Nothing stops them writing a descrete DRM application on top of Linux/GPL'd code.
It is the restriction to GPL'd code that this will prevent.
And personally I see nothing wrong with them deciding to shut down their application if they see changes to the base OS, they don't need DRM to do that just something like a tripwire approach.
Apparently you have no idea what GPLv3 is about, do you.
Re:Well, Linus is an ass, what's new.
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Centralization of the VCS itself has little or no effect on this. How would a distributed VCS inhibit your team from acting this way?
I said we work with plenty of binary files that can't be merged, hence they have to be locked. You can't lock a file if there's no central place where you lock it.
Again, SVN and GIT are just two different approaches that work for different type of projects. The projects I work on are 30% design, and as such I want to give my designers webdav access or at least visual GUI that's very easy to understand and use. I'm not making kernels, and I don't work alone.
So propositions like "you need to spend lots of time working with it to appreciate" is a deal breaker for me.
Even if GIT has superior features, features isn't the only thing I'm interested it, but the overall package.
You are not 'unable' to do anything. You are unwilling. Easy solution: release your code under the GPLv3. Keep with the spirit of the community which gave you a whole operating system for FREE.
That's only easy to say, not to do. If they release the full source to their DRM, it's even less of a DRM and they'll get sued again.
Here's an easier solution: port to FreeBSD or another free OS that doesn't get released under GPL3. That's what will happen in the end.
The DRM is already cracked and it requires little to no effort to extract tivo video files to DRM free files. I don't see a problem with them biting the dust on this one, its a feature designed to limit us and thats something I dont want.
Here's the thing: TiVo's not rushing to limit you either. In the beginning, they didn't. And companies sued the hell out of 'em.
Now, with GPL3, they're between a rock and a hard place: if they keep the DRM, and include GPL3 software, they breach GPL3 and may get sued by FSF, for example. But if they remove the DRM or open source their code, they'll get sued by the whole of Hollywood and TV program providers.
Trust me, if Hollywood would say "hey, y'know what, we won't sue you after all", they'll release a patch dumping the entirety of their DRM the next day and run loud and obnoxious TV ads announcing this fact.
Don't be confused by the labels. Source Code Management means different things to different people, and there isn't always much overlap in how each person defines it. Ships and airplanes are both 'vehicles', but that doesn't mean that a few changes will turn one to the other.
I've not heard an aeroplane manifacturer say "man, all of you who drive cars, gotta be away in a mental institution or something. cars have to be thrown out, sad, but true"
If all you've ever known is centralized version control, you don't know what you are missing. Having used *both* centralized and decentralized version control on the same projects, I can say that decentralized wins hands down, but you have to work with it for a while to truly appreciate it.
No, wait: I recognize the benefits if his system. The problem is, his system has benefits with open source projects at most. Since he said he believes OSS is the only good model to make a piece of software, can I blame him for saying SVN sucks? Nope.
But here's what: in OSS, he can afford to "reject 99% of the branches out there". This is because he "believe[s] most of you guys are incompetent idiots".
In a small team, we don't throw 99% of our work out or keep a consistent base of developers who we believe are incompetent idiots. Instead, we work together, frequently communicate, have fast turnaround times, and often work with files that can't be actually merged together (such as design related files, AI, PSD etc.).
I clearly see the benefits of his system, but it shines for his own needs, SVN shines for the needs of the majority of small teams out there, and for more linear/classic style organized projects.
It also works for the majority of small OSS projects, which can't afford to be spread in hundreds of branches at a time, as features are clearly defined, priorities as well, so there's no need to spread what we do in hundreds of branches by definition.
Also one of the benefits he mentions, basically everyone has his own branch and can diff locally with the other revisions, until someone "pulls" from him. That's handy but in its very basic core is the same as SVN cache. I can diff locally, save files as much as I want, revert files to the locally stored revisions etc., before I commit to the central repo. Not quite all the features he has, but as long as it does the job, that's all that takes.
