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Mentions '20% cheaper' and uses less power than LCD...

Geek dating!

Huh ?!? Of course not, according to Mr. Gates

But at the same time 640k was supposed to be enough for everybody... hmmm

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The way I understand it, it seems that VMware's plan is to not focus at all on software end of the security problem but put most of it's focus on the hardware end. You can read more at CNET.com's site
there they seem to say that the strength of VMware is that it emulates the underlying hardware. I suppose that given that you could have multiple operating systems which just reside on one computer and use the same computer but have nothing to do with one another. The way it sounds to me is that it's (possibly) an easier version of a dual or tri- boot. But if one were to try to do that within an operating system there seems like there would have to be a tremendous number of obstacles to overcome. Maybe it would just be better if they used a bootloader like the one that comes with Partition Magic or LILO. Encrypt each partition (or separate hard drive) or something so that they were each separate and you couldn't just boot into any partition. And run the system that way were each different partition is separate and encrypted.

Here's CNET's report on the story.

Instead, why not look at two of the storiesSlashdot didn't care to accept for you today.

Instead, why not look at two of the storiesSlashdot didn't care to accept for you today.

I'm thinking the computer from Star Trek. Or that one communications commercial I saw with the pretend, futuristic agent software saying "I got those tickets you wanted."

Then, the OS would be all but gone to the end user. Wouldn't it?

BTW, in other news, MS has released some of its source code to businesses, and they've also started to tie media management into the OS. But since neither is obviously important to the Slashdot community, Rob and Co. doesn't feel a need to accept the stories. Whatever.

I'm thinking the computer from Star Trek. Or that one communications commercial I saw with the pretend, futuristic agent software saying "I got those tickets you wanted."

Then, the OS would be all but gone to the end user. Wouldn't it?

BTW, in other news, MS has released some of its source code to businesses, and they've also started to tie media management into the OS. But since neither is obviously important to the Slashdot community, Rob and Co. doesn't feel a need to accept the stories. Whatever.

Speech recognition isn't perfect. It's not technology you can use casually, but it is usable with practice and training (for the software and the user). John Ousterhout, the creator of Tcl/Tk, has been using it for years after he developed problems with his wrist.

Until a year ago, there were four leading speech recognition firms out there: Lernout & Hauspie, Dragon Systems, IBM, and Philips (barely). Dragon was near bankrupcy, and L&H bought them last year. Now L&H is being rocked by financial scandals (see this list of articles on them in CNET), and may go under as well.

IBM, on the other hand, has supported their ViaVoice SDK for Linux for a long time. They also sell their ViaVoice dication software for Linux.

Without IBM, speech recognition might die. I'm glad to see they're pushing it futher, especially on Linux.

P.S.: "Voice recogintion" identifies people; "speech recognition" turns what they say into text.

P.P.S. It's possible to bind sneezes, sniffles, coughs, etc., into "null text."

You have a Dell 5450 and you want to run Linux 2.4 with Oracle? That's a good combo because Dell and Oracle have teamed up to do database serving on Linux. Look at the links below and you'll see what I mean.

"Dell Computer and Oracle agreed Wednesday to establish a Linux center in Austin, Texas... Dell will use the facility, which is scheduled to open in the spring, to test and tune Oracle databases running on Intel-based systems running Linux. Oracle also agreed to use Dell's servers and storage products for building the Oracle 9i database on Linux, the companies said." CNet News

"Oracle has announced all of its major Internet Platform software products on Linux, including Oracle8i(TM) Release 3, the latest version of its database; Oracle9i(TM) Application Server; and Oracle JDeveloper with Business Components for Java and Oracle Forms, two popular Oracle application development tools. In August 2000, Oracle announced an industry first with the shipment of the first enterprise-edition application server on Linux. Oracle adds to its firsts with Linux with the addition of Oracle Parallel Server and Oracle Internet File System." eltoday

Use 2.4, use that SMP and let's see if 2.4 is up to the job. Now you'll be able to convince those who say linux is not ready for production environments. Btw, don't listen to that guy about using win2k. He's an AC. Microsoft is starting to spread some serious FUD now that they take Linux seriously. I'm not really into the nix vs. ms war, but damn, Microsoft is obviously taking some notice. If anything, do as he said and dual boot your system. If win2k beats out Linux 2.4 in all aspects, then by all means use win2k instead. Somehow, I don't think that will be the case. Who knows? Maybe you've been destined by the Gods to run the first benchmarks.

