Has there been a leap forward in compiler technology to make the trade off of going from out of order to in order execution? (ignoring the more obvious gain of not having to implement out of order in silicon) I just think back to VLIW and EPIC machines as a shining example of how overhyped compiler technology has been in the past. Somehow I don't see how moving to an in-order processor somehow requires something new of a compiler that hasn't been around for a long time now.
I don't think Apple could put the headphone jack on the bottom of the unit (like the Touch) because of the electrical interference from the antenna. This is just a guess - look at all the old iPod accessories that aren't shielded properly. Notice whenever you plug your phone into one of those devices it asks you if you want to turn the phone signal off or not. The Touch has it's WiFi antenna on the top of the unit, so the jack can sit flush on the bottom next to the dock connector. Moving the jack south on the iPhone, would require the antenna to move to the top of the unit - maybe this wasn't possible.
If you believe it Windows Mobile has 25% market share, which, in my mind, means that they don't have a monopoly and can implement almost anything they want to, because there are... wait for it... CHOICES in the mobile OS arena.
I don't believe the DVD will be around as long as you think it will. The one problem with introducing another music format, is that you can't improve on the audio quality of a CD. It's at the highest human-detectable sampling rate! Whereas, people can definitely see the difference in resolution between Blu-Ray and DVD.
plus in 2 years, when walmart is selling a $50 Blu-Ray player. Are you really going to still buy DVDs? Even if you have an old TV?
anyone trying to break into the x86 market has to have a niche to succeed..
cyrix/IDT/via - cheap procs, now trying to push micro form factors. amd - cheap procs (at first), then it moved to decent procs at a discount, and then they made a good chip with low power that translated to server sales and decent desktop performance. transmeta - low power laptop chips
intel is still smart enough to know what markets are dangerous and how to respond. Transmeta's strategy was flawed from the beginning because it was easy enough to see power savings from implementing speedstep technology. Intel responded well to the assault on their server margins from AMD. And right now there's no margins for micro form factors, and some of the most popular micro form factors (mac mini and shuttle type PC's) run on laptop chips or such from intel anyways.
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It's a basic business cycle here.
large company make billions of dollars, sits on it's laurels. Young upstart company makes a decent product and begins to eat at the large company's business. In this case, intel was nimble and humble enough to realize how to respond to that (make lower power chips and adopt x86-64 from AMD) So now, AMD is back to being a scrappy company. Just wait until Intel makes another bazillion and sits on it's laurels again. AMD (or someone) will come to push Intel again.
(The major difference now however, is that fabs are freakin' expensive and AMD might not have enough capital to keep upgrading fabs, which will run them out of business.)
when you piece it together 3 days before the keynote because of the very posters that Apple themselves put up for everyone to see. Come back to me, when you figure out something 3 months in advance of a keynote. That'll be something.
The release of the specs doesn't improve the physical bit rot of the data/media itself - which is the main definition of bit rot. Of course, I guess wikipedia does support your definition too. I just wanted to be clear that there are other challenges beside keeping the specifications/software reader around.
If only someone would bring back the old butterfly keyboard of the Thinkpad 701...
Yeah. that was a cool keyboard. But the reason for implementing it was that laptops back in the day had the old 4:3 aspect ratio. this meant that laptops were more square and didn't have enough width to fit a keyboard. Or if it did, the screen would be very large, and a lot of space would be wasted with the handrest area.
Today, the problem is solved simply by having widescreen LCD's which do provide enough space for the full laptop keyboard.
The ironic thing, is that there are probably better drugs out that have less side effects. Of course, they are probably quite easily detectable, so nobody has any experience with those drugs. Whereas there's a wealth of knowledge and experience about all the drugs that are undetectable...
I'll admit up front I'm not one of these technology pundits that make endless speculation but something occurs to me. In the big picture doesn't the future of social networking truly depend on the interopability of these social networks? And if so, wouldn't the player that steps up and comes up with a method to bring interop between social networks and then effectively control that method (heck they don't even have to make it proprietary just control the protocol) will be the one you want a stake in if you're yahoo/google/ms?
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It would be nice to have interoperability, but it's a pipe dream. Most of the old school social networking sites, mySpace, Friendster are closed systems - and therefore technically and politically closed to whoever wants access to your social network information.
