we'll see what happens after SUN buys them. I can easily imagine SUN using the SledgeHammer in their servers as opposed to US III. Solaris will run on x86-64 before it runs on ia-64.
One of the reasons why I think that SUN will buy AMD is because in order to be successful at making processors, you have to sell lots to pay for development, production, new fabs and so on. So how long will SUN keep making their own processors (ps: I know that TI fabs their CPUs but they still develop them)? It would make sense for SUN to acquire AMD because they seem destined to introduce a cheap and good workstation that sells lots. And since the Sledgehammer will have the server goodies (good bus, scallability, tons of cache, etc), it will happily fit in a server line. They have already stated that Solaris will be ported to x86-64.
Intel and AMD will produce lots of fast processors for cheap. SUN knows that eventually people will see that a x86-64 or ia-64 trounces the US-III with no problem. They will need real performance and a good price. Intel and AMD don't make toys like they used to (except in terms of FP which is due to the x87 isa and not the hardware, and which will be replaced in both ia-64 and x86-64). The best net profits come from hardware support anyway and not development + sales.
Sorry if what I said was a bit incoherent, there is a lot on my mind at the moment. But I do think that before next summer, SUN will have bought AMD because of what I said and more. The only two unknown variables that I can think of right now are MAJc and SUN's pride towards using the Alpha bus, which I was told but can not say whether or not it's true, which is somewhat not as good as SUN's own.
Hi, I have been thinking of getting me one of those. I like playing RTS games, but more importantly, I have started developping my own. I hope that this device will be supported under Linux. I use SDL so that the game will be cross-platform.
Do you think that the Straty Commander would be good for playing games like Unreal Tournament? I like using the keyboard but I can think of efficient ways to use the SC. I mostly wonder if it would be possible to use to side-walk and jump/crunch.
IE is not so much relevant to me most of the time because I use Linux. I find that Netscape 4.75 does the job pretty good with the exception of regular lock-ups. If it were not for these, and the stoopid "Shop" button which I often confuse with "Stop" during my mad browsing, I would be entirely satisfied with it. I don't mind so much table layouts that look funny every once in a while.
In my opinion, there is a real problem with IE and Microsoft. Whereas MS has been crying about their right to innovate for over a year, there hasn't been anything very innovative coming out of Redmond. Sure there may be a couple new standards, a couple of revisions to the browser and a slightly better GUI. I think that MS hasn't used their leadership position to bring new technologies. If we consider Mosaic when it first came out, it made a huge impact on how the internet is used. Netscape built on that and then there were more browsers that basically did the same thing. IE 5.5 and Netscape 6 aren't that different from Netscape 3.0.
I think that MS (and everyone else) has been busy using the web browser as a tool to accomplish many new things. A few non-MS related examples would be configuring my firewall with the web browser, or configuring a web server with the web browse. Perhaps the current stage of evolution of the Web is not about significant new technologies, but the integration of the web in the way we live.
I think that the next significant step after this will be the creation of a freenet. Actually, I believe there already is an initiative called like this which allows users to remain anonymous. A lot of the new web technologies are all about tracking people, where they go, what they do, what they say and think, etc. I don't want Wonder bread to know that eat toast because may internet-enabled toaster chats with Echelon when I am at work.
Although I don't support breaking in other people's computers, I don't care that much. Most time a system is hacked into, it's because of basic security issues or bugs in the software. I am tired of big web companies that claim to have lost billions of dollars because they were down 2 minutes. It's illegal to steal a car, but in many places you get fined if you leave your car running with the doors unlocked. The same way, those companies should be fined as well.
But I disgress, my point is that IE 5.5 isn't really that great, it's just the best so far. Thanks to the KDE team though, I will be using a new alternative a lot more.
I have cable modem and I live in Halifax, Canada. It costs $40 a month for everyhing. I don't need to have TV although I do because of A&E and TLC. I can't wait for web-tv to be acceptable. I think that the speed of the cable connection is 1.5Mbs. I have a Linksys Internet router for my 2 computers and I got free internet for my girlfriend at her place. Free internet is surprisingly good by the way.
