"To bad they aren't comparing to an AMD mobile cpu but a desktop one. A dual core Turion would probably own this one."
Except for the fact that they don't. AMDs mobile computing has been in the stone ages for a long time, simply because they're so good at making desktop CPUs. Their solution? Just use a desktop CPU in a laptop. In the past, this worked, and it worked fine. Now, CPUs are more powerhungry than ever, and it simply just does not work this way. There fundamentally isn't much of a difference between a Turion and an Athlon; the Turion is the same exact core as the A64, but with a little tuning applied and (apparently) even better clock cycling than its desktop counterpart chip. However, the AMD64 still beats the Yonah in raw performance, and that's really the tradeoff; Having the fastest performing machine on the market that has a battery life that's roughly 2/3rds the competitor, or having a slightly slower machine that can run three hours without needing to be recharged. I'll leave the choice to the purchaser.
If it weren't for the P4, a processor like Yonah would never exist (at least, in the form it currently is in).
The whole PM line draws heavily on technologies that were invented and used in the Pentium 4 since the Williamette series. Even hyperthreading, a technology that IMO is too far ahead of its time to be useful, had its merits. Things like micro-op fusion, advanced cache logic, some of the most advanced branch predictors in the history of modern computing, these are all directly attributable to the Pentium 4 and the Netburst archetecture.
So, while the Pentium 4 product line wasn't the superb success that they were hoping for, it did teach Intel (and every other CPU vendor) a huge lesson about microchip archetectures. We've now seen the physics barrier; it's not on paper anymore, it's visible. We've learned how deep you can push a pipeline before it begins to have problems, we've learned all kinds of hacks and tricks to get around pushing the X86 archetecture ahead.
As for them going back to the Pentium 3's P6 archetecture; I personally think it's a saddening defeat, not only for Intel, but for us consumers as well. It means that the Pentium 4 simply didn't work, and that in order for computers to get faster, they have to become more effecient. This means no longer can we take it for granted that we can simply turn up the clockrate and expect more performance, at least, not without cooking our expensive new processors. It means that we've entered a whole new era of computing.
Lastly, Yonah is a landmark chip for Intel; it's a chip that finally reunites the low-end server, the desktop and the laptop on one core design, and it's quite simply one of the most feature-rich, effecient chips ever built (including anything AMD has put out, though the Athlon's are currently faster, the Yohan chip at full tilt produces less heat than the AMD64's do at Idle).
Rejoice, for next year's CPU battle should be a hundred times more entertaining than this years, and finally, finally we might see CPU prices drop again. Maybe I'll finally scrounge up enough money to buy a new machine!
Last time you looked, laptops didn't have a Yonah core. The power effeciency of these new chips is so great that it's extended the battery life quite a bit.
And with the prices of the new chips expected to be inline with the current mid-range desktop P4s, you can definitely see why it makes sense to use these chips; a faster chip that uses less energy for virtually the same price. Plus you get the bonus of a true dual-core chip, which is something that is entirely infathomable with current desktop chips.
Instant packet network protocol (instant message) vs. Delayed message network protocol (email); apples to oranges comparison.
Google has a HUGE database of spam emails to compare a suspect email to; doing the same with Instant Messages would instantly through privacy nuts into convolutions (much like gmail did when it started; ZOMG GOOGLES READING MY IMZ), but is entirely possible to do. So it's not far-fetched that they use a similar system, but it's a lot more work to convince people to use this system.
A better solution would be to find a way to keep spam from coming in without reading the IMs in the first place. But, if I had an answer to that problem, I would be working for Google. You could opt for encryption, but as soon as an encrypted spammer arrived, you'd be up shit's creek even further than you are now (as decrypting someone's IMs would be even worse for Google PR). So for now, Google's opted to keep its doors closed to the public, and that's just fine. Don't like it? Go use another Instant Messaging protocol which means you have to go through someone elses server anyways. But the way I look at it is "I trust Google more than I trust Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL combined; I'd rather use Google's service".
PS: (Oh, and if you think running your own Jabber server is a way around it, what do you think happens when you want to message someone off server? That's right, your message goes through someone elses server. That means they could be spying on you! Oh noes! To tell you the honest truth, I'd rather have the security in numbers of a huge company's client, then chancing my message through someone's private server; the huge company's more likely to have a lot more imporant things on its mind than reading people's IMs...)
