I think Intel needs to improve it's performance and it needs to start at the top!
Barret's "one Generatation ahead" program made the Prescott a barbeque chip instead of a computer chip. They struggled to put the chip into production with a 90 nanometer process that just was not ready.
The Itanic disaster happened after he fell for contrived benchmarks that hid the fact that the processor was not all that powerfull. A good boss should see through and ask the question " how does it perform in real life?"
Intel needs a boss who will face the issues squarely. Intel needs a boss who will speak plainly instead of stooping to Dilbertesque doubletalk. Paul Otellini has potential here. It is a shame Intel has to wait so long before he takes over.
I have purchased from Magnatune and have been happy.
When I become interested in an artist on Magnatune, I can never find a web page for that artist off the Magnatune site. Is that part of the contract with Magnatune?
We all know Microsoft's engineering is mediocre. They are known for their marketing strength and muscle. With all this marketing you would think they can take care to map disputed territories with some sensitivity. You would think they could understand the language nuances from country to country. They certainly have the money to afford to do this!
This will be an awesome product for the kinds of people who love staff meetings (time wasters like this become "boss"). For people who actually like to finish things ("workers"), these will be death. Now, instead of accomplishing things, workers can have interminable interactive discussions over the most incredible minutia with their bosses.
Some things don't matter, and this type of office software system will just magnify the productivity sucking power of "too many cooks in the kitchen" - or however it goes. You know what I mean and for this purpose, that's good enough.
This software will put the companies that use it at a competative disatvantage! Maybe a few will go out of business.
You have a dispersed, widely spread group going against a single, organised, massively influential force. If Rome taught us anything, its that small groups, no matter how skilled or courageous, will lose to an organised and capable foe with clear lines of communication under one leader.
I disagree. Here are a couple of points:
1. The Roman empire is not with us anymore.
2. I think a better example is the centralised economy of Soviet Union vs. the decentralised economy of the U.S.
Pacbell -- now called SBC used to have the no NAT policy. I do not think they realy mind the increased use of bandwidth that much. They did not want to support customers home networks. That would be very very expensive. If they say customers can not use them, then they avoid all the service calls.
I went and got a Linksys router back in the days when they were $150. No problems. A couple months later the no NAT policy disapeared and SBC started to sell the 2wire router-access points.
I program in Python -- on the job. I had to learn it to do my job. I guess this means I am not a good programmer. -- Well I knew that already. I am really a hardware engineer.
I read that speech a few days ago. It was bizarre. It sounds like he was drunk. In a lot of places it was hard to figure out what he was trying to say.
His tales of working at Rohm/IBM were interesting. He holds a very big grudge towards IBM. He held a lot of different positions. It sounds like he was unstable. Reading between the lines it sound like they finally got tired of his act and showed him the door.
He spent a lot of times talking about spys in the audience. He then did not understand or pretended not to understand "free" software. He talked about software that was free as in beer instead of free as in speech.
All new technolgies that catch on go through this S shaped curve. At first the gowrth is slow. Then it accelerates. We see phenominal growth rates for a while. There is often an economic bubble associated with this rapid growth. Then we reach saturation where the new technology as penetrated most of the places where it makes sense. The bubble bursts and the party is over.
We saw this with railroads in the 1800s, Radio and Automibiles in the 1920's and now computers at the end of the 20th century.
We are also hit with this outsourcing phenomina at the same time. It sucks and there is nothing we can do about it.
Yahoo message boards are rather roudy. One who posts can expect to be insulted. It comes with the territory. One does not go to a Yahoo message board expenting a prayer group.
I went to the HP web site. If you select SuSE 9.1 or XP home you get a $60 price break from the default selection of XP "professional".
they are giving your SuSE 9.1 for the same price as XP home. We are not getting a price break.
They think this will be a low volume product, or they are not sure what the support costs will be.
I do not see where Linux has a learning curve any more difficult than Windows.
Using KDE is at least as easy as Windows.
Getting patches is as simple as clicking on the green button on the toolbar and then entering the root password when it askes for it.
Even installation is as easy as windows.
And Linux installations (with a journaled file system) are much more stable than Windows installations. They do not change randomly over time the way Windows does. Linux boxes require less mainainance.
Maybe we should thank Intel for all the Linux support. More than a year ago they started to supply Linux support Intel Graphics. Now they are giving Linux support for Intel Wi-Fi.
