I know what you mean. However please consider an engineering tool no less powerful, completely text based if you want: SPICE.
Everything you ever want to do in Spice can be created in a netlist, and the result is still the same.
Besides, for when I was doing a little bit of modelling (not like 3DS / Bryce where precision don't matter so much), I typed in coordinates for a large majority of the points anyway (AutoCAD used to have a "line here there" command, IIRC?) because mousing isn't as precise.
Like I said - not dissing the mouse because it certainly has tons of uses, but I do think it's over-used in too many places just because back then it was "the next big thing."
I know and I use a lot of shortcuts. However, a lot of things you just can't do with keyboard because the features were never designed with keyboard in mind.
I will use MS word for and example because I am using one right now.
Take, say, window split. you can split the window, but you can't switch between them.
Another thing might be putting in tab stops.
How about easily change font? Now - I said *EASILY*. I wouldn't even mind if it was a simple something that let me get to the toolbar (come on - that's the whole point of tool bar - FREQUENTLY ACCESSED STUFF). Going into three levels of menu to change a font is rediculous.
Heck, scroll-lock don't even work (though works in Excel).
I am not saying it's not completely impossible (with enough accessibility tools you can probably use cursor keys for mouse), but applications certainly arn't designed with keyboard users in mind - even though in many instances a pure-keyboard operation would be so much faster.
also I think became too pervalent for their own good...
Take, say, the mouse... it is good for some things, but UI has became WAY too dependent on the darn thing. (Okay, I admit context sensitive menues was not one of his wrongdoings, but nontheless it was not an outcome that surprised anyone).
For WYSIWYG, it's not necessary for many things you do. In fact - it is completely for the purpose of putting things onto paper. When you take away that premises, a lot of innovative UI can get done (3D desktops, let's say).
I personally believe that a lot of stuff has really became like the iMac design - way too popular and put into way too many places. For stuff like word processing, I would prefer for it to be navigatable without myself moving my hand to the mouse at all. THAT would be peak efficiency.
(Yes I know mouse is very important for anything graphic - but admit it GUI is not the most efficient interface; it may be the most intuitive, but often you get a lot done a lot faster with just a keyboard - if a computer was designed for it. Too bad so few things are these days.
I have noticed that RadialContext, which is probably the best thing that happened to browsers since the mouse, is now available for Phoenix, or Thunderbird, or whatever.
A little note on that is you can change all the skins to pngs (do a global replace on the sript files) and lower the opacity to like 70% or so. suddenly you've got transparenty menus! Looks sweet as all heck.
They should at least go for ones you can't pronounce! like all the ones from Lamborghini cars.
Like, for example, Murcielago, which Car and Driver must have spent half a page telling people "This is how to pronounce this car's name."
And then you have citeroen and peugeot, which is pervasive, but still not easy to pronounce (correctly).
I mean, after commiting half an hour on the name alone, you are too invested (time wise) in the product to ever go anywhere else. I think that's how windows grab customers - by excruciating install processes. You invest the time in the install and don't really want to see that time "wasted" by going to another platform.
we can one-up them by using up people's time at the name alone!
A lot of pals I yap with ARE from the office. And what's preventing the "all day yap" is because hanging out at eachothers cubes would attract volumous attention.
I cannot imagine this increasing productivity. really cannot. People will be able to interrupt your legitimate work from the convenience of their own cube! and I doubt you can hide yourself (invisible) because that would totally be against the whole point of INSTANT messenging.
And before people goes about and talk about monitoring your IM logs - 1) you can speak in coded words. "new product announcement at the convention" = "movie that just got released" or something 2) IT depts are stressed as they are - and they won't have that kind of time 3) as for your boss, I am sure number 1 would work quite effectively - because if you work under a intelligent and capable boss, he would be smart enough to not have this whole nonsense in your dept anyhow.
I am sorry, but WHEN did HongKong became a "small country"? Last I checked, it was an SAR (special administrative region) of the People's Republic of China - in fact they were complaining that the disease SARS should be renamed to "shock flu" or something because it "undermines the name of the territory." Before that, I seem to remember that Hong Kong was a colony of G.Britain...