One should allways be cynical atleast.. and examine the thing and reasons critically.. but if the thing is good accept with thanks
I didn't say not to be critical at all, I said "try not to be so critical". Secondly, how could releasing your code and giving a donation be a bad thing? If the code was terrible, it'd simply get dropped and not used.
First, use a conglomerated client. That'll alleviate a great deal of stress alone.
Secondly, Google (amongst others) are trying to combat this problem, which is why they're trying so hard on their "federation" of VoIP providers (better to have a lot of providers on the same protocol than a bunch of providers speaking different languages and not being able to intercommunicate).
Lastly, if Google does end up acquiring AOL, this will be a major coup. Microsoft and Yahoo have already gotten in bed together, which only leaves Google and AOL as players. If Microsoft acquired AOL (which hopefully would be blocked through anti-trust litigation, if the SEC opened its eyes [Don't even get me started with AT&T]), it'd be all verses one, and we'd pretty much have that talk anywhere infrastructure you wish for. But, to be truthful, I'd rather it not happen that way.
It seems like it would be a trivial task to make a message passer; a client that simply accepted messages from one protocol, translated it to the other and sent out the message using a pre-programmed username/password combination. In a lot of ways, AJAX-IM clients are already doing this (ajax-form -> rewrite script -> IM protocol -> IM Server); why not make the same service? (other than the obvious takedown requests you'd get from AOL/Microsoft/Yahoo).
Good for you! Meanwhile, for the rest of us who aren't paranoid/Google-bashers, this is a boon, including Jabber users (you know, this will work for your Jabber server too, right?;)
Besides, Google hasn't implemented Server-to-Server communication yet for reasons posted elseware in this very article; they don't want spam. It's harder to validate posts coming from offserver without actually reading them, which would breech your privacy, right? (On server they have the option of reading it [via EULA], post rate limiting, banning accounts, etc)
So please, next time Google (or $BIG_COMPANY) gives the open source world a donation and a piece of code it's been needing for a while now, take it as a gift, and try not to be so critical about it. Thanks.
That's why Google hasn't opted to add Server-to-Server communication yet; if you're on their server, they can kick your ass off and ban you, but coming from other servers it's a lot more difficult to regulate (and I'm sure they've got someone working on it with their 20% free time).
As for the person who said it sounds like BS being named "Jingle"; A lot of people say "I'll give you a ring" as a way of saying they'll call you later. Thus, Jingle (a ringing sound).
Uh, you kind of made the GP's point for him. Now, instead of having 6 harddrives and one of them failing (thus, only losing 1/6th of your data), you have 3. When one of those three fails, you lose twice the data, which sucks (imagine if you only had one HD...)
Good news is, the old harddisks will become cheaper, thus making it easier to back up your shit. But the point remains that as density increases, so does your chance of losing all of your data.
No, Ajax is an oven cleaner, and AJAX is Asychronous Javascript And eXtensible markup, even though the latter part of that definition goes away when you realize that there are at least 3 other days of getting data back and forth to/from the server that don't involve XML or the XMLHTTP object.
So, AJAX has Javascript in it, but is not javascript. My computer plays games but that doesn't make it a gaming machine.
Hampster: a common typo for the word "hamster". Other explainations include a badly titled website, a clothes hamper crossed with Napster internet radio, or a 4 year old's feeble attempt to pronounce "hamster" correctly.
But seriously, lighten up. I only caught the typo once in the blurb, and one typo is a LOT better than the normal convoluted grammar and unparsable sentences we normally get from the editors, but I agree it'd be nice if they did some simple proofreading and at least a spellcheck before it hits the front page.
You know, it sounds like you're right, but it seems anymore that the whole medical profession's advice is simply "Diet, exercize, get some sun but not too much, drink plenty of water". It sounds redundant every time you hear it, and some of us get pissed that there's not simply a pill we can take to fix us, but the truth is simply we weren't built to live the way we are today. We were hunter gatherers, we were used to being outside all the time, we were used to plenty of clean water, we were used to getting plenty of exercize just to find food, and the foods we ate were lean.
Now, it's too easy to spend your entire day without moving more than 100 feet (under your own power), to drink stimulants and sugar rich liquids, and to eat foods that aren't even digestible to some bacteria.
