On a related topic, a very similar thing happened today with those Swift Boat vets. Seems they've got a message the DNC doesn't want to get out and are threatening to SUE any TV or radio station that airs it.
Again, is this simply opinion "John Kerry is a Traitor"; or is this libel, "John Kerry doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground."?
See, it's amazing to me that so many talk about freedom of speech, and yet George Bush has been publically called everything under the sun without a lawsuit involved. Should G.W. have sued Gore for his manic "He BETRAYED YOUR TRUST..." speech?
Isn't calling someone a 'shyster' libelous in a way? I mean, if you mean it in the context of 'dishonest lawyer', that sounds pretty specific to his trade and suggestive.
I still believe that someone should have the right to say this, but I can see where this guy might be able to sway a judge.
I ran into a similar issue dealing with some local banking institutions years ago. EVERY bank in this area was hooked on Token Ring. Now this was understandable from the perspective that Token Ring was arguably better than most older forms of networking, but this was 1997. New installations were still getting 16 Mbit Token installed. In some case we saw twisted pair installations, but they were still running 16 Mbit Token! What the hell? Ethernet over twisted pair was so much cheaper, faster, AND established.
Then I started noticing that EVERYTHING was IBM. The servers, the workstations, even the CABLING. I saw this at every bank we did work for (at least 8 different organizations).
So if it wasn't for the quality, expense, and/or speed, what was it? I later learned that this was a common theme in many larger organizations and it had a lot to do with how much IT stock was owned by the execs.
A friend of mine - a CIO - relayed to me that when a large organization buys a ton of equipment from IBM, the resulting sales figures usually give a bounce to the stock. Better still, if you coordinate your efforts with other execs in other companies, you can often make yourself a tidy profit.
During my time consulting for these banks, management did not want to hear about any other solution that wasn't IBM. I suspect that most Fortune 500 companies play a similar game with Dell product - and that would certainly help explain Intel's entrenchment.
Of course I'd LOVE for them to install it beforehand, however this isn't always practical or possible.
The difference is in the babysitting of an upgrading computer. With SP2, I set it, do a single Windowsupdate, and walk away. Hopefully. It's faster than updating individual patches across the Internet because it's not constantly shuting down or turning on services for each patch.
It's still going to be a slow process, but I'm hoping for less time and less hassle.
I sure hope that SP2 gets released by Sept. 7. That's when the girls come back to school here. That's when they bring their spyware-infected, unpatched systems to school.
I feel for the schools starting before us (most of them). Patching a medium speed laptop can take HOURS now. Hopefully MS will be able to get this out soon because otherwise, patching incoming systems is going to take twice as long...
I recently had to purchase a lightweight laptop for my boss. His requirements? That it be lightweight, long battery life, and have a few bells and whistles (DVD playback, wireless, etc.)
Well, we ended up getting this one:
http://webshop.fujitsupc.com/fpc/Ecommerce/build se riesbean.do?series=P7
The Fujitsu 7000 series has a hell of a lot of bang for the buck and if you are interested in long battery life - it's hard to beat this. Fujitsu claims that the 7000 series can run for up to 11 HOURS on battery power. This is, of course, using the modular bay for a battery.
Nonetheless, it seems he's able to get over 5 hours on just the single stock battery for non-DVD use. Centrino-based laptops are very well designed and when used with the ultra-low voltage processors are unbeatable, IMHO.
Finding a dealer though... That's the REAL challenge...
I happen to think that instruments are FAR more important and relavant and visual flying. Windows are nice for those clear, blue days, but what about when it's dark and rainy? No help there from the view!
Other conditions can contribute to being totally disoriented (like the cause of JFK Jr.'s crash). In his case, he wasn't authorized to fly at night due to the fact that he wasn't instrument-only rated.
stuff that isn't ready! Failed Intel launches are FAR more numerous - especially in the last 5 years. The last serious heat issues with a processor AMD had were with the K5.
Intel now has an established history of not being able to follow AMD's lead. Up until the K7, that certainly wasn't the case - Intel totally ruled.
I think what's happening now is an example of big fish/little fish at work. AMD has learned that Intel is too big to manouver well and has been using that to their advantage.