Well, Linus is an ass, what's new.
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No one said that if you're famous and contributed something incredible to the world (such as Linux) you can't speak out of your ass most of the time, just because you enjoy how everybody listen and try to decipher if they should care about it, or just laugh and pass by.
I use SVN if a medium sized team and see SVN used extensively in all kinds of projects around the globe with great success. I personally love the workflow of SVN.
The only thing that they need to work is merging of branches, and incidentally I've talked to the developers, they're quite aware of this flaw of SVN and working on it. We'll see new versions that can track changes in each branch and even attempt automated merges with good success.
I know a guy who has the same personality like Linus. The guy is very smart, he single-handedly is coding an application which is very popular in its area (won't mention it since that's internal stuff). He keeps bitching all the time: about customer feature request, about random products and how sucky they are, how people can't see that. And he could also change his opinion overnight for no apparent reason and go in the other extreme. But he's a friggin' programming genius and what he does is great, despite is takes a lot of effort to deal with him.
Well, probably those two go together: being an amazing creator, and being an amazing ass with huge ego. Who knows.
I fail to grasp the meaning of this news. So the new xml based formats are distinctively different than the previous ones (different serialization), and since businesses aren't so quick to move to a brand new and untested piece of software, they reject it. Furthermore, their current press preparation products can't import the new format yet.
And?
You can be sure 2-3 years from now they'll be accepting Office 2007 documents just fine.
To those suggesting latex and pdf... please, have you ever worked in a magazine? While PDF and PostScript is usually how the final print is being exports, you don't just paste a PDF on the page that someone submitted and call it a day. There's extensive typesetting, adjusting of the whole material, addition of ads, checks for style consistency. What about Latex... this comes from the same people who said we should scratch all media players and Flash, and go for Ogg: in your dreams, Linux fans.
Word is a good format for submission since it's flexible enough and the content can be pasted in, say PageMaker or InDesign, and adjusted for print. All products support some level of import from DOC formats, and they don't support import from DOCX format.
ODF would be good too... if... there was support in said press preparation software. And there isn't any I know of.
So, while I like ODF and so on, don't just declare blindly the open formats the best thing just yet, since there are far more practical reasons commercial formats enjoy such popularity in the industry.
Honestly if things randomly become unresponsive on your machine there's a bigger problem than using windows. I'm using Windows for ages and never had that problem. This is a list of apps you'd normally find running all the time on my PC:
Photoshop Dreamweaver Flash Illustrator Eclipse Outlook Express ICQ / Skype / MSN OneNote One or more of those apps (one or more windows of each): Firefox, Opera, IE Winamp frequently, VMWare with a booted Linux or Windows image in it (for testing) frequently, TV tuner running at PAL resolution with noise filter and realtime deinterlaciug on it. frequently, 3DSMax
I don't have amazing system my any standards: Celeron with 1 GB RAM, and XP SP2.
If the problem is with the OS, and not with the hardware you were using, or even more likely some garbage you installed on all machines you worked on, how come I don't experience those weird "slowdowns" you're talking about?
That is the stupidest thing I ever heard. Unfortunately, that is often the way things *do* work, but it should not be.
Ok smartass, let me know how it SHOULD be, not how it SHOULD NOT be.
Maybe people in doubt should remain at their places, run the morals and trust in the government low (as if it's not already)? Who's interests are more important. The job of a politician or the stability of a huge country.
Second of all, these amounts are ridiculously small. Does anyone seriously thinking $1,000-$9,000 is going to buy major legislation? That won't pay for their gold letter opener on their desk. Sheesh, if that's all it takes to pass legislation, I'll pay a couple thou to get MY pet legislation passed.
In short, what's the story here?
Question is: if someone hasn't agreed to lobby about RIAA, why would RIAA pay him even $1. Because they like USA? And thus just randomly send 50 politicians some pocket change?
