"Also, no one outside of select reviewers running Intel-selected benchmarks have seen this chip. The Intel chip was supposed to ship on Monday but it was only a "paper launch". Intel is only taking orders at this point."
Except, if you use Google, you can find hundreds of people who've used all three Core 2 chips, who have published benchmarks at both base levels and overclocked, including power usage. Furthermore, their "Paper Launch" as you call it is the best they can do; they're already taking orders in volume for the chips, they simply haven't shipped them yet (they're shipping in two weeks to fill the channel), which means they're probably simply waiting on getting enough orders to make shipments viable; you're not seeing AMD release anything at the same time, so they're nto trying to "smoke and mirror" anyone.
(Oh, and here's a link to a forum with a bunch of Core 2 benchmarks.)
Web accelerators and Word Processors lend themselves brilliantly to information collection and research. Accelerators help the company to see what pages are loading slowly and why, word processors help them see what people are writing about and technologies of dealing with it (such as different compression algorithms, search algorithms, etc).
Add spreadsheet in there and maybe Google's trying to find a better way of extracting metadata from Spreadsheets. Add blogs in there and maybe Google's trying to find a better way to tell a Blog from an ordinary webpage to improve search results.
As you can see, each element lends itself to Google's core business: helping people find things.
Sure. Too bad most RADAR systems are tuned to look for objects the size of planes and not birds.
Imagine retuning your RADAR for small objects; every bullet in the sky, every missile, every plane, and at least some atmospherics would light up like the Fourth of July. Now, it'd be possible if you have a very complex RADAR system with a computer attached that aided in target acquisition, but even designing a system that sophisticated to take out one class of aircraft will likely blow your defense budget that year.
Believe it or not, the "close your eyes and light the skies" approach works. Stealth aircraft have been knocked out of the skies using it. And it makes sense; if you can't have the smartest weapon, you might as well have a billion dumb ones. Kinda how the whole Iraq war works, doncha think?
Sorry to rain on that parade, but Google has already made the code available for any Linux/OS project that is willing to support Google's license (which I believe ATM is Berkeley-style, very relaxed for Google). A number of primary and existing Linux clients are already working feverishly to include support for libjingle.
Funny you should mention Jingle/Jingle-Audio, especially seeing as Google not only wrote the primary implementation, but the standard itself. While Google is lacking on vCard at the moment, I can see it quickly being tied into Gmail, which would allow a great deal of interoperability, but these things on the scale Google is doing them take time, and that's time I'm willing to allow them; I would much rather they released something great and usable infrequently than a piece of garbage repeatedly.
Well you could have at least linked to Jingle, the library you are talking about. There are also standardsavailable to implement your own version, if you don't like Google's code.
I know we live in a capitalist state, and damn me for saying this, but seriously, should the government be allowed to protect a company from a civil suit, even if the government originally contracted the work that caused the complaint? I'm sure building the case won't be easy without the government's help, but it can be done if need be, especially seeing as the lawyers could be looking at the payday of their careers if they were able to successfully litigate the case.
What happens when AT&T and Verizon use the precident set here to sell our information to the highest bidder? Why should the government be allowed to let this precident stand in the first place? I ask because I honestly haven't a clue.
While that might look counter-intuitive, it's technically correct. The Pentium M and Core processors are significantly different internally, but are still of 6th generation processor design (though both the P M and Core processor derive quite a bit of their technologies from the 7th generation, Netburst/Pentium 4). Core 2 is Intel's Next Generation architecture, which puts it at 886. However, I'm quite glad they dropped those names.. 88886?
If this were truly the case, then instead of Vista being Windows 2002 (or 2k3, depending on who you talk to and what news source you read), then Vista will be Windows 2007.
"As soon as people tries to install an OS designed for generic hardware (Windows, Linux), they risk running into both driver problems, stability problems, or both, and suddenly they may get "that crappy computer" again, running on Mac hardware and Boot Camp."
Good thing Bootcamp comes with all of the drivers required for Windows then, eh? Good thing Macs are such a minimalized set of hardware so that Linux providers can produce perfect drivers for these machines too then.
