Eastman Kodak, the last remaining manufacturer of silver halide professional photographic film ceased production today, 1500 workers in Rochester, New York are now without jobs.
They could have made a niche for themselves in the embedded market. There's plenty of room for fast, low-power x86 despite the ARM's and Power PC's. The problem is that they didn't go after it.
The embedded market requires processor chips that have integrated peripherals - serial ports, ethernet, digital I/O, along with glue logic so that low speed flash memory and I/O can be easily attached to it. Transmeta went for the laptop market and only paid token attention to the embedded market.
Dispite the lack of peripheral support, I tried to get information from Transmeta about using their parts in embedded applications. I filled out nondisclosures and market survey qualification forms and got nothing in return.
All this is sad, but not new. They had the arrogance of a company that is certain they are doing things The Right Way and no humility to listen to perspective customers.
They might have been a little more humble and responsive if Linus hadn't worked for them.
Yet again, the internet bandwidth gets sucked away by something it was not orginally designed for. Instead of supporting 10-20 laptops checking email and news, we'll have 2-3 phones sucking up all the bandwidth while the yuppies and teens chat.
I don't like it. I don't want to hear more cell phone chatter in my coffeeshop hotspot.
Getting hit with a "joe job" is sometimes used as an act of revenge for a protest or flamewar. Best to keep your home email address out of the limelight for that reason.
We transferred a rather large business checking account to them from another bank. We do frequent international wire transfers and that might be why we got them. BTW, there was no charge for them.
All that's happened is that the pigopolists are putting a url on the outside of the box pointing to the full eula on their website. Still the same obnoxious bullshit, just readable if you want to go to the effort.
A person from the VC will be in charge of the money, not you. And you know what? If you don't spend the money on tech and workers, he will spend it on wine, women and fast cars.
Are usually the investors at this level. And the only way to make the connections is to start networking. Talk to your MD, family lawyer, Opto, and dentist. Work out a song-and-dance and see where it goes.
I believe in the right to life from conception until natural death- and that we should support that right at any cost.
Why did you change from "I" to "we". If it's so fsking important to you, you defend that right at any cost, but don't ask "me" to. I don't remember ever signing up for that.
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Eastman Kodak, the last remaining manufacturer of silver halide professional photographic film ceased production today, 1500 workers in Rochester, New York are now without jobs.
Maybe not today, but soon...
They could have made a niche for themselves in the embedded market. There's plenty of room for fast, low-power x86 despite the ARM's and Power PC's. The problem is that they didn't go after it.
The embedded market requires processor chips that have integrated peripherals - serial ports, ethernet, digital I/O, along with glue logic so that low speed flash memory and I/O can be easily attached to it. Transmeta went for the laptop market and only paid token attention to the embedded market.
Dispite the lack of peripheral support, I tried to get information from Transmeta about using their parts in embedded applications. I filled out nondisclosures and market survey qualification forms and got nothing in return.
All this is sad, but not new. They had the arrogance of a company that is certain they are doing things The Right Way and no humility to listen to perspective customers.
They might have been a little more humble and responsive if Linus hadn't worked for them.
My grandaddy designed flipflops with steam cylinders and poppet valves. In those days a good designer might be missing two or three fingers...
I'm an old fart TTL designer that loves schematic capture
Yet again, the internet bandwidth gets sucked away by something it was not orginally designed for. Instead of supporting 10-20 laptops checking email and news, we'll have 2-3 phones sucking up all the bandwidth while the yuppies and teens chat.
I don't like it. I don't want to hear more cell phone chatter in my coffeeshop hotspot.
A Brave from the Yakima Indian Nation I once knew: "Bring it on, it will level the playing field."
Getting hit with a "joe job" is sometimes used as an act of revenge for a protest or flamewar. Best to keep your home email address out of the limelight for that reason.
That there's not a Beowulf cluster of these things on the way.
We transferred a rather large business checking account to them from another bank. We do frequent international wire transfers and that might be why we got them. BTW, there was no charge for them.
Wells Fargo issues the RSA SecurID devices for security. Not a test, not a trial, My wife and I each have one.
All that's happened is that the pigopolists are putting a url on the outside of the box pointing to the full eula on their website. Still the same obnoxious bullshit, just readable if you want to go to the effort.
That's right. Let's see if we can blame it on Freon or greenhouse gasses.
For them to find out that your stuff was shipped to your address. Better keep your day job and leave the crimes to crooks...
It's sad that it's the best comedians that die young, not the best marketers....
That an injection of DMSO would halt swelling and stop nerve and brain damage in trama injuries.
As far as I know, nothing came of it, alledgedly because nobody wanted to do clinical trials since it couldn't be patented.
History repeating itself?
A person from the VC will be in charge of the money, not you. And you know what? If you don't spend the money on tech and workers, he will spend it on wine, women and fast cars.
Don't believe me? I've seen it with my own eyes.
Are usually the investors at this level. And the only way to make the connections is to start networking. Talk to your MD, family lawyer, Opto, and dentist. Work out a song-and-dance and see where it goes.
Oregon has been doing vote-by-mail for a few years like this.
Nearly as outragious as keeping track of all males who are young enough to serve in the military?
Of Beverly Crusher giving you an invasive exam in sickbay?
I have 2 hacked series 1 Sony Tivo's. TCP/IP over ethernet, Bash prompt with telnet, ftp, web-based remote control and downloading media files.
They are my favorite Linux machines.
I believe in the right to life from conception until natural death- and that we should support that right at any cost.
Why did you change from "I" to "we". If it's so fsking important to you, you defend that right at any cost, but don't ask "me" to. I don't remember ever signing up for that.
I've heard that they burn the drive's serial number into every copy they make. Any truth to that?
No, but I have a whole labfull of "enhanced mischief".
Until people start exploding right and left...