Any analysis of fab costs is just pointless. The costs of CPUs are largely development costs.
$40 is actually a hell of a lot for a chip. That explains why x86 really is not going to become a contender in low cost devices. OMAP parts etc cost sub-$20 to the customers.
There have been cases of emotional blindness and deafness that are permanent. Various experiments have shown that people thus inflicted can regain, at least ppartially, their sense when the trauma is blocked by hypnosis.
Many/most Linux devices are not x86-based servers and desktops. They're embedded devices like Wifi routers, phones and set top boxes. These are very seldom x86-based, so unless we see Solaris for ARM, MIPS, PowerPC etc then Linux is far from dead.
Forever people have been wrapped up in their fantasy personalities/lives. Witness:
Son of Sam. Watches movie and goes around shooting people.
Street racer kids who watch "Too fast Too furious" and go racing around streets killing people.
People that take Oprah/Arnold/whomever as role models.
If you have a boring RealLife(tm) then you are quite likely at risk of taking your more exciting FantasyLife quite seriously and attaching significant value to your FantasyLife.
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Creativity does come from within, but most corporations build an environment that is not condusive to creativity/innovation.
Task-oriented activities are suited to a typical corporate management model. You can monitor their progress set effective deadlines, describe them on papaer and outsource them.
Creativity (including intuative thinking) does not respond well to any of these. Intuition happens on its own schedule and attemptng to drive it harder kills it. It has been often demonstrated that people under stress/pressure are less likely to find innovative solutions. Threats, direct (fix it this week or you're fired) or implied (downsizing/outsourcing) work against innovation.
I know that from my own experience I very rarely make breakthroughs while doing what management would consider "work". I have figured out many things while doing something else: having a crap or a shower (no, not simultaneously), fishing, shooting hoops... perhaps they should pay me to do more of these.
I don't know much about SAS, but from what I understand they are a privately owned orgainsation that really does take care of their employees. This must be a far lower-stress environment that a corp with a quarter-by-quarter driven approach that treats their employees as expenses/resources.
Linux excells where Joe Sixpack does not have to fiddle with set up. That includes situations where the computer is not visible to the users (embedded and servers) as well as those where someone else completely manages the box (eg. corporate desktops).
For the general home user I agree that Linux is a pig. I can't get my PC to play MP3s. The Winmodem needed a bunnch of hacking etc.
The worst part of using technology is that it is primarily entertainment based. Even Discovery channel etc now competes for viewer time by upping the dramatic component of their shows. Reality, fact etc all get shoved aside to get viewer time.
Which kid learns more about nature? The one who goes down to the stream, falls in and gets wet and finds a few frogs hiding under some branches, or, the kid that plays magic schoolbus field trip game?
Apart from exposure to nature, there are many other things that create a real framework for kids. Yesterday we (myself, wife + kids) planted 60 trees in a grid. We used pythagoras to set things up square. We did multiplication/division etc to calculate how many rows and trees per row etc. We talked about nutrients etc as we added compost that the kids had helped to make some months ago. We talked about harvesting, pruning etc. On top of this, the kids got some exercise!
The reason we get things like dot.bomb is that all hype-fed cycles eventually run out of hype-fuel and the value needs to be underpinned by some tangible value.
In the case of dot.bomb we had a bunch of non-viable businesses and ideas with no effective business plan that could not stand up to scrutiny. Unfortunately a lot of other viable ideas/businesses got burnt too.
The same goes for pyramid selling schemes. While there are new suckers/members to join up and fuel the system everything is great. Once the sucker/member fuel runs out they crash.
I recall a business selling Kruger Rands about 15 years ago. A Kruger Rand is just a minted ounce of gold, so has the tangible value of an ounce of gold. This crowd, however made a business of adding an enhanced value based on the condition and minting marks, coining phrases like bloom, sheen etc. Some coins sold for 5 to 10 times their tangible value. Eventually this bust and many people got burnt.
This sounds just a internet-ised re-vamp of those Victorian theories that you could tell a criminal by feeling for various bumps in their heads, eyes too close together etc.
With Homeland Security spending, likely someone will be dumb enough to back these people.
Exactly so. 90% of the badness of being burgled is not that stuff was taken or tampered with, but that your private space was violated. This violation happens regardless of the violators intentions.
Being bust or not is not the issue. If they had been bust while trying to get in then they would have had no excuses. The broke in and that is bad.
The old adage is often true. In an RFID industry journal, you'd expect to see some outlanding ideas about what you could possibly do with RFID. I'm sure the industry would love to sell a RFID reader with every DVD player and an RFID with every DVD. That this is currently entirely impractical and unacceptable at present is not important
History shows us that people are subject to the tyrrany of small increments. Huge increments in cost , restrictions and rights are generally unacceptable, but people don't seem to mind small increments. Likely in 10 years time most people won't mind using an RFID DVD system so that terrorists can't watch Sleepless in Seattle (or whatever other line they spin us).
The only reason IE has 90% market share is because of the monopoly. If it was a level playing field with unbundled browsers, IE would be very lucky to make 10%.