I have read a lot of material from Microsoft that is directed at Linux. Various Microsoft employees have said to the effect, Linux is not ready for the enterprise, it doesnt scale, major players don't support it, It's not really free, etc... Well, I did some research and while I see some of Microsofts points, the majority of their rhetoric is either pure FUD or libelous marketing because that's the only thing Microsoft can do now. Microsoft can't buy Linux, can't "embrace and extend", can't buy a company and put it out of business, and basically can't do anything. I will now list a series of excerpts from various articles suggesting that linux is ready for prime time. I have also put in the links if you want to read the whole article. Here are some strong backers of Linux and various contributions and/or excerpts:


IDC
has predicted that Linux will hold 38 percent of the market by 2004. Interestingly enough, Microsofts group products manager, Doug Miller, claimed that recently released numbers from IDC System Software Research show that "Linux growth in server OS share has been flat for two quarters, and Unix and Novell continue to fall." Even more interesting is that IDC manager, Al Gillen, would not confirm Miller's analysis. Wired News

IBM
Big Blue committed to spending $300 million on Linux services over the next three years. IBM has already committed to investing $1 billion in Linux over the next 12 months. President and COO, Sam Palmisano, said "IBM has made our choice....we put a significant amount of IBM's future prosperity behind Linux. We don't invest a billion dollars casually. Lou [Gerstner] and I don't write those checks without, shall I say, some engaging meetings." Big Blue also unveiled Linux-based network processor software development tools and services for ISPs and networking equipment vendors, including:

Domino Workflow on Linux -- software which enables customers to build, modify and improve business processes like employee hiring and CRM by streamlining and automating interactions

Plans to expand Linux support for Tivoli Systems management software

IBM Director for advanced systems management software available on Linux for the IBM eServer xSeries product line, including a "self healing" feature to predict server failures

Availability of the NetVista Thin Client, the N22001, running Linux

Linux-certified IntelliStation Z Pro workstations based on Intel's new 64-bit Itanium processor.

Citing such real-world Linux customers as Weather.com, Shell Oil, and National Center For Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Palmisano said people who doubt that the operating system can scale to the biggest of applications are just wrong. Weather.com, one of the Web's most popular sites, supports anywhere from 5 million to 27.5 million page views per day running Linux and can scale even higher to 40 million per day, according to the company's CTO Mark Ryan. Techweb or eltoday

Oracle
Has ported Oracle 8i already to Linux. They recently released "Oracle Internet File System" and "Oracle Parallel Server" for Linux. If this isnt a major move by a major company then I don't know what is. Databases need to scale and thus if Linux can scale then Microsoft is full of it... Read on. "Oracle Parallel Server is the most mature and trusted high-availability database technology available for the Linux platform. It provides sub-minute failover capability, allowing Linux environments to achieve significantly improved levels of application and data availability. Oracle Parallel Server allows applications running on any server in a cluster instant access to all data in a database, and will support up to a 4-node, 8-way cluster." Hello Microsoft do you see this?

"Oracle has announced all of its major Internet Platform software products on Linux, including Oracle8i(TM) Release 3, the latest version of its database; Oracle9i(TM) Application Server; and Oracle JDeveloper with Business Components for Java and Oracle Forms, two popular Oracle application development tools. In August 2000, Oracle announced an industry first with the shipment of the first enterprise-edition application server on Linux. Oracle adds to its firsts with Linux with the addition of Oracle Parallel Server and Oracle Internet File System." So much for the myth of no vendor backing. eltoday

SGI
Is looking at linux as the future. Much of SGI's work is underground and less advertised. Much of it is kernel level enhancements, such as scalability, NUMA, big memory support, etc... SGI has released several of it's graphical products for linux such as, Open Inventor, Open GL Performer, and many other high end development tools. In the filesystem arena, XFS is in stable beta and is very promising for mass storage management and reliability. Open Source at SGI