Facts down, the Mac is a better platform for Linux than any other x86 box, simply because its hardware is so damned predictable. Apply the same logic to building Windows drivers (as Apple has done), and you see that Macs could even be superior Wintel boxes.
How do you know they're not making new products with HyperTransport? They're still a signed member of the HyperTransport Consortium, and could be using HT elsewhere in the business. Just because their mainline products don't use it, isn't any reason to write it off.
And who knows, maybe they'll convince Intel into using HT instead of the CSI bus they've been working on for so long. Intel's got to have an in-house implementation of HT up and running (it's an open standard, why not?), it's not all that far-fetched (after all, Intel DID implement x86-64...)
Oh so that's what they meant by "a market lost to pirate DVD's at 75c each"; I figured they meant that DVDs only cost 75c to produce and that they were only making a 75c profit on them. Bad verbage I guess.
Hell, at least Apple machines ask you if you want to update; this latest Windows XP patch was pushed to my singular Windows XP without me even knowing about it, installed itself, and rebooted itself. It could have at least asked me if I wanted it or told me what the update was even for...
I quit taking Digg seriously after I realized that Digg had brought new life to Slashdot, making the articles much more up-to-date, less dupes, and better comments.
That, and Digg's travesty of articles like "How to increase your adsense dollars" (aka "How to make your e-penis larger").
Microsoft has a lot of money, and with that money, they can afford these things called "lawyers". Since they can afford more of these than the smaller company, it really doesn't matter if Microsoft believes the patent truly is invalid or not; they can wave enough FUD around until the company settles, or until the Judge in the case gets a headache and starts doing silly things.
Sadly, David vs. Goliath only really works on Television.
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Except, if you use Google, you can find hundreds of people who've used all three Core 2 chips, who have published benchmarks at both base levels and overclocked, including power usage. Furthermore, their "Paper Launch" as you call it is the best they can do; they're already taking orders in volume for the chips, they simply haven't shipped them yet (they're shipping in two weeks to fill the channel), which means they're probably simply waiting on getting enough orders to make shipments viable; you're not seeing AMD release anything at the same time, so they're nto trying to "smoke and mirror" anyone.
(Oh, and here's a link to a forum with a bunch of Core 2 benchmarks.)
Web accelerators and Word Processors lend themselves brilliantly to information collection and research. Accelerators help the company to see what pages are loading slowly and why, word processors help them see what people are writing about and technologies of dealing with it (such as different compression algorithms, search algorithms, etc).
Add spreadsheet in there and maybe Google's trying to find a better way of extracting metadata from Spreadsheets. Add blogs in there and maybe Google's trying to find a better way to tell a Blog from an ordinary webpage to improve search results.
As you can see, each element lends itself to Google's core business: helping people find things.
Apparently not, Slashdot.
The funny part is, they're removing an Electric Car display to make room for an SUV display.
New classification system eh? Sounds good to me...
"Pandavirus/2006Tokyo is in Domain Malware, Kingdom Microsoft, Phylum Spyus Maximus, Class Claria, Order Adicus Wearicus, Family Panda."
Sure. Too bad most RADAR systems are tuned to look for objects the size of planes and not birds.
Imagine retuning your RADAR for small objects; every bullet in the sky, every missile, every plane, and at least some atmospherics would light up like the Fourth of July. Now, it'd be possible if you have a very complex RADAR system with a computer attached that aided in target acquisition, but even designing a system that sophisticated to take out one class of aircraft will likely blow your defense budget that year.
Believe it or not, the "close your eyes and light the skies" approach works. Stealth aircraft have been knocked out of the skies using it. And it makes sense; if you can't have the smartest weapon, you might as well have a billion dumb ones. Kinda how the whole Iraq war works, doncha think?
..IS PEOPLE!!!
Sorry to rain on that parade, but Google has already made the code available for any Linux/OS project that is willing to support Google's license (which I believe ATM is Berkeley-style, very relaxed for Google). A number of primary and existing Linux clients are already working feverishly to include support for libjingle.
Funny you should mention Jingle/Jingle-Audio, especially seeing as Google not only wrote the primary implementation, but the standard itself. While Google is lacking on vCard at the moment, I can see it quickly being tied into Gmail, which would allow a great deal of interoperability, but these things on the scale Google is doing them take time, and that's time I'm willing to allow them; I would much rather they released something great and usable infrequently than a piece of garbage repeatedly.
