Yeah all these technology are over-priced. People need to stop putting money in them and put it into safer things like tobacco for example. Maybe then I could lose my job again.
Google does not need for the IPO market to improve much. In fact, it hasn't been that bad this year at all. With such a strong name, they could easily raise over 1 billion from an IPO. Further, Sergey says they have
no plans to go IPO anytime soon.
Overture was yet another product of the IdeaLab hi-tech incubator. Based in Pasadena, they recruited heavily from Caltech. They're technology is not for crawling pages, but instead for auctioning off keywords plus the innovative pay-per-click agreements.
I agree that the iBook is a great laptop -- I've had mine for 2 years now. But that doesn't mean you should discount the competition so quickly.
Firt of all, the Centrino is a processor (the Pentium M) + built in wireless card. It's not a laptop. That would be like calling the G3 a laptop. Lots of different companies make P-M/Centrino based laptops. The Centrino compares favorably with the P4 in terms of performance, while consuming remarkably little power. As Apple themselves will
admit , a single P4 compares pretty good to the new G5. So it would seem crazy to think that a G3 can compare at all to a P-M in terms of performance. It also compares well in terms of battery life.
Centrino is one of Intel's most remarkable accomplishments. It's a processor specially designed for laptops. It would be very hard for Apple to have such a processor, since who could they get to do the R&D for it?
As I mentioned earlier, dozens of different companies make Centrino based laptops. The overall quality varies quite a bit. More often than not, the quality is well below anything Apple would make. But sometimes it is not. Be careful when making blanket statements. If you want to see a really nice Centrino check out IBM's ThinkPad X31. It's 1.19" thick, 3.6 lbs., gets 4.5 hrs of battery life, and while not the fastest Centrino, is plenty fast compared to a G3.
Finally, it's hard to imagine that a whole lot more performance is going to be squeezed out of the G3. The G4 only got up to 1.42 GHz, so it's hard to expect the G3 to get over that.
When talking about Apple v. Wintel, let's not forget Centrino. Intel certainly thinks that less power hungry processors are the way to go in laptops, even at the expense of MHz. They are planning on phasing out any P4s in laptops. It would seem the size/battery life advantages of the iBook will be coming to an end.
Of Slashdot won't post a story on this settlement, either because (1) it's not news for nerds [and a Guardian story about irony is??], or (2) one of the dot-coms is VA Software.
If you read the article you might realize that this is not irony at all, just self-serving hypocrisy.
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So the US doesn't guarantee any vacation time and its workers take less vacation time per year compared to other countries... but what about legal holidays? There are quite a few legal holidays in the US, and a lot of people (not all) get most of those days off. Do other countries have more or less legal holidays? I mean if Japaneese workers take 7 more vacation days, but they get 10 less legal holidays... well you do the math. I'm not saying this is the case, just that these statistics are necesarry for proper analysis.
the release of new Xbox exploits that the researchers claim to have developed to run Linux on the console could have the side effect of allowing piracy without the need to install a mod chip
The original post stated that if you buy something then you should be able to do whatever you want to it. That could include a "harmless" install of Linux, but obviously it could also include mods that allow for pirated games to be played on the XBox. Microsoft makes no money by selling an XBox (it is a well documented fact that they lose money on it), they make money off the games. So clearly giving a carte blanche on mods to the XBox could indeed cost them a lot of money.
If you were hoping for a piece of hardware that you would be able to do "what you like with it" then you should not have bought an XBox. With your logic, then buying a DSS and modding it so you don't have to pay for any channels is also ok.
Wow, this is such an elitist/arrogant/I'm-smarter-than-you/my-shit-don' t-smell post, even by Slashdot standards. This sounds like the kind of stuff that high schoolers or college freshmen say after a riveting philosophy class.
I want government to provide a basic minimum of services
but I thought you said...
I demand nothing of my government except that it mind it's own business
but the truth comes out...
I want my participation to be voluntary so that I can put the forcibly removed 15-20% of my paycheck
So the true reason behind your elitism, other than arrogance, is greed.
I think I speak for a lot of slashdotters
Stick to speaking for yourself please.
Until most people understand at a gut-level that government is the atomic-bomb of social engineering
That's right, everybody needs to be as smart as you right?
I think you'd be interested in an active government if somebody was trying to rob your house.
Or blow up your office building.
Or hack your bank account.
Or if you didn't have any freeways to drive on to get to work.
