Yeah, but wouldn't it make less of a fuss, when they simply said: "Look, our wonderful next processor XGHz, SSE4, Super-Hyper-Threading, Speed-TwoStep... and as an extra, not that anybody would care, it supports AMDs 64bit extensions."
Until now, AMD has been seen as following Intel's footsteps. AMD can take Intel chipsets and make them better (Athlon), but this is the first time that AMD has taken a technological lead and Intel is following.
AMD can now go to Dell, IBM, HP, and say "our 64-bit design is so good, Intel has decided to make their chipset compatible with ours." It also boosts the chances of software vendors to port their software to AMD64.
Something like this may be the death toll for Itanium and such a move would not be good for Intel.
802.11* is a high speed standard for replacing much of the Ethernet wiring. Great for mobile devices that have good sized batteries (i.e. laptops).
Bluetooth went the other direction. Instead of focusing on speed, why not power? Bluetooth has a much lower power requirement, and at ~760kbps makes a great way for cell phones (which are currently in the ~128kbps range) to talk to small, low power devices (like a palm or WinCE or Zaurus).
I recently had the choice of PDAs to get one with bluetooth or 802.11. I took the bluetooth and so far have not had any regrets about it. Of course, my laptop has both 802.11 and bluetooth in it.
Bluetooth is appearing in more and more cell phones, provided you use Cingular, AT&T Wireless (soon to be Cingular) and T-Mobile. The other providers (Nextel, Sprint, and Verizon) don't use GSM and the only bluetooth chipsets are for GSM.
Which makes me peeved as Verizon has the best coverage, but I can't use my Tungsten T3 with my phone.
You forget the fact that his VP invented the Internet, well, allowed it to become commercial and thus fostering the environment where Cisco could sell all those routers.
Part of the crash was not the Internet bubble itself, but rather the decrease in confidence of public companies (Enron, Worldcom, etc.). While some may say the book-cooking happened under Clinton's watch (it did), Clinton did have bills before congress to limit the ability of companies to do the kinds of things that Enron/Worldcom did. But the bills were defeated by lobbyists led by Harvey Pitt, who later became Bush's SEC chair. Talk about fox guarding the henhouse!
I would venture to say that it was a combination of Clinton (era of big government is over), Greenspan (H4x0r Economist), and the tech industry in general.
We all knew that economy could not keep going by itself. Anyone who thought the good times would last forever was living in fantasy land. Just like how the so-so economy of today won't last forever. But Bush's policies isn't making the so-so economy end anytime soon.
How many people return their bottles for the $.05 refund now?
I do. Granted, I let them pile up for a little while then take a large load over to the MA redemption center. They'll take any bottles that have a redemption in MA, unlike stores that only take back what they sell.
Your scenario assumes that Apple makes more profit on the 15G than the 4G. Which is possible, but not likely. If Apple were making a large profit on the 15G, why not just drop the price $50 and make it back through quantity? Now they've spent a lot of engineering time, manufacturing time, ad space, and patience of Apple fans to sell a product that noone will buy in favor of something more expensive with a (possibly) smaller profit margin.
I remember during the DVDCSS trial in NY, the 2600 legal team took reporters about a block away from the courthouse and showed street vendors selling illegal DVDs. The point (at the time) was it was easier and chaper to get an illegal DVD off a street vendor than it was to copy the DVD to your drive and burn it.
By 2.6.x ready, I hope that means that the existing 2.4.x kernel includes the devmapper patch so that you can go from LVM1 to LVM2. No other distros seem to have thought about that particular upgrade yet.
Eastern Mountain Sports has a really rockin backpack that has a laptop carrier in it that fits 15" laptops (my 15" power book and 14.1" IBM T30 both fit nicely). There's lots of space for cables/books/MP3 player/cell phone/power adapters/whatever in there as well. Great if you take public transportation.
Then again, it's not as stylish as an actual bag. But I work at a university, so I fit right in.
Given that doesn't count property taxes, that's a big difference. I pay ~$1800/yr in property taxes, while by brother in upstate NY pays ~$5k/yr in property taxes on a house that's worth 1/3 of mine.
For a one party state, we've had Republican governors for about the past 10 years. Libertarians have a pretty good foothold in a lot of areas as well. Complaining about people like Sen. Kennedy ignores the fact that Republicans don't run anyone against him. When someone does (Jack E. Robinson?), they get no support from Republican party officials. When Weld ran against Kerry, I voted Kerry because I thought Weld would do a better job as governor than senator.
