Is cheaper for the entry config which is significantly beefier than the entry 720. Also keep in mind that there are even cheaper configs possible if you buy through a human salesperson at IBM or a dealer. Supposed entry price for these machines (I haven't seen the details but I assume it's like the entry 720, (only 512MB RAM, 1.5Ghz CPU and smaller disks) is US$3,000.
OK, IANAL but as I understand it yes, the burden of proof in libel cases in Canada is similar to the UK, not beacuse of inhereted common law but rather beacuse Canadian legistators wrote the libel laws that way.
And the difference in the burden of proof is one of the key issues here, the grandparent poster didn't get the specifics of it right though.
Again as I understand it, in the US it is a valid defense to claim that the accused libeller had no reason to beleive that their statements are not be true. Whereas in Canada (and the UK) the accused libeller must show that they had specific information to reasonably believe that the statements were true.
I know this is subtle but it's a critical difference.
The relevance in this case is that both the defendent AND the plaintiff were US residents at the time the libel took place. Although on the surface this smacks of shopping for the toughest libel laws. In reality there needs to be a defense against publishers sheilding themselves against libel by posting from places that have weak libel laws.
I haven't RTFA but I can't believe someone has appropriated "New Normal" for a business book title?
In these parts "New Normal" is code for new post 9/11 security procedures or more commonly the post SARs changes to hospitals and doctor's offices (restricted visitation, hand santizer everywhere and masks a plenty).
I think I'll write a business book and call it "Tsumani Cleanup"....
That's compaing apples and oranges, Websphere is NOT a http server like Apache or IIS (in fact if I'm remebering correctly it uses Apache as its http server) it is an application server, the closest analog in OSS would be Tomcat.
Itanium, upon which HP has been a partner with Intel, is a disaster. HP transferred its Precision Architecture (PA-RISC), the basis of Itanium, to Intel, transferred its silicon designers to Intel, shut down chip foundries that it had spent Billions to build. All of this was tied into their Itanium partnership with Intel, which HP thought would be producing the dominant microprocessor architecture. Now it is much more likely that Itanium will return no significant revenue to HP.
This was always a gamble. If Itanium had come in 7 years instead of 10+ and/or if this Intel, Digital settle lawsuit had worked out differently then Itanium might have been what HP and Intel had hoped it would be. A volume chip architecture not a niche market, and by volume I mean millions of units. No server chip (i.e. PA-RISC) will ever sell more than at most tens or hundreds of thousands. To move millions of units you need a family of chips, not just in computers but also as embedded in all kinds of consumer eletronics all sharing some level of common infrastrucutre even if that is not a lot more than chip fabrication. Intel has this and HP was hoping to ride on the coattails. After more than a decade of trying IBM is probably close as well (hence Cell and a bunch of other stuff flying a little lower under the radar). HP had to know they couldn't get there so teaming with Intel made some sense. They just failed to understand that it was doomed the day that DEC showed Intel a bunch of the Alpha technology and they decided to pinch it.
I think you can read IBM's attempted sale of its PC manufacturing division to a Chinese company as an indictment of the HP-Compaq merger strategy
It's much bigger than that, this isn't just about the "low end" becoming commoditized, it is also playing a bet on a pending market shift that drastically reduces the Windows PC's volumes sold as well as margins. IBM sees and understands that this is the beginning of the end of the Wintel PC as anything but pure consumer electronics like TV's and DVD players, with similar margins and markets. I don't think many people really get this yet, but I they are betting that the future human to network access device (and not too distant future) will be something that looks more like a TV with a game console (with an IBM processor in it) than a desktop PC, this is not a new idea by any stretch, people have been talking about "set top boxes" for 20+ years now, but this is the first time that a truly brt this big has been played on it.
Difference is once the initial euphoria wears off the poor suckers at HP will find little to comfort them. The company is still fundementally broken and there's no easy fix and while Carly drove home the nails with the Compaq merger the reality is the lid was already on and the nails started when she came along.
History repeats itself, when Digital was releasing Alpha, Alpha was the internal code name, the official name was going to be ARA, an acronymn for advanced risc architecure, IIRC, but shortly before the official launch someone pointed out that ara sounds like an arabic curse word (there were probably other issues but the curse word one was the predominant rumour inside the company) and they had to scramble to come up with a new name as Alpha alone was note trademarkable, they landed on AlphaAXP but eventually the AXP part got dropped.