While a country code is amusing, I would hardly think it would be a definitive reason to call Hong Kong a "country."
Next thing you know you'll be calling Taiwan a country too. [/sarcasm] (btw, WHO (world health org) apparently does not recognize the soverignity of Taiwan - when refering to it, they always say "the province of Taiwan," or something to that extent).
And I always thought that China Telecom or Unicom (the big gov't sponsored phone companies) are all over hong kong. Or so I thought... wouldn't be surprised if there are much fewer than 7 soon.
I mean, it's not like there hasn't been mac clones before. And if y'all remember it didn't work out all that well, for Apple OR the clone makers, IIRC.
And back in the days I remember the clones (and maybe apple in general?) would have windows emulation that would run pretty much anything (that's before the directX days) you wanted... now that I think about it, I really wonder why so few switched over - I mean, back then Apple wasn't cheap either, but neither was PCs, to tell the truth...
Granted, Apple design wasn't as artistically meticulous as today either. The mac community, I think, had about the same amount of elitist / snobishness though. Actually Linux community too - except no KDE / Gnome / etc that we all take for granted.
Ahh the old days.
Anyway - Hardly doubt this will impact the mac world...
I can't imagine that's something you can do because allowing bad things to happen is just kind of dumb.
I mean I understand their point - that a benevolent hacking dude will hack the system, gleefully take the 6 monthes of free use, and tell them their security hole.
But in reality, what people in their right mind would do that? I mean, assuming: The hacker was benevolent and wanted the 6 monthes. If you hacked the system - you have unlimited, forever usage of the system, hence the word "0wnz," I believe?
If you are hacking with malevolent intentions, even less will there be a chance of you telling them what happened - and you will just, again, keep making use of the system to send out spam or look through your ex-gf's email or something.
The only thing that I can imagine is bragging rights - but really who would you brag to? the trade off is "bragging rights to your friends + unlimited free use, forever (or, for a long ass time)" vs "bragging rights to your friends and your ISP + 6 monthes free use + ISP will probably forever look at you with extra caution." I really don't think the latter is worth it.
By doing this you are (I think) voiding your rights of prosecution. It's like saying to people "Yeah if you can jack my lambo with its whiz-bang security system and I'll let you drive it around for half a day if you tell me how you jacked it." Are you nuts? If I go through the pains of jacking the car, you bet your butt you ain't getting it back. (The analogy works better if you imagine that the car-thief was only taking the car out at nights to pick up chicks or something - why would you give up that privledge for a chance to drive it for 6 hours during the day?)
I really think that the submitter thought it was the actual installation SOURCE CODE that got leaked. Otherwise it really does not make news - I mean, Heck I had access to Win2K pro a whole MONTH before it was on shelves (yes it's the final build).
Wasn't there a place that allowed you to print (full color, no less) stuff onto toilet paper?
Actually, a quick search turned up these guys who prints readable stuff (jokes, novels, etc) for you amongst other things, and these guys that wouldprint pretty much anything. I saw this in Maxim a few monthes back (actually might be a year or so); they had the one with Bin Laden's head (y'all remember, him, right?) printed.
Can you imagine if it was your ex-wife's face? send it to her at her wedding to let her know what you use; heh. Might want to keep secret the absene $16.95 / roll pricetag though, or she'll be the one laughing.
There are some crazy design specs that people don't usually consider besides the nanotubes and the lack thereof.
1) due to the weight of the cable, it needs to be thicker at the middle and taper off at the ends - this makes the attachment of a vehicle to traverse the cable considerably more difficult
2) the growing - you can't "lower" a cable from a space station. the center of gravity must remain at the geosync point if you want to stay afloat
3) the keeping cable tensioned - this involves capturing a sizable asteroid into an orbit dangerously close to the earth (as in, genocidal proportions if shit goes wrong) - and after you anchor the cable, push it back out so it will keep tension (geosync don't work here). A fly-by capture is out of the question, and actually dragging a asteroid to our doorsteps is impossible by today's figures.
