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Great... this is just typical. You'd figure that the KGB is still involved in tapping your phone in Russia, what about the CIA, the CBI, and other intelligence agencies. The scary part is that voice recognition technologies keep getting better, so it's probably easy enough for the government to monitor all communications and hone in on key words that are spoken!

SolidWorks on Linux?

Whoa... I thought you were referring to the Barney mod for Doom. But, yet another Microsoft hilarity. Do you think the writer's at Microsoft get a kick out of putting up stuff like that. It's almost like the newspapers when they write their headlines.

NUG30 lost to distributed processing!

Well, it makes sense. Web browsers for animals explains why pets.com is still in business?! What the?! Well okay, so Koko the Guerilla could speak using sign language. Hey Mr. Business man, any start-up that's internet related is NOT necessarily a good idea. This idea would be an example of a business plan to pass-up if you saw it. (3 months later, I insert my foot in my mouth as a company has IPO'd for 50 billion)

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Well, seeing as the telephone companies have been known to tap for years, why is this such a huge surprise. Not saying that Verio is doing such a thing, but you can even find packet sniffers on the machines they control in their own network. There could be all kinds of stuff someone could run even from a leased box. I'm the government has to take some measures to catch the evil pr0n runners!

Cyber-Newscaster Ana Nova Sold for $144 million

With all the games coming out that are oriented around cellphones, and little itty-bitty displays, this is a welcome change. Supporting Mozilla is a great thing... Netscape has been doing some great stuff lately. Love that Open Directory!

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The Super-Penguin Bros. Racing... Who will win, pengio, luipi??

Dassauly buys Spatial

I was in a school for "gifted" children and we were exposed to computers as soon as they came out. We had a lab of Apple IIs even in Elementry School. I'd be willing to bet that we are all better off than the poor chumps who had to wait 10 years to have those same machines passed down to them.

Dassault buy Spatial

Well, can't blame IBM after Intel's Business Development team has obviously got to everyone else. Once the first big one falls, the rest follow. Business is all BD and S&M. Business Development, Sales & Marketing.

Dassault buys Spatial

Linux-fest sounds like too many LUGgers have nothing to do with their time. When will you ever need to be the fastest installer of Linux? Can you really put that on your resume? Better to be a little slower and not have a ton of post-dated problems.
Of course, it might just be that I'm really jealous that I'm no competition. ;)

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the article was from ZDNet and is a totally different rendition of the mouse?! Instead of being squeezed the mouse works off of a tapping motion?!

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there was some of the discussion a couple of days ago over here. Different article, though

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there was some of the discussion a couple of days ago over here. Different article, though

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Another thing that it doesn't seem to mention is that there is a glass ceiling. Even if a female is smart, or adept at their job, they are held to a limit. How many women CEOs do you see out there? You don't see it because the business is run off of a good ol' boys network. Either you're part of the network or you're not. Advancement isn't really based on merit. I mean how many managers have you met that know what the hell they're talking about?
if you have, please refer to Dilbert to have your brain washed.

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We I started University there were very few women engineers, by the time I left (6 years later) there was quite an improvement. I think that support is needed to associations like the Society of Women Engineers, PASAW, and other womens groups. I sure that having male members support is just as key, the females.

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promoting open source is as easy as writing something useful, and letting people out there know it's for free. Everyone searching for a tool will appreciate having this great useful find. (if you deliver junk for free, however, that's usually when people say I don't need an orange peeler/pencil sharpener!) Catch my drift?

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Okay, so I can screw up my Linux box again by installing the Voodoo3 server which doesn't work. I'm back on on the XF_SVGA server, thank god. Anybody know if the sh*t works nows?

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if you've gotta do it, at least do it right!!

it's h8, not h8t,

and I h8 anonymous morons.

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if you've gotta do it, at least do it right!!

it's h8, not h8t,

and I h8 anonymous morons.

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Okay... this is yet more support for Open Source that makes sense. Actually the only reason I say that is because people need to see what's going on in the code when they are using a package that is going to deal "sensitive" data or server monitoring. Good Choice...

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Okay... this is yet more support for Open Source that makes sense. Actually the only reason I say that is because people need to see what's going on in the code when they are using a package that is going to deal "sensitive" data or server monitoring. Good Choice...

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well, that was kind of a bitch slap. Metrics are hardly ever relevant when taken out of context like that, though.

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wow... okay RSA in javascript. JavaScript is non-standard across browser platforms, buggy as hell, and now add the complexity of encryption? I beet read that closer??

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Wasn't Sony the one that opened up the PSX... and they also created that black version for regular people to develop with?!

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this is shameless, but I had to do it... get free stuff that's actually free (but not exactly)

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this is shameless, but I had to do it... get free stuff that's actually free (but not exactly)

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What they forgot to tell you that the T1 connection isn't included??