Looking at the list of those being sued, I see IT people who should have known better.
These are not IT people, they are bankers, analysts and traders who "covered" the IT industry. Virtually by definition this means they do not know anything about technology themselves.
"Not a single toy I don't remember from my American youth"
Yah right, every wholesole American child played with the Test Match Cricket set, seemingly dozens of Dr. Who themed toys and an arcane tabletop version of footer.
OK I'll grant you some of the heavy hitters where there like Battling Tops but a North American version of this list would be at least 40% different.
What people seem to be missing here is that the judge has said that since the legislation doesn't cover MP3 players and therefore the levies do not apply, that in addition the additional rights to copy that these levies confer do not apply.
It's VERY important that this judge has read the legislation in a relatively restricted way (the way the writers intented FWIW), that is that levy confers the right to make private copies (i.e. home taping and functional analogs) and that these rights do not apply to MP3 players and that thee act of ripping a CD and copying it to a player has returned to the realm of technical but unenforcable illegality.
This is a useful precedent for those who would wish to sue uploaders.
Is IBM's microprocessor division a part of the PC division?
No, as of a few months ago it is now merged with the server division. Before that it was a separate "Technology" division.
My understanding is that the current Intellistations are made by the server division rather than the PC division (which makes sense as they are basically just servers with high end graphics cards) so they will not go to with this deal.
This is a "which of your children do you love most" question. AIX serves a different purpose and market than Linux. For example you can now run AIX on a 64 way SMP machine and get good scaling, Linux tops out at what? is it 8 now or still 4? There are a raft of applications that run on AIX that do not (yet at least) run on Linux and there are other issues.
That's a typesetter. It didn't have a superscripted th.
No it's a typewriter, the predecessor of the later IBM Selectric Typewriter some models of which did have superscripted th.
Times New Roman was invented and copyrighted by Microsoft- and differs from Times Roman by closing the numeral 4 on the top, which these documents do.
But if what were comparing to is NOT typeset output but rather produced on a late sixties/early seventies vintage IBM Selectric the question is does was there are Selectric type ball with a closed 4, superscripted th and otherwise Times Roman characters? Haven't got a collection of vintage Selectric type balls handy unfortunately but to my eyes I'm not convinced the originals are not what they claim to be, types in 1974 on a Selectric.
Further comment, the iRiver international site says the H3xx will offer FM recording and says this is because it was an oft requested feature for the H1xx.
Of course no sign of the H320 coming to North America soon as far as I can tell.
They must be reading/. beacuse they've changed the site
I went back to the site just now and asked the same question and got a completely different answer than the one from this morning. The page says "Last updated: 9/8/2004 6:27:30 PM" and the chart has changed too, the version from this morning aside from the content differences was all white text on a black background. No colour.
Interesting I just went to the iRiver web site and asked about this and they say:
Yes, the hard drive players support FM recording. They also have a built in FM recording timer.
If you would like to view a chart that shows all families of iRiver players and their FM features, please click herehttp://nh2.nohold.net/noHoldCust29/Prod_4/Arti cles50089/nohold_fm_recording.htm. Of note, we refer to our current hard drive players in terms of hundred series. When you see that the "H 100 series" has an FM tuner, supports FM recording, and also has a timer, we mean that all of the player models that begin with a "one hundred" support this feature. For example, the H-100 (which is no longer on the market), the H-120, and the H-140 all have an FM tuner, support FM recording, and have a timer.
This has been a showstopper for me as well. I just cant understand why they can do this on the least of their flash players (the IFP-190T) but can't in this device?
I still consider Snow Crash to be a classic, though, precisely for how light on it's proverbial feet it is.
Based on that I might actually give it a try. I found Cryptonomicon to be 300 pages of good ideas and potential wrapped in 600 pages of selfindulgent crap. If ever Stephenson gets an editor who can keep the latter in check or learns to self edit (little hope of that) he could be a very good author...
Little noticed but quite significant is the fact that Adam Bosworth has left BEA for Google.
