Like them or not, this is a really strong strategic move for Intel. AMD played its hand in the open the entire time, while Intel waited to time its announcement until just after the Opteron launch.
Now corporate shops will hesitate to commit to AMDs 64-bit chip because of speculation about whether its instruction set will be compatible with Intel's.
Pair that with Microsoft's delayed 64-bit Windows launch, and you've got another well played round from Intel.
It's likely that this was only a contingency plan, though. I'm sure Intel would have liked the world to move to Itanium, but this is their second choice of outcomes. AMD gains some market share for a brief moment, but then potentially has to backpeddle to design Intel compatibility into their already completed 64-bit offering.
I also think this is good news. I don't have any sort of solid metric, but my subjective experience has been that since their "Florida" update, I've had an awful time getting good Google results on a lot of day to day items. Instead of getting information, I've been getting mostly links to pages that "search" for the phrase I wanted Google to search for.
My guess was this was an IPO driven move, and I hope that means they're reconsidering giving people crappy search results in exchange for money from other "search"(read:banner ad) companies.
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Well that just reinforces my belief that it's actually a conspiracy by Microsoft and SCO to discredit the Open Source Movement(tm), just like everything else that gets Slashdot's attention.
I would ignore any Slashdot editor who thinks he's funny by making jokes about Russian cars.
My father-in-law had a Lada for over 20 years, and was involved in a rollover accident in it. That wasn't the end of it, though. He was fine, and he just got some help rolling the thing back over to drive it home.
When did it end? Somebody broke into his garage while he was on vacation and stripped it down for parts. He's still hoping to eventually get replacement parts and build it back up again.
Don't forget the real sinister figures here - the "representatives" of the font/extended-ASCII mafias. There are some powerful people who want superscript/subscript and those high ASCII characters for 1/2 and 1/4 to stay around a while longer.
The primary reason for this is the cost of publishing a message. At least if you wanted to send garbage to people over mail/radio/tv, you had to pay a fairly substantial sum of money to reach your targets.
With the internet, publishing is practically free, and the number of people you reach is based on getting your URL listed in Google or/., etc. It's really deplorable how many people will just believe whatever they read on the information super-thingy.
The worst part is with e-commerce. Where I work, we regularly get calls from banks and people where the people actually went to our website, typed in their credit card number, insurance information, and pretty much anything else you could want, then FORGOT THEY DID IT!
"I don't remember spending money at your site!"
"WTF? Our company name was in your freakin' URL bar the entire time you were at our site!"
What many people miss here is that such a laser would be used in an industrial setting, not in the home. The upshot of all this is we get better sliced cheese for a lower price - and hey, not getting sick from contaminated cutting wires is a bonus!
Reading the/. headline, you'd think that "scientists have learned how to predict earthquakes", but the glaring hole I'm seeing in the article is the absence of the a success rate. Sure, it "predicted" a couple of quakes, but how many false positives did it produce? How accurate were the predictions? Was it "a 95% chance of an earthquake between 4.5 and 4.6 magnitude within 100km of x? Was it "an unknown percent chance of an earthquake between 4.0 and 9.0(a really huge difference) "somewhere in California"?
This article is extremely vague about the accuracy or precision of the method, and limited to small test areas.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like us to be able to predict devastating earthquakes to help minimize casualties, but this is way too early to call it news.
I have no pity for Lindows. Naming a project "Lindows" implies that Linux is some cheap knock-off of the "Real Thing".
I remember seeing goods imported into Russia from China with things like alarm clocks with names in Russsian, which, when pronounced, sounded remarkably like "Hyundai", and "Adidas" bags with too many stripes and a bunch of garbage characters that were supposed to be a slogan. That's the kind of stuff I think of when I hear "Lindows".
But now that Michael's made mention of it, and Carnivore has logged it, the Feds should be able to haul him in before he helps someone do something about it.
work at getting schools to use Free and free software instead
...and until they start using free software, they can purchase legitimate licenses for the products they are using. Schools have no special rights about pirating software just because they're short on cash.
In the same way, schools are also not entitled to free VA Linux servers just because they're short on cash. But hey, maybe if VA gave away free servers to all the school districts, they'd start running free software.