I am moving to Montreal next year for a little while and then I am moving to the US, unless Alberta seperates from Canada in the mean time. It's possible. 100 years ago, Nova Scotia tried several times to do so, then Quebec in the 80's and 90's. Next it may be Alberta or BC. There are so many immigrants in those parts, if they wanted to live in communism, they would have stayed in China or Europe.
I am personnally not sure that cheap and fast Internet for everyone is such a good thing because it will break-up mariages, make people waste their time even more, bring new ways for people too scam others, and stuff like that. But on the other hand, it does make the world more accessible and also I like it and so do almost everybody. The internet will (already has) bring new tensions in our society but they are unavoidable in the expansion of society. Maybe the internet should be planned, or not. But if it is, I hardly trust politicians or businesses to do it. So maybe it shouldn't. We alrady see the joke that the WIPO is.
I am glad that now you can get everything using one connection. I mean I can get telephone + internet + TV from my cable connection. I would get it if I wasn't going to move in 4 months. It's great to see all the competition now. Cable service providers, telephone companies, eventually power companies.
I hope that not one company wins over the other ones because it would be very bad for consummers. Sure the government could finance a losing company to fake competition, but I don't believe in financing mediocrity. That's why I can't wait to live in the US by the way.
ps:
What is Invalid Form Key I keep getting when I submit!!!!!!:-(
Just for information, a lot of the entries in firewall logs are often from game port scanning robots.
I suggest to anyone with cable/adsl internet to get themselves a Linksys internet router. It has a built-in firewall and can redirect ports to specified computers for games, ftp, telnet and such. It also has a 100Mbit switch on the the internal side and it's cheap! Purchase of the year.
The biggest spying countries are (not ordered):
-US
-Canada
-UK
-Japan
-France
-Germany
-Italy
-China
-South Africa
Also notable are Cuba and Russia but these spy more on political and military targets.
US + Canada + UK spy by capturing virtually every wireless transmission on earth. I suppose that in the Echelon project, Australia and NZ take care of the Pacific countries. With US funding and its territory (just next to Russia and Europe thanks to Artic), Canada is probably right next to the US or maybe even exceeds it. They share their data too.
European countries and SA spy differently. They are more old fashion: bugs, stealing briefcase, etc. They do it a lot but don't share with each other. The problem with European countries, espcially France, is that a lot of industries are extensions of the government. So it is natural for the goverments to spy in the interestof their companies. American business people are easy preys because of their more trusting nature.
I agree with you. In my opinion, the US will be tasting a lot of its own medicine in the future. It's good when someone sues the US because it's the best way to get something to change. The government doesn't care when other people have to pay through the nose but hopefully they'll end up in a lot of trouble on the courts so that they will modify certain policies.
One example, though not related to computers and nerd stuff, is the fact that someone won 250$ million against Iran because it funds Hizbollah and a relative died in a terrorist attack in Israel. The US funded the Contras and other groups in South America which caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people. Although now they prosecute their former crownies, I feel that the US has a certain responsibility towards the remaining relatives. A responsibility of $250 million per person to be more accurate. Which would go first, the nice tax cut or the ridiculous awards?
Since the US is Corporationist country, the best way to get something done is to use the system on its limits and try to cost as much money as possible to the people in power. Seeking excessive amounts of money every time the government infringes on any stupid patent, or every time it abuses civil rights, will have more impact than any election because all the main parties are paied about equally by the big corporation to ensure they do about the same things.
The goal of an AT-AT is indeed to intimidate more than anything else. I don't think it has enough firepower for its size and probable cost. Also its defence really sucks. I think that it would need a couple of Phalanx guns on its back.
But about the design, I think that it's not so unrealistic. If feet are heavy enough, then the legs should not get snagged. It would take some pretty solid trees to block those legs. If the ground is not all even then it doesn't matter because the feet sink in the ground. The only problem is detecting soft ground. Slopes wouldn't be a problem unless they too were soft.