SuSE Linux has a great online update utitily. YAST online update. Painless. Also SuSE instalation is usually painless. It is at least as easy as installing Windows on a naked computer.
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Barret's "one Generatation ahead" program made the Prescott a barbeque chip instead of a computer chip. They struggled to put the chip into production with a 90 nanometer process that just was not ready.
The Itanic disaster happened after he fell for contrived benchmarks that hid the fact that the processor was not all that powerfull. A good boss should see through and ask the question " how does it perform in real life?"
Intel needs a boss who will face the issues squarely. Intel needs a boss who will speak plainly instead of stooping to Dilbertesque doubletalk. Paul Otellini has potential here. It is a shame Intel has to wait so long before he takes over.
When I become interested in an artist on Magnatune, I can never find a web page for that artist off the Magnatune site. Is that part of the contract with Magnatune?
These sys-con web pages are not standards compliant:
W3 validator
We all know Microsoft's engineering is mediocre. They are known for their marketing strength and muscle. With all this marketing you would think they can take care to map disputed territories with some sensitivity. You would think they could understand the language nuances from country to country. They certainly have the money to afford to do this!
Some things don't matter, and this type of office software system will just magnify the productivity sucking power of "too many cooks in the kitchen" - or however it goes. You know what I mean and for this purpose, that's good enough.
This software will put the companies that use it at a competative disatvantage! Maybe a few will go out of business.
Team sports are a sort of masturbation to relieve our urges to engage in tribal warfare.
Those who do not copy Unix are destined to reinvent it.
I disagree. Here are a couple of points:
1. The Roman empire is not with us anymore.
2. I think a better example is the centralised economy of Soviet Union vs. the decentralised economy of the U.S.
I went and got a Linksys router back in the days when they were $150. No problems. A couple months later the no NAT policy disapeared and SBC started to sell the 2wire router-access points.
A very pretensious remake of the Road Warrior. It is bad the same way Battlefield Earth is bad.
I liked "Slave Girls from beyond Infinity". It was a bit camp, but there are a lot worse movies out thers.
I program in Python -- on the job. I had to learn it to do my job. I guess this means I am not a good programmer. -- Well I knew that already. I am really a hardware engineer.
I wonder if simple registry hacks will uncripple it?
Anyone with any sort of long term perspective will go for the solution that can be supplied by maney vendors.
His tales of working at Rohm/IBM were interesting. He holds a very big grudge towards IBM. He held a lot of different positions. It sounds like he was unstable. Reading between the lines it sound like they finally got tired of his act and showed him the door.
He spent a lot of times talking about spys in the audience. He then did not understand or pretended not to understand "free" software. He talked about software that was free as in beer instead of free as in speech.
Recently Alienware entered the high end desktop/workstation market. Maybe Dell is just telling Alienware to bugger off.
We saw this with railroads in the 1800s, Radio and Automibiles in the 1920's and now computers at the end of the 20th century.
We are also hit with this outsourcing phenomina at the same time. It sucks and there is nothing we can do about it.
Yahoo message boards are rather roudy. One who posts can expect to be insulted. It comes with the territory. One does not go to a Yahoo message board expenting a prayer group.
I see Linux as free as in speech instead of free as in beer. I have purchased SuSE distros and soon I will pop for Mepis.
I had to go down to the higher priced models to get options for the OS.
Try this link:
"HP web site"
I do not know it that page expects a cookie though.
The lower end models do not seem to have the Linux option.
I went to the HP web site. If you select SuSE 9.1 or XP home you get a $60 price break from the default selection of XP "professional".
they are giving your SuSE 9.1 for the same price as XP home. We are not getting a price break.
They think this will be a low volume product, or they are not sure what the support costs will be.
I do not see where Linux has a learning curve any more difficult than Windows.
Using KDE is at least as easy as Windows.
Getting patches is as simple as clicking on the green button on the toolbar and then entering the root password when it askes for it.
Even installation is as easy as windows.
And Linux installations (with a journaled file system) are much more stable than Windows installations. They do not change randomly over time the way Windows does. Linux boxes require less mainainance.
Maybe we should thank Intel for all the Linux support. More than a year ago they started to supply Linux support Intel Graphics. Now they are giving Linux support for Intel Wi-Fi.
SuSE Linux has a great online update utitily. YAST online update. Painless. Also SuSE instalation is usually painless. It is at least as easy as installing Windows on a naked computer.