Then they should make available free OS updates to their hardware customers. Or quit selling the updates altogether, since, as you say, 'they make the software to sell their hardware.' 'Update' customers should be forced to buy a new machine to update.
That's how your comment can be interpreted. The current business model, where they periodically suck revenue out of their hardware customers for OS updates doesn't hash at all with a 'They make the software to sell their hardware' rationale.
Logic 7 Pro is a 'niche' application with a limited audience. (I think it would be a great thing to have, but many people could care less about it). Security for it can't compare to that for wide-audience products. It can be made secure in part because it's expensive and 'support' will certainly be part of the package for purchasers.
Apple's OS, on the other hand is widely distributed and many more people want it. Apple can't afford the kind of hand-holding (tech support call: "put the dongle in and try again and if that doesn't work we will overnight you another dongle.") that comes bundled with products like Logic Pro.
The Nike swoosh increases the value of a baseball cap
I've gone out of my way so long to call it 'The Adidas swoosh' that that's now what I think of it as. It's almost time to start calling it 'the New Balance Swoosh' for awhile.
And actually, the 'Nike swoosh' just increases the probability that a dumbass will purchase a baseball cap. Which effectively lowers the value of the brand, unless selling to dumbasses is a profitable venture. (oh, wait....)
A fully-functional die is an 800-series Opteron. It has loads of cache and four working HyperTransport links. If some of the cache doesn't work (most likely, since most of the die of any modern processor is cache) then it becomes a cheaper model. If some of the HT links aren't working, then it is downgraded to a 400, 200 or 100 series. In the worst case, it becomes an Athlon 64, or even a Semperon. If an entire core is too defective to use then it becomes a single-core part.
[putting on clownish AMD fanboy hat just for fun]
"At what point does the die become defective enough that they ship it to Intel to be a Pentium IV?"
I think you meant "a hotter chip that costs more to produce."
And as far as volume, not being able to ship to potential customers is a disaster. It means your competitor's market share grows. If AMD and Intel were producing identical commodity products, it wouldn't matter as much.
I can purchase 'Pink Tie Linux' from cheapbytes. So can Larry Ellison. If sites start contracting with Oracle to support their Linux, don't you think they could order a bunch of 'Pink Tie Linux' CDs from cheapbytes? Cheapbytes only charges $12.99 for the distro on DVD.
Your site might have a less convuluted network and/or hardware that Oracle understands better and can thus support better. The GP might work in an IT Madhouse.
It's also a huge problem for Cisco's marketing department, if customers start discovering 'Hey, we ran cheap Cisco knockoff hardware for four years and never even noticed. Can we get that stuff more directly from the knockoff producer?'
Confused? I voted for mediocre candidates in all four instances who didn't deliver on their promises.
I am disappointed, but not confused.
And I don't think my voting practices are that unusual. I, um, just voted for the 'winner' in all four races. Which I'm not particularly proud of, but there it is.
Why are you required to install iPhoto, iMovie HD, and iDVD? 'GarageBand' is starting to sound like some horrible kludge that encourages 'Music Videos' and other abominations.
Slashdot Mirror
Sun still sells systems. With their own processor, even.
(Apple always just packaged somebody else's processor)
You reacted like you're offended I referred to it as a niche application. Whoop de doo. I suppose.
Agreed. Apple used to make high end computing devices. Now they sell sugar water, er, iPods, for the rest of their lives.
I considered the irony the first time I saw an iTunes promotion on a Pepsi bottle.
They make the software to sell their hardware.
Then they should make available free OS updates to their hardware customers. Or quit selling the updates altogether, since, as you say, 'they make the software to sell their hardware.' 'Update' customers should be forced to buy a new machine to update.
That's how your comment can be interpreted. The current business model, where they periodically suck revenue out of their hardware customers for OS updates doesn't hash at all with a 'They make the software to sell their hardware' rationale.