Things in politics are simplified: if you're suspect in immoral or illegal activity, you should step down. There more than enough people, who are as good or better than you, to take your place. No one is irreplaceable.
If people who hate RIAA dearly (for whatever reason) voted for someone who accepted even $1 from RIAA, they have the right to know, and correct their voting decisions.
Personally, I can't understand how anyone can be in the same room with the sound of a stock cooler, let alone try to sleep in the same room with one.
Speak for yourself. I actually can't sleep with my PC turned off. I'm so used to the noise of the fans, that if exposed to complete silence I immediately get paranoias that someone's coming to get me and someone's watching me.
But that nothing compared to the noise in my ears I hear without fan noise, from all the long ears of exposure to loud music.
If anything, stock cooling fans are making my life good again, I'd never abandon them for a stupid silent aftermarket solution!
Also, maybe you're not understanding the workflow of many mac users. don't shutdown my computer and I don't reboot. I rarely ever shutdown about 5 major applications.
I like Mac (on which I test sites/apps), I like Windows (which I use), and I like Linux (on which my server runs).
But for some reason Mac users believe they've got some special workflow that the rest of us are deprived. Not shutting down your PC at night doesn't mean you're a Mac user. Many Windows users do that too.
It just means that you either put yourself to sleep watching downloaded shows on your Mac (so it remains on), and/or are downloading stuff from P2P (so it remains on), or you're lazy and forget to turn it off (so it remains on).
There's no benefit for a desktop user to run his machine 24/7. I used to do this, staying on for months on XP. But it just means bigger electricity bills. Maybe Macs run on steam so there's no such problem with them, I don't know.
But honestly, the mythical "frequent rebooting and resetting" of Windows, just like the Blue Screen of Death, is one of those things that died with the 9x series of Windows (95/98/Me). NT is a completely different architecture, which for no point in its development suffered from those problems.
I have a huge cock. Nature saw fit to bless some of us more than others, enjoy your prime numbers nerds!
Hi, I'm a prime number nerd [adjusts glasses]. Actually having a huge male sex organs could lead to great difficulty making sex with most women. It may not enter fully, and requires significantly more foreplay than average to average-big organs. Also statistics show that girls normally don't enjoy pushing their ovaries in their throat during sex.
Therefore, I must conclude it's better to have long fingers, as they not only make you better at math, but better at playing piano. Both of which could lead to a better financial situation, and every nerd knows it's easy to score if you're rich, while it's much harder to score waving your wang around and pointing out how big it is.
24. Wasting my time in overly long and overly plenty Slashdot posts instead of doing anything either from the beginning of the list, or the end of it.
Whining is easy, it has been easy for centuries, but now with the Internet, it's even easier. I'd rather take the web shooter than this, thank you very much.
I think the Nintendo Wii will do better than the 360 and PS2, even though the specs are lower. Microsoft and Sony were both reaching for performance but they forgot all about the fun!
Microsoft, Sony, RIAA, MPAA, SCO are evil! Google, Linux, GNU, EFF, Apple are not evil! Copyright infringement is not theft! DRM can't work, it'a a bunch of ones and zeros!
Not everybody in slashdot knows how silicon industry works. Some of us actually welcome people like the grandparent who puts the news into perspective. Although for someone it may be obvious information, for other people it's not.
Orly:P Let's recap what he said in short:..:: Chapter 1: Obvious statements::..
The image is part of a press release. Since AMD currently has worse chips, what AMD needs to do is have better chips. If AMD dies, Intel becomes a monopolist. Monopoly is bad. It's very expensive to start a chip business in your garage nowadays...:: Chapter 2: Hopes and Fears::..
He hopes AMD's chip is very good. He fears if it's not, AMD won't take the lead. He fears if AMD keeps underperforming, it may go bankrupt (now, that's actually a bunch of bull, but I won't refute it since I'm lazy). He fears all of this is "very real possibility".
