11th December 2005 Archive

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On the licensing chain gang

I've installed some software today. All perfectly legal and paid for, and registered online. So that's another DVD case I'd better not lose, because it has my serial number on it in case I ever need to reinstall. But it's all a bit like the supermarkets getting people to pack and deliver their own groceries. Why should my CPU …

Developer 11 Dec 2005, 01:01
Gartner looks to 2005 world chip sales of $235bn

Well up on chip makers' own forecast

World+dog will have spent $235bn on semiconductors this year, up 6.9 per cent on 2004's total, according to market watcher Gartner. The 2005 figure marks the first time the industry has sold more chips than it did in 2000, a record-breaking year. Then, some $223m worth of semiconductor products were sold. Gartner's forecast …

Reg Hardware 11 Dec 2005, 10:59
Let's get cohesive

Comment Biting into sound principles

It is entirely possible to write applications as a monolithic slab of undifferentiated code. Indeed, for some this appears to approach an art form, with a stream-of-consciousness code style not dissimilar to Jack Kerouac's spontaneous, amphetamine-fuelled writing style. Caffeine is the more likely the drug of choice in …

Developer 11 Dec 2005, 11:19