Intel have spent 4 billion developing Itanium, they aren't about to throw that away. Intel's push into the 64-bit high end market was enough for Compaq to run with their tail between their legs, abandoning development of the best chip on the market. I think Itanium should be taken very seriously. Just because Itanium isn't ruling the market from it's early stages doesn't mean that this chip will not be dominant in 5 years time. I bet IBM and Sun are wetting themselves. Whether AMD can make an impact in the enterprise market is yet to be seen, I doubt IBM or Sun are too worried about AMD at this stage.
IBM and Sun don't just make chips, they make money by selling IT solutions. I think that in this decade you will see the commoditisation of the industry leads to players like IBM and Sun being pushed out of the chip market and the specialists will take over. And I don't see why AMD will be any more successful at competing with Intel in the enterprise market than they are in the PC market. I don't buy the concept of backwards compatibility with regards to the hammer, it just seems like a half arsed effort to push their way into the enterprise market. The big money is not in X86 anyway.
The whole theory of inflation in these games based on an ever increasing pool of currency is flawed. In games such as Everquest the currency is used to buy and sell items. The pool of these items grows at the same time as the pool of currency grows. In fact, deflation is more typical, since the trend is for players to get better and better equipment so an excess of old unwanted items lowers the prices.
Also in EQ, the better items are usually not tradable, which means they can't be bought and sold. This effectively places a lid on the market, since people are not going to pay huge amounts for an item that isn't the best thing out there. The market is driven by buying and selling mediocre items, which are generally easier to obtain than large summs of currency.
I think that if an organisations' claim for patent infringement is overturned then they should automatically have to pay for the legal fees for both sides. If the problem was due to a ridiculous patent, which was dismissed, then the organisation could then sue the patents office for causing the problem in the first place. That way:
a) The innocent party is not dragged into a legal battle on an uneven playing field to try and recoup for the legal expenses.
b) Perhaps the patents office might start to pay more attention to the patents they approve.
1. Alpha 21264C at 1250MHz
2. Itanium2 at 1000MHz
3. POWER4 at 1300MHz
4. SPARC64 V at 1350MHz
5. POWER4 at 1100MHz
6. Alpha 21264C at 1224MHz
7. Alpha 21264C at 1000MHz
8. Pentium 4 at 2.8 GHz
9. Pentium 4 at 2.66 GHz
10. Pentium 4 at 2.53 GHz
IBM's Power4 chips are currently faster than Intel x86 chips...
You seem to have deliberately ignored the superiority of the Alpha chip in your assessment. Hmm that sounds familiar... you don't work for Compaq/hp do you?
I believe that a large part of the reason for the push towards 64-bit is that 32-bit computing limits you to 4GB of memory. So if you can picture that in a few years time 4GB of memory will not be all that much, 32-bit computing will innevitably fade into history.
I think most of us would agree we would prefer an emotionally-inert policing force.
I don't agree. I think society is already too dominated by stiff rules and regulations. To further remove judgement from the equation of law enforcement doesn't sound like a good idea to me. I would prefer to see justice upheld than the law, and there is a difference between the two sometimes. That is where a good cop will always be better able to deal justice than any tool that man can devise.
An example, I live in Australia and we had an infamous case where a model was brutally raped and murdered by some low lifes, "the Murphy brothers". Apparently when they were caught by the police they were beaten to a pulp, I can vaguely recall an onlooker descibing how horrified she was at the brutality of the police. Good on them I say;-)
I play everquest and I have seen people that play more than what I consider a reasonable amount. I also know some of these people personally. From my experience the persons anxieties and social problems are not a result of the exccessive gaming, but rather their social problems are what drives them to seek social interaction in a medium that they find more comfortable. The problems were already there, gaming might not help them develop social skills or get over their anxieties, but it didn't start them either.
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Intel have spent 4 billion developing Itanium, they aren't about to throw that away. Intel's push into the 64-bit high end market was enough for Compaq to run with their tail between their legs, abandoning development of the best chip on the market. I think Itanium should be taken very seriously. Just because Itanium isn't ruling the market from it's early stages doesn't mean that this chip will not be dominant in 5 years time. I bet IBM and Sun are wetting themselves. Whether AMD can make an impact in the enterprise market is yet to be seen, I doubt IBM or Sun are too worried about AMD at this stage.
IBM and Sun don't just make chips, they make money by selling IT solutions. I think that in this decade you will see the commoditisation of the industry leads to players like IBM and Sun being pushed out of the chip market and the specialists will take over. And I don't see why AMD will be any more successful at competing with Intel in the enterprise market than they are in the PC market. I don't buy the concept of backwards compatibility with regards to the hammer, it just seems like a half arsed effort to push their way into the enterprise market. The big money is not in X86 anyway.
Facts are meaningless, facts can be used to prove just about anything that's even remotely true.
The whole theory of inflation in these games based on an ever increasing pool of currency is flawed. In games such as Everquest the currency is used to buy and sell items. The pool of these items grows at the same time as the pool of currency grows. In fact, deflation is more typical, since the trend is for players to get better and better equipment so an excess of old unwanted items lowers the prices.
Also in EQ, the better items are usually not tradable, which means they can't be bought and sold. This effectively places a lid on the market, since people are not going to pay huge amounts for an item that isn't the best thing out there. The market is driven by buying and selling mediocre items, which are generally easier to obtain than large summs of currency.
I think that if an organisations' claim for patent infringement is overturned then they should automatically have to pay for the legal fees for both sides. If the problem was due to a ridiculous patent, which was dismissed, then the organisation could then sue the patents office for causing the problem in the first place. That way :
a) The innocent party is not dragged into a legal battle on an uneven playing field to try and recoup for the legal expenses.
b) Perhaps the patents office might start to pay more attention to the patents they approve.
1. Alpha 21264C at 1250MHz
... you don't work for Compaq/hp do you?
2. Itanium2 at 1000MHz
3. POWER4 at 1300MHz
4. SPARC64 V at 1350MHz
5. POWER4 at 1100MHz
6. Alpha 21264C at 1224MHz
7. Alpha 21264C at 1000MHz
8. Pentium 4 at 2.8 GHz
9. Pentium 4 at 2.66 GHz
10. Pentium 4 at 2.53 GHz
IBM's Power4 chips are currently faster than Intel x86 chips...
You seem to have deliberately ignored the superiority of the Alpha chip in your assessment. Hmm that sounds familiar
I believe that a large part of the reason for the push towards 64-bit is that 32-bit computing limits you to 4GB of memory. So if you can picture that in a few years time 4GB of memory will not be all that much, 32-bit computing will innevitably fade into history.
I think most of us would agree we would prefer an emotionally-inert policing force.
;-)
I don't agree. I think society is already too dominated by stiff rules and regulations. To further remove judgement from the equation of law enforcement doesn't sound like a good idea to me. I would prefer to see justice upheld than the law, and there is a difference between the two sometimes. That is where a good cop will always be better able to deal justice than any tool that man can devise.
An example, I live in Australia and we had an infamous case where a model was brutally raped and murdered by some low lifes, "the Murphy brothers". Apparently when they were caught by the police they were beaten to a pulp, I can vaguely recall an onlooker descibing how horrified she was at the brutality of the police. Good on them I say
I play everquest and I have seen people that play more than what I consider a reasonable amount. I also know some of these people personally. From my experience the persons anxieties and social problems are not a result of the exccessive gaming, but rather their social problems are what drives them to seek social interaction in a medium that they find more comfortable. The problems were already there, gaming might not help them develop social skills or get over their anxieties, but it didn't start them either.
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