It's not his fault really, it's the moderators. Anyone of us is free to come here and compile a list of crap and post it. Hell, even the GNAA do it, and they never had anything interesting to say so far. But if moderators keep modding pedestrian observations of this kind, people will just lean to posting more of it. I remember there used to be some interesting stuff in the comments before, people came here to read the comments.
On-chip connectivity can be much broader and lower-latency than off-chip connectivity. The two-dual-core in one package "quad cores" of Intel have to talk via the off-package north bridge. As you can see from the AMD Barcelona/K10/10h snapshot, the cores live together on a single piece of silicon.
According to Intel engineers though, communication between the chips was never a bottleneck, so the avantages of one vs the other design are questionable. I'm not a processor engineer, but that holds true everywhere: throwing resources in improving something that's not a bottleneck.. actually does NOT help performance. Logic 101.
And BTW:
AMD just sent over a tasty photo of a Phenom die.
All right! So I can print is and try it on a compatible motherboard, right? Right..
Ok.. let's split this in statements and see what information or insight it brings us:
I know that this is just a ploy to build up hype for the new processors... No way! I just hope that the processor performs up to expectations. Someone who hopes for it to fail?
AMD really needs to respond to the Core 2 Duo's with something that tells the world that they are still in the race. That was really insightful, totally didn't expect that coming
I really don't want to see Intel become the unchallenged winner of the silicon wars... likewise: very interesting material!
it would hurt us users in the long run. wow!
I fear that it is a real possibility however. !!!
The cost of fabs, R&D, and marketing have grown so much in the last few years that it would be VERY difficult for any newcomer to compete with Intel no one even realized that, it's good someone reiterated it here for us
unless they managed to develop a completely different and low cost way to manufacture their chips... or they are very heavily backed.by.. aliens right? alien technology or something.
In recap: thank you very much, you did it again, Captain Obvious!
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Those fotos are all fake: NASA setup a Mars stage on the Moon, and colored it red in Photo Shop. They used Total Recal as a referens!!
Such obvios scam, I can't believe youv fallen for it, guyz!
There is really only one broadband provider in the US and it's intentionally crippled by M$ and the MAFIAA.
O_O
Honestly if you can prove to me that this sentence is making even some limited amount of sense, I'll give ya a hundred bucks immediately.
Nothing stops them writing a descrete DRM application on top of Linux/GPL'd code.
It is the restriction to GPL'd code that this will prevent.
And personally I see nothing wrong with them deciding to shut down their application if they see changes to the base OS, they don't need DRM to do that just something like a tripwire approach.
Apparently you have no idea what GPLv3 is about, do you.
Centralization of the VCS itself has little or no effect on this. How would a distributed VCS inhibit your team from acting this way?
I said we work with plenty of binary files that can't be merged, hence they have to be locked. You can't lock a file if there's no central place where you lock it.
Again, SVN and GIT are just two different approaches that work for different type of projects. The projects I work on are 30% design, and as such I want to give my designers webdav access or at least visual GUI that's very easy to understand and use. I'm not making kernels, and I don't work alone.
So propositions like "you need to spend lots of time working with it to appreciate" is a deal breaker for me.
Even if GIT has superior features, features isn't the only thing I'm interested it, but the overall package.
You are not 'unable' to do anything. You are unwilling. Easy solution: release your code under the GPLv3. Keep with the spirit of the community which gave you a whole operating system for FREE.
That's only easy to say, not to do. If they release the full source to their DRM, it's even less of a DRM and they'll get sued again.
Here's an easier solution: port to FreeBSD or another free OS that doesn't get released under GPL3. That's what will happen in the end.
The DRM is already cracked and it requires little to no effort to extract tivo video files to DRM free files. I don't see a problem with them biting the dust on this one, its a feature designed to limit us and thats something I dont want.
Here's the thing: TiVo's not rushing to limit you either. In the beginning, they didn't. And companies sued the hell out of 'em.
