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ZDnet has a story about a contest with the Google search engine. 'The game starts by typing two words into Google's search bar, with the goal of obtaining a single result. The ultimate goal of a Googlewhacker: seeing the words "Results 1-1 of 1" appear in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.'

I could have logged in but I didn't.

-Metrollica

It was called Cartrivision. However, its demise seems to have been as much a matter of competition and pricing as one of consumer rebellion. Nevertheless, the more recent Divx fiasco seems to indicate that schemes like this aren't likely to gain acceptance.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-825823.html

As well as Dreamworks switching over to HP and Linux.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-826047.html

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-825823.html

As well as Dreamworks switching over to HP and Linux.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-826047.html

Actually, I have to apologize for my price misunderstanding... I thought it will be 199$, however it seems as if it is going to sell for 299$ in USA.

Reuters article on News.com http://news.com.com/2100-1040-825762.html

As to comment on pricing, sony purchases in huge quantities for their computers as it is... those prices are significantly lower than what we pay in retail... how else would xbox cost $300-$320 to produce? If 199$ (or 299$) is right for sony addon, then XBOX should cost 799$ by any means since it has much more hardware in it...
(keep in mind that I dont own XBOX or plan to own one)

I understand this is /., and that everything with the name linux in it is extremly usable and cool, but still.... its over priced, it doesnt work on TV's...it is unclear if it will work as upcoming Net & hardrive pack as well... too many unclears in order to call it a good value for 299 (or 199 for that matter).

Looks like a subdomain of the site Com.com, which is C|net. I didnt know ZDnet was part of C|net, either. ZDnet.Com.com itself, however, redirects to www.ZDnet.com. What a nice tangled web of domains.

Looks like a subdomain of the site Com.com, which is C|net. I didnt know ZDnet was part of C|net, either. ZDnet.Com.com itself, however, redirects to www.ZDnet.com. What a nice tangled web of domains.

But U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she would allow the media to file court briefs in response to Microsoft's request.

...

Kollar-Kotelly's giving the media the opportunity to respond is in some ways unprecedented, say legal experts.

"To my knowledge this is the first time any outsider has been allowed to intervene in the suit, even if it's for a limited purpose," said Bob Lande, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law. "This means they will be able to submit papers and probably speak in court."

Apparently Congressman Boucher (D-VA) thinks it's time for the DMCA to be rewritten.

Can't say I disagree with him one bit...

Aw heck, here is the text...

SEATTLE--Bank One, the nation's sixth-biggest bank holding company, has struck a $30 million deal to use Microsoft products and services, giving a boost to the software giant's emerging Internet services and business products, the companies said Friday. The three-year deal calls for Bank One to use Microsoft's .Net technology to build services that could, for example, deliver account billing or investment data to customers over a variety of devices, executives said. Bank One also will promote Microsoft's Great Plains software for small businesses as well as its bCentral Web site that offers Internet-based services for small companies, they said. Advertising is covered in the pact as well, with Bank One ads to appear on Microsoft's MSN family of Web sites, which include the MSN.com portal, MSNBC.com news site and MSN Money personal finance site, they said. "It's really a groundbreaking deal and ties together the assets of MSN and Microsoft to help a business partner," MSN Vice President Rich Bray said in an interview. For Bank One, the deal is a down payment on a strategy to deliver Web-based financial tools to its 60 million individual, business and investment customers, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said. The Internet services revolve around two pieces of Microsoft technology: its Passport online authentication service and .Net alerts, which are used to send messages via e-mail, instant messaging or mobile telephone. "It's a little blue-sky right now, but built over many years it will deliver new services to customers," Dimon said in an interview. "They (Microsoft) are really committed to making .Net and Passport and all these services more and more user-friendly.''

Why on earth is this new for nerds? This is not stuff that matters.

Whether one likes the Austin Powers movies or not, there are far more important issues that matter that don't appear to be getting /. editor's attention. I don't believe they're not being submitted by the masses. Yes, they've been discussed here before, but each day seems to bring new developments that are *even* being reported on cnn:

People sound off against Microsoft / DOJ settlement

and cnet:

Anti-trust debate heats up

It's saying something about the state of affairs at /. when rubbish about Austin Powers makes the news and issues covered by the non-tech main-stream media that have *serious* implications for nerds, are not.

It's not even like it's a slow news day!