The medical profession can only offer that as advice anymore, as medicine can only take us humans so much further. Today they've got a pill for just about anything you could imagine, but it still doesn't replace the simple nessecities we as machines need to operate. We just haven't reached the point where we can compress water, fresh air and sunshine into a pill, and hopefully we never will.
So while it might be insulting, maybe you should take it as a wakeup call that your lifestyle is entirely unmaintainable. Maybe you should take their advice and shake the winter blues, and a few pounds that we could all stand to lose anyways. I don't need a hamster to tell me twice, and hopefully neither should a scientist.
It is current belief because the author of the blurb/article didn't spend the 10 minutes researching it required. That's really it. Laziness, not technical difficulty.
In all seriousness though, it does sound like he's just trolling. Either he's pissed he's not still apart of the titan that is Apple and secretly hates himself for it (motive for this tyrade?), or software's simply ran past him so fast that he's just not been able to keep up and he "misses the old days".
In either case, the Woz's name is enough to keep the attention flowing his way, even if it is fanatical. He's an important piece of computer's history, but unlike Jobs or Gates, he is more focused on being a part of history, than a part of today. (Gates, as much as you hate him, is a HUGE philanthropist, so as much as you hate him for what he did to the computer industry, at least know he's trying..)
Yes, but doesn't all of this kind of make sense for Sun? I mean if they die as a company, all of their IP becomes abandonware, and thus not helpful to anyone anymore. But, as a technique to keep themselves from dying, they opensource all of their previous products that they can, which immediately drives up product awareness and puts more eyes on the product, which immediately attracts investors.. and soon enough Sun is out of the spiralling blackhole that they once were in.
The question is will they continue to honor the Open Source way by continuing their commitment, or will they simply abandon what they've open sourced and move on with the new capital? They can still make money off of their open products by supporting it (which is something a very mature company would do anyways), but will they? This is what we have to look forward to in the future. Maybe a few more companies will come onboard with Sun and we'll see a whole new wave of innovation? At least we can hope.
If you've looked around any game creation forums, the idea has been mentioned at least a dozen times, but it ends up being too hackable, too bandwidth limited, and leads to fragmentation worse than a server split in IRC.
So no, I doubt anyone will ever get around to making a truly distributed MMORPG. Keep in mind that all MMORPGs are distributed by nature (as the client and the server both have a set of responsibilies), but as far as distributing the server part, it just gets too complicated.
But then again, there are different attacks to every problem, and distributing is just one way to deal with it. Others include clustering, and centralization, and both of the latter have proven to work better in the MMORPG case. Just because it works really well for sharing movies and high bandwidth items doesn't mean it'll work great for sharing game objects and such.
They only have the first season, and part of the 16th season (roughly half), which is only about 35 episodes total, making Law and Order roughly 10% of Apple's video offerings.
My guess is they didn't want to flood the market with 16 Seasons of Law and Order, 9 Seasons of L&O:SVU and N seasons of L&O:CI and have it be about 80% of what they're distributing.
That being said, I've already purchased the whole first season, simply because the episodes don't come on TV anymore, and they're absolutely brilliant. I remember posting in the first iTMS tv article that as soon as they had Law and Order they had me, and now..:), just in time for christmas.
Do you work for the inquirer? Because it certainly seems like it; it's the only source you seem to be able to site for your "superior" knowledge about a product that hasn't been released yet.
I think I'll wait to get actual evidence over a news journal that publishes every microprocessing rumor or grumble that runs across them [not that this Tom's article is much better, though].
I disagree; with this next wave of promotion (and the fact they've been holding off so long on it), it indicates Intel is very confident and is preparing to repair confidences in their company in this upcoming year. To sweeten the deal, they threw in all of the upcoming information about *easily* a year and a half's worth of new core details, many of which have already been taped out and are simply waiting for all of the manufacturing plants to come onboard.
It also seems that Intel has adopted a very Applish attitude about releasing details; waiting until the very last minute, and it also seems to be evidence that the engineers are back in charge at Intel. True dual core technology with shared L2 cache. SSE+SSE2 Micro-op fusion (WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG INTEL). And x86-64 on its way (even if it's highly downplayed).
But you are right, any competition in the desktop sector is great for all of us. Apple jumping onboard with Intel seems to have adjusted attitudes within both companies (Intel becoming more design oriented and secretive, Apple becoming more mainstream and [according to rumors] cutting a few more corners to try to drive down costs). But it is definitely going to be an interesting year in microprocessing. Cheers to the new year.