For instance, Intel's scheme to get everyone onboard with RAMBUS failed primarily because AMD refused to accept it and offered similar performace at a cheaper price for everyone involved. The board and memory manufactures followed suit.
I give you the following examples of Intel's problems:
- The 1.13 GHz PIII. Intel released this after AMD beat them to the GHz ball and then quickly (less than a week later) recalled them. Why? Heat issues.
- The RAMBUS/DDR bridge chipset. When Intel finally realized that vendors were more interested in supporting DDR, they did a quick chipset to provide support for both. It sucked doubly and was recalled.
- Intel totally miscalculated AMD's K6/2 by releasing the cripled Celeron with NO LII cache! It totally bombed and the Celeron 300a with 128K of LII cache quickly took over.
- Then there's our present example. Netburst has been a total failure for Intel. The.09 P4 should not have been promised/shipped. It clearly needs help.
Mind you, it's not that it's a bad performer. Even with an extended pipeline (to help cool things down), it's still very fast. The problem is: it's already maxxed out!.09 micron bought them nothing but trouble and expense. Now they have to go back and redesign everything: Strategy, architecture, marketing. Somehow they are now tasked with trying to explain why GHz don't mean anything - the exact opposite of their Netburst strategy. Good luck.
My question to you is: Do you honestly believe that AMD will be sitting still during Intel's redesign?
Not anymore! Most of the releases floating around now have the boot track embedded with the image.
More interesting is the fact that some of these 'new' images were games in development that never quite made it out. A fine example would be 'Half-Life'. Who released this? Probably some disgruntled programmer.
It's a shame too because besides the long (and often) load times, it's a GREAT port!
Moore's 'law' doesn't guarantee speed. It merely suggests a trend that every so often (18 months - 2 years) the amount of transistors on a chip doubles. In the past, that has meant speed because thinner wires produce less heat.
The problem isn't nearly as much to do with CPU scaling for scaling's sake - those processes continue to develop at the same or similar pace. It has much more to do with scaling for speed's sake. To Intel's horror, they've found that speed isn't scaling in a linear fashion like it used to.
It must have been a terrifying discovery for the poor engineers who discovered that.09 wasn't going to get them anywhere. But imagine the culture at Intel where you daren't say anything to anyone about it, i.e. 'Just SHIP the thing!'
They will never do that because an open solution - no matter how good it is - is still... Open.
MS products always come with lock-in; whether it's AD support, Active X, or some sort of proprietary document formatting (ala Word's.doc 'standard').
I've been using Moz here now for over 4 months and am not looking back, but it is difficult to convince others, particuallarly those who are frightened of incompatiblity.
As an international school that often has a 4-5% S. Korean population, I can attest to this. Last year was the last straw. It's bad enough trying to configure a Korean student's machine to join our domain, but CLEANING it?!
Adaware and Spybot are wonderful tools but they don't do jack for Korean spyware. The problem here is, we use a proxy and some of that garbage sits inbetween the Winsock interface and the network - effectively trying to bypass the proxy server.
For instance, there was a girl complaining that she 'couldn't get on the Internet'. After some examination, I found that she had some sort of Winsock redirector installed. No virus checker, no spyware checker, NOTHING took care of it. After two hours I was able to dig it out, but it had three layers of protection - constantly trying to add itself back into the registry under aliased names... All of them Korean. FRUSTRATING!!!
Sadly, I ended up telling returning international students that we will no longer be able to support their machines (READ: allow them on the network). For a simple 15% population I was spending 45% of my time to keep these machines going.
I hated doing it, but thanks to inceased spyware and God knows what else, it's hard enough attempting to keep English-based machines clean, much less trying to troubleshoot a machine with a strange egg-based icon set and symbols I can't decipher.
And yes, it's true. They think our 3 Mbit connection is WAY slow...;)
If there's enough publicity involved, a case like this might pay for itself. Think of it - Internet, ID Theft charges, abuse from people online. It's just the sort of thing an ambulance chaser like Boies would love.
If you're an ABB fanatic, NOTHING Bush does is worthy, EVERYTHING is his fault.