Well you could have at least linked to Jingle, the library you are talking about. There are also standards available to implement your own version, if you don't like Google's code.
I know we live in a capitalist state, and damn me for saying this, but seriously, should the government be allowed to protect a company from a civil suit, even if the government originally contracted the work that caused the complaint? I'm sure building the case won't be easy without the government's help, but it can be done if need be, especially seeing as the lawyers could be looking at the payday of their careers if they were able to successfully litigate the case.
What happens when AT&T and Verizon use the precident set here to sell our information to the highest bidder? Why should the government be allowed to let this precident stand in the first place? I ask because I honestly haven't a clue.
Actually, you blew it at the P3.
586 (Pentium)
686 (PPro & PII & Piii)
786 (P4)
686 (P M & Core)
886 (Core 2)
While that might look counter-intuitive, it's technically correct. The Pentium M and Core processors are significantly different internally, but are still of 6th generation processor design (though both the P M and Core processor derive quite a bit of their technologies from the 7th generation, Netburst/Pentium 4). Core 2 is Intel's Next Generation architecture, which puts it at 886. However, I'm quite glad they dropped those names.. 88886?
Whiney Mac Fanboy: Oh for Gods sake - stop being such a whiney fanboy.
Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, this is Pot.
More importantly, will they recycle 500lb Potato batteries?
If this were truly the case, then instead of Vista being Windows 2002 (or 2k3, depending on who you talk to and what news source you read), then Vista will be Windows 2007.
That's a big miss.
"As soon as people tries to install an OS designed for generic hardware (Windows, Linux), they risk running into both driver problems, stability problems, or both, and suddenly they may get "that crappy computer" again, running on Mac hardware and Boot Camp."
Good thing Bootcamp comes with all of the drivers required for Windows then, eh? Good thing Macs are such a minimalized set of hardware so that Linux providers can produce perfect drivers for these machines too then.
Facts down, the Mac is a better platform for Linux than any other x86 box, simply because its hardware is so damned predictable. Apply the same logic to building Windows drivers (as Apple has done), and you see that Macs could even be superior Wintel boxes.
I dunno, but Macs run Linux, Windows and OS X. What kind of computers can run Windows and Linux but not OS X ;)
How do you know they're not making new products with HyperTransport? They're still a signed member of the HyperTransport Consortium, and could be using HT elsewhere in the business. Just because their mainline products don't use it, isn't any reason to write it off.
And who knows, maybe they'll convince Intel into using HT instead of the CSI bus they've been working on for so long. Intel's got to have an in-house implementation of HT up and running (it's an open standard, why not?), it's not all that far-fetched (after all, Intel DID implement x86-64...)
This lawsuit doesn't take a Megayear as stated in this blurb.. I'll never know the results!
I rumored a 16GB iNewton is in the works. Does that make me any more credible!?
Oh so that's what they meant by "a market lost to pirate DVD's at 75c each"; I figured they meant that DVDs only cost 75c to produce and that they were only making a 75c profit on them. Bad verbage I guess.
Hell, at least Apple machines ask you if you want to update; this latest Windows XP patch was pushed to my singular Windows XP without me even knowing about it, installed itself, and rebooted itself. It could have at least asked me if I wanted it or told me what the update was even for...
Not that I disagree with you, but perhaps a more credible news source would have made your point clearer, such as The BBC.
That's not an analogy at all, BadAnalogyGuy!
I quit taking Digg seriously after I realized that Digg had brought new life to Slashdot, making the articles much more up-to-date, less dupes, and better comments.
That, and Digg's travesty of articles like "How to increase your adsense dollars" (aka "How to make your e-penis larger").
Microsoft has a lot of money, and with that money, they can afford these things called "lawyers". Since they can afford more of these than the smaller company, it really doesn't matter if Microsoft believes the patent truly is invalid or not; they can wave enough FUD around until the company settles, or until the Judge in the case gets a headache and starts doing silly things.
Sadly, David vs. Goliath only really works on Television.