts are staring them in the face? Is it somehow humiliating to you that Intel has lost the desktop market to AMD? It's a fact.
If you want more facts, read this article on which includes links within it to prove it's truth. This article includes the most recent numbers available. Everyone else is offering numbers for total CPU sales. I am pointing out that AMD owns the desktop. That is far more than just a foot in the door. The door is wide open and they are poised to step through. The real question is will intel be able to shut the door again before AMD does it.
I don't get it either. Why is 'How it Works' listing something that obviously doesn't work. So much for using that site as a factual basis for anything anymore. If anyone uses that site as a link to bolster their point as to why something is the way it is, I will happily poke holes in their arguement by debasing the believability anything on that site now.
Next they will be posting that there are chipmunks inside of hybrid cars engines that runn in squirel cages to make them go.
Conjecture on your part. Nowhere in that article is there a refernce made to Intels market share in comparision and further, it does not break down the markets, as my links do. I also provided you with links that show AMD's margins rising, as I noted and even your link states and Intel's margins lowering, meaning that most likely AMD is forcing Intel to play their game, not the other way around.
I never argued that Intel is making more money than AMD, only that the gap is cleary closing in the market share business in the server market. Furthermore, I don't care about your perceptions on who is selling more, based on what you see in the stores your frequent. The fact remains that AMD is selling more desktop processors than Intel right now, regardless of the profits (see my earlier post for the factual numbers and the links to back that up). So your question as to why no one is buying the better AMD processors seems kind of foolish in that regard.
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It's about time the folks at Apple admitted defeat and left the dark side for the saving light and grace of the real PC world (Nasty troll dig I know, but it had to be said ;). Of course I think many Applites will be shedding tears as it will remove one of their large arguements as to why their machines are so much better, the power processor.
My question is, if the current line of processors Apple uses are so much better than the Intel or AMD lineups, then why is Apple switching to Intel? To go to a worse CPU? I think not. I think Steve Jobs just pulled the rug out from under his overtly fanatical section of his following. Then again, perhaps that will aslo work to his benefit. It is hard to sell a machine to a person who perceives that association with it is bad. Many perceive the Apple as just such a beast. Quell the overspoken fanatical left and right wings and perhaps your product becomes more saleble to those in the middle. Contrary to what many current Apple followers may believe, this may actually broaden Apple's markets and allow it to become more than just the niche product it has so long been sequestered to.
Is this an Amish version of a web server or something? I know the Amish insist on doing things the hard way, such as plowing a field with a horse. Why would a person choose to build a system today using old tech such as this? Must be some religious thing or perhaps a new Amish Sect? Compish? Or is it simply Stupish? ;)
"into the already half-closed coffin of mainstream PC gaming."
Whre does the author get this tidbit from? The toilet is my guess, as the PC game industry as a whole seems to be projecting continued growth on top of the astound growth they have already experienced up until now. So far there has been no indication of the PC industry slowing, so I don't see where the conjecture of existing decline is. The current projections seem to be between 20% and 45% over the next two years. That's growth not decline. Just because a ferari is a better car, doesn't mean that all toyotas are going to disappear. That is simply stupid to even assume.
I am glad to see that i made it so well.
Now that we understand each other, may I check your code for you?
I have a problem having someone check my code who can't spell or use proper grammer. A swift click on a spell checker sure would add a lot of credibility to some whois telling you their code will check your's for it's grammer and spelling.
agreed, and agreed. Perhaps technology will close the distance that many politicians percieve that they have from the public when they reach those higher levels of office.
In response to your local/state/federal politicians corrtuption bias; Perhaps those that have reached that higher level have only learned the 'game' from playing it well on the lower levels of government. It is but conjecture on my part, as I have not participated in those activities myself, but it would seem to be a common sense answer. It doesn't take much faith to believe one learns from past experience.
I do however feel that we as Americans tend to confuse 'mistakes' with 'corruption' though (I speak out of the context of the article this is in response to). I would sooner trust a man who has tried, failed and learned from that failure than from the person who has never tried or failed. We learn from failure. A success without failure along the way, while sweet, can be tenuous. That success is not fortified against the possible pitfalls that would have been learned as failures were dealt with along the way. A measure of a man is not if he succeeded in the task, for we can all succeed with enough effort, but how much we learned along the way. Corruption is one thing, the purposeful failure with that intent. In politics we seem to apply the same consequences to those who failed as we do to those that excercised corruption. We tend not to elect them again. It is the one who failed and learned that we had ought to place in the the position of authority, not the one who has not even tried.