The truth is closer to the fact that NO administration (Republicrat or Demican) has full control over anything anymore. Congress pushes in bloated bills with a bunch of crap no one wants - except maybe one line item. And yet, if a president doesn't sign for it he'll be accused of killing babies.
What REALLY should happen is the president should explain how much pork went into each bill - what he approves of and what he does not. The problem is BOTH sides play this game and as usual, there is simply no leadership skills involved...
As an admin for a small all-girls school here I can say that most business types have NO CLUE how much we have to put up with in this environment.
In corporate there is the fear of a pink slip (or even criminal damages), but at a school, the worst that might happen here is that a student loses her computer privs.
This is especially bad in a lab environment though, especially when students may sit at different terminals on any given day.
True... True.
A story, if I may...
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..about the greatest man I ever knew - Lawrence Hess. You probably never heard of him, but that's not unusual - there's a lot of musicians you've never heard of. The difference here, is that Lawrence was the single most talented one I've ever, and probably will ever meet (and I've known many). Not too many musicians have the distinction of being in The Boxtops, or Ripley's Believe it or Not - he was.
What does this have to do with DRM/Music Labels? I'm getting there.
Back when I was an aspiring musician I was introduced to Lawrence and invited to one of his shows. He was a always-smiling, one man band. Lawrence embraced any technology related to music and getting the sound he wanted. He'd sit, surrounded by 4 or 5 keyboards with a little Steinberger guitar slung over his shoulder. Having played in bands for years, he decided that he could be his own band - one that wouldn't make mistakes, one that would always show up on time and not be intoxicated.
Every bit of his music was sequenced by him - and he used his own bizzare midi settings (I think as to confuse anyone who might try and steal a few of his backup discs). His voice was one of those given to you by God himself - an impossible, deep range.
But he was unlucky in a few other areas. You see, Lawrence wasn't much to look at - physically. He stood no more than 5'2", and always managed to look somewhat disheveled. He also had Type I diabetes - had it since childhood. It eventually killed him at 35 years in 1998.
In short, Lawrence was hardly MTV material - he simply didn't look the part. But... He was a musician's musician - a master. He had a great local following and he managed to meek out a decent existance right up until weeks before he passed away.
Now, here's the point to all of this. Lawrence didn't bitch that he wasn't a star. Sure, he would've liked more exposure, but he did what he did because it was all he knew how to do. Being a musician doesn't mean you have to starve, but certainly aren't any guarantees. If you suck, you suck, and no amount of promotion by a label is going to change that fact. If you want to eat, you have to prove yourself to people.
Lawrence's fans would travel from miles away to see him perform. He always kept the venues and customers happy wherever he played. He didn't expect the RIAA or anyone else to bail him out - he did it for the sheer love of music.
What I personally took away from his death was that although I enjoyed playing and singing immensely, I could in no way live the life he had chosen. I simply wasn't that good (well, few are!) and so I stayed in the computer field where I think I've done fairly well for myself.
I guess I just get a little pissed off when I hear about DRM and/or musicians spouting off about piracy - especially when it's world famous musicians who should have the least to complain/worry about.
Perhaps, but the question is: Will the G5 be able to scale to those heights of performance without:
a) Costing an arm/leg
b) Relying on shaky chip die shrink processes resulting low chip volume (current situation)
My main issue here is that Apple continues to extend themselves with this processor. IBM is the only manufacturer of the G5 series and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. This isn't the case with x86 and with a clear upgrade path to 64 bits, I think it's a missed opportunity.
Nonetheless, I really do hope IBM figures this out - I did have higher expectations of them than Motorola. The G5 is an awesome chip... When you can FIND one!
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Gee, imagine what they could do with OPAQUE ones!
...on what 'corporation' (Democrat/Republican) you support.
:(
yay team...
On a related topic, a very similar thing happened today with those Swift Boat vets. Seems they've got a message the DNC doesn't want to get out and are threatening to SUE any TV or radio station that airs it.
Again, is this simply opinion "John Kerry is a Traitor"; or is this libel, "John Kerry doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground."?
See, it's amazing to me that so many talk about freedom of speech, and yet George Bush has been publically called everything under the sun without a lawsuit involved. Should G.W. have sued Gore for his manic "He BETRAYED YOUR TRUST..." speech?