The overarching answer to the question "what does Google want to be when it grows up" is a provider of information services through the web. That means at least two different things, stuff like the search engine and Gmail that will be aimed at individuals, delivered through a browser and funded through adverts but probably a bigger deal is the provision of Web Services through APIs to businesses funded by micropayments or more likely subscription.
Because current standards have limited addressability. CF is 128GB, SD/MMC is 4GB. The only card "standards" out there now that can break this are Sony's prorietary ones, Memory Stick Pro and Memory Stick Duo
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Is cheaper for the entry config which is significantly beefier than the entry 720. Also keep in mind that there are even cheaper configs possible if you buy through a human salesperson at IBM or a dealer. Supposed entry price for these machines (I haven't seen the details but I assume it's like the entry 720, (only 512MB RAM, 1.5Ghz CPU and smaller disks) is US$3,000.
And the difference in the burden of proof is one of the key issues here, the grandparent poster didn't get the specifics of it right though.
Again as I understand it, in the US it is a valid defense to claim that the accused libeller had no reason to beleive that their statements are not be true. Whereas in Canada (and the UK) the accused libeller must show that they had specific information to reasonably believe that the statements were true.
I know this is subtle but it's a critical difference.
The relevance in this case is that both the defendent AND the plaintiff were US residents at the time the libel took place. Although on the surface this smacks of shopping for the toughest libel laws. In reality there needs to be a defense against publishers sheilding themselves against libel by posting from places that have weak libel laws.
In these parts "New Normal" is code for new post 9/11 security procedures or more commonly the post SARs changes to hospitals and doctor's offices (restricted visitation, hand santizer everywhere and masks a plenty).
I think I'll write a business book and call it "Tsumani Cleanup"....
That's compaing apples and oranges, Websphere is NOT a http server like Apache or IIS (in fact if I'm remebering correctly it uses Apache as its http server) it is an application server, the closest analog in OSS would be Tomcat.
This was always a gamble. If Itanium had come in 7 years instead of 10+ and/or if this Intel, Digital settle lawsuit had worked out differently then Itanium might have been what HP and Intel had hoped it would be. A volume chip architecture not a niche market, and by volume I mean millions of units. No server chip (i.e. PA-RISC) will ever sell more than at most tens or hundreds of thousands. To move millions of units you need a family of chips, not just in computers but also as embedded in all kinds of consumer eletronics all sharing some level of common infrastrucutre even if that is not a lot more than chip fabrication. Intel has this and HP was hoping to ride on the coattails. After more than a decade of trying IBM is probably close as well (hence Cell and a bunch of other stuff flying a little lower under the radar). HP had to know they couldn't get there so teaming with Intel made some sense. They just failed to understand that it was doomed the day that DEC showed Intel a bunch of the Alpha technology and they decided to pinch it.
I think you can read IBM's attempted sale of its PC manufacturing division to a Chinese company as an indictment of the HP-Compaq merger strategy
It's much bigger than that, this isn't just about the "low end" becoming commoditized, it is also playing a bet on a pending market shift that drastically reduces the Windows PC's volumes sold as well as margins. IBM sees and understands that this is the beginning of the end of the Wintel PC as anything but pure consumer electronics like TV's and DVD players, with similar margins and markets. I don't think many people really get this yet, but I they are betting that the future human to network access device (and not too distant future) will be something that looks more like a TV with a game console (with an IBM processor in it) than a desktop PC, this is not a new idea by any stretch, people have been talking about "set top boxes" for 20+ years now, but this is the first time that a truly brt this big has been played on it.
Difference is once the initial euphoria wears off the poor suckers at HP will find little to comfort them. The company is still fundementally broken and there's no easy fix and while Carly drove home the nails with the Compaq merger the reality is the lid was already on and the nails started when she came along.
If you're going to rant on about this stuff it would help if you would get the facts halfway close to correct.
History repeats itself, when Digital was releasing Alpha, Alpha was the internal code name, the official name was going to be ARA, an acronymn for advanced risc architecure, IIRC, but shortly before the official launch someone pointed out that ara sounds like an arabic curse word (there were probably other issues but the curse word one was the predominant rumour inside the company) and they had to scramble to come up with a new name as Alpha alone was note trademarkable, they landed on AlphaAXP but eventually the AXP part got dropped.