What on god's green earth would make you possibly think CRT's will all of the sudden vanish? There is no history of anything like that happening ever in our earth's past. Heck, I can still go out and buy myself a horse drawn carriage and a good horse trained specifically to draw it. I can buy blacksmith tools, an anvil and a bellows driven furnace if I want to. I can buy a non-powered push lawn mower, an egg beater you don't plug in but crank by hand, etc, etc, etc.
I find even the suggestion that something like the CRT will suddenly vanish from the landscape and leave you stranded a ridiculuous statement at best. The market is driven by demand, not by someone else's pipedream for the future (even if it does turn out to be a great dream). If there is demand, even miniscule, it will be served. Fear not you intellectually challenged, the world will not end tomorrow because someone invented the LCD display!
Howdy Ben! I have to say that I find your comment(s) disturbng on a level not addressed here.
" Politicians are typically corrupt, whether they are Democrat, Republican, or other."
Have we as Americans become so accepting of a corrupt government as that? If we truely do believe that most politicians are corrupt, on any level, is it not time for a revamp of the system that they supposedly serve? Once corruption enters any system on such a widespread scale as you suggest, that system no longer serves the purpose to which it was created.
I agree with your comments. I simply wanted to point out that the majority of us seem to accept these things as widely held truths, and yet we accept them as things we cannot change. That is a sad thing when the work that you created to serve you, returns your work with lies and corruption. Perhaps it is time to clean the slate and start again, for the growth we see now appears to be malignant to the core.
This is bad. What is becoming of the American citizenry? It is already sad to see the Vehicular addicts each morning, and now this? Yes, Vehicular Addicts. Those people who must satiate their addiction to vehicles by driving one each day. The worst of them actually 'shoot up' by driving first thing each morning, sometimes even before coffee (double addiction jeapordy there my friends!)! It is sad to see people being enslaved by their cars, and now even by email. What a sad sad people we have become. We need to appoint a presidential commission to combat these addictions before lest consume our society!
I think in twenty years people will look back on those that tried to flag the acceptance and inclusion of technologies into our lives as 'addictions', will scoff and use the surnames of those who did the calling as jokes in themselves.
"Rollie Hawk writes "Are you addicted to email?
Are you a 'Rollie' Head too? Shall we check you into the clinic now? Ha Ha Ha!
lol, I think if you look back on MS's history, you will find this is exactly the future they have seen for themselves for years. Next, take a look at their patent portfolio, that is full of web enable application delivery tools and applications readied for such an event. I think if you had the opportunity to look under the hood at MS headquarters you would find them distinctly poised to 'corner' this market too, as they have others. I would not take MS's suppression of knowledge of such internal activities as a lack of preparation in that area.
"...making copyright protections essential to their survival.""
That is so wrong. Copyright has nothing to do with their survival as it has not played a real role in publishing profits for centuries(expect for betwixt publishers). Libraries have always provided copyrighted materials to the public free of charge to a limited use. The publishers have relied upon the library as being too bothersome, too far away, too hard to use, etc for their survival. Most people would rather order a book than sift through their local library to try to garner the same material or item. Publishers have depended on that, not the copyright, as books have always been free for the asking.
Now Google is poised to remove a significant portion of the 'library hurdle' that stops most people from using that resource before their local Barnes and Noble retail outlet. That is what they are upset over, not the copyright. The copyright is the only legal paper the have to hang onto and cry into. Therefore they try to raise your ire over that and hope you will miss the real point.
Do you really know anyone that steals books? Do you know anyone who downloads books illegally? Doesn't that sound a bit proposeterous when the same material can be had in an hour or two from your local library? It sure does to me.
As information moves to the electronic format, as most all of it will in the coming years, are we ready and or willing to lose our access to published materials freely? Will information truely become a comodity for the wealthy only too? Shame on the publishers for clouding the issue in such a way. We are not the dumb (are we?).
I agree with you. I think it will be even worse though. They will institute these new DRM schemes and then they will blame theft as the reason for the decrease in revenues and use that twisted logic to go after them with a vengence.