When does opinion become libel?
Isn't calling someone a 'shyster' libelous in a way? I mean, if you mean it in the context of 'dishonest lawyer', that sounds pretty specific to his trade and suggestive.
I still believe that someone should have the right to say this, but I can see where this guy might be able to sway a judge.
I ran into a similar issue dealing with some local banking institutions years ago. EVERY bank in this area was hooked on Token Ring. Now this was understandable from the perspective that Token Ring was arguably better than most older forms of networking, but this was 1997. New installations were still getting 16 Mbit Token installed. In some case we saw twisted pair installations, but they were still running 16 Mbit Token! What the hell? Ethernet over twisted pair was so much cheaper, faster, AND established.
Then I started noticing that EVERYTHING was IBM. The servers, the workstations, even the CABLING. I saw this at every bank we did work for (at least 8 different organizations).
So if it wasn't for the quality, expense, and/or speed, what was it? I later learned that this was a common theme in many larger organizations and it had a lot to do with how much IT stock was owned by the execs.
A friend of mine - a CIO - relayed to me that when a large organization buys a ton of equipment from IBM, the resulting sales figures usually give a bounce to the stock. Better still, if you coordinate your efforts with other execs in other companies, you can often make yourself a tidy profit.
During my time consulting for these banks, management did not want to hear about any other solution that wasn't IBM. I suspect that most Fortune 500 companies play a similar game with Dell product - and that would certainly help explain Intel's entrenchment.
Of course I'd LOVE for them to install it beforehand, however this isn't always practical or possible.
The difference is in the babysitting of an upgrading computer. With SP2, I set it, do a single Windowsupdate, and walk away. Hopefully. It's faster than updating individual patches across the Internet because it's not constantly shuting down or turning on services for each patch.
It's still going to be a slow process, but I'm hoping for less time and less hassle.
I sure hope that SP2 gets released by Sept. 7. That's when the girls come back to school here. That's when they bring their spyware-infected, unpatched systems to school.
I feel for the schools starting before us (most of them). Patching a medium speed laptop can take HOURS now. Hopefully MS will be able to get this out soon because otherwise, patching incoming systems is going to take twice as long...
I'm still going to miss Tom Baker... Best scarves on T.V... ;)
Everything has to appear to be a threat. I guess it's true: Only the paranoid survive...
:)
And a quote on the same topic:
"Why you always wanna make it a fight?!"
I recently had to purchase a lightweight laptop for my boss. His requirements? That it be lightweight, long battery life, and have a few bells and whistles (DVD playback, wireless, etc.)
d se riesbean.do?series=P7
Well, we ended up getting this one:
http://webshop.fujitsupc.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buil
The Fujitsu 7000 series has a hell of a lot of bang for the buck and if you are interested in long battery life - it's hard to beat this. Fujitsu claims that the 7000 series can run for up to 11 HOURS on battery power. This is, of course, using the modular bay for a battery.
Nonetheless, it seems he's able to get over 5 hours on just the single stock battery for non-DVD use. Centrino-based laptops are very well designed and when used with the ultra-low voltage processors are unbeatable, IMHO.
Finding a dealer though... That's the REAL challenge...
They must know something we don't. I can tell you that every single Korean girl in our school has a Daum account - as amazing as that seems.
Daum is also consistantly the most visited portal in S. Korea. They are now what Yahoo was 3 years ago. Hell, they even LOOK like Yahoo!
So why would a top Korean site purchase Lycos? For SmartSearch perhaps? Dunno!
I happen to think that instruments are FAR more important and relavant and visual flying. Windows are nice for those clear, blue days, but what about when it's dark and rainy? No help there from the view!
Other conditions can contribute to being totally disoriented (like the cause of JFK Jr.'s crash). In his case, he wasn't authorized to fly at night due to the fact that he wasn't instrument-only rated.
Well considering it was never officially released, are you surprised?
Look, I was just impressed that it was done at all - UT is a FAR more playable port though.
stuff that isn't ready! Failed Intel launches are FAR more numerous - especially in the last 5 years. The last serious heat issues with a processor AMD had were with the K5.
