Re:Getting rid of the surprize factor
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Seriously think about it, information on MS products are leaked on to the web everyday.Heck, occasionally even MS source code is leaked on to the web...
However, since Microsoft's modus operandi is to pre-announce products themselves many years in advance to discourage competitors from coming up with competing products, I doubt if they would get upset about anybody pre-announcing features. Bear in mind that feature set can and will change in the final release...
But, what's to keep open source browsers from copying this Microsoft innovation, just like they do all the other innovations Microsoft has put so much work into?
Doesn't Metcalfe's Law still apply to spammers, who apparently do consider every link to be equally valuable? Or does the value to spammers only increase linearly with the number of potential spammees?
No, the Cell architecture is optimized for processing streamed data, as in streaming video and audio. Which, when you think about it, is one of the few applications that one would want to buy a faster computer for, isn't it?
The drawbacks of the Cell are obvious: 1) all your software needs to be rewritten from scratch, and 2) to get the full benefit of the processing elements, you need compilers that are a lot smarter than most compilers available today about automatically parallelizing algorithms. Job 1 is a port of Linux to the Cell. Presumably IBM is already working on that... has anybody heard any rumors? I beleive IBM has already stated that they are working on the compiler problem.
Wow, for once Cringley actually makes a lot of sense (other than calling them "9 nanometer prototypes" instead of 90nm). Yes, I'm sure we will see Cell processor based servers running Linux/AIX coming from IBM by the end of the 2005. And yes, a $1000 Cell Processor server that offers the same performance as a $3000 dual Xeon is a very attractive price point -- but I'm a little sceptical about Cringly cost numbers. Does anyone else beleive the $1000 price point?
Given that when you show Chinese entrepenuers how to build anything, they'll immediately transfer that knowledge to their brother-in-law down the street to make cheap cloned products, I'd say the sale is pretty much permanent! Anybody want to start a pool on how soon bootleg thinkpads hit the market?
Does this deal leave IBM free to persue building a new PC based on Cell Processor and/or PowerPC technology, instead of the increasingly less efficient x86? If so, selling off the trailing edge x86 business would just be a smart business move, wouldn't it?
UNAUTHORIZED MANOR Gee, I for one can't imaging anybody building a big house like that without permission, let alone host a server in it... perhaps you ment to say "unauthorized manner"?
Thanks to GW Bush, its become common knowledge that Harvard Business will accept any mediocre student for the right price. GW Bush attended Yale, not Harvard. As did G Bush senior and John Kerry.
Harvard (rightly so) decided to not admit any of the 119 even though some of them possibly were initially accepted.Gee, what are the chances that some of those 119 were people peeking at other people's result? In other words, what proof does Harvard have that this ethics violation was actually committed by each and every one of the people they are now refusing to admit, and not somebody else using one of those person's personal information? Maybe the Harvard admissions department should ask one of the Harvard law professors to explain the concept of "due process" to them!
Aren't we forgetting Sun Microsystems? Granted, they have less of a history of using FUD tactics, but they also have an econmic interest in seeing Linux fail.
We could deter the Soviets because they are for the most part rational people. Islamic militants are already committing terrorists acts against pilgrims carrying out their sacred duty of a Haj to Mecca... what makes you think they would be detered by threats against Mecca? Again, deterrents only work against people that are capable of logic. Unfortunatly, the only thing that will work against extremist Islamic militants is killing every last one of them, but doing it in a way that doesn't encourage others to join their cause.
Couldn't they just sneak in during the middle of the night and install an unpatched version of Windows 98 on all the computers? That should disable the call center a lot longer than 100kg of Dynamite!
Uh, projectors have bulbs in them that cost about $500 each and need to be replaced every 1000 hours or so. LCDs don't. Depending on the projector, this LCD might also be brighter. Also, you can't make shadow puppets by holding your hands up in front of an LCD.
The internet uses dedicated routers and subnetting to handle large numbers of nodes. As near as I can tell, this scheme does neither, and thus would require every node, even the lowliest PDA, to know the best path to every other node. While memory for keeping track of 64K nodes may not be a problem, I suspect processing overhead might be.
This will radically transform WiFi hotspots, allowing the geographical area and available bandwidth on the network to scale with the number of participants.
I suspect not, with thousands of participants, routing may become unmanagable. Also, in the best case bandwidth is only going to increase by the number of distinct paths between endpoints (a chain is only as strong as its weakest link). But, I suspect once an optimum path is chosen, all traffic will follow that path, and adding more nodes won't improve your bandwidth at all! Unless you seriously beleive this protocol is going to do load balancing over every possible path between the two endpoints, in which case I would suggest you don't have any background in Computer Science.
But since those countries are all putting people into space purely for national pride and bragging rights, there is not a snowball's chance in hell that they would send an American rather than a native, no matter how well trained the American is.
Why are they late submitting their financials?
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Could it be because whoever signs the document is almost certainly going to jail, and they're scrambling to find somebody stupid enough to take the blame for their lies and misrepresentations?
Why should I run a firewall on my $500 pc when a $50 router does the job much better? Clearly Intel is obsessed with this single monolithic CPU concept, whereas in the future we will used lots of small, cheap CPUs in parallel to acheive better performance using lower power and at a lower price.