Space elevator, while cool, has a loooong road ahead of it - I am not betting my money on it (within my lifetime, anyhow). Granted I probably seem like a pesky naysayer that's keeping technology from going places - but just imagine stuff we developed WITHOUT first thinking it through; I think the nuclear stockpile on US and Russian sides definitly proves my point.
I'm all for it if they can bring the damn asteroid here SAFELY, though. (Shuttles so far has a roughly 2% failure rate - and that's two completely fatal ones - I don't want the fate of the world depending on that kind of odds)
You do know that you can't rent "foreign" music (i.e. represented by RIAA - methinks) immediately after release right? They only become available to rent a whole YEAR after it's released on shelves - at which point even the people who ponied up money for them things has stopped listening to them.
Funny thing, too - Japanese video rental stores sell tons of mini-discs, and on the CDs it even says - it's ok to copy to mini-disc. (and I assume keep it (the minidisc) after you return the CD)
Zaurus must be *THE* only PDA that includes kanji input - as in, written by hand. (Okay so you can write kana into it too, so it's more like "glyph input" but I digress)
You have no idea how that saves your life (or, time - which is really just small chunks of life) when looking for the pronouciation of some kanji characters (and meanings - zaurus in Japan AFAIK comes with dictionaries either direction).
So, yeah - buy a zaurus from Japan and be amazed. I don't think the US models are so trick, buc I might be wrong.
7. What new CPUs are you working on adding NetBSD support? Jay Michaelson:... We also ported NetBSD to the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro, and the SuperH SH-5 last fall...
Virtex-II pro is an FPGA so you can't really "port to it" - though the catch is that they comes with IBM's powerPC cores embedded. Why would he mention that he ported to Virtex-II pro instead of just PowerPC architecture?
and btw, it's kind of silly to name your company after horse-radish, especially done AFTER the budwiser commercials came out (the company was founded in 2000). Well, at least it's not named after certain rich person's (lack of) manhood, so I stay thankful for that...
That has usually been the argument against using metal cases...
On the other hand, you have to realize that an alpha particle beam can usually be stopped by a sheet of paper (not to mention, being totally whacked out by the earth's magnetosphere - I really don't think that would be as much a problem as you think it might be. - I mean, all packaging on your semiconductor stuff has enough shielding for alpha particles.
I think the space shuttle has insane redundancy is because that the launch conditions are extremely severe, which can be quite difficult on the components (interconnects, especially) - however, even that has mostly been proven unfounded. Some people has been trying to develop cannons to shoot things into space (yes, ala Jules Verne style) - and found that dispite the thousands of Gs forced upon the payload, semiconductor stuff can withstand some serious stress.
small side note - the "cannonballs" that gets shot off into space burns through FIVE INCHES of ablatives in order to achieve orbit - simply because that it's the fastest when the air density is the highest. think about that for a second just for shock value - five inches! (no penis jokes please)
Anyway - I don't think you have to worry about it too much. However, if you leave your case open, the circuit traces (especially the surface ones - interior ones are hidden well between power/ground planes that interference hardly gets to them) would be affected by transient magnetic fields - so metal case is still advisable. completely different reasons, though.
Well, considering the olden-days them things are about the size of a 4-year old child (and just as heavy) - and these days we have wrist phones as per previous/. story (ok ok, it's only PHS - but real cellphones are getting pretty easy to lose now - look at one of those ultra-thin samsung ones that Sprint offer), anybody (conan-the-early-adopters, especially) figure that the cellphone size (volume, let's say) follows or exceeds moore's law?
Well, I don't think AMD never had any experience with DRAM, and Fujitsu, though has, was never a big player (big ones are Micron, Samsung, and Infinion, Hynix is dying so they don't count anymore). (Slightly off-topic - in term of SRAM, SONY is a huge player - who would have thought they were a big semiconductor company as well as consumer electronics?)
Same time - few realize the tanglement between AMD and Fujitsu. They have been doing ventures together for a long time now - a few years back they put together a joint plant - it wasn't a great success as I remembered it, though
Did y'all know Fujitsu is *the* largest computer / IT stuff manufacture in Japan?