That IE has 90% is a clear demonstration that the DOJ anti-trust stuff is having no real impact on slowing the Microsoft monopoly.
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$40 is actually a hell of a lot for a chip. That explains why x86 really is not going to become a contender in low cost devices. OMAP parts etc cost sub-$20 to the customers.
There have been cases of emotional blindness and deafness that are permanent. Various experiments have shown that people thus inflicted can regain, at least ppartially, their sense when the trauma is blocked by hypnosis.
Many/most Linux devices are not x86-based servers and desktops. They're embedded devices like Wifi routers, phones and set top boxes. These are very seldom x86-based, so unless we see Solaris for ARM, MIPS, PowerPC etc then Linux is far from dead.
Son of Sam. Watches movie and goes around shooting people.
Street racer kids who watch "Too fast Too furious" and go racing around streets killing people.
People that take Oprah/Arnold/whomever as role models.
If you have a boring RealLife(tm) then you are quite likely at risk of taking your more exciting FantasyLife quite seriously and attaching significant value to your FantasyLife.
Nice way to package up a theory that there was life on mars and simultaneously answer the "what happened to all the water" question.
A very good programmer in China, India or Australia will cost less to hire than a crap programmer in Silicon Valley.
Is NASA changing its mission from, err, space missions, to handing out $250K grants for weird technology?
As we all know they filmed all the "moon shots" in the desert. You'd fry out there without proper clothing.
When you rely on statistics to show something, instead of some directly measurable parameter, then you know you've got a wet squib.
That's the really most important step.
Task-oriented activities are suited to a typical corporate management model. You can monitor their progress set effective deadlines, describe them on papaer and outsource them.
Creativity (including intuative thinking) does not respond well to any of these. Intuition happens on its own schedule and attemptng to drive it harder kills it. It has been often demonstrated that people under stress/pressure are less likely to find innovative solutions. Threats, direct (fix it this week or you're fired) or implied (downsizing/outsourcing) work against innovation.
I know that from my own experience I very rarely make breakthroughs while doing what management would consider "work". I have figured out many things while doing something else: having a crap or a shower (no, not simultaneously), fishing, shooting hoops... perhaps they should pay me to do more of these.
I don't know much about SAS, but from what I understand they are a privately owned orgainsation that really does take care of their employees. This must be a far lower-stress environment that a corp with a quarter-by-quarter driven approach that treats their employees as expenses/resources.
Linux excells where Joe Sixpack does not have to fiddle with set up. That includes situations where the computer is not visible to the users (embedded and servers) as well as those where someone else completely manages the box (eg. corporate desktops).
For the general home user I agree that Linux is a pig. I can't get my PC to play MP3s. The Winmodem needed a bunnch of hacking etc.
well that would be more truthful wouldn't it?
Which kid learns more about nature? The one who goes down to the stream, falls in and gets wet and finds a few frogs hiding under some branches, or, the kid that plays magic schoolbus field trip game?
Apart from exposure to nature, there are many other things that create a real framework for kids. Yesterday we (myself, wife + kids) planted 60 trees in a grid. We used pythagoras to set things up square. We did multiplication/division etc to calculate how many rows and trees per row etc. We talked about nutrients etc as we added compost that the kids had helped to make some months ago. We talked about harvesting, pruning etc. On top of this, the kids got some exercise!
In the case of dot.bomb we had a bunch of non-viable businesses and ideas with no effective business plan that could not stand up to scrutiny. Unfortunately a lot of other viable ideas/businesses got burnt too.
The same goes for pyramid selling schemes. While there are new suckers/members to join up and fuel the system everything is great. Once the sucker/member fuel runs out they crash.
I recall a business selling Kruger Rands about 15 years ago. A Kruger Rand is just a minted ounce of gold, so has the tangible value of an ounce of gold. This crowd, however made a business of adding an enhanced value based on the condition and minting marks, coining phrases like bloom, sheen etc. Some coins sold for 5 to 10 times their tangible value. Eventually this bust and many people got burnt.
With Homeland Security spending, likely someone will be dumb enough to back these people.
$9M to Microsoft is less hurt than you dropping a penny.
This will run out some day if we exploit it like we do oil and other things.
Kid claims TV watching is a right!
Being bust or not is not the issue. If they had been bust while trying to get in then they would have had no excuses. The broke in and that is bad.
History shows us that people are subject to the tyrrany of small increments. Huge increments in cost , restrictions and rights are generally unacceptable, but people don't seem to mind small increments. Likely in 10 years time most people won't mind using an RFID DVD system so that terrorists can't watch Sleepless in Seattle (or whatever other line they spin us).
That's how smoke detectors work.... a smoke particle stops the radiation.
Compatability is a big issue. Unfortunately many sites I must access only work with IE. IE is real crap software; it is slow and hangs often.
That IE has 90% is a clear demonstration that the DOJ anti-trust stuff is having no real impact on slowing the Microsoft monopoly.
If you could track stats like whether the clicker was at work or not, you'd probably find a high correlation between work==Winshit/IE, home==*nix/!IE.