Has it ever been suggested for /. to open the submissions directory for public scrutiny?

the new fab'd processors use server-chip technology, as described in this cnet article:

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-824621.html

they say (in short) that it uses silicon insulating to help prevent "silicon drift" even more, so less power is used. what was immediatly brought to my attention was that this new fabrication uses only 10 watts, 15 watts @ peak power consumption. I have a lava lamp w/a 40 watt light bulb....i'm curious, does a 15 watt processor (using 100% of it's computing power, all the time), produce as much heat as a 15 watt light bulb?

Which hardware would they be modeling after? There were pics of this thing published last summer on cnet, so I wouldn't say the ipod.

Check it out here.

I wouldn't be surprised though, Palm and Apple are friendly - both stand by the Motorola 68k (sometimes for seemingly cultural reasons) and both follow a bare essentials only, highly usable philosophy of application development.

-motardo

http://www.techtv.com/news/computing/story/0,24195 ,3369727,00.html

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-824392.html

C|NET

Gimme Karma!

And just how many closed source distributions of FreeBSD are there? NetBSD? OpenBSD?

Why would Microsoft want to do distribute a closed source version of *BSD? I was refering to the BSD License, not the OS.

How many closed source distributions of kerberos are there? I know of one: Microsoft Kerberos. Like the lead of the article says, BSD license allows MS to "Embrace, Extend, [and] Extinguish" OSS initiatives.

Actually, according to this article, Sharman Networks (who bought Kazaa) has made it available for downloading again.

already outstrip real ones. This article claims that Everquests ( a similar MMORPG ) platinum pieces are wort more than the Yen - people have been playing EQ for years in order to make a living. At one point I heard someone was making about $10,000 per month ( that is extream though ). However EQ does NOT tie its virtual economy to the real world which is why PE is different and exciting.

Personally I cant wait to get a job as a gnome slayer in some virtual world *chuckle*. Beats my current bug slaying job any day.

The source of all this are the talking heads over at cnet radio. since they do a lot of repeats over the weekend you might be able to catch more details there. (anchor desk radio show, etc. especially the friday broadcast)

ah, here's the link to the story, reasonably detailed.

[cnet radio recently started broadcasting full time in Boston at 890 am, along with their usual broadcasts in the bay area. it is kinda funny listening to san jose traffic reports while cruising route 128]

[shrug]

...while Lindows, Wine, and Mozilla are all struggling to get to the vaunted 1.0 mark, two copies of Windows XP are being sold every second.

If that doesn't motivate you to contribute to these projects and help get them out the door, I don't know what will.

I just went to http://com.com and it redirected to a CNet thing.

Bizarre story on Cnet about Gateway making Everquest optimised PC's. Seems a bit pointless - the only criteria these machines seem to require is 512MB RAM (!) and a 32MB graphics card. I wonder if they'll remember to throw in a modem?

I would be very surprised if greater than 50% of the people who read that book (or any free online book) pay for a copy. If Stephen King couldn't do it, then it certainly can't be commonplace.

How ironic. After posting the above, I ran into this: Salon subscriptions top 35,000.

A few weeks ago, Woz was named to the board of Danger, Inc, which seems to be a totally separate entity from Wheels of Zeus.

Since both companies are interested in producing whiz-bang handhelds, isn't him being on the board of one company and having his own, separate company some sort of raging conflict of interest?

~Philly

"Some open-source developers are envious of those whose work has brought them wealth. Some who could have made money from the recent VA Linux IPO weren't able to because they didn't have enough money or connections to get onboard the VA Linux IPO bandwagon.

The age-old question of the open-source community has been: "How do we make money at this?" That question, at least for some developers, has now been answered..."

Amazon now says the recommendation feature isn't really theirs. Actually, the way they buckled under to another patent claim on the obvious application of existing technology is more significant news than just one more instance of their "creative accounting."

Can we axe them both, and start over with Yahoo!?

Right. Yahoo, the company run by the former head of Warner Bros.? Not that I have anything against the guy or the company, but if you're so upset over copyright protection, you should remember Semel, who left WB in 1999, is still considered "a Hollywood guy".

And they have Linux to thank for it. According to this article Linux saved them $17 million. Therefore, if it wasn't for Linux, they'd be losing $12 million and they wouldn't have been able to keep their promises to Wall Street.

Why is the previous funny?... Oh well...

OK, this is the point. AOL/Time Warner know that the dotcom bull is over and took a lesson from it. They're now focusing on real stuff^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H more traditional business for what it seems that can in fact atract people, not money making schemes that have no business foundation.

"No 'new economy' here, nothing to see, please move on..."

internet.com for late in 2001. -- 81.1% between Palm, Handspring, and Sony.

-- Multics

Still, even if the two companies are not considering a merger, AOL Timer Warner could license Red Hat for use on PCs or other devices for use with its online service.

