I don't think so. I think the fact is that with the right architecture (which Intel is trying to get into place) which exact core on which processor handles a specific task should become less and less relevant.
What this technology will hopefully provide will be the ability to have a more flexible machine which can task cores for graphics, then re-task them for other needs as they come up. Your serious gamers and rendering heads will still have high end graphics cards, but this would allow more flexibility for the "generic" business build PC's.
An organization wants to destroy a religion (i.e. preventing them from spreading their "faith") in the name of protecting free speech. Am I the only one seeing a problem with this logic?
I don't see how on this site where the mantra for all things seems to be "competition is good" that Intel should be bashed for not giving in to demands that it not develop products which could be considered alternatives.
It isn't like Intel is going to throw down the humanitarian angle of OLPC anyways, and I thought one of the selling points to companies participating in the project was that advances there could be incorporated into retail devices as well?
My company has cel phone (not blueberries) on all the people in my group. We're the top end of problem solvers in the support side of the organization. They also encouraged us to work from home one day a week to help make up for the occasional weekend day or late night we were pulling.
This ended when a director level person walked through our area one day and didn't see enough butts in seats for their liking. Now they wonder why they have so much trouble getting people to answer the cel phones and work those long/extra hours from home.
They're the smallest player on the field right now of the "big" engines.
This means to move up they have to differentiate themselves enough to get people to try them and hopefully stick with them. The only people who benefit from propagating "business as usual" are the googles/yahoos.
Actually, in self defense it is still, be definition, murder. It's just that not all murders are bad things, some are justified and get to wear fancy names like "manslaughter".
No, I picked up a black one for myself and a white one for the wife for x-mas. Both off Woot! , and for, I think it was $89 each. For a 30g media player that's not a bad price, and it has served me well.
I believe with the Zune2 they have dropped brown in favor of pink, green, and some other color variant. They seem to have the desire to have colors which match the fashion trends of the time, which is pretty much a direct lift from the Apple playbook.
Unfortunately at this point I am not away of a Linux package for it. Since I run XP on my desktop at home and have a XPMCE box in the living room that hasn't been a problem for me, but understandably would be for someone running an all *nix environment.
One thing which does annoy me about it is that you have to do a registry hack just to make it visible and explorable as an external HD which I think all MP3 players should do by default for interoperability.
I have a Zune and actually do really like it. I recommend it to others who are looking for a portable music/media player. I don't go around ranting and attacking those who would detract from it though. Maybe i just don't have the drive to be a decent fanboy...
I know for a fact that BlockBuster was trying to figure out a way to effectively do on-line on-demand content around 7 years ago (in the y2k range) and basically it was a no go because infrastructure didn't give an even enough level of availability to people to make it viable. A few people had DSL and Cable modems which would handle it, but not enough market to consider the service viable.
I personally think in the longer run it will be something along the lines of WiMax that wins out because it isn't tied to a ground based distribution network (fibre, cable, phone lines). But that's the hopeful futurist in me talking.
Because heaven knows Sony hasn't thrown around a ton of money to make sure it gets as many studios and others on the Blu Ray train.
Both Sony and MS throw money into supporting the horse that their respective wagon is tied to. That's how it is.
And I agree that in the long term on line distribution will win, but before it can the internet as we know it needs some substantial upgrading. Not to support the concept (it already does), but to support what happens when the masses start using it.
I tried Vista, and took weeks wrestling to get drivers to install and work for things. In the end I had to go back, why?
Because in XP you can have a video card with two monitors present to the system as one very wide monitor. In Vista you can't and there is a very blunt statement from MS about that fact that their display architecture will never support that. Until they do I can't game the way I like to in Vista, so I stay with XP.
I know to avoid things if it involves giving private information to Google. "Do no evil" motto or not they have already shown they can and will bend to the right political pressure (i.e. China), or the right financial pressure (i.e. focused ad targeting).
My concern is how many people will blindly use it who don't know better. How many of those people will be ones I have to deal with? How much information about me will they be storing on G that I won't have control over? What happens when the government gets power happy again and decides that since it's stored on a public server they should have transparent access to it?
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread imagine what MS could gain by saying:
"OK, Vista is our flagship product. XP is our old class of product that's stable, but we aren't going to be developing new capabilities for it anymore. So from now on XP is free. If you like XP, you'll probably LOVE Vista, and there will be a nice upgrade path for you for a small fee."