Lastly, AMD flash is going toward Mirror bit, while Intel is going toward multi-level storage. Honestly, intel version has more expandability (to a point - storing 1024 levels per cell is just impossible) - so we will see how that works out.
Just random stuff I had in mind when I read the article - thought people might find them useless but nontheless mildly interesting.
I personally wish them well, but I do wonder what would happen if they go into DRAM. They would either get slaughtered (lack of experience), or some DRAM manufactures would just go off and die (even more, for Hynix, or severely cripple, like NEC, Mitsubishi, etc who are small players in the DRAM area). DRAM market simply won't hold this many people (already seen so many consolidations as of the past).
Sadly, in most corporate environments, all wormholes only lead to the boss's office... or to the marketing department meeting.
Sadly? Apparently you havn't been going to the correct marketing dept meetings. The thing that apparently sets the marketing dept aside from the rest of us is that they usually have something called an entertainment budget.
good marketing dept meetings involve a lot of alcohol, free food, and honestly - no matter how bad the actual content of the meeting is, anybody can get through it drunk.
I am willing to take back everything I said (and maybe put it in another post) but it's a shame/. does not allow deletions./. with authentic story on april fools? but that can't... [head explodes]
p.s. (pretent this was written before the exploding head) programing in this is a pain in the butt and a half, even with a hex editor.
Okay, not on topic with the story, but these are not serious stories:
I just want to mention that April Fools to me has always been to make up BELIEVABLE stories that you can gloat over later - which really adds to more of the fun.
I mean, funny as some of this may be, it gets tiring after a while. I mean, you can make a story believable but still false and a good April Fools candidate.
Slashdot Mirror
I know what you mean. However please consider an engineering tool no less powerful, completely text based if you want: SPICE.
Everything you ever want to do in Spice can be created in a netlist, and the result is still the same.
Besides, for when I was doing a little bit of modelling (not like 3DS / Bryce where precision don't matter so much), I typed in coordinates for a large majority of the points anyway (AutoCAD used to have a "line here there" command, IIRC?) because mousing isn't as precise.
Like I said - not dissing the mouse because it certainly has tons of uses, but I do think it's over-used in too many places just because back then it was "the next big thing."
What about the CDR-tax? can't you consider that a compulsory license?
Seriously though - has any lawyer gave that any kind of thought? To me it's legalizing music piracy since I already paid for it anyway...
btw, FP?
I know and I use a lot of shortcuts. However, a lot of things you just can't do with keyboard because the features were never designed with keyboard in mind.
I will use MS word for and example because I am using one right now.
Take, say, window split. you can split the window, but you can't switch between them.
Another thing might be putting in tab stops.
How about easily change font? Now - I said *EASILY*. I wouldn't even mind if it was a simple something that let me get to the toolbar (come on - that's the whole point of tool bar - FREQUENTLY ACCESSED STUFF). Going into three levels of menu to change a font is rediculous.
Heck, scroll-lock don't even work (though works in Excel).
I am not saying it's not completely impossible (with enough accessibility tools you can probably use cursor keys for mouse), but applications certainly arn't designed with keyboard users in mind - even though in many instances a pure-keyboard operation would be so much faster.
also I think became too pervalent for their own good...
Take, say, the mouse... it is good for some things, but UI has became WAY too dependent on the darn thing. (Okay, I admit context sensitive menues was not one of his wrongdoings, but nontheless it was not an outcome that surprised anyone).
For WYSIWYG, it's not necessary for many things you do. In fact - it is completely for the purpose of putting things onto paper. When you take away that premises, a lot of innovative UI can get done (3D desktops, let's say).
I personally believe that a lot of stuff has really became like the iMac design - way too popular and put into way too many places. For stuff like word processing, I would prefer for it to be navigatable without myself moving my hand to the mouse at all. THAT would be peak efficiency.
(Yes I know mouse is very important for anything graphic - but admit it GUI is not the most efficient interface; it may be the most intuitive, but often you get a lot done a lot faster with just a keyboard - if a computer was designed for it. Too bad so few things are these days.
