Second thing is that this technology has *nothing* over flash
IIRC, flash itself already faces potential future competition from a new, stable, fast, infinitely rewritable, solid state technology announced just a couple months ago as well. Flash may have to compete on price in the future.
If somebody invents tomorrow a car that recharges in 3 mins and has 500 miles range and same performance and price as regular cars, the oil barrel will drop to $15 overnight, it's the same thing.
Only when you can figure out how to generate electricity elsewhere in the necessary quantities without burning oil to do it.
Question 1: While you may save power on the platter spin motor, won't moving 30 heads (15 platters x 2) require a whole lot more power?
Question 2: I didn't see any reference at all to perpendicular recording in this article. Is that a feature of these drives?
Observation 1: If they're talking about us seeing these drives from major manufacturers in a year, then all this must already be running in the labs by now.
Observation 2: Combine this with those capacitor-batteries discussed a few months ago, and the whole landscape of personal electronics could look very different a year or two out. It could virtually make existing units obsolete overnight. Perhaps it's time to consider stock in the major manufactures again.
Google's policy has typically been to not intervene
Actually, I rather suspect that Google's policy is to not intervene as long as Republicans are being pilloried. Were things going substantially the other direction, this would have been fixed long before now.
Every time I look at the new features, this still feels like a Point Release to me. I would only justify it as going up a whole version if substantial underlying code was changed which, of course, is not visible to the user.
Many thanks to Sony for ruining it for the rest of us. I hope that your business model makes up for the customer goodwill you're lighting on fire today.
Sorry, but Sony ran out of customer goodwill long ago. The flames you see are from the piles of returned batteries, combined with marketing spin for an updraft.
...Firefox's share of the browser market has grown to 9.8 percent of the U.S. market this month, from 2.9 percent in October 2004."
Hey Folks,
They're both free apps under Windows! How does it really hurt MS if FF gets 100% marketshare? In fact, if FF were to take over it might actually benefit MS. How? IE has been their worst blackeye of the past couple of years. More problems with than than everything else. If MS could make all the bad IE press go away, don't you think that would be a positive? I realize this is like suggesting to Apple to let Dell build their hardware, but does that make it a bad idea? As long as FF adheres to Open Standards, everyone can compete with web-sites equally with it.
Developers will know that thousands of the machines will never be used for gaming, Sony loses tens of thousands of dollars from their per-unit loss and we get to build a 4 story angry penguin statue out of consumer electronics. It's a win-win!
Wouldn't that be a: Win-win-win? (Not to be confused with Win 3.0)
have the purchased PSPs delivered to the home addresses in Japan of minimum-wage Japanese workers who open the PSP retail box/packaging and use the PSPs for at least a month
And consumers might get a better product after a month burn-in to eliminate the Infant Mortality problem of all complex electronics.
Of course, Sony would have to deal with an inordinate number of warranty calls from the same address. But that still might be better than the house actually burning down, as might well have happened with so many early release XBox 360's all crammed into the same location.:^)
I'm dubious of any true safety concerns. Does Sony want it shouted that: Sony sells unsafe PS3's everywhere in the world except the UK, because only UK law won't allow it!
If the PS3 is truly unsafe, are they going to be stopping travelers returning from other markets overseas and siezing their lawfully purchased PS3 consoles on safety concerns? I doubt it.
The only way you'll fix this in the UK is by a vote for people who will reliably overturn laws that screw the consumers at large to artifically protect monopolies. Should we shout, Is anyone in the UK listening?
What am I doing for my part? Not voting for John Kyl who instituted the Internet Gaming Ban in the USA, and had to sneak it through as part of another, more important, bill because no one wanted their vote on record over this issue.
Who else here in Slashdot land is doing their part, no matter how small, this year?
They can't be serious about this. Do they really think they can compete with design powerhouses such as IBM, Intel, or AMD? And game console chips have to be relevant five years from now, which is an even bigger challenge. Sounds like FUD to me to get a better deal from their supplier. Sell me your chips cheaper, or I'll go out and make my own!