.09 P4 should not have been promised/shipped. It clearly needs help.
.09 micron bought them nothing but trouble and expense. Now they have to go back and redesign everything: Strategy, architecture, marketing. Somehow they are now tasked with trying to explain why GHz don't mean anything - the exact opposite of their Netburst strategy. Good luck.
Intel now has an established history of not being able to follow AMD's lead. Up until the K7, that certainly wasn't the case - Intel totally ruled.
I think what's happening now is an example of big fish/little fish at work. AMD has learned that Intel is too big to manouver well and has been using that to their advantage.
For instance, Intel's scheme to get everyone onboard with RAMBUS failed primarily because AMD refused to accept it and offered similar performace at a cheaper price for everyone involved. The board and memory manufactures followed suit.
I give you the following examples of Intel's problems:
- The 1.13 GHz PIII. Intel released this after AMD beat them to the GHz ball and then quickly (less than a week later) recalled them. Why? Heat issues.
- The RAMBUS/DDR bridge chipset. When Intel finally realized that vendors were more interested in supporting DDR, they did a quick chipset to provide support for both. It sucked doubly and was recalled.
- Intel totally miscalculated AMD's K6/2 by releasing the cripled Celeron with NO LII cache! It totally bombed and the Celeron 300a with 128K of LII cache quickly took over.
- Then there's our present example. Netburst has been a total failure for Intel. The
Mind you, it's not that it's a bad performer. Even with an extended pipeline (to help cool things down), it's still very fast. The problem is: it's already maxxed out!
My question to you is: Do you honestly believe that AMD will be sitting still during Intel's redesign?
Not anymore! Most of the releases floating around now have the boot track embedded with the image.
More interesting is the fact that some of these 'new' images were games in development that never quite made it out. A fine example would be 'Half-Life'. Who released this? Probably some disgruntled programmer.
It's a shame too because besides the long (and often) load times, it's a GREAT port!
LOL, that killed me! I guess there aren't too many Laurie Anderson fans out there. Wish I had a mod point, NICE JOB! :)
Moore's 'law' doesn't guarantee speed. It merely suggests a trend that every so often (18 months - 2 years) the amount of transistors on a chip doubles. In the past, that has meant speed because thinner wires produce less heat.
.09 wasn't going to get them anywhere. But imagine the culture at Intel where you daren't say anything to anyone about it, i.e. 'Just SHIP the thing!'
The problem isn't nearly as much to do with CPU scaling for scaling's sake - those processes continue to develop at the same or similar pace. It has much more to do with scaling for speed's sake. To Intel's horror, they've found that speed isn't scaling in a linear fashion like it used to.
It must have been a terrifying discovery for the poor engineers who discovered that
They will never do that because an open solution - no matter how good it is - is still... Open.
.doc 'standard').
MS products always come with lock-in; whether it's AD support, Active X, or some sort of proprietary document formatting (ala Word's
I've been using Moz here now for over 4 months and am not looking back, but it is difficult to convince others, particuallarly those who are frightened of incompatiblity.
As an international school that often has a 4-5% S. Korean population, I can attest to this. Last year was the last straw. It's bad enough trying to configure a Korean student's machine to join our domain, but CLEANING it?!
;)
Adaware and Spybot are wonderful tools but they don't do jack for Korean spyware. The problem here is, we use a proxy and some of that garbage sits inbetween the Winsock interface and the network - effectively trying to bypass the proxy server.
For instance, there was a girl complaining that she 'couldn't get on the Internet'. After some examination, I found that she had some sort of Winsock redirector installed. No virus checker, no spyware checker, NOTHING took care of it. After two hours I was able to dig it out, but it had three layers of protection - constantly trying to add itself back into the registry under aliased names... All of them Korean. FRUSTRATING!!!
Sadly, I ended up telling returning international students that we will no longer be able to support their machines (READ: allow them on the network). For a simple 15% population I was spending 45% of my time to keep these machines going.
I hated doing it, but thanks to inceased spyware and God knows what else, it's hard enough attempting to keep English-based machines clean, much less trying to troubleshoot a machine with a strange egg-based icon set and symbols I can't decipher.