Well I hate to burst your bubble, but the next generation Yonah and the "Core" technology is gearing up to be more effecient than anything AMD has ever produced.
You see, effeciency isn't a measure of raw speed, it's a measure of power verses the thermal production and power needed to run the chip. In this case, Intel wins flat out. While AMD's chips may be faster, Intel's Pentium M platform has been growing in the background. When Yonah is released, we will not only see speeds slowly being ramped back up to the previous heights, but you'll also see a very small jump in heat production. I remember from an article a few days back: "While the Yonah is slightly behind the Athlon X2 in performance, it outputs less heat under load than the Athlon X2 does when idling."
And yes, while Yonah is a laptop chip, the desktop version of it isn't going to be far above that; the whole platform was designed to tweak for effecienty.
So please, stop spilling your FUD. The 45nm process is the next logical step, and it shows that Intel hasn't been operating in a vacuum this last year when it comes to the Pentium 4. It also proves they have an exit strategy to get away from the Pentium 4 and the whole Pentium name and legacy (however tarnished it might have become due to the Pentium 4's inadequacies), and it shows that not only do they have the *entire* next generation of chips taped out, that they're moving on to the generation after the next.
If you'd have read the article, you would have been impressed. Even though it seems AMD still has the upper hand (especially if they'd hurry up and move to 300mm wafers and drop down to 65nm production ASAP), Intel's coming back into the game with a vengence. It almost seems they've taken a leaf out of the IBM playbook; Release a very expensive, mainstream platform to derive technologies for the next generation (think Power -> G5, Power -> [game consoles]). The most interesting part to me; Intel made a new logo for the Itanium, which means we might be seeing a smaller wavelength Itanium update, which a lot of the high end cluster machines might enjoy. Next year's looking to be a very good one in Microprocessing.
Transactional Databases are mission critical to a lot of applications, and JBoss (I believe) had no transaction support before. What they mean by "full" transaction support is that all of the transaction elements that are declared nessicary by the SQL standard are going to be supported by JBoss through this recent acquisition.
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"To bad they aren't comparing to an AMD mobile cpu but a desktop one. A dual core Turion would probably own this one."
Except for the fact that they don't. AMDs mobile computing has been in the stone ages for a long time, simply because they're so good at making desktop CPUs. Their solution? Just use a desktop CPU in a laptop. In the past, this worked, and it worked fine. Now, CPUs are more powerhungry than ever, and it simply just does not work this way. There fundamentally isn't much of a difference between a Turion and an Athlon; the Turion is the same exact core as the A64, but with a little tuning applied and (apparently) even better clock cycling than its desktop counterpart chip. However, the AMD64 still beats the Yonah in raw performance, and that's really the tradeoff; Having the fastest performing machine on the market that has a battery life that's roughly 2/3rds the competitor, or having a slightly slower machine that can run three hours without needing to be recharged. I'll leave the choice to the purchaser.
If it weren't for the P4, a processor like Yonah would never exist (at least, in the form it currently is in).
The whole PM line draws heavily on technologies that were invented and used in the Pentium 4 since the Williamette series. Even hyperthreading, a technology that IMO is too far ahead of its time to be useful, had its merits. Things like micro-op fusion, advanced cache logic, some of the most advanced branch predictors in the history of modern computing, these are all directly attributable to the Pentium 4 and the Netburst archetecture.
So, while the Pentium 4 product line wasn't the superb success that they were hoping for, it did teach Intel (and every other CPU vendor) a huge lesson about microchip archetectures. We've now seen the physics barrier; it's not on paper anymore, it's visible. We've learned how deep you can push a pipeline before it begins to have problems, we've learned all kinds of hacks and tricks to get around pushing the X86 archetecture ahead.
As for them going back to the Pentium 3's P6 archetecture; I personally think it's a saddening defeat, not only for Intel, but for us consumers as well. It means that the Pentium 4 simply didn't work, and that in order for computers to get faster, they have to become more effecient. This means no longer can we take it for granted that we can simply turn up the clockrate and expect more performance, at least, not without cooking our expensive new processors. It means that we've entered a whole new era of computing.
