Your number of 3.5M units appears to be about a million low, though. 4.5 Million is what they shipped in 2005.
If you'll look, I was quoting 2004 shipment figures since I did not have 2005 accurate figures quickly at hand. 2004 is a reasonable benchmark because Apple did not suddenly catch fire in 2005 and increase their shipments of Macs many fold in the process. I have no trouble accepting your 2005 figures because they still make my point, so please don't criticize my 2004 figures since they are well within the ballpark.
Microsoft seems to be tilting towards trying to convince all of us that TCM/TCP Trusted Computing hardware will be the panacea of all our security woes, when coupled with a TC-aware operating system (e.g. Vista). As should have been learned before in the uproar over the Pentium-III embedded serial number fiasco, many of us do not like this idea at all. Are you willing to create secure systems that do not require or force Trusted Computing hardware on us as part of the security process?
Why aren't you putting all your efforts into fixing the current Windows operating system, instead of writing a new one (Vista) essentially from scratch? While you obviously can't collect money from having people upgrade from WinXP to WinXP the way some will from WinXP to Vista, you'll still sell your OS on a majority of all new PCs, as well as having a chance to create something that isn't already the bane of many of our existences.
Put another way, how do you respond to the end user's need of: I don't need new features nearly as much as I need security and stability in my current features?
This is BS -- that's Bell South for those of you with a memory retention shorter than yesterday's Slashdot articles -- all over again.
BS claims that the content providers are getting a free ride over the BS broadband, and should pay for their transport costs. That was yesterday.
Now the claim is that the indexing services are getting a free ride on the backs of the content providers, and making a fortune off of other people's efforts.
Well I already pay for my broadband myself, and don't think any ISP has the right to charge double (i.e. both ends of the transaction) while degrading my BB service for those who don't pay.
I also consider indexing services a valued added proposition without which the web would be a whole lot less usable -- hence less valuable. So I feel that indexing services improve the value of the web, and not the converse.
At something on the order of 80 million chips per year (counting dual-proc, dual-core machines as two, obviously) Apple would instantly become AMD's largest customer
I don't know where you get your figure of 80M chips per year, but sites like this one list Macintosh sales for 2004 at approximately 3.5M units. Even if all were dual processors (they're not), you are overstating processors by more than an order of magnitude.
Even at current sales Apple might have become AMD's biggest customer, but not overwhelm them at all like you suggest.
These machines don't have a need for more than 4GB RAM, they only fit 2GB, so why go 64-bit when it's not going to be used to address more RAM?
Uh, how about so that Apple doesn't waste their limited resources supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel OSX?
And then there's, I'd like to run Windows on my system sometime maybe, and that may be all 64-bit soon.
Followed by the worry of, just how long will Apple keep 32-bit Intel OSX as an upgradeable option when all their new machines are 64-bit?
Putting it altogether, Is the 32-bit Intel Macintosh going to quickly become an orphan that was only produced for 6 months before 64-bit processors take over everywhere, and shoved out solely so that Steve Jobs could make good on his promise 7 months ago that we're switching to Intel as quickly as possible?
I sure won't be buying a 32-bit Apple anything. And I guess this means that the Universal Binary will be getting even fatter (fatter -- get it?) when it has to include 32-bit G4, 64-bit G5, 32-bit Intel, and 64-bit Intel. Apple may be the next adopter of BluRay just for software distributions.
MD can't produce the volume of chips that Apple need.
Excuse me, but while Apple is big on noise, they're not big on production. I'm sure AMD could have given them all the chips they need. They might not have been so forthcoming with the Marketing Money however.
For Intel, getting Apple is a coup worth paying enough for that even if they never make a cent from Steve Jobs, they've still silenced the biggest critic of the i86 architecture.
Their problem right now is keeping Dell/HP happy, both of whom sell a lot more systems than Apple will, and who aren't very pleased about Apple being allowed to announce the newest, latest and greatest systems first.
The end result of this fiasco is that Sony discs are something you watch out for and don't risk sticking in your computer, unless you're running the latest antivirus/antispyware software.
Maybe future OS's will automatically block this. Even firmware in the CD/DVD/HD/??? player can be inoculated against it.
Sony only agreed not to ship more CD's with the existing rootkits. Nothing against improved versions. In fact...
Your new Sony-BMG non-standards compliant music disc contains the Pwned.exe wonderful pretty music player. Click here to hear the music you've already paid for. Remember, you cannot return opened CD's for any refund. Have a nice day!
That will be changing today when I switch my service to Comcast.
Be sure they know loud and clear why you're leaving. In fact, go up at least a couple levels of supervisors from the call desk person handling your account to ensure that your message doesn't get garbled along the way.
what next charging someone for receiving a phone call.
Too late. That's your cell phone in action. By bringing out the same idea in new technology they have managed to get what they couldn't get with the old technology.
Okay, how about A Solution at least. Municipal Residential Broadband Service (MRBS - just made that acronym up). In order to provide fairly priced, non-discriminatory, widely available Internet broadband some cities are already going this route. Of course they're being fought tooth-and-nail (or is it hammer and tongs) at the statehouse level precisely because as long as reasonable alternatives exist Bell South is taking a huge risk that the very content providers they're charging might charge-back against the customers of those systems, forcing the eyeballs to vote with their feet and pocketbooks. And that would be the push-back employed at the content provider level to nip this in the bud. Can't wait to see it happen.
Wait till a few hundred thousand WoW players find a surcharge on their bills for using "an expensive broadband provider." Or after WoW doesn't pay the bill, and when their legion of players starts complaining about bad response, they're told to simply change ISP's and all will be good again. Where do you think their loyalty lies? To their ISP who has degraded their service and/or raised their bills, or to the game?