Or if your house was flooded.
Or if you lost your job and for some reason nobody seemed to realize how smart you were and give you a new one.
Or if you were a scientist and wanted to research something completely impractical.
Or if you had a smart child but couldn't afford to send them to college (where maybe they could become as smart as you).
By trivializing what the government is responsible for, you show your own ignorance (despite the fact that you are clearly smarter than "the masses.") I'm not defending any characteristic of the American government, but before you propose a solution, make sure you understand the problem.
Wi-Fi reminds me of P2P and Linux. Great technologies that "Wall Street" (i.e. the business world) ooohed and aaahed over for a while, then realized there was no way to make that much money off of it. There is no special "wi-fi" connection for ISPs to sell for high rates to consumers. The equipment has become dirt cheap. Sure T-Mobile is charging for hotspot access, but even that is proving tricky (the Starbucks near my old office had big problems when people realized that the random "laptop cafe" next to it was not charging for wi-fi.) Maybe Intel can make a few bucks with Centrino, but its the processors that are the stars of that technology, not the built in wi-fi (as the tv ads suggest.)
So now that the business world realizes that wi-fi is becoming ubiquitous, yet nobody is making much money off of it, the pundits will start coming out of the wordwork. Microsoft (which in all fairness helped usher in wi-fi by building in controls for it in Win XP) will probably try to add more "security" for it so that "the corporate world feels more comfortable with it" and to prevent "wi-fi piracy" but by the time they get around to this (Longhorn?), it will be way too late.
Now if only I could get my Belkin card to work on Linux...
But I am excited about the G5, but I think Apple's "questionable" tactics have brought a lot of unfavorable press that more honesty would have avoided. Personally I think being within 10% - 15% of the top end PC would have been fine.
Alternatively unfavorable press could have been avoided by a.) not doing in SPEC benchmarks at all or b.) being LESS honest about the tests run (see NVidia, et. al.) I agree though that being within 10-15% of top of the line Intel chips is more than sufficient. Apple couldn't say much when it came to spec comparison with the G4. Now they can with the G5.
It's interesting to compare these concerns by thse artists, and look at how Metallica is ahead of the curve. "St. Anger" is 75 minutes long, but only 11 songs. Not exactly something that is fit for being chopped up song by song. It also includes a DVD of the songs behing rehearsed, and a password to Metallica's site where one can download dozens of live songs. Say what you wil about their music or their anti-piracy stance, but they certainly have gone out of the way to give more "bang for the buck" and more reason to buy the CD instead of obtaining it through some other method.
My 9 yr. old niece once told me she was using "Goog-lee" to lookup something for a report she was writing for school. I was so proud of her, it almost brought me to tears.
I don't know about stereotypes, but I know five Mormons, and four of the five think drinking a caffeinated beverage is a sin. All five desire holy undergarments. I keep trying to bring up the planets with them, but wind up laughing too hard to do it.
This would not be the first time that Caltech has taken an innovation and turned it into a big time money maker. DNA Sequencing made a lot of money for Caltech, though not without some controversies.
The latest and greatest InDesign may get a better review on CNET, but in terms of real world use, Quark is still king, at least in the print magazine world. My company receives content from hundreds of magazines, and while we do receive an occasional PDF (which might have been converted from an InDesign file, though not necesarrily), we gets tons of Quark files. There are a lot of huge magazine publishers all running Quark on Mac OS 8 or 9.
Honestly, I don't know what I'd do with a dual 2GHz G4 at the moment.
Yeah you are right, there's really no need for faster Macs, or for that matter, faster PCs. Someone should send a memo to the CEOs of Intel, AMD, IBM, Motorola, Sun, etc. saying "Stop wasting all that R&D on processor design, your chips are already too fast."
Apple has typically been able to bank on a regular upgrade cycle among its traditional user base in the publishing and graphic-arts industries. But so far that cycle hasn't materialized this year, and sales of Apple systems could be best described as underwhelming.
So Power Mac sales have sucked. The most obvious reason why is that who wants to plop down $2500 on a workstation that features a processor that lags far behind Intel's processors in terms of application performance, and has reached the end of its lifecycle?
I had been using my iBook and my WinXP laptop from work on my Airport driven home network. I also have a desktop dual booting WinXP and RH8 (now 9.) I picked up a new Belkin 802.11b PCI card on eBay one day and went completely sans wires. I then had a monumental struggle trying to get this to work in Linux, only to give up. That was a couple of months ago and I haven't booted in Linux since.