Lastly, Yonah is a landmark chip for Intel; it's a chip that finally reunites the low-end server, the desktop and the laptop on one core design, and it's quite simply one of the most feature-rich, effecient chips ever built (including anything AMD has put out, though the Athlon's are currently faster, the Yohan chip at full tilt produces less heat than the AMD64's do at Idle).
Rejoice, for next year's CPU battle should be a hundred times more entertaining than this years, and finally, finally we might see CPU prices drop again. Maybe I'll finally scrounge up enough money to buy a new machine!
Last time you looked, laptops didn't have a Yonah core. The power effeciency of these new chips is so great that it's extended the battery life quite a bit.
And with the prices of the new chips expected to be inline with the current mid-range desktop P4s, you can definitely see why it makes sense to use these chips; a faster chip that uses less energy for virtually the same price. Plus you get the bonus of a true dual-core chip, which is something that is entirely infathomable with current desktop chips.
Instant packet network protocol (instant message) vs. Delayed message network protocol (email); apples to oranges comparison.
Google has a HUGE database of spam emails to compare a suspect email to; doing the same with Instant Messages would instantly through privacy nuts into convolutions (much like gmail did when it started; ZOMG GOOGLES READING MY IMZ), but is entirely possible to do. So it's not far-fetched that they use a similar system, but it's a lot more work to convince people to use this system.
A better solution would be to find a way to keep spam from coming in without reading the IMs in the first place. But, if I had an answer to that problem, I would be working for Google. You could opt for encryption, but as soon as an encrypted spammer arrived, you'd be up shit's creek even further than you are now (as decrypting someone's IMs would be even worse for Google PR). So for now, Google's opted to keep its doors closed to the public, and that's just fine. Don't like it? Go use another Instant Messaging protocol which means you have to go through someone elses server anyways. But the way I look at it is "I trust Google more than I trust Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL combined; I'd rather use Google's service".
PS: (Oh, and if you think running your own Jabber server is a way around it, what do you think happens when you want to message someone off server? That's right, your message goes through someone elses server. That means they could be spying on you! Oh noes! To tell you the honest truth, I'd rather have the security in numbers of a huge company's client, then chancing my message through someone's private server; the huge company's more likely to have a lot more imporant things on its mind than reading people's IMs...)
One should allways be cynical atleast.. and examine the thing and reasons critically.. but if the thing is good accept with thanks
I didn't say not to be critical at all, I said "try not to be so critical". Secondly, how could releasing your code and giving a donation be a bad thing? If the code was terrible, it'd simply get dropped and not used.
First, use a conglomerated client. That'll alleviate a great deal of stress alone.
Secondly, Google (amongst others) are trying to combat this problem, which is why they're trying so hard on their "federation" of VoIP providers (better to have a lot of providers on the same protocol than a bunch of providers speaking different languages and not being able to intercommunicate).
Lastly, if Google does end up acquiring AOL, this will be a major coup. Microsoft and Yahoo have already gotten in bed together, which only leaves Google and AOL as players. If Microsoft acquired AOL (which hopefully would be blocked through anti-trust litigation, if the SEC opened its eyes [Don't even get me started with AT&T]), it'd be all verses one, and we'd pretty much have that talk anywhere infrastructure you wish for. But, to be truthful, I'd rather it not happen that way.
It seems like it would be a trivial task to make a message passer; a client that simply accepted messages from one protocol, translated it to the other and sent out the message using a pre-programmed username/password combination. In a lot of ways, AJAX-IM clients are already doing this (ajax-form -> rewrite script -> IM protocol -> IM Server); why not make the same service? (other than the obvious takedown requests you'd get from AOL/Microsoft/Yahoo).
Good for you! Meanwhile, for the rest of us who aren't paranoid/Google-bashers, this is a boon, including Jabber users (you know, this will work for your Jabber server too, right? ;)
Besides, Google hasn't implemented Server-to-Server communication yet for reasons posted elseware in this very article; they don't want spam. It's harder to validate posts coming from offserver without actually reading them, which would breech your privacy, right? (On server they have the option of reading it [via EULA], post rate limiting, banning accounts, etc)
So please, next time Google (or $BIG_COMPANY) gives the open source world a donation and a piece of code it's been needing for a while now, take it as a gift, and try not to be so critical about it. Thanks.
That's why Google hasn't opted to add Server-to-Server communication yet; if you're on their server, they can kick your ass off and ban you, but coming from other servers it's a lot more difficult to regulate (and I'm sure they've got someone working on it with their 20% free time).