All in all, I think it's a good vehicle. I think that a tank is better, but if you need a vehicle that size, it's acceptable.
REF A: Application for patent on rebooting after changing display resolution.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION:
An operating system becomes unstable over time.
CLAIM:
We have determined that an operating system will stop functionning after a period of 49.7 days. We have invented a technique that we call "Rebooting" which can be applied prior to the end of the 49.7 day period to prevent the operating from stopping to function.
DESCRIPTION:
A technique can be used at regular intervals in order to keep an OS clear of technical and operating issues. The technique involves several steps:
1- Selecting option to reboot
2- Pressing "Ok" button.
This claim also covers regular reboots which may occur due to Ref A.
Indeed, intel-compatible is the keyword. I am pretty sure that I read some time this summer that SUN was dropping Itanium for Solaris and going with X86-64 (AMD). How interesting to see this.
We've had a quad g3 and a quad g4 machine at work for several months (almost a year in the case of the g3). It makes me laugh that G4 SMP is supposed to be such great news.
Anyway, the machines are running Linux and they are really fast. With Intel's solution it's better to just buy a faster CPU then to get dual SMP. At least with the g4 you get real scalability.
I hope that Apple and PPC bring the cost of g4 setups down because in light of the Athlon, I don't think that they are worth their price, for home anyway.
QT may have scared the biggies away a little bit. The licence has created a saga that I haven't been following much.
But I think that the real reason that SUN went with GNOME is because when they bought StarOffice and gave it away, it wasn't to be nice. SUN's plan is to sell server licences of StarOffice to ISP and companies so that the clients or employees, as is the case, will be able to run them on their desktops from the servers, SUN servers specifically. That's why they are also making the SUN Ray's by the way.
So, a nice free alternative to StarOffice available for free could get in SUN's way eventually. As it turns out, KOffice is pretty good. A bit too good.
GNOME already has good acceptance and provides SUN with some nice headroom and this fall GNOME users are going to love StarOffice.
First of all, Napster is not even actually distributing anything, just facilitating it.
But about this article, it is indeed confusing the two different issues, copyrights and trademarks. Would it be the same if Napster was assuming the name Metallica in its various transactions? Of course not, it's a different issue completely. Maybe it should produce some crap music and distribute it under the name The Offspring. Sure that would fool some.
We've had a quad g3/g4 board at work since the end of last year. It runs Linux without problem and is much faster than I expected (I did expect high too:-).
Forget who wrote the book and who backed the production of the movie (I personally consider the members of that organization to be sub-humans, so I don't care about the abuses too much). Since the beginning of times, the metal that has meant wealth has always been gold. Nowaday, paper and e-money is used for trading, but gold still retains its value because even if its price goes up or down, it will be there forever, and desired. If a major holocaust was to occur that would destroy our civilization, gold would become again the currency. Gold was the motivation for a lot of the development of humanity for thousands of years. A lot of things have been done with gold in mind. I liked that the aliens were here for the gold. It was like gold was the universal icon for wealth. Although I don't currently own any gold that I am aware of, if I had a room made of one foot thick walls of pure gold, I'd feel rich and powerful even the price of gold went down. Gold is power.
I don't see what is wrong with doing this in canada since at work with have a microwave network that connects to a building that's out of the way. The only problem is that you must have a line of sight:-)
I find Metallica, Megadeth and Sepultura to be great coding companions. More so than pop junk or even TV in the background. With a 2 litre of pop (drink not music:-) it makes for a good productive evening, especially if I am by myself. Nick
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we'll see what happens after SUN buys them. I can easily imagine SUN using the SledgeHammer in their servers as opposed to US III. Solaris will run on x86-64 before it runs on ia-64.
