Actually MS fraud would be more like their statement that their OSDN kits contain the complete Win32 API and that there are no secret API calls reserved for MS developers. That's an actual material fraud made over the course of several years and has changed the course of computing.
A lot of people believed in that promise and it gave MS the largest ISV community on the planet. And it was all built on a lie, one that MS now claims it never made.
What completely blows me away is that all the anti-MS people can't get their act together enough to document it and bring a class-action lawsuit based on it.
Certainly God doesn't look with favor on liars and cheats but I think it's a bit of dereliction of our duty to him to not take action to correct the evils we can.
Is that sort of like the Macintosh being a less powerful version of the Xerox Snap system? How many snaps have you seen? I've only seen one (Voice of America used the system, maybe they still do). There are certain price points where you get quantum jumps in acceptance. Microsoft is starting to hit a nasty one for them with low end PCs no longer being able to afford the MS tax, IBM is trying for a Power4 sweet spot to sell their chips in volume.
Re:Why go from 32 to 64? Why not jump to 128?
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I've seen theoretical arguments for this. As bandwidth in the computer widens a lot of problems that currently are done with an eye towards efficiency can be solved using simple, inelegant brute force techniques. The problem really is that there aren't enough savings to justify the massive extra expense of retooling everything else. After all you wouldn't shoehorn that 128 bit processor into a dinky memory system that would result in a mostly idle processor, now would you? It's all the other components that need to be updated before it becomes practical to take the next step.
No, no, these would be Appleseed clusters. Though, I do imagine that eventually you might be able to create an Appleseed of Beowulf clusters...
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Yeah, because everybody knows that IBM doesn't have the money to retaliate. [giggle] The market caps on these companies are about the same. If you're going to play 'steal the employee' it's always wise to play that game with a much smaller company.
Somehow I doubt that IBM is going to withhold their processor from other customers. Apple doesn't have the kind of money to get exclusivity. Others buy PPC today. I expect that to continue.
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My bet is that it's either it's reverse engineered or it's licensed, not that it's a variant. Apple isn't likely to want a variant different enough that Motorola's lawyers could claim infringement.
Who'd a thunk it, we've arrived at a day when IBM is the reverse engineering firm!
Actually, the PPC has usually run much cooler than the equivalent Intel and AMD chips. It's what lets Apple get away with some of the case design decisions they make. It also is going to be a plus for them as they get more into the server market. Lower monthly cooling bills is a significant recurring savings.
Since contrails dissipate after a short while and planes fly more during the daytime than during nightime wouldn't the reflective effect tend to be stronger than the retentive effect?
Would it have been as funny to say visit the tanning salon, you don't want your [insert appliance here] to call you a thief come February. Changing skin appearance goes one of two ways from dark to light or light to dark. For the slashdot crowd though, I'd guess that the normal average appearance is pretty untanned.
In a world where the biologists are working in creting organs this is not a long term reliable method. Just splice into the data stream of some entryway using this system (you can probably set up your own) and then calculate how to make an object provide the same reflectivity characteristics. Once you create the fake, voila the method is defeated.
Which is why the smarts on TVs need to be separated from the display. Can you imagine if there was an open interface that display manufacturers put between their expensive screens and the el-cheapo logic board that drove it all? Then even *if* the TVs shipped with logic that permitted 'killing the firewire port' you could take replace the $50 dollar board in your $600 TV and take that right away...
Oh, you mean that channels would have to rework their business plans and actually provide relevant, differentiated content instead of being just one more clone using the same boring business models and buying content out of the same catalogs?
Even better, we might find more compelling sources of entertainment than TV or movies entirely. The one thing the media conglomerate stockholders won't stand is a massive reduction in corporate income combined with a crashing stock price.
This of course brings up the question of whether the general purpose computer promotes the advance of the arts and sciences and since it obviously does, how can any law neutering it to the point of prohibition possibly be consitutional?
Look for a 2 year window where old, indie, and foreign content dominates until the studio's share prices fall enough that the boneheaded management gets bounced and more realistic management replaces them.
Nobody's going to die from watching Gerard Depardieu a little more often but Sony management is likely not to survive such a spectacular example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Actually, there were certain early attempts to do just that, specifically with differential speed limit laws. I read about a municipal law limiting horses to 5mph and cars to 3mph was overturned when a car entrepreneur invited the mayor for a ride and a beer wagon driver sped past them and insulted them in graphic terms (pre-arranged by the entrepreneur, naturally). When the mayor wanted to catch up and tear the driver a new one, the entrepreneur reminded the mayor of the differential speed limit and wouldn't do it. The speed limit fell quite quickly after that.
Congress does represent all the people which is why Jack Valenti is entitled to petition for a redress of grievances (1st amendment) but since Congress is limited by the Constitution, it can only take action with regards to copyright and patent that promotes the progress of the arts and sciences. I think it's growing increasingly obvious that promoting the progress of the arts and sciences is not what Jack Valenti and his puppet masters want so in that case, Congress should show them the door and not satisfy their unconstituional desires.
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Actually MS fraud would be more like their statement that their OSDN kits contain the complete Win32 API and that there are no secret API calls reserved for MS developers. That's an actual material fraud made over the course of several years and has changed the course of computing.
A lot of people believed in that promise and it gave MS the largest ISV community on the planet. And it was all built on a lie, one that MS now claims it never made.