Dell
"Dell Computer and Oracle agreed Wednesday to establish a Linux center in Austin, Texas... Dell will use the facility, which is scheduled to open in the spring, to test and tune Oracle databases running on Intel-based systems running Linux. Oracle also agreed to use Dell's servers and storage products for building the Oracle 9i database on Linux, the companies said." CNet News

Not enough corporate backers? Think again. Here are some other companies who have started partnerships with linux companies, cooperated, released specs, or released products for linux: Informix
Compaq
HP
Sun
Cisco
AMD
Intel
IDG
Adaptec
O'reilly and Associates
Nokia
Tivo
NeTraverse Inc.
3dfx
Nvidia
Creative
this list goes on and on......

More info: Borland's new app will help developers port their Windows apps to Linux. Hooray! The story can be found on C|Net's News.com website.

The problem with capped Karma is it only goes down...

More info: Borland's new app will help developers port their Windows apps to Linux. Hooray! The story can be found on C|Net's News.com website.

The problem with capped Karma is it only goes down...

More info: Borland's new app will help developers port their Windows apps to Linux. Hooray! The story can be found on C|Net's News.com website.

The problem with capped Karma is it only goes down...

The recent essay by John Gilmore is another "required reading". I realized something that isn't entirely obvious from listening to industry execs and so on. The DMCA essentially allows corporations to create new laws on their own.

Under the DMCA, it is illegal to bypass content control systems. That means that if a corporation can come up with a way to remove our rights -- even if those rights are legally protected -- it's illegal for a consumer to do anything about it. For example, we all know that CSS eliminates some of our fair use rights. The DMCA makes it illegal to bypass CSS. Therefore, we have lost our rights by default. SDMI is another example. We have the right to freely copy music for personal use. The RIAA didn't like this, so they created SDMI, and boom! it's illegal to make a copy of my own music.

Big corporations are now in control of the legal system.

Anyway, check out this article with news on where Sega is heading, including making games for PS2, Gamecube and Gameboy Advance.

Sega's got a good head on its shoulders when it comes to software. I wouldn't fret about them totally dying out (and I can't wait to see the Sega developers cut loose on the PS2. They might release some of the best games to hit the system).

They denied that they were dumping Dreamcast a week ago:

http://yahoofin.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4575165.h tml?tag=pt.yahoofin.financefeed..ne

And this "backing by Lucent" is supposed to inspire confidence?

And this "backing by Lucent" is supposed to inspire confidence?

I've met a Basic programmer some (long) time ago that hated C, but was forced to learn it.

He would be interested to know that C is so much alike Basic, after all, it can't be much different if there is a tool to convert basic to C.

And I've a web developer here that got frustrated by ASP on *nix, so he is learning PHP, he would also be amazed to learn that there can't be much different between ASP & PHP because there is a tool to covert ASP to PHP.

I'm working on a games review site - Meltdown Gaming - (yes, that was a plug), and of the games we've been reviewing, I'd think something more along the lines of Airport Tycoon or maybe Stardock's The Corporate Machine excellent business sim would be more along the lines to judge dollars and sense.

Or, just put them out on the streets, with a copy of Dope Wars. (for Win95, now! whoo!) :)

For even more fun, pit the CS students against the business majors - have one semester's class project be to write a business sim the next semester's class has to successfully complette in order to pass... *evil grin*

Or even better - have them attempt to start thier own successful dotcom...or is that already an accepted practice?


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"But HP said its single-box packaging is a big deal--so big that it has applied for a patent."

"The main purpose of doing it is not the savings," said Sam Szteinbaum, business manager for HP's North America consumer PC unit. "It's really ease of use, simplifying the choice."

Anyone know what happened to this ?

about a ISP that is not backing down to the MPAA threats
news.com
good timing

You are incorrect. This article states the follwing:

Microsoft said that beginning Tuesday night and through Wednesday morning users have been getting no response from the affected Web sites. Sohn said the problem stems from Microsoft's Domain Name Servers, which translate requests to various Web servers. The servers are operated and maintained by Microsoft.

BTW- when it comes to downtime and everyone bashing MS, please note that it took me over 5 minutes of retries to post this message, and it was not because I posted any other messages within the last minute.