Facebook realized that it would be a flash in the pan also, if it kept to the old closed system model, which is why they opened up their network to developers. Facebook is attempting to be the last social network that you'll ever setup and then, bring applications that leverage your social network to you. Why do you need LinkedIn for business connections, when someone can build a LinkedIn module for Facebook? Why would you move to another social networking site, spam all your friends with invites again, when it might be a ton easier to develop a Facebook application that does the same thing?
The large gamble, is that Facebook will somehow not lose control of their own network, and be able to make money off of some third party application's success.
I don't think there's a retail Intel version of Tiger out. After all, why does there need to be. EVERY Intel Mac has shipped with Tiger and Tiger install disc. So exactly who would buy a universal copy of Tiger?
Server might be a different issue tho since people like to upgrade.
Freak, the Apple Store has delisted Tiger. Man. That blows.
Of course, on sample point doesn't prove anything.
And I'll take a stab at the bias built into the test here. Did your wife know that you were working on your stereo system at all? Cause if she did, then of course, "something" changed and she expected to hear something different. And also, she expected the sound to be better, cause why would you want to do something to make your audio system sound worse? That's just a guess tho.
You're absolutely right. People have no idea what the markups are on items. I think people are just used to paying X for Y item, cause it's the norm.
If anyone has worked retail (I have) you understand that the stores mark up things generally 100% and the distributor/manufacturer/designer marks it up 100% from their cost to the shop. and the plant in China that makes the widget marks it up 100% to the designer. And they pay their workers about 1/2 of the money they get.
Tech items might be a bit more compressed in the stack, i think. Probably the biggest offender is clothing. I've seen 400% markups on clothes.
Apparently after the match, the Deep Blue team setup the chess software on just a regular RS6000 at the research lab in NY and anyone could just walk up to it and challenge it. I heard it never lost a match.
You tout form factors and you tout using a USB/Firewire drive. I think that if you care about both, having your iMac thin and sexy and having greater than 1 drive worth of storage, that you too would want an extra HD bay in your iMac. Who wants an ugly, external firewire drive sitting next to your computer with wires and power supplies dangling around? Not to mention FW800 enclosures being $$$.
Somehow I think they would have plenty of space, at least on the 24" model, to support an extra drive bay, without a great increase in iMac thickness, or cost. Plus, do you really care that much if your desktop is 0.5 inches thicker?
Also, I see the preservation of all your digital stuff: photos, videos, music, documents, as being critical. You'll need redundant copies in order to rebuild corrupted data (a la ZFS), which requires 2 drives. Not to mention a backup system as well.
I have a wireless mighty mouse, and honestly, I'm disappointed in the right click performance. And yes I do lift off my left finger. Sometimes it doesn't work, and I end up clicking half a dozen times and end up just hitting Ctrl-click. I'm thinking about making it a one-button mouse again, cause it's annoying that it does right-click when I want it to.
You have to take Quake in the context of gaming at that point. It was still fun to just kill your friends online. And tactically, the 1-1 DM or 4-4 DM games are somewhat complex and did require a lot of "skill" to play. And that was the reward - You are better than another player. You win. How is that different than a lot of games or sports? Also Quake singlehandly brought us:
- Full 3d environment - Mods - Custom Mapping - OpenGL as a viable, marketable 3D standard over Direct3D (not terribly important to FPSes but a good market push against MS from Carmack)
I haven't played a lot of the current crop of FPSes but my guess is that FPS are stagnating. Even with a good plot, not many have strayed from this formula, which is the real reason people are bored with FPSes.
even if you didn't like the game, it's pretty influential in gaming history.
If Universal thinks that people will buy from another online source than iTunes, let them try. That's competition. EMI felt differently, and will win and grab a larger market share. Honestly I've never paid any attention to which labels musicians signed with before. But now it'll becoming blindingly obvious who's in what camp.
I'm not sure that they are being contradictory - at least to an extent. Throwing out all the fluft of religion, it boils down to belief in God. Who's to say that there's not someone out there that has laid down all the phsyical scientific law of the universe. Maybe he doesn't have total power over everything in the normal sense. But he could be there. In that respect science and religion aren't at odds.
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How about getting rid of one sim card and buying the international plan?
Has there been a leap forward in compiler technology to make the trade off of going from out of order to in order execution? (ignoring the more obvious gain of not having to implement out of order in silicon) I just think back to VLIW and EPIC machines as a shining example of how overhyped compiler technology has been in the past. Somehow I don't see how moving to an in-order processor somehow requires something new of a compiler that hasn't been around for a long time now.
someone in the know care to comment?