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so... they just said that they were going to slow down now that they beat the 1GHz barrier. Need to put the brains up to something.. so go to 64bit?

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man... I don't know anybody that's going to this either. I think that its just a matter of the internet catching the new product release fire. You can check thing out way before the actual show nowadays, and their is plenty of product info on the net without the crowds.

or, it could just be the lack of free t-shirts

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man... I don't know anybody that's going to this either. I think that its just a matter of the internet catching the new product release fire. You can check thing out way before the actual show nowadays, and their is plenty of product info on the net without the crowds.

or, it could just be the lack of free t-shirts

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well, there are as many frequency bands as the US Government's FCC says there are.

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to infinity and beyond. Okay, so people have like been there and done that? But, what's definately cool about this that this can begin a cold war space race between India and Pakistan. That way America can look back at what happened to the Soviet Union and reflect on what's going to happen in the Indus Valley.

Also, big money in launching satellites. Kazikstan(sp?) might want to start getting worried as well.

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we had this discussion over at cadfu... okay, not exactly.

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we had this discussion over at cadfu... okay, not exactly.

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anybody see this wired article. Appearantly people just aren't going to PC EXPO or COMDEX like they used to! Must be the lack of open source. ;)

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"a Federal Appeals Court has struck down COPA (The Children's Online Protection Act)."

Okay, so US children are wards of the state until the are no longer minors. So, wouldn't the government be fearing for the protection of their children or something. I don't agree with censorship, it just seems kind of weird that children have no 'real' rights, yet they are such a big legal topic (whether its COPA or Elian Gonzalez).

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Hey, whats up with this brand new technology... digital? Since Star Wars is being shot digital, and the characters are starting to be digitally developed, is the Academy going to let them get an Award?! Seems only fair, right?! I mean since digital flicks that are webcast aren't elegible right.

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This is probably not some plot by the other chip manufacturers. It all comes down to sales channels and building up a market. Once there is a great demand, it is difficult for companies not flock to a product. This is basically what happened with Linux. The demand was there, and companies starting losing sales because they didn't have the OS. I'm sure the same thing will happen with TransMeta chips.

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The interesting thing is that with electronic documents, they probably won't have to give you anything on paper, per se.
do that open things up to changing warranties?

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Okay. So, now we have AOL/Time Warner jumping in bed, you can see that ever major provider can see the future. Cisco is going full force telephony with the IP Phones they're going to release in a few months. That means that the battle is on, and everyone is going to want to merger to pool resources in the tought battle ahead.
- enter the DOJ

Hey, we want to become all powerful, err... keep people from getting screwed.



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it may be that there are great advantages, but completely changing a protocol that has been the main-stay for so long is difficult, if not impossible!
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one of my former professor at UCSB helped start google, and I was going to work at Inktomi. After having seen both from a very scruntous level, I believe that Yahoo is probably doing the right thing! Key difference: the engines relevancy. Inktomi's engine is probably a better distributed system, however, in my opinion google better understands language and interface.

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holly shit! does that mean we have to worry about leakage?!

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well, be prepared for the devil of details! Memory Expanders in hw are cool, but there must still be the hidden gotchas, like zipping a zip makes the file larger not smaller. Not to mention overhead, with additional operations needing to be executed this ram surely can't be faster. Though, I bet its faster than swap. ;)

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Hey, you know I bet Sun is just shaking in their boots... yeah right. The biggest problem Microsoft has is defining any of these kind of standards right now it the same problem they had with Visual J++ and Visual C++. They are so Windows-centric that they forget about the importance of portability. Like MFC, and half the other shit they make which ends up stangling a developer to a particular platform. There's a reason Java will remain popular, and that's Sun's devotion to portability and stability.

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This is greatly disturbing... it gets right back to an organization spearheading a (join us, or we're gonna screw you) ultimatum to the rest of the net! I mean we all know how many lost sales Napster is supposed causing. Wooo... the evil corporation?!

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This will only slow down production... I'm sure they realize that. That will increase prices in itself, then when they add a licensing fee on top of that, they hope few will notice. Isn't this a monolopoly of the SDRAM market?

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ya know... there's an interesting discussion over at cad-fu about how all software is going to the ASP model. Now, you merge that with some transmeta type action, and boom, you have the software that runs through the internet everywhere. or do you?
well, its the thought that counts.


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ya know... there's an interesting discussion over at cad-fu about how all software is going to the ASP model. Now, you merge that with some transmeta type action, and boom, you have the software that runs through the internet everywhere. or do you?
well, its the thought that counts.


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Well, Mr. Hemos, one step further away from geekdom. Will your wife still let you come out and play every once in a while. :)


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here is a link to that press release


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