Im sure this will be considered flamebait, but oh well, I dont post often anyways.

Here's another statement of denial from Sega. Too bad they have to waste time with these gossip queens.

What part of "plans for the dreamcast are huge and long term" indicates that they'll confirm the rumors any day now?
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Not that I wouldn't mind seeing the Dreamcast die. I bought one of those worthless Playstation 2's in October the day they came out, and there still hasn't been a good game released for the system yet. All my friends have Dreamcast systems with a large library of impressive and fun games. I can totally see why Sega would want to kill their machine - they've got too many good games - and online support that lets 4 people play a First Person Shooter through one console, ONLINE!! Someday the PS2 will be that cool, but not yet.

Joseph Elwell.

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Transmeta is under no obligation to build the next Crusoe with the same ISA, and probably won't.

...and already haven't. Their existing two part families (the TM3200 and TM5400/TM5600) have different ISAs under the hood. Apparently, the TM3200 doesn't handle legacy 16-bit code as well, so they went back and improved that with extra functionality found only in the TM5xxx families.

Now what would be interesting is if Transmeta offered a better "meta-assembly language" that was both easier for them to decode and translate, and simultaneously served as a better compiler target. That's perhaps asking too much. At least the "Transmeta running x86-64/AMD-Hammer" thing sounds interesting...

On a different note, another reason they don't want you coding to the native ISA is that not only are the x86 instructions emulated, but also some of the legacy x86 peripherals are emulated as well. It makes perfect sense to at least partially swallow up some things, like timers and interrupt controllers and emulate them in software, avoiding unneeded bus traffic. It speeds up the CPU and reduces power.

Rather than being backlit like other color LCDs, the iPaq instead has small lights around its edge, which reflect off the screen and make it brilliantly bright, even when outdoors in direct sunlight.

Secondly, how many buttons and keys do you think you need? The iPaq's got a directional control plus four buttons in front, and probably 3 or 4 along the side. So, I don't really buy either of your complaints.

The glaring weakness of gaming on the iPaq is Compaq did a poor job of making sure that the buttons act independently of each other. The Cassiopeia handles this perfectly, though, so it's not some inherent problem with PDAs. If Compaq would quit being stubborn and fix that button problem in their next model, they'd have an even bigger winner on their hands than they do with the current one.

Cheers,

More coverage.

Genomeweb article
http://www.genomeweb.com/articles/view-article.asp ?Article=2001119102156

CNET News.com
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4534657.html

Yahoo
http://news.search.com/click?sl,news.43.232.940.0. 4.compaq+sandia+celera.0,http%3A%2F%2Fc%2Emoreover %2Ecom%2Fclick%2Fhere%2Epl%3Fk14425460

ABCNews.com
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/g enome_compaq010119.html

Be's press release - Be Announces Development of BeIA Client Software for Sony's New e Villa Network Entertainment Center

Sony's press release - SONY SIMPLIFIES -- AND MAXIMIZES -- THE INTERNET WITH NEW e Villa(TM) NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT CENTER

CNET - Sony trots out Web-browsing eVilla with Be OS

BeNews - Sony's eVilla "Network Entertainment Center" Uses BeIA

It's just Sony's entry into the IA market, and it used BeIA. But then, Sony are just a little company after all.... :P

Why all the negative references about Pocket Pool, I happen to think it is a fun game.

You won't find out a lot about Crossgain if you go to their Web site:

At Crossgain we are laying the foundation for the next generation Internet. Radically simplifying how people build and deploy applications on the Web, we are solving problems that others think are impossible.

In the coming weeks, you'll be hearing more about us. A lot more. It will be worth the wait.

(Their job listings are pretty discrete, too, though they mention Unix a lot of times and Windows only once.)

Somehow, Microsoft knew enough about what Crossgain was doing to decide they were competing. I wonder how? Did they sign an MSFT non-diclosure agreement that got disclosed internally? Did a 'softie interview and then report back?

Or (as Cooper implies in the second Yahoo! article) has Microsoft decided that former employees can't do any software development (or anything related) at their next jobs, because anything would compete with something Microsoft does or might do? If you quit Microsoft, you can't do anything for a year more technical than flipping burgers?