Okay not completely on-topic, but:
I have noticed that RadialContext, which is probably the best thing that happened to browsers since the mouse, is now available for Phoenix, or Thunderbird, or whatever.
A little note on that is you can change all the skins to pngs (do a global replace on the sript files) and lower the opacity to like 70% or so. suddenly you've got transparenty menus! Looks sweet as all heck.
They should at least go for ones you can't pronounce! like all the ones from Lamborghini cars.
Like, for example, Murcielago, which Car and Driver must have spent half a page telling people "This is how to pronounce this car's name."
And then you have citeroen and peugeot, which is pervasive, but still not easy to pronounce (correctly).
I mean, after commiting half an hour on the name alone, you are too invested (time wise) in the product to ever go anywhere else. I think that's how windows grab customers - by excruciating install processes. You invest the time in the install and don't really want to see that time "wasted" by going to another platform.
we can one-up them by using up people's time at the name alone!
ahem. so, anyway.
I thought it read "IRIX" and the train of thought went something alone the lines of
euphoria: IRIX boxens for $289 from Wal-mart!
dawn of disillusionment: Why would I use a hacked up linux distro if IRIX came with it for free?
total disallusionment: Awww crap it's IRIS, not IRIX.
bitterness and depression: Awww crap it's IRIS based on PRMs.
[goes back to Gentoo, sighing]
A lot of pals I yap with ARE from the office. And what's preventing the "all day yap" is because hanging out at eachothers cubes would attract volumous attention.
I cannot imagine this increasing productivity. really cannot. People will be able to interrupt your legitimate work from the convenience of their own cube! and I doubt you can hide yourself (invisible) because that would totally be against the whole point of INSTANT messenging.
And before people goes about and talk about monitoring your IM logs -
1) you can speak in coded words. "new product announcement at the convention" = "movie that just got released" or something
2) IT depts are stressed as they are - and they won't have that kind of time
3) as for your boss, I am sure number 1 would work quite effectively - because if you work under a intelligent and capable boss, he would be smart enough to not have this whole nonsense in your dept anyhow.
Behind firewall so no bit torrent...
5.7kb/sec currently, and probably will not get better (on a T1, no less), which means:
waiting 4 hours 42 minutes and 33 seconds to see a tailer for a movie that will last, at most, half of that.
I am sure there is something wise to be said here.
I am sorry, but WHEN did HongKong became a "small country"? Last I checked, it was an SAR (special administrative region) of the People's Republic of China - in fact they were complaining that the disease SARS should be renamed to "shock flu" or something because it "undermines the name of the territory." Before that, I seem to remember that Hong Kong was a colony of G.Britain...
While a country code is amusing, I would hardly think it would be a definitive reason to call Hong Kong a "country."
Next thing you know you'll be calling Taiwan a country too. [/sarcasm] (btw, WHO (world health org) apparently does not recognize the soverignity of Taiwan - when refering to it, they always say "the province of Taiwan," or something to that extent).
And I always thought that China Telecom or Unicom (the big gov't sponsored phone companies) are all over hong kong. Or so I thought... wouldn't be surprised if there are much fewer than 7 soon.
I mean, it's not like there hasn't been mac clones before. And if y'all remember it didn't work out all that well, for Apple OR the clone makers, IIRC.
And back in the days I remember the clones (and maybe apple in general?) would have windows emulation that would run pretty much anything (that's before the directX days) you wanted... now that I think about it, I really wonder why so few switched over - I mean, back then Apple wasn't cheap either, but neither was PCs, to tell the truth...
Granted, Apple design wasn't as artistically meticulous as today either. The mac community, I think, had about the same amount of elitist / snobishness though. Actually Linux community too - except no KDE / Gnome / etc that we all take for granted.
Ahh the old days.
Anyway - Hardly doubt this will impact the mac world...
I can't imagine that's something you can do because allowing bad things to happen is just kind of dumb.
I mean I understand their point - that a benevolent hacking dude will hack the system, gleefully take the 6 monthes of free use, and tell them their security hole.
But in reality, what people in their right mind would do that? I mean, assuming: The hacker was benevolent and wanted the 6 monthes. If you hacked the system - you have unlimited, forever usage of the system, hence the word "0wnz," I believe?