And this isn't to mention that microprocessors these days are so encumbered with patents that you'll need major cross-licensing with every other major manufacturer to avoid spending those next five years in court. What does MS have to offer in return for the licenses? It would take a lot of $$$ for any of them to want to make it easy for another competitor to enter their markets.
Intel has been forced to restructure and, in our opinion, cannot go on supporting Apple (or any other customer) indefinitely.'"
I guess if I got my processors for effectively free like Apple appears to to, I'd be using Intel too. Of course, given Apple's overall market share, can't be that many Core 1/2 Uno/Duo processors anyway. What do you bet that AMD sells more Athlons to Dell now than Intel sells Cores to Apple.
Apple has become a Vanity Producer. They stay in the hardware more because of their vanity than anything else. Like people who self-publish their own books.
Given that HP has forced Intel to offer it comparable pricing to Dell...
So is he going to counter-sue for the time and money spent defending himself against the allegations of the RIAA?
The last time the RIAA dropped a case with prejudce it was determined that the defendant was the prevailing party, and under existing copyright law entitied to all reasonable expenses. Hope that happens here too. Lose a few more like this and the RIAA will be a lot more careful about who it sues with what evidence.
If YouTube becomes too restrictive on what it hosts, this will open a space for a less restrictive competitor along the lines of the original YouTube. Users are fickle when big corporations step in.
The sad thing in all this is much is said about how much the studios will make, the artists will make, and Google will make. Nothing is said that the people who are making YouTube what it is -- all the contributors who are giving of their own time and effort, will make anything at all! They seem to be essentially working for free for the studios, the artists (who are doing nothing to enhance the value of their content, so are in effect getting a free ride), and Google.
I hope that they lock DVDs down so tight that no one can even play them on their regular players. Then, when the next blockbuster movie sell a grand total of four DVDs, maybe the movie and television studios will finally realize how much money this is costing them.
And those 4 sales will be to the 4 pirates who will put it on BitTorrent for the rest of us. Of course, they won't be hard to find afterwards.
the memory controllers now support full 48-bit hardware addressing, which theoretically allows for 256 terabytes of physical memory.
I always felt the IBM AS400 had a nice scheme with its revolutionary large address space at the time. Not only did every byte -- possibly even bit -- of main RAM memory have a unique address, but so did all the attached mass storage devices. With this type of addressing, one could bring that same type of architecture to the desktop.
Loyd Case considers that the shift isn't as major as Intel's move from NetBurst to Core 2,
Well, yeah. AMD was starting with a superior processor to NetBurst to begin with. If they haven't advanced as far over their previous designs as Intel has, perhaps it's because they didn't have as far to go to start with. Pretty stupid remark overall by Loyd IMHO.
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IIRC, flash itself already faces potential future competition from a new, stable, fast, infinitely rewritable, solid state technology announced just a couple months ago as well. Flash may have to compete on price in the future.
If somebody invents tomorrow a car that recharges in 3 mins and has 500 miles range and same performance and price as regular cars, the oil barrel will drop to $15 overnight, it's the same thing.
Only when you can figure out how to generate electricity elsewhere in the necessary quantities without burning oil to do it.
And since they don't spin in a vacuum -- heads won't fly that way -- there's got to be friction to consider. And with friction comes wear and heat.
Question 2: I didn't see any reference at all to perpendicular recording in this article. Is that a feature of these drives?
Observation 1: If they're talking about us seeing these drives from major manufacturers in a year, then all this must already be running in the labs by now.
Observation 2: Combine this with those capacitor-batteries discussed a few months ago, and the whole landscape of personal electronics could look very different a year or two out. It could virtually make existing units obsolete overnight. Perhaps it's time to consider stock in the major manufactures again.
This is not as bad as it sounds. After all, these are those puny Australian dollars, and not real Dollars.
Actually, I rather suspect that Google's policy is to not intervene as long as Republicans are being pilloried. Were things going substantially the other direction, this would have been fixed long before now.
Every time I look at the new features, this still feels like a Point Release to me. I would only justify it as going up a whole version if substantial underlying code was changed which, of course, is not visible to the user.
It's about time for Apple to get on the 64-bit bandwagon with the rest of their line. I thought they were always supposed to be so cutting-edge.
