Obviously Moore's law is fuelling some of this, but it is not the only reason. Second Moore's law is about integration as well as performance. The former is much more disruptive than the latter.
You want a company with VERY shallow pockets and when they hopefully loses the case at the trial level, You want to buy the right for appeal from them for peanuts. INclude a few insignificant errors as reason for appeal, and thereby making sure the ruling will be confirmed. Then ask the supreme court to look at this and get denied.
Presto, it is now current law until thrown in doubt by another case that GPL lost. At which point we have two competing interpretations.
The yield of most AMD processors is in the high 90%, some even at 98%. If you double the reject it only makes the yeas go down a few percentage points, and may add a few dollars to the cost.
Remember that 70% of cost is depreciation of Front end that takes place regardless of slice start.
Key for AMD and any other SC makes is to keep the FE loaded, Yield is a distant second.
And get a computer with RH preinstalled for under $300 to learn on.
"Sam's Club, the members-only branch of retail giant Wal-Mart, has entered the budget PC race with a $299 system running Red Hat's version of the Linux operating system.
I think we should give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here.
No you only do this the first few times, then you switch.
Humans has a very finely tuned sense of fairness and accurately evaluating likelihood of veracity is fundamental to our survival. Leave the presumption of innocence to the courts, in life it will not serve you well.
For instance, due to the sheer volume of overflow traffic, some outfits running Linux-based systems in the same data centers as Slammer-infected machines also lost access to their non-Microsoft systems,
This is like stating the folks at a ballgame that bought popcorn, instead of the Hotdogs everyone got food poison from were affected as well due to restroom crowding. Shesh
it's harder for Intel to easily communicate/quantify architecture gains (vs simple clock increases) vs the "relative performance" rating that AMD uses.
Good point read the article Intel hoist by Centrino megahurts petard stating how the new mobile processor Banias is running up to 1Ghz slower for same performance as the P4. Now how are they going to "Market" that thingy?
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Given Intel's extreme assault on AMD's model number system, it'll be quite interesting to see how the company positions its new "Centrino" (Banias) line of processors.
These CPUs will be released at a much lower set of frequencies then the current P4 crop of notebooks, even as much as a GHz lower. All of a sudden, Intel is in a bit of a tough spot -- will consumers want to adopt a notebook running so much slower than what appear to be competitive P4-M notebooks running even faster?
Sorry, but I think you have to get over it or stay with windows. (Bear in mind I am talking about Desktop not Server / Mission critical stuff) Looks like Compaq is getting with the "program" of quick upgrade cycle. This needs to continue and commercial SW vendors needs to incorporate this in their offering.
There was a very interesting Keynote a few days ago (can't remember by whom) the point the guy was making was that 85% of IT expenses was spend for keeping the "Status quo" only 15% was spend on development. This celarly needs to change and one way to do this is thru program like RH's steeper improvement rate.
The only way Linux can dethrone MS Windows is through an improvement trajectory much steeper than windows. Doing what RH proposes actually plays straight into this. Second Linux on the desktop needs to play to its own strength one of which is not being held back by "legacy" issues.
Thirdly by having such an aggressive EOL policy is will force a much smoother upgrade process, being it via physical media or Internet upgrades.
Why should RH commit themselves to be held back whenits clearly not in their own interst, not the interest of the "desktop" users, Incl. Jane Sixpack.
If you want a good look a the future of the music industry look at the Band .
These guys sell most of their music directly but have signed up with smaller labels in various countries, so they have a minimal Brick and Mortar presence. You can download a fair amount of shortend mp3's of their music, and most importantly they have decided to use DVD as the medium of choice / distribution, so you get the whole experience in addition to the music.
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Obviously Moore's law is fuelling some of this, but it is not the only reason. Second Moore's law is about integration as well as performance. The former is much more disruptive than the latter.
WTF, IMHO a common HIG would be great Fewer acronyms would be a good start.