If you are hacking with malevolent intentions, even less will there be a chance of you telling them what happened - and you will just, again, keep making use of the system to send out spam or look through your ex-gf's email or something.
The only thing that I can imagine is bragging rights - but really who would you brag to? the trade off is "bragging rights to your friends + unlimited free use, forever (or, for a long ass time)" vs "bragging rights to your friends and your ISP + 6 monthes free use + ISP will probably forever look at you with extra caution." I really don't think the latter is worth it.
By doing this you are (I think) voiding your rights of prosecution. It's like saying to people "Yeah if you can jack my lambo with its whiz-bang security system and I'll let you drive it around for half a day if you tell me how you jacked it." Are you nuts? If I go through the pains of jacking the car, you bet your butt you ain't getting it back. (The analogy works better if you imagine that the car-thief was only taking the car out at nights to pick up chicks or something - why would you give up that privledge for a chance to drive it for 6 hours during the day?)
I really think that the submitter thought it was the actual installation SOURCE CODE that got leaked. Otherwise it really does not make news - I mean, Heck I had access to Win2K pro a whole MONTH before it was on shelves (yes it's the final build).
Actually, a quick search turned up these guys who prints readable stuff (jokes, novels, etc) for you amongst other things, and these guys that wouldprint pretty much anything. I saw this in Maxim a few monthes back (actually might be a year or so); they had the one with Bin Laden's head (y'all remember, him, right?) printed.
Can you imagine if it was your ex-wife's face? send it to her at her wedding to let her know what you use; heh. Might want to keep secret the absene $16.95 / roll pricetag though, or she'll be the one laughing.
There are some crazy design specs that people don't usually consider besides the nanotubes and the lack thereof.
1) due to the weight of the cable, it needs to be thicker at the middle and taper off at the ends - this makes the attachment of a vehicle to traverse the cable considerably more difficult
2) the growing - you can't "lower" a cable from a space station. the center of gravity must remain at the geosync point if you want to stay afloat
3) the keeping cable tensioned - this involves capturing a sizable asteroid into an orbit dangerously close to the earth (as in, genocidal proportions if shit goes wrong) - and after you anchor the cable, push it back out so it will keep tension (geosync don't work here). A fly-by capture is out of the question, and actually dragging a asteroid to our doorsteps is impossible by today's figures.
Space elevator, while cool, has a loooong road ahead of it - I am not betting my money on it (within my lifetime, anyhow). Granted I probably seem like a pesky naysayer that's keeping technology from going places - but just imagine stuff we developed WITHOUT first thinking it through; I think the nuclear stockpile on US and Russian sides definitly proves my point.
I'm all for it if they can bring the damn asteroid here SAFELY, though. (Shuttles so far has a roughly 2% failure rate - and that's two completely fatal ones - I don't want the fate of the world depending on that kind of odds)
Funny thing, too - Japanese video rental stores sell tons of mini-discs, and on the CDs it even says - it's ok to copy to mini-disc. (and I assume keep it (the minidisc) after you return the CD)
Gotta love the clout the RIAA has...
Zaurus must be *THE* only PDA that includes kanji input - as in, written by hand. (Okay so you can write kana into it too, so it's more like "glyph input" but I digress)
You have no idea how that saves your life (or, time - which is really just small chunks of life) when looking for the pronouciation of some kanji characters (and meanings - zaurus in Japan AFAIK comes with dictionaries either direction).
So, yeah - buy a zaurus from Japan and be amazed. I don't think the US models are so trick, buc I might be wrong.
Jay Michaelson:
Virtex-II pro is an FPGA so you can't really "port to it" - though the catch is that they comes with IBM's powerPC cores embedded. Why would he mention that he ported to Virtex-II pro instead of just PowerPC architecture?
and btw, it's kind of silly to name your company after horse-radish, especially done AFTER the budwiser commercials came out (the company was founded in 2000). Well, at least it's not named after certain rich person's (lack of) manhood, so I stay thankful for that...
That has usually been the argument against using metal cases...