As for the person who said it sounds like BS being named "Jingle"; A lot of people say "I'll give you a ring" as a way of saying they'll call you later. Thus, Jingle (a ringing sound).
Uh, you kind of made the GP's point for him. Now, instead of having 6 harddrives and one of them failing (thus, only losing 1/6th of your data), you have 3. When one of those three fails, you lose twice the data, which sucks (imagine if you only had one HD...)
Good news is, the old harddisks will become cheaper, thus making it easier to back up your shit. But the point remains that as density increases, so does your chance of losing all of your data.
No, Ajax is an oven cleaner, and AJAX is Asychronous Javascript And eXtensible markup, even though the latter part of that definition goes away when you realize that there are at least 3 other days of getting data back and forth to/from the server that don't involve XML or the XMLHTTP object.
So, AJAX has Javascript in it, but is not javascript. My computer plays games but that doesn't make it a gaming machine.
Hampster: a common typo for the word "hamster". Other explainations include a badly titled website, a clothes hamper crossed with Napster internet radio, or a 4 year old's feeble attempt to pronounce "hamster" correctly.
But seriously, lighten up. I only caught the typo once in the blurb, and one typo is a LOT better than the normal convoluted grammar and unparsable sentences we normally get from the editors, but I agree it'd be nice if they did some simple proofreading and at least a spellcheck before it hits the front page.
You know, it sounds like you're right, but it seems anymore that the whole medical profession's advice is simply "Diet, exercize, get some sun but not too much, drink plenty of water". It sounds redundant every time you hear it, and some of us get pissed that there's not simply a pill we can take to fix us, but the truth is simply we weren't built to live the way we are today. We were hunter gatherers, we were used to being outside all the time, we were used to plenty of clean water, we were used to getting plenty of exercize just to find food, and the foods we ate were lean.
Now, it's too easy to spend your entire day without moving more than 100 feet (under your own power), to drink stimulants and sugar rich liquids, and to eat foods that aren't even digestible to some bacteria.
The medical profession can only offer that as advice anymore, as medicine can only take us humans so much further. Today they've got a pill for just about anything you could imagine, but it still doesn't replace the simple nessecities we as machines need to operate. We just haven't reached the point where we can compress water, fresh air and sunshine into a pill, and hopefully we never will.
So while it might be insulting, maybe you should take it as a wakeup call that your lifestyle is entirely unmaintainable. Maybe you should take their advice and shake the winter blues, and a few pounds that we could all stand to lose anyways. I don't need a hamster to tell me twice, and hopefully neither should a scientist.
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It is current belief because the author of the blurb/article didn't spend the 10 minutes researching it required. That's really it. Laziness, not technical difficulty.
In all seriousness though, it does sound like he's just trolling. Either he's pissed he's not still apart of the titan that is Apple and secretly hates himself for it (motive for this tyrade?), or software's simply ran past him so fast that he's just not been able to keep up and he "misses the old days".
In either case, the Woz's name is enough to keep the attention flowing his way, even if it is fanatical. He's an important piece of computer's history, but unlike Jobs or Gates, he is more focused on being a part of history, than a part of today. (Gates, as much as you hate him, is a HUGE philanthropist, so as much as you hate him for what he did to the computer industry, at least know he's trying..)
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Yes, but doesn't all of this kind of make sense for Sun? I mean if they die as a company, all of their IP becomes abandonware, and thus not helpful to anyone anymore. But, as a technique to keep themselves from dying, they opensource all of their previous products that they can, which immediately drives up product awareness and puts more eyes on the product, which immediately attracts investors.. and soon enough Sun is out of the spiralling blackhole that they once were in.
The question is will they continue to honor the Open Source way by continuing their commitment, or will they simply abandon what they've open sourced and move on with the new capital? They can still make money off of their open products by supporting it (which is something a very mature company would do anyways), but will they? This is what we have to look forward to in the future. Maybe a few more companies will come onboard with Sun and we'll see a whole new wave of innovation? At least we can hope.
If you've looked around any game creation forums, the idea has been mentioned at least a dozen times, but it ends up being too hackable, too bandwidth limited, and leads to fragmentation worse than a server split in IRC.
