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NeXT COMPUTER IS BACK!!!
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Close.. It's actually NeXT BeeGee... notGeeBee... and will be promoted by 3 men that sound like women.
Close.. It's actually NeXT BeeGee... notGeeBee... and will be promoted by 3 men that sound like women.
Durandal7: IBM annouced that OS 2/ Warp is not dead, and that they will continue to provide it as logn as people want it (and some people actaully do)... so what you're saying is not 100% correct, if at all.
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Re: Re: Re: NeXT COMPUTER IS BACK!!!
I think you're entirely missing the point. I was just proving that Crude Analogy was completely wrong in saying that Apple had ZERO Debt 316 million is practically 10% of apple's liquid capital and that is a fairly considerable sum. Also, a large amount of capital like that isn't going to boost apple's profits very much if they just let it sit there without investing it in R&D, Advertising, and other companies.
I think you're entirely missing the point. I was just proving that Crude Analogy was completely wrong in saying that Apple had ZERO Debt 316 million is practically 10% of apple's liquid capital and that is a fairly considerable sum. Also, a large amount of capital like that isn't going to boost apple's profits very much if they just let it sit there without investing it in R&D, Advertising, and other companies.
NEW NEXT INFORMATION.
NeXT2's forth-coming "Tetrahedron" is the result of exhaustive research conducted by its core team of computer science engineers and -- does this fit? -- fluid dynamics engineers.
In the mid nineties, Cray Computer Corporation lead a program which yielded disappointing results: the Cray 3 Project, destined to shut down Cray for good, was started with the bright hope that by its end, a true indium-gallium-arsenide molecular computer would be produced; better known as a Feynman Quantum Computer. Such technology would literally reset the face of modern computing -- a unit so potent in its calculative abilities, it was estimated that ANY question, no matter how deep or philosophically abstract, could be solved within a timeframe of .02 microseconds: less time than it takes for a humming bird to flap its wing one seven hundredth its full distance.
Welcome to 2003.
In the ensuing years since the collapse of the Cray 3 Project, and Cray itself, Apple Computer, Inc., and its subsidiary, NeXT2, have come to the fore, bringing new hope for the future of quantum computing. First, they bought the results of Cray's experiments, sealing them from exposure to the prying eyes of other greedy techno-glomerates. Second, they established six separate teams of elite engineers trained in computers and physics -- a unique blend of technical expertise. These teams were stationed at distant points around the world, completely isolated from one another and unable to share data. Their mission: build on Cray's research, discover what went wrong, fix it, and voila -- produce the world's first functioning FQC.
In September of 2002, the San Jose, Ca. team, lead by Dr. Ving Toyotami, did just that.
"It is, above everything else, a relief," reports the doctor. "We are now sharing information [with the other research groups], and have been able to work out little quirks through comparative analysis.
"I think this effects humanity more than anything else -- from this day forward, every possibility will be realized. Nanotechnology, biotechnology, cures for AIDS, cancer, everything -- even time travel [sic] . . . with the Feynman QC now fully assembled and understood, we have the key to unlock mankind's future, and to ensure his eternity in the darkness of this otherwise impenetrable universe."
The original project name was "Triangle." One engineer called the final product, encased in a large anti-static container, "the NeXTQC." And NeXT2 is using a kind of allusion to both, a tribute to the project's original sobriquet and a toast to its future evolution and integration into the fabric of human life:
They call it, "Tetrahedron."
NeXT2's forth-coming "Tetrahedron" is the result of exhaustive research conducted by its core team of computer science engineers and -- does this fit? -- fluid dynamics engineers.
In the mid nineties, Cray Computer Corporation lead a program which yielded disappointing results: the Cray 3 Project, destined to shut down Cray for good, was started with the bright hope that by its end, a true indium-gallium-arsenide molecular computer would be produced; better known as a Feynman Quantum Computer. Such technology would literally reset the face of modern computing -- a unit so potent in its calculative abilities, it was estimated that ANY question, no matter how deep or philosophically abstract, could be solved within a timeframe of .02 microseconds: less time than it takes for a humming bird to flap its wing one seven hundredth its full distance.
Welcome to 2003.
In the ensuing years since the collapse of the Cray 3 Project, and Cray itself, Apple Computer, Inc., and its subsidiary, NeXT2, have come to the fore, bringing new hope for the future of quantum computing. First, they bought the results of Cray's experiments, sealing them from exposure to the prying eyes of other greedy techno-glomerates. Second, they established six separate teams of elite engineers trained in computers and physics -- a unique blend of technical expertise. These teams were stationed at distant points around the world, completely isolated from one another and unable to share data. Their mission: build on Cray's research, discover what went wrong, fix it, and voila -- produce the world's first functioning FQC.
In September of 2002, the San Jose, Ca. team, lead by Dr. Ving Toyotami, did just that.
"It is, above everything else, a relief," reports the doctor. "We are now sharing information [with the other research groups], and have been able to work out little quirks through comparative analysis.
"I think this effects humanity more than anything else -- from this day forward, every possibility will be realized. Nanotechnology, biotechnology, cures for AIDS, cancer, everything -- even time travel [sic] . . . with the Feynman QC now fully assembled and understood, we have the key to unlock mankind's future, and to ensure his eternity in the darkness of this otherwise impenetrable universe."
The original project name was "Triangle." One engineer called the final product, encased in a large anti-static container, "the NeXTQC." And NeXT2 is using a kind of allusion to both, a tribute to the project's original sobriquet and a toast to its future evolution and integration into the fabric of human life:
They call it, "Tetrahedron."
Wait... he might be on to something here...
Just found this.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/friday_after_next/
I haven't watched it yet, but I'm led to believe that it's the story of Apple's buying out of NeXT, and the triumphant pheonix-like rise of NeXT2.
Or it could be a romantic comedy.
Just found this.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/friday_after_next/
I haven't watched it yet, but I'm led to believe that it's the story of Apple's buying out of NeXT, and the triumphant pheonix-like rise of NeXT2.
Or it could be a romantic comedy.
scifi or sci fact
http://www.npac.syr.edu/nse/hpccsurvey/orgs/craycc/craycc.html
does this not sound like the cube?
http://www.npac.syr.edu/nse/hpccsurvey/orgs/craycc/craycc.html
does this not sound like the cube?
A brief excerpt from the keynote session at Supercomputing '96, November 19, 1996 , regarding Seymour Cray.
"Seymour liked to work with fundamental and simple tools. Generally only a piece of paper and a pencil. But he admitted that some of his work required more sophisticated tools. Once when told that Apple Computer bought a CRAY to simulate their next Apple computer design, Seymour remarked, "Funny, I am using an Apple to simulate the CRAY-3." His selection of people for his projects also reflected fundamentals. Once asked why he often hires new graduates to help him with early R&D work, he replied, "Because they don't know that what I'm asking them to do is impossible, so they try."
"Seymour liked to work with fundamental and simple tools. Generally only a piece of paper and a pencil. But he admitted that some of his work required more sophisticated tools. Once when told that Apple Computer bought a CRAY to simulate their next Apple computer design, Seymour remarked, "Funny, I am using an Apple to simulate the CRAY-3." His selection of people for his projects also reflected fundamentals. Once asked why he often hires new graduates to help him with early R&D work, he replied, "Because they don't know that what I'm asking them to do is impossible, so they try."