What happens if MS offers up an OS for free too? Sure they stop making money on OS licenses. But if people are locked into the platform that's just money down the road on applications and/or bringing them up to Vista.
It's not that the 360 or ps3 are bad systems. It's that what they really added to the previous generation was a little better graphics, a little more storage space, small upgrades in individual aspects of the product.
What the Wii did was introduce a really different way of playing the games, and in the process has tapped into a market the ps3 and 360 couldn't dream of. Ergo, the impact of the Wii on the console gaming genre is larger even through the technological advances involved aren't.
And this is pure selfishness.. I have certain games I play which can only support dual monitors if it's presented to the game/os as one wide monitor. This is called span view, you can set it up on most nVidia cards and it rules.
Microsoft decided they wanted more granular control over the display so now the new WDDM doesn't support Span view at all.
It's funny that out of XP 32, XP 64, and Vista (32/64) the best option to run all the software I need to is XP 32.
Unfortunately I am one of those people for whom a full move to *nix won't happen until the bulk of games I enjoy so much will run on it without me needing to take up "managing emulation/virtualization" as a hobby.
You might be surprised exactly how elegant some of the vista cracks seem to be.
When it all comes down to it somewhere along the line some manufacturer or OEM screams loud enough that it's too much of a hassle to do X, Y or Z. As a result MS capitulates and makes an "easy out" for them. Hackers find these easy outs, and POOF.. no activation required.
I believe it was Frank Abingale recently who discussed this. Technology makes it easier and easier to be dishonest and deceitful. Instead of trying to make technology to make it harder to break the laws, the only real recourse is to start making people ethical and moral enough to not need technology to make them do the right thing.
Unfortunately this seems to be working against one of the most basic human drives, greed.
This whole seemingly systematic smackdown being applied by the judicial system to the RIAA on what looks like multiple fronts is really getting close to making me have faith in our judicial system again... almost.
Apple, with all it's forced tie ins, lock in, lock out, DRM and other yadda yadda are still easily the number one mp3 player BY FAR. Even with all the far more open options out there (its debatable that even the Zune is even more open than the iPod.)
What incentive do they have to do differently?
You could potentially argue the "look at what happened to MS with Vista and all their DRM and rights management and WGA.." But the problem is that Vista has faltered to the degree it has because it's not that good an OS and not really a needed upgrade, not because of any amount of DRM in it.
I don't feel any compelling need to go shell out hundreds of bucks for an HD player before the standards even settled.
OTOH, I can just let a torrent run in the backgound for a while and have HD copies of entire SEASONS of shows. Shared over my home network, played on a Win MCE PC attached to my DLP set.
When sites stop getting the money they need to keep running and go subscription, or worse yet shut down all together, don't complain.
The whole model of ad sponsored websites is a social contract of sorts. They agree to provide you content, you agree to look at the ads which pay for the content to be provided. Break one side of the arrangement and the other falls apart soon enough.
You are not owed a "free internet experience". Free content is not a right, it's a privilege you get some some providers, but not your right.
A study from two universities in states which are predominantly liberal (based on voting history) finds that liberals are "more flexible and accepting of new ideas". Shock of shockers!
Whereas I do wholly believe that there are differences in cognitive style between people are distinctly different personality types (which often gets expressed in political views), I don't give a lot of credence to the findings of a study where they base it on seeing one of two letters, and one of them is the letter associated with the leader of a particular mindset.
Then the immediate conclusion drawn uses two things the democrats tend to want to harp on , being Bush in Iraq, and that Kerry was "swift boated".
Unfortunately it smacks of an agenda from the word go IMHO.
So they don't want to just be associated with workstations, so they change their symbol to the name of one particular software product they produce. I boggle at this.
Why not change the symbol to something like SunS (Sun Systems, oops taken), or SunT (...technologies) , or Sunn (...networking, but also taken...)
You get the idea. Keep the identity they have as Sun, because that does carry recognition. Far more than I think they think Java does. It would be like MS changing their ticker to WNDZ or the federal government getting the ticker symbol DCMA...
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I will wholeheartedly throw my support behind this as long as he picks Lewis Black as his VP.
The mental image of Lewis Black presiding over Senate proceedings would make it worth the vote right there.