I don't think Apple could put the headphone jack on the bottom of the unit (like the Touch) because of the electrical interference from the antenna. This is just a guess - look at all the old iPod accessories that aren't shielded properly. Notice whenever you plug your phone into one of those devices it asks you if you want to turn the phone signal off or not. The Touch has it's WiFi antenna on the top of the unit, so the jack can sit flush on the bottom next to the dock connector. Moving the jack south on the iPhone, would require the antenna to move to the top of the unit - maybe this wasn't possible.
in the mobile space? Are you saying that Microsoft has a monopoly there?
... wait for it... CHOICES in the mobile OS arena.
Here's a a smartphone chart by OS that I found...
If you believe it Windows Mobile has 25% market share, which, in my mind, means that they don't have a monopoly and can implement almost anything they want to, because there are
I don't believe the DVD will be around as long as you think it will. The one problem with introducing another music format, is that you can't improve on the audio quality of a CD. It's at the highest human-detectable sampling rate! Whereas, people can definitely see the difference in resolution between Blu-Ray and DVD.
plus in 2 years, when walmart is selling a $50 Blu-Ray player. Are you really going to still buy DVDs? Even if you have an old TV?
anyone trying to break into the x86 market has to have a niche to succeed..
cyrix/IDT/via - cheap procs, now trying to push micro form factors.
amd - cheap procs (at first), then it moved to decent procs at a discount, and then they made a good chip with low power that translated to server sales and decent desktop performance.
transmeta - low power laptop chips
intel is still smart enough to know what markets are dangerous and how to respond. Transmeta's strategy was flawed from the beginning because it was easy enough to see power savings from implementing speedstep technology. Intel responded well to the assault on their server margins from AMD. And right now there's no margins for micro form factors, and some of the most popular micro form factors (mac mini and shuttle type PC's) run on laptop chips or such from intel anyways.
It's a basic business cycle here.
large company make billions of dollars, sits on it's laurels. Young upstart company makes a decent product and begins to eat at the large company's business. In this case, intel was nimble and humble enough to realize how to respond to that (make lower power chips and adopt x86-64 from AMD) So now, AMD is back to being a scrappy company. Just wait until Intel makes another bazillion and sits on it's laurels again. AMD (or someone) will come to push Intel again.
(The major difference now however, is that fabs are freakin' expensive and AMD might not have enough capital to keep upgrading fabs, which will run them out of business.)
when you piece it together 3 days before the keynote because of the very posters that Apple themselves put up for everyone to see. Come back to me, when you figure out something 3 months in advance of a keynote. That'll be something.
The release of the specs doesn't improve the physical bit rot of the data/media itself - which is the main definition of bit rot. Of course, I guess wikipedia does support your definition too. I just wanted to be clear that there are other challenges beside keeping the specifications/software reader around.
If only someone would bring back the old butterfly keyboard of the Thinkpad 701...
Yeah. that was a cool keyboard. But the reason for implementing it was that laptops back in the day had the old 4:3 aspect ratio. this meant that laptops were more square and didn't have enough width to fit a keyboard. Or if it did, the screen would be very large, and a lot of space would be wasted with the handrest area.
Today, the problem is solved simply by having widescreen LCD's which do provide enough space for the full laptop keyboard.
The ironic thing, is that there are probably better drugs out that have less side effects. Of course, they are probably quite easily detectable, so nobody has any experience with those drugs. Whereas there's a wealth of knowledge and experience about all the drugs that are undetectable...
I'll admit up front I'm not one of these technology pundits that make endless speculation but something occurs to me. In the big picture doesn't the future of social networking truly depend on the interopability of these social networks? And if so, wouldn't the player that steps up and comes up with a method to bring interop between social networks and then effectively control that method (heck they don't even have to make it proprietary just control the protocol) will be the one you want a stake in if you're yahoo/google/ms?
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It would be nice to have interoperability, but it's a pipe dream. Most of the old school social networking sites, mySpace, Friendster are closed systems - and therefore technically and politically closed to whoever wants access to your social network information.