You want Taxachusetts? Check out NY. Over 8% sales tax, high property tax rates, high income tax rates. It costs more to drive on the NYS Thruway than it does for the MS Turnpike. About the only thing going for NY is the fact that they have EZ-Pass run by the state instead of the pseudo-commercial Fastlane.
The Big Dig is a long time coming, and should be worthwhile in the end. There was a lot of innovation involved in construction and hopefully that investment will pay off in lower expenses for similar projects in the future. Don't forget that most of Boston's square footage didn't exist when certain tea boxes were thrown into the harbor.
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Billing for the month in advance is pretty common practice.
Patents can be enforced at any time by the patent owner. They can also be selectively enforced (see IBM saying that SCO is violating their patents while not going after anyone else that uses it).
In return for that, the patent holder loses the patent after 20 years (usually).
WTF does that have to do with anything? I'm talking about 106 people who have pledged to bring in more then $200,000 for the Bush re-election campaign. 2000 has nothing to do with it.
Perhaps you have some similar stats for the Democratic nominees? Maybe there's a Fox memo you can look up or something.
By 'the little guy', you mean the hundreds of CEOs that call their CEO friends and executives and pledge upwards of 200,000-500,000 dollars for Bush's campaign?
Last I checked, Sun was merely losing millions, not billions. While this is still a bad thing, they do have ~$5 billion in the bank and won't be going away any time soon.
They seem to be losing that $5 billion pretty quickly.
The same goes for CUPS which has a web interface that I think has come of age if not achieve adult hood.
For simple configurations (getting a printer set up assuming the drivers are already in place), CUPS is great and easy to use. Once you want to do more complicated things like authentication or SSL - which is what really makes IPP and CUPS shine - you're back to hacking text files and restarting the server.
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Yeah, but wouldn't it make less of a fuss, when they simply said: "Look, our wonderful next processor XGHz, SSE4, Super-Hyper-Threading, Speed-TwoStep... and as an extra, not that anybody would care, it supports AMDs 64bit extensions."
Until now, AMD has been seen as following Intel's footsteps. AMD can take Intel chipsets and make them better (Athlon), but this is the first time that AMD has taken a technological lead and Intel is following.
AMD can now go to Dell, IBM, HP, and say "our 64-bit design is so good, Intel has decided to make their chipset compatible with ours." It also boosts the chances of software vendors to port their software to AMD64.
Something like this may be the death toll for Itanium and such a move would not be good for Intel.
Hey look kids, Rob Enderle showed up.
It comes down to what you need.
802.11* is a high speed standard for replacing much of the Ethernet wiring. Great for mobile devices that have good sized batteries (i.e. laptops).
Bluetooth went the other direction. Instead of focusing on speed, why not power? Bluetooth has a much lower power requirement, and at ~760kbps makes a great way for cell phones (which are currently in the ~128kbps range) to talk to small, low power devices (like a palm or WinCE or Zaurus).
I recently had the choice of PDAs to get one with bluetooth or 802.11. I took the bluetooth and so far have not had any regrets about it. Of course, my laptop has both 802.11 and bluetooth in it.
Bluetooth is appearing in more and more cell phones, provided you use Cingular, AT&T Wireless (soon to be Cingular) and T-Mobile. The other providers (Nextel, Sprint, and Verizon) don't use GSM and the only bluetooth chipsets are for GSM.
Which makes me peeved as Verizon has the best coverage, but I can't use my Tungsten T3 with my phone.
Yea, but you note that Jon Katz and Chris DiBona don't post here anymore. Anything from Enderle should be taken with a 10lb grain of salt.
The web site you're looking for is http://www.bullyhill.com/
You could pay twice as much if you lived in NY (higher sales tax and income tax). I imagine their fines for not paying are more too.
Then again, I file on time.
Oh good, so you'll be used to Cingular then.
There was a dip in 2000/2001 where it was hurting. Since then, they've come back and then some (I told you I was a dude *thwack*)
Unless they're ones we want. Like Red Dwarf (stupid wait 4 months for the US version...)
You forget the fact that his VP invented the Internet, well, allowed it to become commercial and thus fostering the environment where Cisco could sell all those routers.
Part of the crash was not the Internet bubble itself, but rather the decrease in confidence of public companies (Enron, Worldcom, etc.). While some may say the book-cooking happened under Clinton's watch (it did), Clinton did have bills before congress to limit the ability of companies to do the kinds of things that Enron/Worldcom did. But the bills were defeated by lobbyists led by Harvey Pitt, who later became Bush's SEC chair. Talk about fox guarding the henhouse!