And what's next? Don't talk too fast on the phone or you'll have to pay extra. We'd lose New York in a minute that way.
Obviously I've got a future career in political speech-writing ahead of me after this post.
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No records -- no problems.
So maybe the day will arrive when copper pennies will have true intrinsic value, like gold and silver coins have in the past.
If you'll look, I was quoting 2004 shipment figures since I did not have 2005 accurate figures quickly at hand. 2004 is a reasonable benchmark because Apple did not suddenly catch fire in 2005 and increase their shipments of Macs many fold in the process. I have no trouble accepting your 2005 figures because they still make my point, so please don't criticize my 2004 figures since they are well within the ballpark.
Microsoft seems to be tilting towards trying to convince all of us that TCM/TCP Trusted Computing hardware will be the panacea of all our security woes, when coupled with a TC-aware operating system (e.g. Vista). As should have been learned before in the uproar over the Pentium-III embedded serial number fiasco, many of us do not like this idea at all. Are you willing to create secure systems that do not require or force Trusted Computing hardware on us as part of the security process?
That's already what's essentially being done with Vista, hence the multi-year delay when they basically started over again.
Put another way, how do you respond to the end user's need of: I don't need new features nearly as much as I need security and stability in my current features?
No, I never knew that.
But I do now.
BS claims that the content providers are getting a free ride over the BS broadband, and should pay for their transport costs. That was yesterday.
Now the claim is that the indexing services are getting a free ride on the backs of the content providers, and making a fortune off of other people's efforts.
Well I already pay for my broadband myself, and don't think any ISP has the right to charge double (i.e. both ends of the transaction) while degrading my BB service for those who don't pay.
I also consider indexing services a valued added proposition without which the web would be a whole lot less usable -- hence less valuable. So I feel that indexing services improve the value of the web, and not the converse.
True. Just your guns will be carried away as the ACLU works to eviscerate the Second Amendment.
And your country be carried away, as the ACLU does everything possible to prevent enforcement of the US Border against illegal immigrants.
But it's your ass to sit on -- until you lose that too!
Hummm, whose side am I on over this? ACLU, or terrorists? Tough choice.
I'm wondering the same thing. Would it be good to put it out in the sunlight, or through an ultra-violet disinfector, at some regular interval?
I don't know where you get your figure of 80M chips per year, but sites like this one list Macintosh sales for 2004 at approximately 3.5M units. Even if all were dual processors (they're not), you are overstating processors by more than an order of magnitude.
Even at current sales Apple might have become AMD's biggest customer, but not overwhelm them at all like you suggest.
Uh, how about so that Apple doesn't waste their limited resources supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel OSX?
And then there's, I'd like to run Windows on my system sometime maybe, and that may be all 64-bit soon.
Followed by the worry of, just how long will Apple keep 32-bit Intel OSX as an upgradeable option when all their new machines are 64-bit?
Putting it altogether, Is the 32-bit Intel Macintosh going to quickly become an orphan that was only produced for 6 months before 64-bit processors take over everywhere, and shoved out solely so that Steve Jobs could make good on his promise 7 months ago that we're switching to Intel as quickly as possible?
I sure won't be buying a 32-bit Apple anything. And I guess this means that the Universal Binary will be getting even fatter (fatter -- get it?) when it has to include 32-bit G4, 64-bit G5, 32-bit Intel, and 64-bit Intel. Apple may be the next adopter of BluRay just for software distributions.
Excuse me, but while Apple is big on noise, they're not big on production. I'm sure AMD could have given them all the chips they need. They might not have been so forthcoming with the Marketing Money however.
For Intel, getting Apple is a coup worth paying enough for that even if they never make a cent from Steve Jobs, they've still silenced the biggest critic of the i86 architecture.
Their problem right now is keeping Dell/HP happy, both of whom sell a lot more systems than Apple will, and who aren't very pleased about Apple being allowed to announce the newest, latest and greatest systems first.
I can't believe Intel is building anything new these days that isn't AMD64, but I've already had a couple people tell me I'm wrong about Core Duo.
If so, why would anybody buy it at these prices?
Maybe future OS's will automatically block this. Even firmware in the CD/DVD/HD/??? player can be inoculated against it.
Vista anyone?
Your new Sony-BMG non-standards compliant music disc contains the Pwned.exe wonderful pretty music player. Click here to hear the music you've already paid for. Remember, you cannot return opened CD's for any refund. Have a nice day!
Third rule: There is no Third Rule.
Have we broken the record yet for Slashdot articles about a single company over a single issue across a limited period of time?
Call a cell phone and they do.
Oh yeah, that's the phone companies too.
Be sure they know loud and clear why you're leaving. In fact, go up at least a couple levels of supervisors from the call desk person handling your account to ensure that your message doesn't get garbled along the way.
And just what makes you think Comcast won't follow suit the moment they can?
I think the only way left to profit from the greedy bastards is to become a shareholder yourself. And this includes in oil companies!
Too late. That's your cell phone in action. By bringing out the same idea in new technology they have managed to get what they couldn't get with the old technology.
Wait till a few hundred thousand WoW players find a surcharge on their bills for using "an expensive broadband provider." Or after WoW doesn't pay the bill, and when their legion of players starts complaining about bad response, they're told to simply change ISP's and all will be good again. Where do you think their loyalty lies? To their ISP who has degraded their service and/or raised their bills, or to the game?
And what's next? Don't talk too fast on the phone or you'll have to pay extra. We'd lose New York in a minute that way.
Obviously I've got a future career in political speech-writing ahead of me after this post.