Facebook realized that it would be a flash in the pan also, if it kept to the old closed system model, which is why they opened up their network to developers. Facebook is attempting to be the last social network that you'll ever setup and then, bring applications that leverage your social network to you. Why do you need LinkedIn for business connections, when someone can build a LinkedIn module for Facebook? Why would you move to another social networking site, spam all your friends with invites again, when it might be a ton easier to develop a Facebook application that does the same thing?
The large gamble, is that Facebook will somehow not lose control of their own network, and be able to make money off of some third party application's success.
I don't think there's a retail Intel version of Tiger out. After all, why does there need to be. EVERY Intel Mac has shipped with Tiger and Tiger install disc. So exactly who would buy a universal copy of Tiger?
Server might be a different issue tho since people like to upgrade.
Freak, the Apple Store has delisted Tiger. Man. That blows.
Of course, on sample point doesn't prove anything.
And I'll take a stab at the bias built into the test here. Did your wife know that you were working on your stereo system at all? Cause if she did, then of course, "something" changed and she expected to hear something different. And also, she expected the sound to be better, cause why would you want to do something to make your audio system sound worse? That's just a guess tho.
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You're absolutely right. People have no idea what the markups are on items. I think people are just used to paying X for Y item, cause it's the norm.
If anyone has worked retail (I have) you understand that the stores mark up things generally 100% and the distributor/manufacturer/designer marks it up 100% from their cost to the shop. and the plant in China that makes the widget marks it up 100% to the designer. And they pay their workers about 1/2 of the money they get.
Tech items might be a bit more compressed in the stack, i think. Probably the biggest offender is clothing. I've seen 400% markups on clothes.
How long did it take your friend to figure out what was happening with the 2 linksys networks? And I'm assuming he's changed the SSID now? :P
Do you work at the Paper Street Soap Company? I hear they make some wonderful soaps.
Apparently after the match, the Deep Blue team setup the chess software on just a regular RS6000 at the research lab in NY and anyone could just walk up to it and challenge it. I heard it never lost a match.
You tout form factors and you tout using a USB/Firewire drive. I think that if you care about both, having your iMac thin and sexy and having greater than 1 drive worth of storage, that you too would want an extra HD bay in your iMac. Who wants an ugly, external firewire drive sitting next to your computer with wires and power supplies dangling around? Not to mention FW800 enclosures being $$$.
Somehow I think they would have plenty of space, at least on the 24" model, to support an extra drive bay, without a great increase in iMac thickness, or cost. Plus, do you really care that much if your desktop is 0.5 inches thicker?
Also, I see the preservation of all your digital stuff: photos, videos, music, documents, as being critical. You'll need redundant copies in order to rebuild corrupted data (a la ZFS), which requires 2 drives. Not to mention a backup system as well.
Was it of particularly high quality to begin with? :P
I have a wireless mighty mouse, and honestly, I'm disappointed in the right click performance. And yes I do lift off my left finger. Sometimes it doesn't work, and I end up clicking half a dozen times and end up just hitting Ctrl-click. I'm thinking about making it a one-button mouse again, cause it's annoying that it does right-click when I want it to.
You have to take Quake in the context of gaming at that point. It was still fun to just kill your friends online. And tactically, the 1-1 DM or 4-4 DM games are somewhat complex and did require a lot of "skill" to play. And that was the reward - You are better than another player. You win. How is that different than a lot of games or sports?
Also Quake singlehandly brought us:
- Full 3d environment
- Mods
- Custom Mapping
- OpenGL as a viable, marketable 3D standard over Direct3D (not terribly important to FPSes but a good market push against MS from Carmack)
I haven't played a lot of the current crop of FPSes but my guess is that FPS are stagnating. Even with a good plot, not many have strayed from this formula, which is the real reason people are bored with FPSes.
even if you didn't like the game, it's pretty influential in gaming history.
Guess who wins? EMI.
If Universal thinks that people will buy from another online source than iTunes, let them try. That's competition. EMI felt differently, and will win and grab a larger market share. Honestly I've never paid any attention to which labels musicians signed with before. But now it'll becoming blindingly obvious who's in what camp.
I'm not sure that they are being contradictory - at least to an extent. Throwing out all the fluft of religion, it boils down to belief in God. Who's to say that there's not someone out there that has laid down all the phsyical scientific law of the universe. Maybe he doesn't have total power over everything in the normal sense. But he could be there. In that respect science and religion aren't at odds.
I wonder if you have the same zeal defending muslims when people call terrorists, "muslim terrorists".