Sorry, but Sony ran out of customer goodwill long ago. The flames you see are from the piles of returned batteries, combined with marketing spin for an updraft.
Hey Folks,
They're both free apps under Windows! How does it really hurt MS if FF gets 100% marketshare? In fact, if FF were to take over it might actually benefit MS. How? IE has been their worst blackeye of the past couple of years. More problems with than than everything else. If MS could make all the bad IE press go away, don't you think that would be a positive? I realize this is like suggesting to Apple to let Dell build their hardware, but does that make it a bad idea? As long as FF adheres to Open Standards, everyone can compete with web-sites equally with it.
Wouldn't that be a: Win-win-win? (Not to be confused with Win 3.0)
And consumers might get a better product after a month burn-in to eliminate the Infant Mortality problem of all complex electronics.
Of course, Sony would have to deal with an inordinate number of warranty calls from the same address. But that still might be better than the house actually burning down, as might well have happened with so many early release XBox 360's all crammed into the same location. :^)
I'm dubious of any true safety concerns. Does Sony want it shouted that: Sony sells unsafe PS3's everywhere in the world except the UK, because only UK law won't allow it!
If the PS3 is truly unsafe, are they going to be stopping travelers returning from other markets overseas and siezing their lawfully purchased PS3 consoles on safety concerns? I doubt it.
The only way you'll fix this in the UK is by a vote for people who will reliably overturn laws that screw the consumers at large to artifically protect monopolies. Should we shout, Is anyone in the UK listening?
What am I doing for my part? Not voting for John Kyl who instituted the Internet Gaming Ban in the USA, and had to sneak it through as part of another, more important, bill because no one wanted their vote on record over this issue.
Who else here in Slashdot land is doing their part, no matter how small, this year?
And this isn't to mention that microprocessors these days are so encumbered with patents that you'll need major cross-licensing with every other major manufacturer to avoid spending those next five years in court. What does MS have to offer in return for the licenses? It would take a lot of $$$ for any of them to want to make it easy for another competitor to enter their markets.
I guess if I got my processors for effectively free like Apple appears to to, I'd be using Intel too. Of course, given Apple's overall market share, can't be that many Core 1/2 Uno/Duo processors anyway. What do you bet that AMD sells more Athlons to Dell now than Intel sells Cores to Apple.
Apple has become a Vanity Producer. They stay in the hardware more because of their vanity than anything else. Like people who self-publish their own books.
Given that HP has forced Intel to offer it comparable pricing to Dell...
And when did HP manage this feat?
And IIRC, some of them (her) wasn't ugly at all!
Besides, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Each new race might find themselves quite attractive.
(Slashdot Rule #17: Any post mentioning Star Trek the original series is to automatically be modded Insightful.)
Publicly executing a few dozen botherders would be a good next step.
The last time the RIAA dropped a case with prejudce it was determined that the defendant was the prevailing party, and under existing copyright law entitied to all reasonable expenses. Hope that happens here too. Lose a few more like this and the RIAA will be a lot more careful about who it sues with what evidence.
Maybe my Cisco stock will finally regain its Dot Com boom value.
The sad thing in all this is much is said about how much the studios will make, the artists will make, and Google will make. Nothing is said that the people who are making YouTube what it is -- all the contributors who are giving of their own time and effort, will make anything at all! They seem to be essentially working for free for the studios, the artists (who are doing nothing to enhance the value of their content, so are in effect getting a free ride), and Google.
And those 4 sales will be to the 4 pirates who will put it on BitTorrent for the rest of us. Of course, they won't be hard to find afterwards.
And that overly long FBI Warning.
Tell that to TiVo.
And the movie studios wonder...
why DVD sales are declining.
I always felt the IBM AS400 had a nice scheme with its revolutionary large address space at the time. Not only did every byte -- possibly even bit -- of main RAM memory have a unique address, but so did all the attached mass storage devices. With this type of addressing, one could bring that same type of architecture to the desktop.
Well, yeah. AMD was starting with a superior processor to NetBurst to begin with. If they haven't advanced as far over their previous designs as Intel has, perhaps it's because they didn't have as far to go to start with. Pretty stupid remark overall by Loyd IMHO.