What is really needed is a definitive how-to website sponsored by a major distro. I've dealt with crazy video card driver and USB device driver issues before in Linux, but nothing was as fucked up as wireless. I had a hell of a time just finding out what chipset my card was using and then trying to find drivers for it. The built in GUI in RH was useless for me.
Of course if there's anybody out there that has had success with this card, ummmm....
You misunderstand the system. The db using InnoDB tables is the one being updated directly, so its data is never stale. This is the only place where we need ACID transactions and need up-to-date data, and we have both of those things. We use copies of this db, loaded into RAM for our webservers. That's a read-only environment that can be up to 24 hours out of date, but must be able very scalable and very fast.
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Yeah all these technology are over-priced. People need to stop putting money in them and put it into safer things like tobacco for example. Maybe then I could lose my job again.
Google comes from Googol which is 10^100. A Googolplex 10^Googol.
Google does not need for the IPO market to improve much. In fact, it hasn't been that bad this year at all. With such a strong name, they could easily raise over 1 billion from an IPO. Further, Sergey says they have no plans to go IPO anytime soon.
Overture was yet another product of the IdeaLab hi-tech incubator. Based in Pasadena, they recruited heavily from Caltech. They're technology is not for crawling pages, but instead for auctioning off keywords plus the innovative pay-per-click agreements.
I agree that the iBook is a great laptop -- I've had mine for 2 years now. But that doesn't mean you should discount the competition so quickly.
Firt of all, the Centrino is a processor (the Pentium M) + built in wireless card. It's not a laptop. That would be like calling the G3 a laptop. Lots of different companies make P-M/Centrino based laptops. The Centrino compares favorably with the P4 in terms of performance, while consuming remarkably little power. As Apple themselves will admit , a single P4 compares pretty good to the new G5. So it would seem crazy to think that a G3 can compare at all to a P-M in terms of performance. It also compares well in terms of battery life.
Centrino is one of Intel's most remarkable accomplishments. It's a processor specially designed for laptops. It would be very hard for Apple to have such a processor, since who could they get to do the R&D for it?
As I mentioned earlier, dozens of different companies make Centrino based laptops. The overall quality varies quite a bit. More often than not, the quality is well below anything Apple would make. But sometimes it is not. Be careful when making blanket statements. If you want to see a really nice Centrino check out IBM's ThinkPad X31. It's 1.19" thick, 3.6 lbs., gets 4.5 hrs of battery life, and while not the fastest Centrino, is plenty fast compared to a G3.
Finally, it's hard to imagine that a whole lot more performance is going to be squeezed out of the G3. The G4 only got up to 1.42 GHz, so it's hard to expect the G3 to get over that.
When talking about Apple v. Wintel, let's not forget Centrino. Intel certainly thinks that less power hungry processors are the way to go in laptops, even at the expense of MHz. They are planning on phasing out any P4s in laptops. It would seem the size/battery life advantages of the iBook will be coming to an end.
Of Slashdot won't post a story on this settlement, either because (1) it's not news for nerds [and a Guardian story about irony is??], or (2) one of the dot-coms is VA Software.
If you read the article you might realize that this is not irony at all, just self-serving hypocrisy.
So the US doesn't guarantee any vacation time and its workers take less vacation time per year compared to other countries ... but what about legal holidays? There are quite a few legal holidays in the US, and a lot of people (not all) get most of those days off. Do other countries have more or less legal holidays? I mean if Japaneese workers take 7 more vacation days, but they get 10 less legal holidays ... well you do the math. I'm not saying this is the case, just that these statistics are necesarry for proper analysis.
If you were hoping for a piece of hardware that you would be able to do "what you like with it" then you should not have bought an XBox. With your logic, then buying a DSS and modding it so you don't have to pay for any channels is also ok.
but I thought you said
That's right, everybody needs to be as smart as you right?
I think you'd be interested in an active government if somebody was trying to rob your house.
Or blow up your office building.
Or hack your bank account.
Or if you didn't have any freeways to drive on to get to work.
Or if your house was flooded.
Or if you lost your job and for some reason nobody seemed to realize how smart you were and give you a new one.
Or if you were a scientist and wanted to research something completely impractical.
Or if you had a smart child but couldn't afford to send them to college (where maybe they could become as smart as you).
