They stuck all of their chips in mainframes, won big, lost big, and are now winning big again. But you're right, the bets are hedged now.
Keeping alive legacy products is a great way to keep your customers, rather than telling them to go to hell. Anyone who bet their company on Itanium-- to hell with support for legacy hardware-- is now doing some serious, belated backtracking and firing of CEOs and whatnot.
Larger companies generally have more process and more overhead, but they also have more people who are in it for the long haul, and thus aren't working overtime every day.
I think large IT companies--other than Microsoft-- are trying to change that, and they do it at their peril, given the old adage that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it. (I normally knock MS for its myopia in all other areas, but I'd say it does its employees well, at least for the time being.) You see this in the move from traditional pensions to portable 401ks and IRAs, fewer stock options, and declining benefits. Large companies no longer want you for life. They want you for now, and they want YOU to insure your future.
One apparent guess made by the author is that each cell chip will have a single traditional GPU core and 8 of the APU cores. Sounds like compilers (XLC for PPC?) could ignore the APUs necessary.
[Girls] notice all the subtleties of language and attitude.
Have your boys take up figure skating, theater, and the flute and see how terribly long it takes them to pick up on some not-so-subtle attitudes. Your girls indeed may take notice of the traditional mindset contrary to what you'd like them to do, but don't think that your boys aren't feeling strong pressure against doing anything remotely feminine.
I would imagine Slate preferred a left-leaning cry of whitewashing to a discussion of the merits of the plot butchery. Don't get me wrong, I really like Slate's political coverage, but that's exactly what Slate is-- political.
This past year IBM's Technology group and their Systems group were merged into the "Systems & Technology Group" (yeah, I know, astoundingly creative) to get better synergy between the semiconductor (technology) and server (systems) parts of the business. The PC division being sold definitely does not include the technology/chips group, whose assets alone greatly exceed $1.25B
I think it's dumb speculation. IBM is focusing-- as it always has-- on business. It's divesting personal computers that have become consumer commodities. Why would it purchase a company whose stock has risen a huge amount based entirely on the profits of a personal music player?
If not for the stock premium caused by the iPod it might make sense to buy a company known for its superior product design, as IBM focuses on proving more value (and charging higher premiums for it) to clients than the commodities themselves provide, but here it is selling a well-regarded laptop line for a bargain... why would it turn around and by one for a huge premium?
Looks like reentry streaks, but not bright.
For instance This photoand this photo seen here. I wonder what such streaks would look like in daylight, though?
IBM has HUGE profit margins in it's systems divisions, and they're making the best servers in the world. If by at some point you mean the point in time when all HPC has been commoditized, you would be correct, but the death of big iron has been greatly exaggerated.
I had a Compaq (HP) laptop that had recovery issues that were entirely due to bad memory, which was recalled and replaced for free. All recovery issues were resolved. See this story and similiar. You may want to inquire about replacing that RAM.
Do you mean [CMOS] RAM is obselete as a method of implementing programmable non-volatile memory? Seems like a bad idea in the first place... And I assume you meant flash is replacing it. CMOS flash RAM.
I assure you that CMOS DRAM and SRAM is not obselete.
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But isn't being a team player the whole point, anyways? IBM can join teams when it doesn't want to start one, right?
No, IBM thinks CPU time will be the commodity and services will the the cash cow. Stable, reliable open software will be the grease, the public good.
Keeping alive legacy products is a great way to keep your customers, rather than telling them to go to hell. Anyone who bet their company on Itanium-- to hell with support for legacy hardware-- is now doing some serious, belated backtracking and firing of CEOs and whatnot.
Sun, Microsoft, same difference. Not team players.
I think you need to look up the definition of "public good" and "positive externality."
s/GPU/PPC/
One apparent guess made by the author is that each cell chip will have a single traditional GPU core and 8 of the APU cores. Sounds like compilers (XLC for PPC?) could ignore the APUs necessary.
I hope you're not very old, and patient.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
I nominate you for the most ironic combination of post and sig ever.
No, all the sysadmins are on holiday vacation. Come on folks, announcing security vulnerabilities on a Friday in December? That's just plain mean.
I would imagine Slate preferred a left-leaning cry of whitewashing to a discussion of the merits of the plot butchery. Don't get me wrong, I really like Slate's political coverage, but that's exactly what Slate is-- political.
This past year IBM's Technology group and their Systems group were merged into the "Systems & Technology Group" (yeah, I know, astoundingly creative) to get better synergy between the semiconductor (technology) and server (systems) parts of the business. The PC division being sold definitely does not include the technology/chips group, whose assets alone greatly exceed $1.25B
If not for the stock premium caused by the iPod it might make sense to buy a company known for its superior product design, as IBM focuses on proving more value (and charging higher premiums for it) to clients than the commodities themselves provide, but here it is selling a well-regarded laptop line for a bargain... why would it turn around and by one for a huge premium?
Looks like reentry streaks, but not bright. For instance This photo and this photo seen here. I wonder what such streaks would look like in daylight, though?
IBM has HUGE profit margins in it's systems divisions, and they're making the best servers in the world. If by at some point you mean the point in time when all HPC has been commoditized, you would be correct, but the death of big iron has been greatly exaggerated.
Yeah, I would hope XP Pro would be better. I was more wondering if it were W2K or XP Home.
What operating system are you using with it?
I had a Compaq (HP) laptop that had recovery issues that were entirely due to bad memory, which was recalled and replaced for free. All recovery issues were resolved. See this story and similiar. You may want to inquire about replacing that RAM.
I assure you that CMOS DRAM and SRAM is not obselete.
And with AOL, you can be sure that either way the popup blocker will have have Time Warner properties on its exclude list by default.