You want a company with VERY shallow pockets and when they hopefully loses the case at the trial level, You want to buy the right for appeal from them for peanuts. INclude a few insignificant errors as reason for appeal, and thereby making sure the ruling will be confirmed. Then ask the supreme court to look at this and get denied.
Presto, it is now current law until thrown in doubt by another case that GPL lost. At which point we have two competing interpretations.
Remember that 70% of cost is depreciation of Front end that takes place regardless of slice start.
Key for AMD and any other SC makes is to keep the FE loaded, Yield is a distant second.
The uneducated guy that send this story in, need to know that was instrumental in taking Chaos theory from an obscure science in Santa Fe into something that almost every scientific discipline benefits from. Incl CS. .
It was the religious crap that didn't hold muster vis a vis the constitution. As it should.
Pledging allegience to a National entity is assinine.
Wish we could get some information on how many of those things they do sell. Must be doing fairly ok since they continue to expand the Linux offering.
"Sam's Club, the members-only branch of retail giant Wal-Mart, has entered the budget PC race with a $299 system running Red Hat's version of the Linux operating system.
I wasn't quite sure if he was joking or not. I guess I could have looked at what else he had posted to get a feel, anyway. Glad he was.
No you only do this the first few times, then you switch.
Humans has a very finely tuned sense of fairness and accurately evaluating likelihood of veracity is fundamental to our survival. Leave the presumption of innocence to the courts, in life it will not serve you well.
Answer: A Fish
Socom for PS2 I guess is doing Ok but only because Socom is good not so much for the Online aspect.
Sega is a public traded company and as such they can not have a secret deal with Microsoft. At least in theory,... Enron, Cough Cough
This is like stating the folks at a ballgame that bought popcorn, instead of the Hotdogs everyone got food poison from were affected as well due to restroom crowding. Shesh
This argument hardly applies here. It was SQL server that was the culpit. FYI, SQL server is a distant 3'rd in the market after Oracle and DB2.
Ever heard of Closed Caption TV? Nuff said
If you use this as yardstick you will end up with Xbox topping the list.
Good point read the article Intel hoist by Centrino megahurts petard stating how the new mobile processor Banias is running up to 1Ghz slower for same performance as the P4. Now how are they going to "Market" that thingy?
Quote from Article:
Given Intel's extreme assault on AMD's model number system, it'll be quite interesting to see how the company positions its new "Centrino" (Banias) line of processors. These CPUs will be released at a much lower set of frequencies then the current P4 crop of notebooks, even as much as a GHz lower. All of a sudden, Intel is in a bit of a tough spot -- will consumers want to adopt a notebook running so much slower than what appear to be competitive P4-M notebooks running even faster?
I suspect the extra F in Ffrance is a Freudian slip.
Worth a read, here is a Working Link
Sorry, but I think you have to get over it or stay with windows. (Bear in mind I am talking about Desktop not Server / Mission critical stuff) Looks like Compaq is getting with the "program" of quick upgrade cycle. This needs to continue and commercial SW vendors needs to incorporate this in their offering.
There was a very interesting Keynote a few days ago (can't remember by whom) the point the guy was making was that 85% of IT expenses was spend for keeping the "Status quo" only 15% was spend on development. This celarly needs to change and one way to do this is thru program like RH's steeper improvement rate.
Thirdly by having such an aggressive EOL policy is will force a much smoother upgrade process, being it via physical media or Internet upgrades.
Why should RH commit themselves to be held back whenits clearly not in their own interst, not the interest of the "desktop" users, Incl. Jane Sixpack.
So what are you doing currently. What "cheaper" alternatives are available?
Sorry the link to Nightwish disappeared. Look here Nightwish
These guys sell most of their music directly but have signed up with smaller labels in various countries, so they have a minimal Brick and Mortar presence. You can download a fair amount of shortend mp3's of their music, and most importantly they have decided to use DVD as the medium of choice / distribution, so you get the whole experience in addition to the music.