I stopped buying music cd's when they started adding the purposeful errors to the cd's to keep you from copying them. Not because I was mad at the technology, but because they were no longer useful to me as they would not play well in my high end car stereo. I have since even sold the stereo and listen nothing but FM radioo again. They are the ones who hurt their own bottom line. Theft is just an excuse to justify their underhanded actions.
I still disagree with you, respectfully. I think possibly your perspective is different.
"My main point being that the target audience for the XBOX and PS2 are NO LONGER the target audience"
That statement seems to say that you think they are trying to sell to the wrong group now. The truth is that you moved out of that group by aging. They aren't targeting you any more, at least with the diligence that they did when you were in that age group. Perhaps we are saying the same thing, but your choice of words certainly suggested otherwise. Perhaps it is because of the ambiguous language you used.
"Expense is no longer the factor as we all support ourselves now, time is, and we don't have as much to devote to gaming as before."
I agree with that with the above perspective, you again aged and moved into a different age group where the average person has more responsibility and thus less time for gaming. It does not however represent the current batch of people who fit in that 18-23 age group. Their characteristics are only moving toward more time for gaming than in the past and more access to the platforms to do it on. Here again, perhaps we are saying the same thing. It just needs to be clarified that it is you that changed, not the characteristics of any of the age groups that you mentioned. You moved out of their target, their target did not change.
How can you steal something that is freely give to anyone who asks? lol.
That was your assumption, not my words. I simply stated that the small faction of outspoken people in the whole group are painting the picture that is perceived by the public. I called this small faction "left wing blowhards". Again, it is exactly this type of word twisting that causes the problem we are discussing. If you consider yourself one of those, (and by your posts, we almost have to assume that), the wear the shoes with pride, if you so choose.
Your conjectures on what others think are just that, conjectures. I did not pick up that brush, you did. You seem to want to ride on both sides of the fence. It can't be done. There is not a company out there that wants employees that will cause their company to be associated with something that is 'perceived' to bring a negative image to that company. That is where the perception issue falls in place. MArketing is all about perceptions, nothing else. It is not a misplaced judgement and you of all people, if you truely want to see linux and open-source move into the main stream, had ought to want to change.
"the flag wavers are citing a 1 in 10 arrest rate for black people here"
You are right about the arrest rates. The trouble with rates is that they are based on a period, such as a year. If you even consider you low number of 1%, over the cousre of 30 years, that is a substantial percentage of the total population. 1% per year over a period of years turns out to be straight multiplication (with a bias for re-arrests), that number becomes quite large. I should think that a 20% number would be easily explained with such easy math. Any other arguement is simply contrary to the governments own published numbers.
"After covering videogame news for years I know this all to well"
You think sales are going to dwindle because you and your friends are getting older? That would probably be true if no children where born after you and your friends. That is not how it works however, and the population continues to grow (albiet slowly now in the states). That only means that the market is growing, (past customers plus new customers coming into the age group). I think that you will be surprised if you look at the real numbers. The percentage of youngsters (and you are still one in my eyes) in that 18-23 age group who will pruchase is always growing. The later age groups do slow, but surprisingly at the same rate as the death rate for the group. That is tantamount to saying that these consoles and games do not lose customers to anything other than death. Console and Game sales have do nothing but increase, and at a fantastic rate. Now even faster than Hollywood with more total revenue. I find your prediction of failure surprising and unsuportable in the face of the facts and history.
I should think that the open-source community would be in favor of this. It only hurts Microsoft as they 'sell' their product. Linux and other open-source software would not be effected, as it is not sold, but free.
"If I were a potential employer of yours, I'd be fairly insulted at your low opinion of me. I think I'd not want to hire you for that reason."
Interesting. I made no mention of my opinion of you. I was speaking of the public's perception as a whole, as was Dvorak. Your insistance on painting a picture of something that is not there to make your point, is exactly what this is all about. I, in fact, mentioned that I use Linux, I love Linux and am saddened to see it's perception illustrated in this way. Where did I ever insult you by discussing someone elses opinion? Secondly if you make rash judgements such as that, based on as little knowledge of me as you have, then perhaps it would be a good thing if I did not work for you. I would not tolerate decisions made based on little o no facts. Sorry.
"30 percent of them had previously been arrested, including arrests for violent offenses (18 percent), alcohol or drug-related offenses (11 percent), and non-financial-fraud related theft offenses (11 percent)."