I would venture to say that it was a combination of Clinton (era of big government is over), Greenspan (H4x0r Economist), and the tech industry in general.
We all knew that economy could not keep going by itself. Anyone who thought the good times would last forever was living in fantasy land. Just like how the so-so economy of today won't last forever. But Bush's policies isn't making the so-so economy end anytime soon.
How many people return their bottles for the $.05 refund now?
I do. Granted, I let them pile up for a little while then take a large load over to the MA redemption center. They'll take any bottles that have a redemption in MA, unlike stores that only take back what they sell.
You would be talking a major loss leader then.
Your scenario assumes that Apple makes more profit on the 15G than the 4G. Which is possible, but not likely. If Apple were making a large profit on the 15G, why not just drop the price $50 and make it back through quantity? Now they've spent a lot of engineering time, manufacturing time, ad space, and patience of Apple fans to sell a product that noone will buy in favor of something more expensive with a (possibly) smaller profit margin.
I remember during the DVDCSS trial in NY, the 2600 legal team took reporters about a block away from the courthouse and showed street vendors selling illegal DVDs. The point (at the time) was it was easier and chaper to get an illegal DVD off a street vendor than it was to copy the DVD to your drive and burn it.
By 2.6.x ready, I hope that means that the existing 2.4.x kernel includes the devmapper patch so that you can go from LVM1 to LVM2. No other distros seem to have thought about that particular upgrade yet.
I got it a few weeks ago. Sure enough, I went from about 1700k -> 2700k download, 128k -> 256k upload.
Eastern Mountain Sports has a really rockin backpack that has a laptop carrier in it that fits 15" laptops (my 15" power book and 14.1" IBM T30 both fit nicely). There's lots of space for cables/books/MP3 player/cell phone/power adapters/whatever in there as well. Great if you take public transportation.
Then again, it's not as stylish as an actual bag. But I work at a university, so I fit right in.
Given that doesn't count property taxes, that's a big difference. I pay ~$1800/yr in property taxes, while by brother in upstate NY pays ~$5k/yr in property taxes on a house that's worth 1/3 of mine.
For a one party state, we've had Republican governors for about the past 10 years. Libertarians have a pretty good foothold in a lot of areas as well. Complaining about people like Sen. Kennedy ignores the fact that Republicans don't run anyone against him. When someone does (Jack E. Robinson?), they get no support from Republican party officials. When Weld ran against Kerry, I voted Kerry because I thought Weld would do a better job as governor than senator.
You want Taxachusetts? Check out NY. Over 8% sales tax, high property tax rates, high income tax rates. It costs more to drive on the NYS Thruway than it does for the MS Turnpike. About the only thing going for NY is the fact that they have EZ-Pass run by the state instead of the pseudo-commercial Fastlane.
The Big Dig is a long time coming, and should be worthwhile in the end. There was a lot of innovation involved in construction and hopefully that investment will pay off in lower expenses for similar projects in the future. Don't forget that most of Boston's square footage didn't exist when certain tea boxes were thrown into the harbor.
Billing for the month in advance is pretty common practice.
Patents can be enforced at any time by the patent owner. They can also be selectively enforced (see IBM saying that SCO is violating their patents while not going after anyone else that uses it).
In return for that, the patent holder loses the patent after 20 years (usually).
WTF does that have to do with anything? I'm talking about 106 people who have pledged to bring in more then $200,000 for the Bush re-election campaign. 2000 has nothing to do with it.
Perhaps you have some similar stats for the Democratic nominees? Maybe there's a Fox memo you can look up or something.
You want just one? How about 106 people who have raised more than $200,000 for Bush in the 2004 campaign.
By 'the little guy', you mean the hundreds of CEOs that call their CEO friends and executives and pledge upwards of 200,000-500,000 dollars for Bush's campaign?
Last I checked, Sun was merely losing millions, not billions. While this is still a bad thing, they do have ~$5 billion in the bank and won't be going away any time soon.
They seem to be losing that $5 billion pretty quickly.
The same goes for CUPS which has a web interface that I think has come of age if not achieve adult hood.
For simple configurations (getting a printer set up assuming the drivers are already in place), CUPS is great and easy to use. Once you want to do more complicated things like authentication or SSL - which is what really makes IPP and CUPS shine - you're back to hacking text files and restarting the server.