One of the reasons why I think that SUN will buy AMD is because in order to be successful at making processors, you have to sell lots to pay for development, production, new fabs and so on. So how long will SUN keep making their own processors (ps: I know that TI fabs their CPUs but they still develop them)? It would make sense for SUN to acquire AMD because they seem destined to introduce a cheap and good workstation that sells lots. And since the Sledgehammer will have the server goodies (good bus, scallability, tons of cache, etc), it will happily fit in a server line. They have already stated that Solaris will be ported to x86-64.
Intel and AMD will produce lots of fast processors for cheap. SUN knows that eventually people will see that a x86-64 or ia-64 trounces the US-III with no problem. They will need real performance and a good price. Intel and AMD don't make toys like they used to (except in terms of FP which is due to the x87 isa and not the hardware, and which will be replaced in both ia-64 and x86-64). The best net profits come from hardware support anyway and not development + sales.
Sorry if what I said was a bit incoherent, there is a lot on my mind at the moment. But I do think that before next summer, SUN will have bought AMD because of what I said and more. The only two unknown variables that I can think of right now are MAJc and SUN's pride towards using the Alpha bus, which I was told but can not say whether or not it's true, which is somewhat not as good as SUN's own.
If the WHO wants to be in the web business and regulate the content, they should be ready to be sued if something goes wrong like any other company.
Hi, I have been thinking of getting me one of those. I like playing RTS games, but more importantly, I have started developping my own. I hope that this device will be supported under Linux. I use SDL so that the game will be cross-platform.
Do you think that the Straty Commander would be good for playing games like Unreal Tournament? I like using the keyboard but I can think of efficient ways to use the SC. I mostly wonder if it would be possible to use to side-walk and jump/crunch.
IE is not so much relevant to me most of the time because I use Linux. I find that Netscape 4.75 does the job pretty good with the exception of regular lock-ups. If it were not for these, and the stoopid "Shop" button which I often confuse with "Stop" during my mad browsing, I would be entirely satisfied with it. I don't mind so much table layouts that look funny every once in a while.
In my opinion, there is a real problem with IE and Microsoft. Whereas MS has been crying about their right to innovate for over a year, there hasn't been anything very innovative coming out of Redmond. Sure there may be a couple new standards, a couple of revisions to the browser and a slightly better GUI. I think that MS hasn't used their leadership position to bring new technologies. If we consider Mosaic when it first came out, it made a huge impact on how the internet is used. Netscape built on that and then there were more browsers that basically did the same thing. IE 5.5 and Netscape 6 aren't that different from Netscape 3.0.
I think that MS (and everyone else) has been busy using the web browser as a tool to accomplish many new things. A few non-MS related examples would be configuring my firewall with the web browser, or configuring a web server with the web browse. Perhaps the current stage of evolution of the Web is not about significant new technologies, but the integration of the web in the way we live.
I think that the next significant step after this will be the creation of a freenet. Actually, I believe there already is an initiative called like this which allows users to remain anonymous. A lot of the new web technologies are all about tracking people, where they go, what they do, what they say and think, etc. I don't want Wonder bread to know that eat toast because may internet-enabled toaster chats with Echelon when I am at work.
Although I don't support breaking in other people's computers, I don't care that much. Most time a system is hacked into, it's because of basic security issues or bugs in the software. I am tired of big web companies that claim to have lost billions of dollars because they were down 2 minutes. It's illegal to steal a car, but in many places you get fined if you leave your car running with the doors unlocked. The same way, those companies should be fined as well.
But I disgress, my point is that IE 5.5 isn't really that great, it's just the best so far. Thanks to the KDE team though, I will be using a new alternative a lot more.
ps: congrats on KDE2 to team
I have cable modem and I live in Halifax, Canada. It costs $40 a month for everyhing. I don't need to have TV although I do because of A&E and TLC. I can't wait for web-tv to be acceptable. I think that the speed of the cable connection is 1.5Mbs. I have a Linksys Internet router for my 2 computers and I got free internet for my girlfriend at her place. Free internet is surprisingly good by the way.