These numbers also represent the population of the United states as a whole. Yes 30 percent of the US population has been arrested before. more than 20% have a felony on their record and so on. So to paint these people as anything other than ordinary citizens is silly. They simply represent the whole equally as the whole represents itself. Nothing unusual here.
I have to agree with Dvorak on this one. I have been saying this for months on Slashdot and usually get modded to troll or flamebait for it. The fanatic members of the linux community are going to bring it to it's knees. I am an IT professional who has made a living in this fashion for 20 years. Yea, that's a long time for IT. I don't flaunt it, because it actually means nothing. I do however know that to be successful, you HAVE TO be able to weight the pros and cons objectively on every software/hardware decision that is made. Quite frankly, those decisions end up being an MS product much of the time. I am not saying MS's products are great, heck I am not even saying that they work decently sometimes, but it is necessary in many cases, due to the constraints of the software, the job/project needs and so on. It's a fact of life right now, It's not a Linux world out there,... yet.
With all of that said, I cannot survive in the industry, if I am viewed as belonging to a group of fanatical left wing blow hards who absolutely refuse to look at the pros of anything that competes with their prize product. It would shut the door for me as professional. I have also long stated that the fanatical representations of Linux and the over-bashing of MS shed a poor light on the community and cause outsiders to shy away. Very few people wish to be associated with a group that refuses to acknowledge that any choice but theirs is a ticket to damnation (accept maybe in the case of the factional Christian faith denominations). If Dvorak is stating this, should it not be clear to everyone that there are a fair number of ot Iher important people who also have this perception? I am not saying it is right, but we HAVE TO do something to correct it, or we all are going to painted in the same light. That is not what Linux is and it is not what it's future could be. If the perception rules over the facts, as Dvorak said, the trash heap of history is where this (linux) is - headed.
Newsworthy or not, just look at the response he illicets here on slashdot. The largest response of any article in quite a while. Polarization can be a powerful marketing tool in itself. Quite possibly it was said in that frame of mind to begin with. It would be shrewd. All they have to do is say something once and they get hundreds of voices piping up to talk about it. It's free publicity and they win with that, even if they do lose the war with the iPod. They got the free marketing. Apple has spent millions. When you rile the masses opposed to you, those who are indifferent inevitably take notice of the issues involved. There are a great deal of indifferent people out there, as MS's own sales numbers show. We are only serving their purpose now with our loud retort.
" ...you're showing links to retail sales, when the vast majority of sales are OEM, not retail."
Did you read the article? The first sentence says "US desktop PC retail arena"
They are speak of CPU's that shipped inside of PC's sold in the retail market. That includes OEM sales. Why do people not what to believe things when the facts are staring them in the face? Is it somehow humiliating to you that Intel has lost the desktop market to AMD? It's a fact.
If you want more facts, read this article on which includes links within it to prove it's truth. This article includes the most recent numbers available. Everyone else is offering numbers for total CPU sales. I am pointing out that AMD owns the desktop. That is far more than just a foot in the door. The door is wide open and they are poised to step through. The real question is will intel be able to shut the door again before AMD does it.
I don't get it either. Why is 'How it Works' listing something that obviously doesn't work. So much for using that site as a factual basis for anything anymore. If anyone uses that site as a link to bolster their point as to why something is the way it is, I will happily poke holes in their arguement by debasing the believability anything on that site now.
Next they will be posting that there are chipmunks inside of hybrid cars engines that runn in squirel cages to make them go.
"AMD's share of the CPU market was only 16.1 %"
Conjecture on your part. Nowhere in that article is there a refernce made to Intels market share in comparision and further, it does not break down the markets, as my links do. I also provided you with links that show AMD's margins rising, as I noted and even your link states and Intel's margins lowering, meaning that most likely AMD is forcing Intel to play their game, not the other way around.
I never argued that Intel is making more money than AMD, only that the gap is cleary closing in the market share business in the server market. Furthermore, I don't care about your perceptions on who is selling more, based on what you see in the stores your frequent. The fact remains that AMD is selling more desktop processors than Intel right now, regardless of the profits (see my earlier post for the factual numbers and the links to back that up). So your question as to why no one is buying the better AMD processors seems kind of foolish in that regard.