Now, with GPL3, they're between a rock and a hard place: if they keep the DRM, and include GPL3 software, they breach GPL3 and may get sued by FSF, for example. But if they remove the DRM or open source their code, they'll get sued by the whole of Hollywood and TV program providers.
Trust me, if Hollywood would say "hey, y'know what, we won't sue you after all", they'll release a patch dumping the entirety of their DRM the next day and run loud and obnoxious TV ads announcing this fact.
Don't be confused by the labels. Source Code Management means different things to different people, and there isn't always much overlap in how each person defines it. Ships and airplanes are both 'vehicles', but that doesn't mean that a few changes will turn one to the other.
I've not heard an aeroplane manifacturer say "man, all of you who drive cars, gotta be away in a mental institution or something. cars have to be thrown out, sad, but true"
If all you've ever known is centralized version control, you don't know what you are missing. Having used *both* centralized and decentralized version control on the same projects, I can say that decentralized wins hands down, but you have to work with it for a while to truly appreciate it.
No, wait: I recognize the benefits if his system. The problem is, his system has benefits with open source projects at most. Since he said he believes OSS is the only good model to make a piece of software, can I blame him for saying SVN sucks? Nope.
But here's what: in OSS, he can afford to "reject 99% of the branches out there". This is because he "believe[s] most of you guys are incompetent idiots".
In a small team, we don't throw 99% of our work out or keep a consistent base of developers who we believe are incompetent idiots. Instead, we work together, frequently communicate, have fast turnaround times, and often work with files that can't be actually merged together (such as design related files, AI, PSD etc.).
I clearly see the benefits of his system, but it shines for his own needs, SVN shines for the needs of the majority of small teams out there, and for more linear/classic style organized projects.
It also works for the majority of small OSS projects, which can't afford to be spread in hundreds of branches at a time, as features are clearly defined, priorities as well, so there's no need to spread what we do in hundreds of branches by definition.
Also one of the benefits he mentions, basically everyone has his own branch and can diff locally with the other revisions, until someone "pulls" from him. That's handy but in its very basic core is the same as SVN cache. I can diff locally, save files as much as I want, revert files to the locally stored revisions etc., before I commit to the central repo. Not quite all the features he has, but as long as it does the job, that's all that takes.
No one said that if you're famous and contributed something incredible to the world (such as Linux) you can't speak out of your ass most of the time, just because you enjoy how everybody listen and try to decipher if they should care about it, or just laugh and pass by.
I use SVN if a medium sized team and see SVN used extensively in all kinds of projects around the globe with great success. I personally love the workflow of SVN.
The only thing that they need to work is merging of branches, and incidentally I've talked to the developers, they're quite aware of this flaw of SVN and working on it. We'll see new versions that can track changes in each branch and even attempt automated merges with good success.
I know a guy who has the same personality like Linus. The guy is very smart, he single-handedly is coding an application which is very popular in its area (won't mention it since that's internal stuff). He keeps bitching all the time: about customer feature request, about random products and how sucky they are, how people can't see that. And he could also change his opinion overnight for no apparent reason and go in the other extreme. But he's a friggin' programming genius and what he does is great, despite is takes a lot of effort to deal with him.
Well, probably those two go together: being an amazing creator, and being an amazing ass with huge ego. Who knows.
I fail to grasp the meaning of this news. So the new xml based formats are distinctively different than the previous ones (different serialization), and since businesses aren't so quick to move to a brand new and untested piece of software, they reject it. Furthermore, their current press preparation products can't import the new format yet.
And?
You can be sure 2-3 years from now they'll be accepting Office 2007 documents just fine.
To those suggesting latex and pdf... please, have you ever worked in a magazine? While PDF and PostScript is usually how the final print is being exports, you don't just paste a PDF on the page that someone submitted and call it a day. There's extensive typesetting, adjusting of the whole material, addition of ads, checks for style consistency. What about Latex... this comes from the same people who said we should scratch all media players and Flash, and go for Ogg: in your dreams, Linux fans.