The OS in which you are most productive is whatever OS you are most accustomed used to using! Gee, spend all your time in MacOS, and you're going to be lost in another operating system, aren't you? Oh, and can we stop calling the user shell the operating system, please?
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However, since Microsoft's modus operandi is to pre-announce products themselves many years in advance to discourage competitors from coming up with competing products, I doubt if they would get upset about anybody pre-announcing features. Bear in mind that feature set can and will change in the final release...
Oh wait...
Doesn't Metcalfe's Law still apply to spammers, who apparently do consider every link to be equally valuable? Or does the value to spammers only increase linearly with the number of potential spammees?
I mean, personally I confuse clothes and chocolates all the time!
"Mmm... tasty!"
The drawbacks of the Cell are obvious: 1) all your software needs to be rewritten from scratch, and 2) to get the full benefit of the processing elements, you need compilers that are a lot smarter than most compilers available today about automatically parallelizing algorithms. Job 1 is a port of Linux to the Cell. Presumably IBM is already working on that... has anybody heard any rumors? I beleive IBM has already stated that they are working on the compiler problem.
Wow, for once Cringley actually makes a lot of sense (other than calling them "9 nanometer prototypes" instead of 90nm). Yes, I'm sure we will see Cell processor based servers running Linux/AIX coming from IBM by the end of the 2005. And yes, a $1000 Cell Processor server that offers the same performance as a $3000 dual Xeon is a very attractive price point -- but I'm a little sceptical about Cringly cost numbers. Does anyone else beleive the $1000 price point?
Given that when you show Chinese entrepenuers how to build anything, they'll immediately transfer that knowledge to their brother-in-law down the street to make cheap cloned products, I'd say the sale is pretty much permanent! Anybody want to start a pool on how soon bootleg thinkpads hit the market?
P.S. doesn't China have at least 4 different dialects and regional cuisines?
Does this deal leave IBM free to persue building a new PC based on Cell Processor and/or PowerPC technology, instead of the increasingly less efficient x86? If so, selling off the trailing edge x86 business would just be a smart business move, wouldn't it?
UNAUTHORIZED MANOR Gee, I for one can't imaging anybody building a big house like that without permission, let alone host a server in it... perhaps you ment to say "unauthorized manner"?
Warm Puppy Linux?
Thanks to GW Bush, its become common knowledge that Harvard Business will accept any mediocre student for the right price. GW Bush attended Yale, not Harvard. As did G Bush senior and John Kerry.
Harvard (rightly so) decided to not admit any of the 119 even though some of them possibly were initially accepted.Gee, what are the chances that some of those 119 were people peeking at other people's result? In other words, what proof does Harvard have that this ethics violation was actually committed by each and every one of the people they are now refusing to admit, and not somebody else using one of those person's personal information? Maybe the Harvard admissions department should ask one of the Harvard law professors to explain the concept of "due process" to them!
Aren't we forgetting Sun Microsystems? Granted, they have less of a history of using FUD tactics, but they also have an econmic interest in seeing Linux fail.
We could deter the Soviets because they are for the most part rational people. Islamic militants are already committing terrorists acts against pilgrims carrying out their sacred duty of a Haj to Mecca... what makes you think they would be detered by threats against Mecca? Again, deterrents only work against people that are capable of logic. Unfortunatly, the only thing that will work against extremist Islamic militants is killing every last one of them, but doing it in a way that doesn't encourage others to join their cause.
Couldn't they just sneak in during the middle of the night and install an unpatched version of Windows 98 on all the computers? That should disable the call center a lot longer than 100kg of Dynamite!
Uh, projectors have bulbs in them that cost about $500 each and need to be replaced every 1000 hours or so. LCDs don't. Depending on the projector, this LCD might also be brighter. Also, you can't make shadow puppets by holding your hands up in front of an LCD.
The internet uses dedicated routers and subnetting to handle large numbers of nodes. As near as I can tell, this scheme does neither, and thus would require every node, even the lowliest PDA, to know the best path to every other node. While memory for keeping track of 64K nodes may not be a problem, I suspect processing overhead might be.
I suspect not, with thousands of participants, routing may become unmanagable. Also, in the best case bandwidth is only going to increase by the number of distinct paths between endpoints (a chain is only as strong as its weakest link). But, I suspect once an optimum path is chosen, all traffic will follow that path, and adding more nodes won't improve your bandwidth at all! Unless you seriously beleive this protocol is going to do load balancing over every possible path between the two endpoints, in which case I would suggest you don't have any background in Computer Science.
But since those countries are all putting people into space purely for national pride and bragging rights, there is not a snowball's chance in hell that they would send an American rather than a native, no matter how well trained the American is.
Could it be because whoever signs the document is almost certainly going to jail, and they're scrambling to find somebody stupid enough to take the blame for their lies and misrepresentations?
Why should I run a firewall on my $500 pc when a $50 router does the job much better? Clearly Intel is obsessed with this single monolithic CPU concept, whereas in the future we will used lots of small, cheap CPUs in parallel to acheive better performance using lower power and at a lower price.
The OS in which you are most productive is whatever OS you are most accustomed used to using! Gee, spend all your time in MacOS, and you're going to be lost in another operating system, aren't you? Oh, and can we stop calling the user shell the operating system, please?
You just proved that the design isn't really the code, not that the code isn't really the design!