So no, I doubt anyone will ever get around to making a truly distributed MMORPG. Keep in mind that all MMORPGs are distributed by nature (as the client and the server both have a set of responsibilies), but as far as distributing the server part, it just gets too complicated.
But then again, there are different attacks to every problem, and distributing is just one way to deal with it. Others include clustering, and centralization, and both of the latter have proven to work better in the MMORPG case. Just because it works really well for sharing movies and high bandwidth items doesn't mean it'll work great for sharing game objects and such.
Yes, keep AAPL up, I'm making a fortune.
They only have the first season, and part of the 16th season (roughly half), which is only about 35 episodes total, making Law and Order roughly 10% of Apple's video offerings.
:), just in time for christmas.
My guess is they didn't want to flood the market with 16 Seasons of Law and Order, 9 Seasons of L&O:SVU and N seasons of L&O:CI and have it be about 80% of what they're distributing.
That being said, I've already purchased the whole first season, simply because the episodes don't come on TV anymore, and they're absolutely brilliant. I remember posting in the first iTMS tv article that as soon as they had Law and Order they had me, and now..
Do you work for the inquirer? Because it certainly seems like it; it's the only source you seem to be able to site for your "superior" knowledge about a product that hasn't been released yet.
I think I'll wait to get actual evidence over a news journal that publishes every microprocessing rumor or grumble that runs across them [not that this Tom's article is much better, though].
I disagree; with this next wave of promotion (and the fact they've been holding off so long on it), it indicates Intel is very confident and is preparing to repair confidences in their company in this upcoming year. To sweeten the deal, they threw in all of the upcoming information about *easily* a year and a half's worth of new core details, many of which have already been taped out and are simply waiting for all of the manufacturing plants to come onboard.
It also seems that Intel has adopted a very Applish attitude about releasing details; waiting until the very last minute, and it also seems to be evidence that the engineers are back in charge at Intel. True dual core technology with shared L2 cache. SSE+SSE2 Micro-op fusion (WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG INTEL). And x86-64 on its way (even if it's highly downplayed).
But you are right, any competition in the desktop sector is great for all of us. Apple jumping onboard with Intel seems to have adjusted attitudes within both companies (Intel becoming more design oriented and secretive, Apple becoming more mainstream and [according to rumors] cutting a few more corners to try to drive down costs). But it is definitely going to be an interesting year in microprocessing. Cheers to the new year.
Well I hate to burst your bubble, but the next generation Yonah and the "Core" technology is gearing up to be more effecient than anything AMD has ever produced.
You see, effeciency isn't a measure of raw speed, it's a measure of power verses the thermal production and power needed to run the chip. In this case, Intel wins flat out. While AMD's chips may be faster, Intel's Pentium M platform has been growing in the background. When Yonah is released, we will not only see speeds slowly being ramped back up to the previous heights, but you'll also see a very small jump in heat production. I remember from an article a few days back: "While the Yonah is slightly behind the Athlon X2 in performance, it outputs less heat under load than the Athlon X2 does when idling."
And yes, while Yonah is a laptop chip, the desktop version of it isn't going to be far above that; the whole platform was designed to tweak for effecienty.
So please, stop spilling your FUD. The 45nm process is the next logical step, and it shows that Intel hasn't been operating in a vacuum this last year when it comes to the Pentium 4. It also proves they have an exit strategy to get away from the Pentium 4 and the whole Pentium name and legacy (however tarnished it might have become due to the Pentium 4's inadequacies), and it shows that not only do they have the *entire* next generation of chips taped out, that they're moving on to the generation after the next.
If you'd have read the article, you would have been impressed. Even though it seems AMD still has the upper hand (especially if they'd hurry up and move to 300mm wafers and drop down to 65nm production ASAP), Intel's coming back into the game with a vengence. It almost seems they've taken a leaf out of the IBM playbook; Release a very expensive, mainstream platform to derive technologies for the next generation (think Power -> G5, Power -> [game consoles]). The most interesting part to me; Intel made a new logo for the Itanium, which means we might be seeing a smaller wavelength Itanium update, which a lot of the high end cluster machines might enjoy. Next year's looking to be a very good one in Microprocessing.
Transactional Databases are mission critical to a lot of applications, and JBoss (I believe) had no transaction support before. What they mean by "full" transaction support is that all of the transaction elements that are declared nessicary by the SQL standard are going to be supported by JBoss through this recent acquisition.
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