Logic 7 Pro is a 'niche' application with a limited audience. (I think it would be a great thing to have, but many people could care less about it). Security for it can't compare to that for wide-audience products. It can be made secure in part because it's expensive and 'support' will certainly be part of the package for purchasers.
Apple's OS, on the other hand is widely distributed and many more people want it. Apple can't afford the kind of hand-holding (tech support call: "put the dongle in and try again and if that doesn't work we will overnight you another dongle.") that comes bundled with products like Logic Pro.
The Nike swoosh increases the value of a baseball cap
I've gone out of my way so long to call it 'The Adidas swoosh' that that's now what I think of it as. It's almost time to start calling it 'the New Balance Swoosh' for awhile.
And actually, the 'Nike swoosh' just increases the probability that a dumbass will purchase a baseball cap. Which effectively lowers the value of the brand, unless selling to dumbasses is a profitable venture. (oh, wait....)
You mean they're in this trouble because Dell isn't buying enough AMD processors?
I heard the Ford Motor Company was in trouble, too. Is it because Dell isn't buying enough Ford trucks?
[putting on clownish AMD fanboy hat just for fun]
"At what point does the die become defective enough that they ship it to Intel to be a Pentium IV?"
[rim-shot]
As long as AMD can produce a better, faster chip
I think you meant "a hotter chip that costs more to produce."
And as far as volume, not being able to ship to potential customers is a disaster. It means your competitor's market share grows. If AMD and Intel were producing identical commodity products, it wouldn't matter as much.
I can purchase 'Pink Tie Linux' from cheapbytes. So can Larry Ellison. If sites start contracting with Oracle to support their Linux, don't you think they could order a bunch of 'Pink Tie Linux' CDs from cheapbytes? Cheapbytes only charges $12.99 for the distro on DVD.
Your site might have a less convuluted network and/or hardware that Oracle understands better and can thus support better. The GP might work in an IT Madhouse.
I think you meant to type Mastodon.
those who wonder why you'd write 10 base 3 as "ten".
And then there are those who write 10 base 2 as 'thin net.'
It's also a huge problem for Cisco's marketing department, if customers start discovering 'Hey, we ran cheap Cisco knockoff hardware for four years and never even noticed. Can we get that stuff more directly from the knockoff producer?'
Don't laugh too loudly. You'll draw attention to yourself. Then it's all over. You'll have to go hide out in a shack in Montana.
Confused? I voted for mediocre candidates in all four instances who didn't deliver on their promises.
I am disappointed, but not confused.
And I don't think my voting practices are that unusual. I, um, just voted for the 'winner' in all four races. Which I'm not particularly proud of, but there it is.
I voted for Bush. Twice. Voted for Clinton twice, too. (I know, I know. Dumb fuck four times over....)
So I am now 'personally responsible' for something??
I don't send anything out through 'webmail.' Typing secure communications into a webform that isn't even on an HTTPS server is just lunacy.
Now, are you scanning all traffic going through your mail server(s)? Not so handy, is it?
Not in the circles you keep, it seems.
It would be so expensive to 'monitor all calls' that the government would go broke overnight.
That form of repression is just too expensive in an open society.
But have fun in your fantasy world.
There is a substancial difference between registering a domain name and posting on a blog.
I'm willing to bet nobody will have the guts to register as Liu Shiochi or Chou Enlai (sp?)
Why are you required to install iPhoto, iMovie HD, and iDVD? 'GarageBand' is starting to sound like some horrible kludge that encourages 'Music Videos' and other abominations.
That is one of the great things about being whomever you are. It's not a special 'Woz' thing.
Wozniak is NOT the inventor of the Mac. Neither is Jobs, of course.
Woz wasn't even very involved with the company any longer by the time the Mac team threw together that wunnerful 128K 'visionary' prototype.
Careful, there. If you polish a turd enough, the Apple logo begins to show, and then even the trashman won't pick it up.
*rimshot*
(mod this down to the mud, Jobs-ites)