:-(
I am moving to Montreal next year for a little while and then I am moving to the US, unless Alberta seperates from Canada in the mean time. It's possible. 100 years ago, Nova Scotia tried several times to do so, then Quebec in the 80's and 90's. Next it may be Alberta or BC. There are so many immigrants in those parts, if they wanted to live in communism, they would have stayed in China or Europe.
I am personnally not sure that cheap and fast Internet for everyone is such a good thing because it will break-up mariages, make people waste their time even more, bring new ways for people too scam others, and stuff like that. But on the other hand, it does make the world more accessible and also I like it and so do almost everybody. The internet will (already has) bring new tensions in our society but they are unavoidable in the expansion of society. Maybe the internet should be planned, or not. But if it is, I hardly trust politicians or businesses to do it. So maybe it shouldn't. We alrady see the joke that the WIPO is.
I am glad that now you can get everything using one connection. I mean I can get telephone + internet + TV from my cable connection. I would get it if I wasn't going to move in 4 months. It's great to see all the competition now. Cable service providers, telephone companies, eventually power companies.
I hope that not one company wins over the other ones because it would be very bad for consummers. Sure the government could finance a losing company to fake competition, but I don't believe in financing mediocrity. That's why I can't wait to live in the US by the way.
ps:
What is Invalid Form Key I keep getting when I submit!!!!!!
Just for information, a lot of the entries in firewall logs are often from game port scanning robots.
I suggest to anyone with cable/adsl internet to get themselves a Linksys internet router. It has a built-in firewall and can redirect ports to specified computers for games, ftp, telnet and such. It also has a 100Mbit switch on the the internal side and it's cheap! Purchase of the year.
The biggest spying countries are (not ordered):
-US
-Canada
-UK
-Japan
-France
-Germany
-Italy
-China
-South Africa
Also notable are Cuba and Russia but these spy more on political and military targets.
US + Canada + UK spy by capturing virtually every wireless transmission on earth. I suppose that in the Echelon project, Australia and NZ take care of the Pacific countries. With US funding and its territory (just next to Russia and Europe thanks to Artic), Canada is probably right next to the US or maybe even exceeds it. They share their data too.
European countries and SA spy differently. They are more old fashion: bugs, stealing briefcase, etc. They do it a lot but don't share with each other. The problem with European countries, espcially France, is that a lot of industries are extensions of the government. So it is natural for the goverments to spy in the interestof their companies. American business people are easy preys because of their more trusting nature.
I agree with you. In my opinion, the US will be tasting a lot of its own medicine in the future. It's good when someone sues the US because it's the best way to get something to change. The government doesn't care when other people have to pay through the nose but hopefully they'll end up in a lot of trouble on the courts so that they will modify certain policies.
One example, though not related to computers and nerd stuff, is the fact that someone won 250$ million against Iran because it funds Hizbollah and a relative died in a terrorist attack in Israel. The US funded the Contras and other groups in South America which caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people. Although now they prosecute their former crownies, I feel that the US has a certain responsibility towards the remaining relatives. A responsibility of $250 million per person to be more accurate. Which would go first, the nice tax cut or the ridiculous awards?
Since the US is Corporationist country, the best way to get something done is to use the system on its limits and try to cost as much money as possible to the people in power. Seeking excessive amounts of money every time the government infringes on any stupid patent, or every time it abuses civil rights, will have more impact than any election because all the main parties are paied about equally by the big corporation to ensure they do about the same things.
The goal of an AT-AT is indeed to intimidate more than anything else. I don't think it has enough firepower for its size and probable cost. Also its defence really sucks. I think that it would need a couple of Phalanx guns on its back.
But about the design, I think that it's not so unrealistic. If feet are heavy enough, then the legs should not get snagged. It would take some pretty solid trees to block those legs. If the ground is not all even then it doesn't matter because the feet sink in the ground. The only problem is detecting soft ground. Slopes wouldn't be a problem unless they too were soft.
