Build Your Own Crusoe-Powered Computer
jonmason00 writes "Just checked the Transmeta webpage, and discovered that they are now offering a Crusoe TM5800 System Development Kit. It's a bit expensive ($995) and you gotta register before you can buy one, but they need your support." How about an Astro development kit instead? :)
...they need your support...
.. Geek corporate welfare.
Great
They need our support, guys, let's rack up huge bandwidth bills and see if we can set their web server on fire!
Nothing like a good ol' slashdotting to bring a business back in the black.
Shall I supply my blood type and a DNA sample and a piss test and fingerprints in addition to my social security number and home phone and mother's maiden name?'
Also you need to provide a stool sample
I am a Slashdot subscriber. Are you?
Nope, my filters take care of the flash and banner ads just fine. I don't need to subscribe.
If there is any other user group that will try to squeeze each and every cycle out of an old 286 then I don't know of them.
Performance is another thing, but one million cycles per second is the same thing in every friggin supercluster. Sorry to burst your bubble of different MHz measurements, but I guess truth always hertz.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
No, but they'll be bankrupt within 6 months so it's a moot point.
I think you meant "deification." The dietization of Linus might be a good idea--he looks like he could stand to lose a couple of pounds.