And yes, it's true. They think our 3 Mbit connection is WAY slow...
If there's enough publicity involved, a case like this might pay for itself. Think of it - Internet, ID Theft charges, abuse from people online. It's just the sort of thing an ambulance chaser like Boies would love.
...is gonna be PISSED. This is the exact sort of thing they hate to see their clients do.
It was like when that Peterson guy was giving all those contradictory interviews. They are coming back to bite him in the ass now...
If you're an ABB fanatic, NOTHING Bush does is worthy, EVERYTHING is his fault.
The truth is closer to the fact that NO administration (Republicrat or Demican) has full control over anything anymore. Congress pushes in bloated bills with a bunch of crap no one wants - except maybe one line item. And yet, if a president doesn't sign for it he'll be accused of killing babies.
What REALLY should happen is the president should explain how much pork went into each bill - what he approves of and what he does not. The problem is BOTH sides play this game and as usual, there is simply no leadership skills involved...
As an admin for a small all-girls school here I can say that most business types have NO CLUE how much we have to put up with in this environment.
In corporate there is the fear of a pink slip (or even criminal damages), but at a school, the worst that might happen here is that a student loses her computer privs.
This is especially bad in a lab environment though, especially when students may sit at different terminals on any given day.
True... True.
..about the greatest man I ever knew - Lawrence Hess. You probably never heard of him, but that's not unusual - there's a lot of musicians you've never heard of. The difference here, is that Lawrence was the single most talented one I've ever, and probably will ever meet (and I've known many). Not too many musicians have the distinction of being in The Boxtops, or Ripley's Believe it or Not - he was.
What does this have to do with DRM/Music Labels? I'm getting there.
Back when I was an aspiring musician I was introduced to Lawrence and invited to one of his shows. He was a always-smiling, one man band. Lawrence embraced any technology related to music and getting the sound he wanted. He'd sit, surrounded by 4 or 5 keyboards with a little Steinberger guitar slung over his shoulder. Having played in bands for years, he decided that he could be his own band - one that wouldn't make mistakes, one that would always show up on time and not be intoxicated.
Every bit of his music was sequenced by him - and he used his own bizzare midi settings (I think as to confuse anyone who might try and steal a few of his backup discs). His voice was one of those given to you by God himself - an impossible, deep range.
But he was unlucky in a few other areas. You see, Lawrence wasn't much to look at - physically. He stood no more than 5'2", and always managed to look somewhat disheveled. He also had Type I diabetes - had it since childhood. It eventually killed him at 35 years in 1998.
In short, Lawrence was hardly MTV material - he simply didn't look the part. But... He was a musician's musician - a master. He had a great local following and he managed to meek out a decent existance right up until weeks before he passed away.
Now, here's the point to all of this. Lawrence didn't bitch that he wasn't a star. Sure, he would've liked more exposure, but he did what he did because it was all he knew how to do. Being a musician doesn't mean you have to starve, but certainly aren't any guarantees. If you suck, you suck, and no amount of promotion by a label is going to change that fact. If you want to eat, you have to prove yourself to people.
Lawrence's fans would travel from miles away to see him perform. He always kept the venues and customers happy wherever he played. He didn't expect the RIAA or anyone else to bail him out - he did it for the sheer love of music.
What I personally took away from his death was that although I enjoyed playing and singing immensely, I could in no way live the life he had chosen. I simply wasn't that good (well, few are!) and so I stayed in the computer field where I think I've done fairly well for myself.
I guess I just get a little pissed off when I hear about DRM and/or musicians spouting off about piracy - especially when it's world famous musicians who should have the least to complain/worry about.
Perhaps, but the question is: Will the G5 be able to scale to those heights of performance without:
a) Costing an arm/leg
b) Relying on shaky chip die shrink processes resulting low chip volume (current situation)
My main issue here is that Apple continues to extend themselves with this processor. IBM is the only manufacturer of the G5 series and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. This isn't the case with x86 and with a clear upgrade path to 64 bits, I think it's a missed opportunity.
Nonetheless, I really do hope IBM figures this out - I did have higher expectations of them than Motorola. The G5 is an awesome chip... When you can FIND one!