Word is a good format for submission since it's flexible enough and the content can be pasted in, say PageMaker or InDesign, and adjusted for print. All products support some level of import from DOC formats, and they don't support import from DOCX format.
ODF would be good too... if... there was support in said press preparation software. And there isn't any I know of.
So, while I like ODF and so on, don't just declare blindly the open formats the best thing just yet, since there are far more practical reasons commercial formats enjoy such popularity in the industry.
Honestly if things randomly become unresponsive on your machine there's a bigger problem than using windows. I'm using Windows for ages and never had that problem. This is a list of apps you'd normally find running all the time on my PC:
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Flash
Illustrator
Eclipse
Outlook Express
ICQ / Skype / MSN
OneNote
One or more of those apps (one or more windows of each): Firefox, Opera, IE
Winamp
frequently, VMWare with a booted Linux or Windows image in it (for testing)
frequently, TV tuner running at PAL resolution with noise filter and realtime deinterlaciug on it.
frequently, 3DSMax
I don't have amazing system my any standards: Celeron with 1 GB RAM, and XP SP2.
If the problem is with the OS, and not with the hardware you were using, or even more likely some garbage you installed on all machines you worked on, how come I don't experience those weird "slowdowns" you're talking about?
That is the stupidest thing I ever heard. Unfortunately, that is often the way things *do* work, but it should not be.
Ok smartass, let me know how it SHOULD be, not how it SHOULD NOT be.
Maybe people in doubt should remain at their places, run the morals and trust in the government low (as if it's not already)? Who's interests are more important. The job of a politician or the stability of a huge country.
Second of all, these amounts are ridiculously small. Does anyone seriously thinking $1,000-$9,000 is going to buy major legislation? That won't pay for their gold letter opener on their desk. Sheesh, if that's all it takes to pass legislation, I'll pay a couple thou to get MY pet legislation passed.
In short, what's the story here?
Question is: if someone hasn't agreed to lobby about RIAA, why would RIAA pay him even $1. Because they like USA? And thus just randomly send 50 politicians some pocket change?
Things in politics are simplified: if you're suspect in immoral or illegal activity, you should step down. There more than enough people, who are as good or better than you, to take your place. No one is irreplaceable.
If people who hate RIAA dearly (for whatever reason) voted for someone who accepted even $1 from RIAA, they have the right to know, and correct their voting decisions.
Personally, I can't understand how anyone can be in the same room with the sound of a stock cooler, let alone try to sleep in the same room with one.
Speak for yourself. I actually can't sleep with my PC turned off. I'm so used to the noise of the fans, that if exposed to complete silence I immediately get paranoias that someone's coming to get me and someone's watching me.
But that nothing compared to the noise in my ears I hear without fan noise, from all the long ears of exposure to loud music.
If anything, stock cooling fans are making my life good again, I'd never abandon them for a stupid silent aftermarket solution!
Also, maybe you're not understanding the workflow of many mac users. don't shutdown my computer and I don't reboot. I rarely ever shutdown about 5 major applications.
I like Mac (on which I test sites/apps), I like Windows (which I use), and I like Linux (on which my server runs).
But for some reason Mac users believe they've got some special workflow that the rest of us are deprived. Not shutting down your PC at night doesn't mean you're a Mac user. Many Windows users do that too.
It just means that you either put yourself to sleep watching downloaded shows on your Mac (so it remains on), and/or are downloading stuff from P2P (so it remains on), or you're lazy and forget to turn it off (so it remains on).
There's no benefit for a desktop user to run his machine 24/7. I used to do this, staying on for months on XP. But it just means bigger electricity bills. Maybe Macs run on steam so there's no such problem with them, I don't know.
But honestly, the mythical "frequent rebooting and resetting" of Windows, just like the Blue Screen of Death, is one of those things that died with the 9x series of Windows (95/98/Me). NT is a completely different architecture, which for no point in its development suffered from those problems.