All in all, I think it's a good vehicle. I think that a tank is better, but if you need a vehicle that size, it's acceptable.
The key to surviving canadian winters is to eat a lot of donuts in the summer. This technique is similar to what bears do.
I was planning on moving to the US but I'll reconsider. It seems like an even better place (just like home but with no federal government, perfect).
TITLE: Rebooting OS at regular intervals
REF A: Application for patent on rebooting after changing display resolution.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION:
An operating system becomes unstable over time.
CLAIM:
We have determined that an operating system will stop functionning after a period of 49.7 days. We have invented a technique that we call "Rebooting" which can be applied prior to the end of the 49.7 day period to prevent the operating from stopping to function.
DESCRIPTION:
A technique can be used at regular intervals in order to keep an OS clear of technical and operating issues. The technique involves several steps:
1- Selecting option to reboot
2- Pressing "Ok" button.
This claim also covers regular reboots which may occur due to Ref A.
Indeed, intel-compatible is the keyword. I am pretty sure that I read some time this summer that SUN was dropping Itanium for Solaris and going with X86-64 (AMD). How interesting to see this.
We've had a quad g3 and a quad g4 machine at work for several months (almost a year in the case of the g3). It makes me laugh that G4 SMP is supposed to be such great news.
Anyway, the machines are running Linux and they are really fast. With Intel's solution it's better to just buy a faster CPU then to get dual SMP. At least with the g4 you get real scalability.
I hope that Apple and PPC bring the cost of g4 setups down because in light of the Athlon, I don't think that they are worth their price, for home anyway.
QT may have scared the biggies away a little bit. The licence has created a saga that I haven't been following much.
But I think that the real reason that SUN went with GNOME is because when they bought StarOffice and gave it away, it wasn't to be nice. SUN's plan is to sell server licences of StarOffice to ISP and companies so that the clients or employees, as is the case, will be able to run them on their desktops from the servers, SUN servers specifically. That's why they are also making the SUN Ray's by the way.
So, a nice free alternative to StarOffice available for free could get in SUN's way eventually. As it turns out, KOffice is pretty good. A bit too good.
GNOME already has good acceptance and provides SUN with some nice headroom and this fall GNOME users are going to love StarOffice.
I wonder what Corel will do now?
You are entirely right.
First of all, Napster is not even actually distributing anything, just facilitating it.
But about this article, it is indeed confusing the two different issues, copyrights and trademarks. Would it be the same if Napster was assuming the name Metallica in its various transactions? Of course not, it's a different issue completely. Maybe it should produce some crap music and distribute it under the name The Offspring. Sure that would fool some.
>Kinda cool that it uses Cruise Missile Radar processors to find E.T.
I could build an interesting project with the other parts if they were surplused as well.
We've had a quad g3/g4 board at work since the end of last year. It runs Linux without problem and is much faster than I expected (I did expect high too :-).
Forget who wrote the book and who backed the production of the movie (I personally consider the members of that organization to be sub-humans, so I don't care about the abuses too much). Since the beginning of times, the metal that has meant wealth has always been gold. Nowaday, paper and e-money is used for trading, but gold still retains its value because even if its price goes up or down, it will be there forever, and desired. If a major holocaust was to occur that would destroy our civilization, gold would become again the currency. Gold was the motivation for a lot of the development of humanity for thousands of years. A lot of things have been done with gold in mind. I liked that the aliens were here for the gold. It was like gold was the universal icon for wealth. Although I don't currently own any gold that I am aware of, if I had a room made of one foot thick walls of pure gold, I'd feel rich and powerful even the price of gold went down. Gold is power.
I don't see what is wrong with doing this in canada since at work with have a microwave network that connects to a building that's out of the way. The only problem is that you must have a line of sight :-)
I find Metallica, Megadeth and Sepultura to be great coding companions. More so than pop junk or even TV in the background. With a 2 litre of pop (drink not music :-) it makes for a good productive evening, especially if I am by myself. Nick