I don't think so. I think the fact is that with the right architecture (which Intel is trying to get into place) which exact core on which processor handles a specific task should become less and less relevant.
What this technology will hopefully provide will be the ability to have a more flexible machine which can task cores for graphics, then re-task them for other needs as they come up. Your serious gamers and rendering heads will still have high end graphics cards, but this would allow more flexibility for the "generic" business build PC's.
An organization wants to destroy a religion (i.e. preventing them from spreading their "faith") in the name of protecting free speech. Am I the only one seeing a problem with this logic?
I don't see how on this site where the mantra for all things seems to be "competition is good" that Intel should be bashed for not giving in to demands that it not develop products which could be considered alternatives.
It isn't like Intel is going to throw down the humanitarian angle of OLPC anyways, and I thought one of the selling points to companies participating in the project was that advances there could be incorporated into retail devices as well?
If I'm wrong on this please correct me.
My company has cel phone (not blueberries) on all the people in my group. We're the top end of problem solvers in the support side of the organization. They also encouraged us to work from home one day a week to help make up for the occasional weekend day or late night we were pulling.
This ended when a director level person walked through our area one day and didn't see enough butts in seats for their liking. Now they wonder why they have so much trouble getting people to answer the cel phones and work those long/extra hours from home.
They're the smallest player on the field right now of the "big" engines.
This means to move up they have to differentiate themselves enough to get people to try them and hopefully stick with them. The only people who benefit from propagating "business as usual" are the googles/yahoos.
Actually, in self defense it is still, be definition, murder. It's just that not all murders are bad things, some are justified and get to wear fancy names like "manslaughter".
No, I picked up a black one for myself and a white one for the wife for x-mas. Both off Woot! , and for, I think it was $89 each. For a 30g media player that's not a bad price, and it has served me well.
I believe with the Zune2 they have dropped brown in favor of pink, green, and some other color variant. They seem to have the desire to have colors which match the fashion trends of the time, which is pretty much a direct lift from the Apple playbook.
Unfortunately at this point I am not away of a Linux package for it. Since I run XP on my desktop at home and have a XPMCE box in the living room that hasn't been a problem for me, but understandably would be for someone running an all *nix environment.
One thing which does annoy me about it is that you have to do a registry hack just to make it visible and explorable as an external HD which I think all MP3 players should do by default for interoperability.
To be honest,
I have a Zune and actually do really like it. I recommend it to others who are looking for a portable music/media player. I don't go around ranting and attacking those who would detract from it though. Maybe i just don't have the drive to be a decent fanboy...
I know for a fact that BlockBuster was trying to figure out a way to effectively do on-line on-demand content around 7 years ago (in the y2k range) and basically it was a no go because infrastructure didn't give an even enough level of availability to people to make it viable. A few people had DSL and Cable modems which would handle it, but not enough market to consider the service viable.
I personally think in the longer run it will be something along the lines of WiMax that wins out because it isn't tied to a ground based distribution network (fibre, cable, phone lines). But that's the hopeful futurist in me talking.
Because heaven knows Sony hasn't thrown around a ton of money to make sure it gets as many studios and others on the Blu Ray train.
Both Sony and MS throw money into supporting the horse that their respective wagon is tied to. That's how it is.
And I agree that in the long term on line distribution will win, but before it can the internet as we know it needs some substantial upgrading. Not to support the concept (it already does), but to support what happens when the masses start using it.
I tried Vista, and took weeks wrestling to get drivers to install and work for things. In the end I had to go back, why?
Because in XP you can have a video card with two monitors present to the system as one very wide monitor. In Vista you can't and there is a very blunt statement from MS about that fact that their display architecture will never support that. Until they do I can't game the way I like to in Vista, so I stay with XP.
I know to avoid things if it involves giving private information to Google. "Do no evil" motto or not they have already shown they can and will bend to the right political pressure (i.e. China), or the right financial pressure (i.e. focused ad targeting).
My concern is how many people will blindly use it who don't know better. How many of those people will be ones I have to deal with? How much information about me will they be storing on G that I won't have control over? What happens when the government gets power happy again and decides that since it's stored on a public server they should have transparent access to it?
TANSTAAFL...
Yes, they may stop SELLING it.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread imagine what MS could gain by saying:
"OK, Vista is our flagship product. XP is our old class of product that's stable, but we aren't going to be developing new capabilities for it anymore. So from now on XP is free. If you like XP, you'll probably LOVE Vista, and there will be a nice upgrade path for you for a small fee."