More info on Crossgain: a story on c|net and a blurb from a company that gave them $10M.

I use Lexis.com all the time. It did not produce any of its content- the content there comes from state houses, law books and newspapers.... hundreds of people worked to construct the database- assembling the data and creating its indexing and search functions

I have no problem with Lexis offering its content only to paying customers. I have only a slight problem with Lexis (and the equivalent print company) having a monopoly on access to what I think of as public information (outcomes of trials).

I would have a big huge freaking problem if someone tried to put together a Web site of the court results in my town, and Lexis lawyers came in and said, "You can't do that, we have a patent on making that kind of information avilable electronically! No one else on the entire Internet can do that without giving us a pound of flesh!"

Prior art, anyone? --PSRC

P.S.: The Internet World article is dated January 15th, five days after CMGI cancelled AltaVista's IPO. Coincidence?

When it comes to my next home computer, though, edting video, burning dvds from it, not having my wife afraid to use it, and still being able to bring up a unix shell for comfort and to do my business, a G4 with OS X is an obvious choice.

Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.

"Hitachi preps first DVD-RAM camcorder" on ZDNet
"Hitachi to hit market with first DVD-RAM camcorder" on ZDNet
"Hitachi shows DVD-RAM camcorder" on IDG
The Google search I used to find all this stuff
I can't find a hitachi mirror on their global or japanese sites.

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There is a second source.. News.com has a story about this with quotes from TurboLinux's CEO.. It looks like TurboLinux will be absorbing LinuxCare in a stock-for-stock transaction.. here's the story..

Microsoft wins dismissal of 38 private antitrust suits
This does not mean that Jackson's ruling is removed, but it is not insignificant.

Microsoft wins dismissal of 38 private antitrust suits
This does not mean that Jackson's ruling is removed, but it is not insignificant.

Not an individual, but a company called Lexicon, I quote from CNET (this was the first reference to them I could find)

The name Itanium was chosen to "reflect the strength and performance of the processor," said Jami Dover, vice president of marketing at Intel. Sausalito, California-based Lexicon, which also coined the chip names Celeron and Xeon, came up with the name, she said.

http://yahoo.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-806094.html

They are the ones responsible for this weird name trend, I can't seem to find their website though, can anyone help me out?

Try some DVD movies for testing from CNET's list. I pretty much own most of those listed DVDs. :)

$1,049 in fabric and $1,299 in leather and vinyl is what C|Net is reporting.

BigCat79

It would seem, also, that C|Net is running an investigation on this, and it was profiled in several news stories lately....

ummm...how about try just about any Mac site you can think of:

Mac Slash (they even use Slash!)

Xlr8yourMac

Macintouch

...and don't forget the "big" news sites like:

News.com

and

MacWeek

You can't tape over DVD you stupid.

Recordable DVD is already a reality, and is slowly on the way to becoming a standard in the home electronics market. It offers all the benefits of VHS recording with the added plus of digital quality.

As near as I can tell, the only real benefit D-VHS offers over DVD is the higher uncompressed quality. But this is overwhelmed by the minuses: the inability to skip from section to section instantly, the incompatability with home computers, and the fragility of the tape media.

There's just not enough advantages offered by D-VHS to make it replace VHS in the consumer market, unless it becomes a LOT cheaper than two grand and fast. Recordable DVD may have three conflicting standards, but it also has about a four-year head start in the market. If D-VHS can't beat DVD-R to the level of affordability, it won't stand a chance.

This link has a video link for X-Box (Broadband Report; 3/4th in the video clip).

C|Net had a video interview with Wooly Gary (the attorney defending the plaintifs). This that interview, Gary makes it clear that the percentages are not enough to say "discrimination", but that the people there have testimony that their white counterparts do the same jobs but get more promotions and bonus. A woman told that she will never get promoted out of her cubicle, etc. There are actual cases of discrimination, in addition to the skewed proportion of workers.

here they even have a update that is not on the nytimes page yet.

I submitted this in Oct. but was DENIED. hehe. No anymosity

Motorola has hit 1 Ghz with the G4 Processor. Here's the story from CNET

I'm sure Apple's pricing might scare people away from a G4 too, unless they sell a kid :/


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