Three words: Clumping Cat Litter
These are not IT people, they are bankers, analysts and traders who "covered" the IT industry. Virtually by definition this means they do not know anything about technology themselves.
Yah right, every wholesole American child played with the Test Match Cricket set, seemingly dozens of Dr. Who themed toys and an arcane tabletop version of footer.
OK I'll grant you some of the heavy hitters where there like Battling Tops but a North American version of this list would be at least 40% different.
What people seem to be missing here is that the judge has said that since the legislation doesn't cover MP3 players and therefore the levies do not apply, that in addition the additional rights to copy that these levies confer do not apply. It's VERY important that this judge has read the legislation in a relatively restricted way (the way the writers intented FWIW), that is that levy confers the right to make private copies (i.e. home taping and functional analogs) and that these rights do not apply to MP3 players and that thee act of ripping a CD and copying it to a player has returned to the realm of technical but unenforcable illegality. This is a useful precedent for those who would wish to sue uploaders.
Is IBM's microprocessor division a part of the PC division? No, as of a few months ago it is now merged with the server division. Before that it was a separate "Technology" division.
My understanding is that the current Intellistations are made by the server division rather than the PC division (which makes sense as they are basically just servers with high end graphics cards) so they will not go to with this deal.
This is a "which of your children do you love most" question. AIX serves a different purpose and market than Linux. For example you can now run AIX on a 64 way SMP machine and get good scaling, Linux tops out at what? is it 8 now or still 4? There are a raft of applications that run on AIX that do not (yet at least) run on Linux and there are other issues.
No it's a typewriter, the predecessor of the later IBM Selectric Typewriter some models of which did have superscripted th.
Times New Roman was invented and copyrighted by Microsoft- and differs from Times Roman by closing the numeral 4 on the top, which these documents do. But if what were comparing to is NOT typeset output but rather produced on a late sixties/early seventies vintage IBM Selectric the question is does was there are Selectric type ball with a closed 4, superscripted th and otherwise Times Roman characters? Haven't got a collection of vintage Selectric type balls handy unfortunately but to my eyes I'm not convinced the originals are not what they claim to be, types in 1974 on a Selectric.
Of course no sign of the H320 coming to North America soon as far as I can tell.
I went back to the site just now and asked the same question and got a completely different answer than the one from this morning. The page says "Last updated: 9/8/2004 6:27:30 PM" and the chart has changed too, the version from this morning aside from the content differences was all white text on a black background. No colour.
Bummer.
Yes, the hard drive players support FM recording. They also have a built in FM recording timer.
If you would like to view a chart that shows all families of iRiver players and their FM features, please click herehttp://nh2.nohold.net/noHoldCust29/Prod_4/Arti cles50089/nohold_fm_recording.htm. Of note, we refer to our current hard drive players in terms of hundred series. When you see that the "H 100 series" has an FM tuner, supports FM recording, and also has a timer, we mean that all of the player models that begin with a "one hundred" support this feature. For example, the H-100 (which is no longer on the market), the H-120, and the H-140 all have an FM tuner, support FM recording, and have a timer.
This has been a showstopper for me as well. I just cant understand why they can do this on the least of their flash players (the IFP-190T) but can't in this device?
Also noted, the prices quoted on the Rocketcalc site are "starts at" prices someone wanna give a stab at what an actual usable config would cost?
I still consider Snow Crash to be a classic, though, precisely for how light on it's proverbial feet it is. Based on that I might actually give it a try. I found Cryptonomicon to be 300 pages of good ideas and potential wrapped in 600 pages of selfindulgent crap. If ever Stephenson gets an editor who can keep the latter in check or learns to self edit (little hope of that) he could be a very good author...
The overarching answer to the question "what does Google want to be when it grows up" is a provider of information services through the web. That means at least two different things, stuff like the search engine and Gmail that will be aimed at individuals, delivered through a browser and funded through adverts but probably a bigger deal is the provision of Web Services through APIs to businesses funded by micropayments or more likely subscription.
Because current standards have limited addressability. CF is 128GB, SD/MMC is 4GB. The only card "standards" out there now that can break this are Sony's prorietary ones, Memory Stick Pro and Memory Stick Duo
Neal Stephenson fans may find this article a nice adjunct to Quicksilver. How's that, is it 900+ pages of selfindulgent crap too?