Use with caution, as it will shut down the internet.
What about Ogg [wikipedia.org] (+Vorbis/Theora)?
Flash and Windows Media are just as bad as RealMedia. No improvement this far, in my opinion.
That's not a pissing contest about quality. It's a pissing contest about industry support and userbase, availability.
In other words, where on Earth am I to go for lots of good OGG content? What can I find in OGG format? Some training Linux video?
Flash is about being 98% coverage, and light, small, easy to use. It uses MP3 and On2 6 for video. Not the best, but no one needs the best.
I have a huge cock.
Nature saw fit to bless some of us more than others, enjoy your prime numbers nerds!
Hi, I'm a prime number nerd [adjusts glasses]. Actually having a huge male sex organs could lead to great difficulty making sex with most women. It may not enter fully, and requires significantly more foreplay than average to average-big organs. Also statistics show that girls normally don't enjoy pushing their ovaries in their throat during sex.
Therefore, I must conclude it's better to have long fingers, as they not only make you better at math, but better at playing piano. Both of which could lead to a better financial situation, and every nerd knows it's easy to score if you're rich, while it's much harder to score waving your wang around and pointing out how big it is.
Even easier
What the hell was that? Wasn't it a piece of ad/scam-ware that filled your desktop with crap and had misleading purchase options?
Didn't it die eons ago? I wouldn't know.
You forgot to include one more:
24. Wasting my time in overly long and overly plenty Slashdot posts instead of doing anything either from the beginning of the list, or the end of it.
Whining is easy, it has been easy for centuries, but now with the Internet, it's even easier. I'd rather take the web shooter than this, thank you very much.
I think the Nintendo Wii will do better than the 360 and PS2, even though the specs are lower. Microsoft and Sony were both reaching for performance but they forgot all about the fun!
Microsoft, Sony, RIAA, MPAA, SCO are evil!
Google, Linux, GNU, EFF, Apple are not evil!
Copyright infringement is not theft!
DRM can't work, it'a a bunch of ones and zeros!
Not everybody in slashdot knows how silicon industry works.
:P Let's recap what he said in short: ..:: Chapter 1: Obvious statements ::..
..:: Chapter 2: Hopes and Fears ::..
Some of us actually welcome people like the grandparent who puts the news into perspective.
Although for someone it may be obvious information, for other people it's not.
Orly
The image is part of a press release.
Since AMD currently has worse chips, what AMD needs to do is have better chips.
If AMD dies, Intel becomes a monopolist. Monopoly is bad.
It's very expensive to start a chip business in your garage nowadays.
He hopes AMD's chip is very good.
He fears if it's not, AMD won't take the lead.
He fears if AMD keeps underperforming, it may go bankrupt (now, that's actually a bunch of bull, but I won't refute it since I'm lazy).
He fears all of this is "very real possibility".
It's not his fault really, it's the moderators. Anyone of us is free to come here and compile a list of crap and post it. Hell, even the GNAA do it, and they never had anything interesting to say so far. But if moderators keep modding pedestrian observations of this kind, people will just lean to posting more of it. I remember there used to be some interesting stuff in the comments before, people came here to read the comments.
On-chip connectivity can be much broader and lower-latency than off-chip connectivity. The two-dual-core in one package "quad cores" of Intel have to talk via the off-package north bridge. As you can see from the AMD Barcelona/K10/10h snapshot, the cores live together on a single piece of silicon.
According to Intel engineers though, communication between the chips was never a bottleneck, so the avantages of one vs the other design are questionable. I'm not a processor engineer, but that holds true everywhere: throwing resources in improving something that's not a bottleneck.. actually does NOT help performance. Logic 101.
And BTW:
AMD just sent over a tasty photo of a Phenom die.
All right! So I can print is and try it on a compatible motherboard, right? Right..
In recap: thank you very much, you did it again, Captain Obvious!