By trivializing what the government is responsible for, you show your own ignorance (despite the fact that you are clearly smarter than "the masses.") I'm not defending any characteristic of the American government, but before you propose a solution, make sure you understand the problem.
Wi-Fi reminds me of P2P and Linux. Great technologies that "Wall Street" (i.e. the business world) ooohed and aaahed over for a while, then realized there was no way to make that much money off of it. There is no special "wi-fi" connection for ISPs to sell for high rates to consumers. The equipment has become dirt cheap. Sure T-Mobile is charging for hotspot access, but even that is proving tricky (the Starbucks near my old office had big problems when people realized that the random "laptop cafe" next to it was not charging for wi-fi.) Maybe Intel can make a few bucks with Centrino, but its the processors that are the stars of that technology, not the built in wi-fi (as the tv ads suggest.)
So now that the business world realizes that wi-fi is becoming ubiquitous, yet nobody is making much money off of it, the pundits will start coming out of the wordwork. Microsoft (which in all fairness helped usher in wi-fi by building in controls for it in Win XP) will probably try to add more "security" for it so that "the corporate world feels more comfortable with it" and to prevent "wi-fi piracy" but by the time they get around to this (Longhorn?), it will be way too late.
Now if only I could get my Belkin card to work on Linux...
Alternatively unfavorable press could have been avoided by a.) not doing in SPEC benchmarks at all or b.) being LESS honest about the tests run (see NVidia, et. al.) I agree though that being within 10-15% of top of the line Intel chips is more than sufficient. Apple couldn't say much when it came to spec comparison with the G4. Now they can with the G5.
It's interesting to compare these concerns by thse artists, and look at how Metallica is ahead of the curve. "St. Anger" is 75 minutes long, but only 11 songs. Not exactly something that is fit for being chopped up song by song. It also includes a DVD of the songs behing rehearsed, and a password to Metallica's site where one can download dozens of live songs. Say what you wil about their music or their anti-piracy stance, but they certainly have gone out of the way to give more "bang for the buck" and more reason to buy the CD instead of obtaining it through some other method.
My 9 yr. old niece once told me she was using "Goog-lee" to lookup something for a report she was writing for school. I was so proud of her, it almost brought me to tears.
I don't know about stereotypes, but I know five Mormons, and four of the five think drinking a caffeinated beverage is a sin. All five desire holy undergarments. I keep trying to bring up the planets with them, but wind up laughing too hard to do it.
Mormons are generally no different from anyone else.
Yeah most people believe that drinking caffeine is a sin, that their underwear is holy, and that when they die, they will have their own planet.
If you're talking about the rolling blackouts in California, those were in Jan-Feb of 2001.
This would not be the first time that Caltech has taken an innovation and turned it into a big time money maker. DNA Sequencing made a lot of money for Caltech, though not without some controversies.
The latest and greatest InDesign may get a better review on CNET, but in terms of real world use, Quark is still king, at least in the print magazine world. My company receives content from hundreds of magazines, and while we do receive an occasional PDF (which might have been converted from an InDesign file, though not necesarrily), we gets tons of Quark files. There are a lot of huge magazine publishers all running Quark on Mac OS 8 or 9.
From this article off of Forbes :
So Power Mac sales have sucked. The most obvious reason why is that who wants to plop down $2500 on a workstation that features a processor that lags far behind Intel's processors in terms of application performance, and has reached the end of its lifecycle?
I had been using my iBook and my WinXP laptop from work on my Airport driven home network. I also have a desktop dual booting WinXP and RH8 (now 9.) I picked up a new Belkin 802.11b PCI card on eBay one day and went completely sans wires. I then had a monumental struggle trying to get this to work in Linux, only to give up. That was a couple of months ago and I haven't booted in Linux since.
What is really needed is a definitive how-to website sponsored by a major distro. I've dealt with crazy video card driver and USB device driver issues before in Linux, but nothing was as fucked up as wireless. I had a hell of a time just finding out what chipset my card was using and then trying to find drivers for it. The built in GUI in RH was useless for me.
Of course if there's anybody out there that has had success with this card, ummmm....
You misunderstand the system. The db using InnoDB tables is the one being updated directly, so its data is never stale. This is the only place where we need ACID transactions and need up-to-date data, and we have both of those things. We use copies of this db, loaded into RAM for our webservers. That's a read-only environment that can be up to 24 hours out of date, but must be able very scalable and very fast.