Post #190,047
1/13/05 10:27:14 AM
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Mac unit sales up 26%, iPods up 525%
[link|http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jan/12results.html|Apple Reports First Quarter Results] Apple shipped 1,046,000 Macintosh\ufffd units and 4,580,000 iPods during the quarter, representing a 26 percent increase in CPU units and a 525 percent increase in iPods over the year-ago quarter. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #190,051
1/13/05 10:42:45 AM
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That ain't too shabby...
In any market. This year will also be a Banner year for Apple, especially with the new product introductions.
In combination, Apple has a 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 punch series in its line up. From very inexpensive to the biggest rockets you can handle and Apple is leaning to do some other things.
Rumbling about a completely new product-line, I read before, has new meaning after the "Mini" announcement, makes me think we are about to see a major innovation (not that the other stuff isn't) in this industry again. Maybe next Macworld? Maybe sooner. Maybe later.
The rumblings I have read were in relation to recent discussion going on between Apple, Novell, IBM and another UNIX company (NOT SCOG). The details are not even there, just the discussion mentioned obliquely as something to remember.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #190,079
1/13/05 1:11:52 PM
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re: ANIU... Something along these lines, perhaps?
[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/13/ibm_cell_chip/|TheReg on the Cell processor], [link|http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10323259.htm|SJMN story on Cell processor]. [link|http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=6809734.WKU.&OS=PN/6809734&RS=PN/6809734|IBM's Cell Patent]. It's a hardware JVM, er JM, among other things: A computer architecture and programming model for high speed processing over broadband networks are provided. The architecture employs a consistent modular structure, a common computing module and uniform software cells. The common computing module includes a control processor, a plurality of processing units, a plurality of local memories from which the processing units process programs, a direct memory access controller and a shared main memory. A synchronized system and method for the coordinated reading and writing of data to and from the shared main memory by the processing units also are provided. A hardware sandbox structure is provided for security against the corruption of data among the programs being processed by the processing units. The uniform software cells contain both data and applications and are structured for processing by any of the processors of the network. Each software cell is uniquely identified on the network. A system and method for creating a dedicated pipeline for processing streaming data also are provided. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #190,119
1/13/05 7:11:01 PM
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Holy cow!
Has anyone besides me REALLY read the Patent and looked at all the Drawing and other data available?
This could definitely be what they are talking about. Shitazu.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #191,103
1/21/05 3:35:09 PM
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More detailed look and speculation on the Cell.
[link|http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html|Here], via Slashdot. Cell is going to turn the industry upside down, nobody has ever produced such a leap in performance in one go and certainly not at a low price. We'll see. I hope for the best, but his comments seem a little over-the-top. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #191,108
1/21/05 4:14:14 PM
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That's /. at its core
Rampant rumor, speculation and outright fabrication in every post.
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
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Post #191,208
1/22/05 8:19:58 PM
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Except the ones that know what they're talking about
Now if you can identify which those are, you've got a future in this business.
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Post #190,502
1/17/05 5:59:41 PM
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Looks more like hardware VM rather than JM to me.
Coupled with the (apparently easily designed) ability to decide how many VMs to include on a chip, and a built in way of breaking a problem up into pieces for parallel processing by those VMs, along with the ability to look for other cells with VMs accessible to the owner for problems that are too large for the current chip.
Does sound pretty revolutionary to me; want a cluster? Buy a dozen of 'em and network 'em. Bang -- automagic computing cluster.
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