They already did something almost exactly like that, and the product tanked, which only underscores your point about how silly it was for the reporter to say such a thing. The device was a Linux box made by Gateway. You can read about it on news.com here and here.

Tim

Still, even if the two companies are not considering a merger, AOL Timer Warner could license Red Hat for use on PCs or other devices for use with its online service.

They already did something almost exactly like that, and the product tanked, which only underscores your point about how silly it was for the reporter to say such a thing. The device was a Linux box made by Gateway. You can read about it on news.com here and here.

Tim

And now, AOL is denying rumours that they are eyeing Red Hat. Hrm.

CNet talks about acquiring a desktop OS as a tool to keep Microsoft at bay. But they point out, as I did earlier, that Linux is a non-starter for the desktop in most of the world, but may make sense for AOL in developing countries.

According to a news.com article, http://news.com.com/2100-1001-819578.html AOL buyout rumor is false.

I wouldn't be so sure about that either. I would gladly pay for good, accessible products, that doesn't infringe on my privacy, take away my fair use rights, doesn't try to abuse my trust in any way, and make available a convientent method for making payments.

I did too... so I paid for it, and I got screwed. Lucky for me, I got screwed out of only $10 and the time I invested setting up my photo album and captions and stuff. Lots of people were using it to host images for ebay, and paid a lot more money for a lot of extra storage. They lost a lot more than I did.

There's a little more in the article at news.com

RedHat 7.2 is a flaming piece of shit! If it's not busy corrupting the ext2 filesystem, it's locking up on __pollwait calls! The entire machine locks up! What a flaming piece of dogshit! Absolutely perfect for AOL to buy! What a stinking, flaming piece of rotting dogshit!

From CNet News
To counter Microsoft, AOL could couple its Internet service with Red Hat's operating system technology and could be configured to override Windows while launching a version of Linux, sources told the newspaper.

As if AOL's software is not scary enough and doesn't already take over too many aspects of your computer - now they may want to overlay linux on top of windows to run their software? Uhhhhh.....

There's already been an AOL client for linux.

They also have an EETimes story Archived and there is this news item from before the dot-com boom went bust.

Other items include this bit saying we don't need petabit routing anyhow (just wait a few years!). I also spotted this job description from some namesless company.

System Engineering Manager As the System Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the Petabit/Terabit router prototype system development using the state of the art switch fabrics. You will lead the system design team to perform OC-768, OC-192, OC-48 linecard design, and multi-Terabit switch plane design. Requirements include a BSEE plus 7 years chip design experience or MSEE plus 5 years design experience in router system and high speed board design. Networking and Gigabit line card experience is preferred.

Cisco and Juniper can only (currently) route in gigabit speeds.

Other competitors that they will have to deal with: Pluris, IronBridge Networks and Charlotte's Web Networks .

This explains why regulatory authority over tech mergers and acquisitions is rumored to be being shifted from the bipartisan FTC to the party-in-power-controlled DOJ so that Microsoft can call the White House and get them to tell the DOJ to veto the acquisition on the grounds that it would create "too great a concentration of power" in the hands of a giant like AOL. Move and counter-move.

A more complete version of this article was released four days ago by C|Net. The decision only seems to effect the Chinese language versions.

Moderators: The parent post is an important comment. Here's a link to the article, instead of just a reference:

Lew Platt began the decline of HP. After several years, he was replaced by Fiorina, who has also not been able to get HP under control.

Hint to the HP board of directors: The new CEO of HP should be someone who has a technical understanding of HP's products. Management experience is not enough.

"Technical understanding" means someone who knows the technology well enough to predict where it will be in several years.

Also, someone who would actually be able to run HP would put a new HP product on his or her desk, before it was released, and try to install it. HP has sold printer products with buggy or insufficiently capable install software recently.

For 2, you're underestimating the cost of upgrading in an enterprise. If those 10,000 users are spread through 50 offices then the costs of upgrading are huge, both one time and on going. This is very different to the cost of a few hundred hard drives.

For 3, even the most closed software is still customizable. Our copy of office has had templates added, to give company standard documents and presentations.

For 4, it's nothing to do with the newness or size of the company. Even the biggest company or organization can have their websites hacked. However, if it is an ASP, then the company which owns the data has NO possibilty of preventing or correcting the problem.

Yes, but the schedule they set is not being followed in the slightest, and even the FCC chairman admits that the date might slip, and unless things change they will slip.

C|Net is reporting on this, check out the article which includes a few more details that haven't been mentioned here.