Of course we will, but only after/. hires actual professional editors who do an actual professional job of posting stories and promoting quality dialogue.
Possible Answer #3
Sure! Of course we will! We'll put as much money into this forum as we do into our Open Source projects!
Anyone actually played with this yet, or is this idle blather?
Do you even have to ask? Most everyone here despises "M$" so much that they probably haven't used any of their recent offerings. In order to impress a whole boatload of nameless slashbots and boost their own low self esteem, however, they feel compelled to write about any and every topic as self-proclaimed experts in the fields of science(My high school biology class counts, right?), math(Most posters are probably taking Calc I right now), politics(after all, they watch CNN. Headline News, not that long-winded other version), law(a la "Magnum PI" reruns on USA Network), philosophy("Dogma", "Akira"), business(helped with Honor Society Bake Sale), and any number of computer topics, especially anything remotely linked to Linux or other such Open Source projects.
Well, some of us do, at least. I don't really have any good reason, since I don't own DVDs yet, but it bothers me that something standard like a DVD disc should play in as many countries as a regular audio CD, but doesn't(apparently).
What they're probably doing is trying to make it more expensive for rare/import collectors to get away with doing it for cheap. Slap "U.K. version" on any audio CD, and it instantly turns into this 1337 muz4k for dedicated fans to own. Make it so that you have to by a U.K. DVD player to play your imports, and voila, instant cash cow! Just add ridiculous laws!
After taking the time to practice the ancient art of "reading", the story I linked to yesterday seems strangely less relevant than previously supposed. This is the point when a professor or teacher could leave the rest as an "exercise for the reader" without looking foolish.;)
BTW, do you think the slashbots got devious and started ignoring the comments they didn't like? I'd hate to think that they've also used this ancient art of "reading" on the moderation guidelines.
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Like them or not, this is a really strong strategic move for Intel. AMD played its hand in the open the entire time, while Intel waited to time its announcement until just after the Opteron launch.
Now corporate shops will hesitate to commit to AMDs 64-bit chip because of speculation about whether its instruction set will be compatible with Intel's.
Pair that with Microsoft's delayed 64-bit Windows launch, and you've got another well played round from Intel.
It's likely that this was only a contingency plan, though. I'm sure Intel would have liked the world to move to Itanium, but this is their second choice of outcomes. AMD gains some market share for a brief moment, but then potentially has to backpeddle to design Intel compatibility into their already completed 64-bit offering.
The rest of the content consisted of webpages offering to help you search for different versions of the Google logo.
And the followup stories:
Microsoft Sues SCO for Trade Secret Violations
Darl McBride Cries Like a Little Girl
World Is a Better Place
I also think this is good news. I don't have any sort of solid metric, but my subjective experience has been that since their "Florida" update, I've had an awful time getting good Google results on a lot of day to day items. Instead of getting information, I've been getting mostly links to pages that "search" for the phrase I wanted Google to search for.
My guess was this was an IPO driven move, and I hope that means they're reconsidering giving people crappy search results in exchange for money from other "search"(read:banner ad) companies.
Well that just reinforces my belief that it's actually a conspiracy by Microsoft and SCO to discredit the Open Source Movement(tm), just like everything else that gets Slashdot's attention.
Jenny Craig cheaters, beware!
I would ignore any Slashdot editor who thinks he's funny by making jokes about Russian cars.
My father-in-law had a Lada for over 20 years, and was involved in a rollover accident in it. That wasn't the end of it, though. He was fine, and he just got some help rolling the thing back over to drive it home.
When did it end? Somebody broke into his garage while he was on vacation and stripped it down for parts. He's still hoping to eventually get replacement parts and build it back up again.
Don't forget the real sinister figures here - the "representatives" of the font/extended-ASCII mafias. There are some powerful people who want superscript/subscript and those high ASCII characters for 1/2 and 1/4 to stay around a while longer.
I would say we've generally regressed, too.
/., etc. It's really deplorable how many people will just believe whatever they read on the information super-thingy.