What happens if MS offers up an OS for free too? Sure they stop making money on OS licenses. But if people are locked into the platform that's just money down the road on applications and/or bringing them up to Vista.
I think you missed some of his point.
It's not that the 360 or ps3 are bad systems. It's that what they really added to the previous generation was a little better graphics, a little more storage space, small upgrades in individual aspects of the product.
What the Wii did was introduce a really different way of playing the games, and in the process has tapped into a market the ps3 and 360 couldn't dream of. Ergo, the impact of the Wii on the console gaming genre is larger even through the technological advances involved aren't.
And this is pure selfishness.. I have certain games I play which can only support dual monitors if it's presented to the game/os as one wide monitor. This is called span view, you can set it up on most nVidia cards and it rules.
Microsoft decided they wanted more granular control over the display so now the new WDDM doesn't support Span view at all.
It's funny that out of XP 32, XP 64, and Vista (32/64) the best option to run all the software I need to is XP 32.
Unfortunately I am one of those people for whom a full move to *nix won't happen until the bulk of games I enjoy so much will run on it without me needing to take up "managing emulation/virtualization" as a hobby.
You might be surprised exactly how elegant some of the vista cracks seem to be.
When it all comes down to it somewhere along the line some manufacturer or OEM screams loud enough that it's too much of a hassle to do X, Y or Z. As a result MS capitulates and makes an "easy out" for them. Hackers find these easy outs, and POOF.. no activation required.
I believe it was Frank Abingale recently who discussed this. Technology makes it easier and easier to be dishonest and deceitful. Instead of trying to make technology to make it harder to break the laws, the only real recourse is to start making people ethical and moral enough to not need technology to make them do the right thing.
Unfortunately this seems to be working against one of the most basic human drives, greed.
This whole seemingly systematic smackdown being applied by the judicial system to the RIAA on what looks like multiple fronts is really getting close to making me have faith in our judicial system again... almost.
Well,
Apple, with all it's forced tie ins, lock in, lock out, DRM and other yadda yadda are still easily the number one mp3 player BY FAR. Even with all the far more open options out there (its debatable that even the Zune is even more open than the iPod.)
What incentive do they have to do differently?
You could potentially argue the "look at what happened to MS with Vista and all their DRM and rights management and WGA.." But the problem is that Vista has faltered to the degree it has because it's not that good an OS and not really a needed upgrade, not because of any amount of DRM in it.
I don't feel any compelling need to go shell out hundreds of bucks for an HD player before the standards even settled.
OTOH, I can just let a torrent run in the backgound for a while and have HD copies of entire SEASONS of shows. Shared over my home network, played on a Win MCE PC attached to my DLP set.
Ease of use trumps spending lots of cash.
Which of course means. They should both get in their giant battle robots and have at it, last bot standing wins.
AdBlock all you want.
When sites stop getting the money they need to keep running and go subscription, or worse yet shut down all together, don't complain.
The whole model of ad sponsored websites is a social contract of sorts. They agree to provide you content, you agree to look at the ads which pay for the content to be provided. Break one side of the arrangement and the other falls apart soon enough.
You are not owed a "free internet experience". Free content is not a right, it's a privilege you get some some providers, but not your right.
A study from two universities in states which are predominantly liberal (based on voting history) finds that liberals are "more flexible and accepting of new ideas". Shock of shockers!
Whereas I do wholly believe that there are differences in cognitive style between people are distinctly different personality types (which often gets expressed in political views), I don't give a lot of credence to the findings of a study where they base it on seeing one of two letters, and one of them is the letter associated with the leader of a particular mindset.
Then the immediate conclusion drawn uses two things the democrats tend to want to harp on , being Bush in Iraq, and that Kerry was "swift boated".
Unfortunately it smacks of an agenda from the word go IMHO.
So they don't want to just be associated with workstations, so they change their symbol to the name of one particular software product they produce. I boggle at this.
Why not change the symbol to something like SunS (Sun Systems, oops taken), or SunT (...technologies) , or Sunn (...networking, but also taken...)
You get the idea. Keep the identity they have as Sun, because that does carry recognition. Far more than I think they think Java does. It would be like MS changing their ticker to WNDZ or the federal government getting the ticker symbol DCMA...