What completely blows me away is that all the anti-MS people can't get their act together enough to document it and bring a class-action lawsuit based on it.
Certainly God doesn't look with favor on liars and cheats but I think it's a bit of dereliction of our duty to him to not take action to correct the evils we can.
They could always put it in a black cube. How much industrial design is needed for that?
For the uninitiated, IBM favors black, blocky systems and the NEXT computer company put out a model that was a black cube many years ago.
Is that sort of like the Macintosh being a less powerful version of the Xerox Snap system? How many snaps have you seen? I've only seen one (Voice of America used the system, maybe they still do). There are certain price points where you get quantum jumps in acceptance. Microsoft is starting to hit a nasty one for them with low end PCs no longer being able to afford the MS tax, IBM is trying for a Power4 sweet spot to sell their chips in volume.
I've seen theoretical arguments for this. As bandwidth in the computer widens a lot of problems that currently are done with an eye towards efficiency can be solved using simple, inelegant brute force techniques. The problem really is that there aren't enough savings to justify the massive extra expense of retooling everything else. After all you wouldn't shoehorn that 128 bit processor into a dinky memory system that would result in a mostly idle processor, now would you? It's all the other components that need to be updated before it becomes practical to take the next step.
No, no, these would be Appleseed clusters. Though, I do imagine that eventually you might be able to create an Appleseed of Beowulf clusters...
B-)
Yeah, because everybody knows that IBM doesn't have the money to retaliate.
[giggle]
The market caps on these companies are about the same. If you're going to play 'steal the employee' it's always wise to play that game with a much smaller company.
Somehow I doubt that IBM is going to withhold their processor from other customers. Apple doesn't have the kind of money to get exclusivity. Others buy PPC today. I expect that to continue.
My bet is that it's either it's reverse engineered or it's licensed, not that it's a variant. Apple isn't likely to want a variant different enough that Motorola's lawyers could claim infringement.
Who'd a thunk it, we've arrived at a day when IBM is the reverse engineering firm!
Actually, the PPC has usually run much cooler than the equivalent Intel and AMD chips. It's what lets Apple get away with some of the case design decisions they make. It also is going to be a plus for them as they get more into the server market. Lower monthly cooling bills is a significant recurring savings.
Since contrails dissipate after a short while and planes fly more during the daytime than during nightime wouldn't the reflective effect tend to be stronger than the retentive effect?
If I understood the article correctly, jet contrails, locally counteract global warming, shifting the temperature down 1.8 degrees centigrade.
I guess I should tell those airport expansion opponents they're ruining the local microclimate...
Would it have been as funny to say visit the tanning salon, you don't want your [insert appliance here] to call you a thief come February. Changing skin appearance goes one of two ways from dark to light or light to dark. For the slashdot crowd though, I'd guess that the normal average appearance is pretty untanned.
In a world where the biologists are working in creting organs this is not a long term reliable method. Just splice into the data stream of some entryway using this system (you can probably set up your own) and then calculate how to make an object provide the same reflectivity characteristics. Once you create the fake, voila the method is defeated.
Which is why the smarts on TVs need to be separated from the display. Can you imagine if there was an open interface that display manufacturers put between their expensive screens and the el-cheapo logic board that drove it all? Then even *if* the TVs shipped with logic that permitted 'killing the firewire port' you could take replace the $50 dollar board in your $600 TV and take that right away...
Oh, you mean that channels would have to rework their business plans and actually provide relevant, differentiated content instead of being just one more clone using the same boring business models and buying content out of the same catalogs?
I thought they already do that with royalties on blank media.
Even better, we might find more compelling sources of entertainment than TV or movies entirely. The one thing the media conglomerate stockholders won't stand is a massive reduction in corporate income combined with a crashing stock price.
The betamax case established that, within limits, you have the legal right to make a copy of a broadcast and view it later or view it elsewhere.
This of course brings up the question of whether the general purpose computer promotes the advance of the arts and sciences and since it obviously does, how can any law neutering it to the point of prohibition possibly be consitutional?
Want to bet that the MPAA will still want to disable the firewire port anyway?
Look for a 2 year window where old, indie, and foreign content dominates until the studio's share prices fall enough that the boneheaded management gets bounced and more realistic management replaces them.
Nobody's going to die from watching Gerard Depardieu a little more often but Sony management is likely not to survive such a spectacular example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Actually, there were certain early attempts to do just that, specifically with differential speed limit laws. I read about a municipal law limiting horses to 5mph and cars to 3mph was overturned when a car entrepreneur invited the mayor for a ride and a beer wagon driver sped past them and insulted them in graphic terms (pre-arranged by the entrepreneur, naturally). When the mayor wanted to catch up and tear the driver a new one, the entrepreneur reminded the mayor of the differential speed limit and wouldn't do it. The speed limit fell quite quickly after that.
Congress does represent all the people which is why Jack Valenti is entitled to petition for a redress of grievances (1st amendment) but since Congress is limited by the Constitution, it can only take action with regards to copyright and patent that promotes the progress of the arts and sciences. I think it's growing increasingly obvious that promoting the progress of the arts and sciences is not what Jack Valenti and his puppet masters want so in that case, Congress should show them the door and not satisfy their unconstituional desires.
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