The primary reason for this is the cost of publishing a message. At least if you wanted to send garbage to people over mail/radio/tv, you had to pay a fairly substantial sum of money to reach your targets.
With the internet, publishing is practically free, and the number of people you reach is based on getting your URL listed in Google or
The worst part is with e-commerce. Where I work, we regularly get calls from banks and people where the people actually went to our website, typed in their credit card number, insurance information, and pretty much anything else you could want, then FORGOT THEY DID IT!
"I don't remember spending money at your site!"
"WTF? Our company name was in your freakin' URL bar the entire time you were at our site!"
Nice sig!
What many people miss here is that such a laser would be used in an industrial setting, not in the home. The upshot of all this is we get better sliced cheese for a lower price - and hey, not getting sick from contaminated cutting wires is a bonus!
Somebody had to say it.
Reading the /. headline, you'd think that "scientists have learned how to predict earthquakes", but the glaring hole I'm seeing in the article is the absence of the a success rate. Sure, it "predicted" a couple of quakes, but how many false positives did it produce? How accurate were the predictions? Was it "a 95% chance of an earthquake between 4.5 and 4.6 magnitude within 100km of x? Was it "an unknown percent chance of an earthquake between 4.0 and 9.0(a really huge difference) "somewhere in California"?
This article is extremely vague about the accuracy or precision of the method, and limited to small test areas.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like us to be able to predict devastating earthquakes to help minimize casualties, but this is way too early to call it news.
I have no pity for Lindows. Naming a project "Lindows" implies that Linux is some cheap knock-off of the "Real Thing".
I remember seeing goods imported into Russia from China with things like alarm clocks with names in Russsian, which, when pronounced, sounded remarkably like "Hyundai", and "Adidas" bags with too many stripes and a bunch of garbage characters that were supposed to be a slogan. That's the kind of stuff I think of when I hear "Lindows".
But now that Michael's made mention of it, and Carnivore has logged it, the Feds should be able to haul him in before he helps someone do something about it.
...and until they start using free software, they can purchase legitimate licenses for the products they are using. Schools have no special rights about pirating software just because they're short on cash.
In the same way, schools are also not entitled to free VA Linux servers just because they're short on cash. But hey, maybe if VA gave away free servers to all the school districts, they'd start running free software.
Possible Answer #2
Of course we will, but only after
Possible Answer #3
Sure! Of course we will! We'll put as much money into this forum as we do into our Open Source projects!
Hey! That's the secret code I use on my luggage!
God, I remember hearing this old news back in college.
Do you even have to ask? Most everyone here despises "M$" so much that they probably haven't used any of their recent offerings. In order to impress a whole boatload of nameless slashbots and boost their own low self esteem, however, they feel compelled to write about any and every topic as self-proclaimed experts in the fields of science(My high school biology class counts, right?), math(Most posters are probably taking Calc I right now), politics(after all, they watch CNN. Headline News, not that long-winded other version), law(a la "Magnum PI" reruns on USA Network), philosophy("Dogma", "Akira"), business(helped with Honor Society Bake Sale), and any number of computer topics, especially anything remotely linked to Linux or other such Open Source projects.
'nuff said
Unlike your story (+5 Insightful), the story it mocks deserves a (-1 Troll)
Well, some of us do, at least. I don't really have any good reason, since I don't own DVDs yet, but it bothers me that something standard like a DVD disc should play in as many countries as a regular audio CD, but doesn't(apparently).
What they're probably doing is trying to make it more expensive for rare/import collectors to get away with doing it for cheap. Slap "U.K. version" on any audio CD, and it instantly turns into this 1337 muz4k for dedicated fans to own. Make it so that you have to by a U.K. DVD player to play your imports, and voila, instant cash cow! Just add ridiculous laws!
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After taking the time to practice the ancient art of "reading", the story I linked to yesterday seems strangely less relevant than previously supposed. This is the point when a professor or teacher could leave the rest as an "exercise for the reader" without looking foolish. ;)
BTW, do you think the slashbots got devious and started ignoring the comments they didn't like? I'd hate to think that they've also used this ancient art of "reading" on the moderation guidelines.