Posts by Jango19 posts • joined Friday 1st February 2008 15:38 GMT
I hate in when an article makes one think it's straightforward to move chip production between Fabs that easily!
TSMC, UMC and Common platform (IBM, Samsung and Chartered Semiconductors) all have different reference flows and it's a major change to move from one to the other. From what I've experienced in the EDA industry, each platform has its own pros and cons, however TSMC has been where I have seen production nodes shrink fastest. If they've cleaned out their 22nm process to improve yields, it might prove beneficial for Apple. It's not a simple case of changing fabs cuz they're pretty pissed off at Samsung right now.
Entetanz in German would mean 'duck dance', anyone else notice this?
... encouraged people to take up farming in their gardens
We all know by now that the 'magic' in Kinect lies in the software. Hardware cost just isn't the right metric for cost calculation these days what with east asian companies ever striving to lower their price compared to the competitors.
That said, 95 is still a huge profit margin even after the other costs are factored in, but I for one am glad that kinect is not from Apple. I wouldn't want to spend 200+ quid toy only to buy games downloaded from iTunes that St. Steve has deemed fit for us.
Surely you meant epilogue
Webkit is a fork of KHTML - which is enitrely open source and free. Apple would have no choice but to open source webkit because of this.
If Apple had built one from scratch, rest assured that it would be as closed and prorietary as it gets.
Yes, but they will not occupy the CPU, only memory and ideally should occupy negligible power unless they are performing tasks.
There are plenty of apps which can kill such tasks though. No big deal!
But Barbie's blonde ....
Paris - cuz she's in the same league
iPad .... reminds me of the Mad TV skit I saw a few years ago. A must watch if you ask me
The author speaks as though only Windows kernel is full of workarounds ... give me a break! Look around you .... anyone who has worked on the Linux source code will know that it is full of workarounds and magic numbers and all that jazz.
Workarounds are the way software is written, so as not to sacrifice backward compatibilty . Its a necessary evil, albeit one that could be avoided with a very well planned design. Get used to it!
Did they really have to make it as clumsy as OpenOffice? Haven't they heard of Keep It Simple Stupid
I remember working on the exact same algorithm a few years ago. The patent in question was based upon a research paper 'Compressing differences in executable code'. One of the co-authors of this paper Udi Manber now works for Google I think. So the original author has helped write Courgette, but a different company holds a patent ... interesting to see how this will pan out given the pathetic US patent system
Is it just me ? Lately I see unwarranted criticism of anything MS on the reg.
C'mon reg, you are supposed to report, not just launch into mindless ranting about something MS has pulled off. The world would indeed be a sad place if MS was just like Apple.
Infact, it just seems like reg has become the Apple tamed press lots of other sites report about!
With the slick KDE-4 now released, I hope to see more developers switching sides.
To quote Linus Torvalds - "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE."
Could it be for the game consoles that Apple reportedly filed a patent application for as reported a few months ago ??? But I'm not sure if the acquired chip makers can design processors of that Calibre
About time somebody gave Apple the bird. Maybe they are afraid people will realize how they have been dishing out more bucks just for the half eaten fruit logo when something cheaper is better or more likely they'll start seeing how crappy OSX is once it needs to run (or more likely crash) on other non-Apple hardware. But who can reason with them mactards - "In the land of the blind, Stevie is the king".
... how fast will the memory hogging OS run on 1GB RAM and a non-core2duo processor ?
Now that sounds as a shock !!!
You had better spend those billions rectifying and optimising your crappy softwares Ballmer