On the other hand, you have to realize that an alpha particle beam can usually be stopped by a sheet of paper (not to mention, being totally whacked out by the earth's magnetosphere - I really don't think that would be as much a problem as you think it might be. - I mean, all packaging on your semiconductor stuff has enough shielding for alpha particles.
I think the space shuttle has insane redundancy is because that the launch conditions are extremely severe, which can be quite difficult on the components (interconnects, especially) - however, even that has mostly been proven unfounded. Some people has been trying to develop cannons to shoot things into space (yes, ala Jules Verne style) - and found that dispite the thousands of Gs forced upon the payload, semiconductor stuff can withstand some serious stress.
small side note - the "cannonballs" that gets shot off into space burns through FIVE INCHES of ablatives in order to achieve orbit - simply because that it's the fastest when the air density is the highest. think about that for a second just for shock value - five inches! (no penis jokes please)
Anyway - I don't think you have to worry about it too much. However, if you leave your case open, the circuit traces (especially the surface ones - interior ones are hidden well between power/ground planes that interference hardly gets to them) would be affected by transient magnetic fields - so metal case is still advisable. completely different reasons, though.
Well, considering the olden-days them things are about the size of a 4-year old child (and just as heavy) - and these days we have wrist phones as per previous /. story (ok ok, it's only PHS - but real cellphones are getting pretty easy to lose now - look at one of those ultra-thin samsung ones that Sprint offer), anybody (conan-the-early-adopters, especially) figure that the cellphone size (volume, let's say) follows or exceeds moore's law?
I would think it should - but anyhoo...
Well, I don't think AMD never had any experience with DRAM, and Fujitsu, though has, was never a big player (big ones are Micron, Samsung, and Infinion, Hynix is dying so they don't count anymore). (Slightly off-topic - in term of SRAM, SONY is a huge player - who would have thought they were a big semiconductor company as well as consumer electronics?)
Same time - few realize the tanglement between AMD and Fujitsu. They have been doing ventures together for a long time now - a few years back they put together a joint plant - it wasn't a great success as I remembered it, though
Did y'all know Fujitsu is *the* largest computer / IT stuff manufacture in Japan?
Lastly, AMD flash is going toward Mirror bit, while Intel is going toward multi-level storage. Honestly, intel version has more expandability (to a point - storing 1024 levels per cell is just impossible) - so we will see how that works out.
Just random stuff I had in mind when I read the article - thought people might find them useless but nontheless mildly interesting.
I personally wish them well, but I do wonder what would happen if they go into DRAM. They would either get slaughtered (lack of experience), or some DRAM manufactures would just go off and die (even more, for Hynix, or severely cripple, like NEC, Mitsubishi, etc who are small players in the DRAM area). DRAM market simply won't hold this many people (already seen so many consolidations as of the past).
Sadly? Apparently you havn't been going to the correct marketing dept meetings. The thing that apparently sets the marketing dept aside from the rest of us is that they usually have something called an entertainment budget.
good marketing dept meetings involve a lot of alcohol, free food, and honestly - no matter how bad the actual content of the meeting is, anybody can get through it drunk.
do you have any idea how much bandwidth goes through the DVI cable for this thing? it pains me to think it.
and oh, anybody else who read thinks LCDs have crappy resolution, EAT. YOUR. WORDS.
well, too bad it's 7000 dollars, but damn that's a tricked out screen.
wow... I tried it too and you are right.
/. does not allow deletions. /. with authentic story on april fools? but that can't ... [head explodes]
I am willing to take back everything I said (and maybe put it in another post) but it's a shame
p.s. (pretent this was written before the exploding head) programing in this is a pain in the butt and a half, even with a hex editor.
I just want to mention that April Fools to me has always been to make up BELIEVABLE stories that you can gloat over later - which really adds to more of the fun.
I mean, funny as some of this may be, it gets tiring after a while. I mean, you can make a story believable but still false and a good April Fools candidate.
So learn to write some good stories and THEN post to the site, eh?
p.s. the above link provides information that helps a great deal in all sorts of situations, I highly recommend it.