When I first read the headline, I thought "Why on earth would anyone want to run Open Firmware on a wireless chipset" - because you know, Open Firmware is actually something else entirely.
I love AIX.
But really, if this is any indication of things to come - commercial Unices will be replaced by Linux in time. Not just on the de And finally, we may actually get that mythical unified Unix platform.
When even Apple is slowly moving away from the childish and unusable UI design it pioneered with the early versions of Mac OS X, Microsoft is going in the complete opposite direction!
Why? What's wrong with the nice, clean and actually very usable UI of Windows 2000? (Yes, I know some remnants of this UI are included in Vista, and probably in Windows 7 too - but not enough to hide the horrific "design pattern" of making the user think the computer is some kind of children's toy)
Why does this surprise anybody?
The government has it's mind set on implementing these filters, and all democracy aside, nothing will stop them when their minds are made up.
Mod parent up.
This is actually a case of cracking that can not in any way be said to be hacking.
The guy cracked the password. No hacking involved at all.
Are you serious?
A lot of people are annoyed by gays, PETA activists etc, while others are annoyed by gun nutters, conservatives etc. Almost nobody actively TRIES to annoy anybody (becase it isn't, as you say, socially acceptable). The world would be in a constant state of civil war because everybody would be beating the crap out of people that didn't fit into their view of the world.
This 'gitmo' machine may very well get it's carrier sent to gitmo, as the random characters you wrote surely constitute a TrueCrypt installation for which he refuses to provide a key.
Why is this tagged suddenoutbreakofcommonsense? A sudden outbreak of common sense would be if the DHS simply stopped searching peoples laptops. It's not like the border is in any way impermeable to unauthorized and unsnooped data anyway. In a way this is just like DRM. It doesn't affect those who know how to get around it, and the rest aren't worth bothering about.
...is not actually a "desktop". It's not even "a" computer. It's a cluster, and Cray could definately do better than this. Especially considering Unisys has built computers (no, not clusters) with a lot of processors a long time, many of them Windows Capable.
So...
Cray builds a cluster, Microsoft gets some free ad space for HPC Server. Hooray!
This is utterly useless.
Any good ISP (eg almost any european ISP) will not ever need this, as they have _enough bandwidth to fullfill their contracts_ with their customers.
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It's nice to see an example of correct use of "hacker" by the mainstream media, even if it's just by chance
Seriously, pulling a Godwin in a comment on frickin Duke Nukem?
Or he could punching an Arm in the Dick - much more effective if you ask me! :o
Intel however, has to date not yet managed to do this.
When I first read the headline, I thought "Why on earth would anyone want to run Open Firmware on a wireless chipset" - because you know, Open Firmware is actually something else entirely.
Things like these makes you remember that HP isn't just a company that makes crappy consumer products.
I love AIX. But really, if this is any indication of things to come - commercial Unices will be replaced by Linux in time. Not just on the de And finally, we may actually get that mythical unified Unix platform.
Seriously, what the hell happened with the UI?
When even Apple is slowly moving away from the childish and unusable UI design it pioneered with the early versions of Mac OS X, Microsoft is going in the complete opposite direction! Why? What's wrong with the nice, clean and actually very usable UI of Windows 2000? (Yes, I know some remnants of this UI are included in Vista, and probably in Windows 7 too - but not enough to hide the horrific "design pattern" of making the user think the computer is some kind of children's toy)
Why does this surprise anybody? The government has it's mind set on implementing these filters, and all democracy aside, nothing will stop them when their minds are made up.
A brown desktop background?
...the copyright system works and is perfectly sane.
In whose name they doing this? Is it to stop terrorists, or to make us think of the children?
Mod parent up! As much as software patents apall me, I can't se why this would be any less valid than any other.
The alpha will almost simultaneously be available to everyone at their favorite BitTorrent tracker.
Comcast is just looking better and better!
Mod parent up. This is actually a case of cracking that can not in any way be said to be hacking. The guy cracked the password. No hacking involved at all.
Are you serious? A lot of people are annoyed by gays, PETA activists etc, while others are annoyed by gun nutters, conservatives etc. Almost nobody actively TRIES to annoy anybody (becase it isn't, as you say, socially acceptable). The world would be in a constant state of civil war because everybody would be beating the crap out of people that didn't fit into their view of the world.
This 'gitmo' machine may very well get it's carrier sent to gitmo, as the random characters you wrote surely constitute a TrueCrypt installation for which he refuses to provide a key.
Why is this tagged suddenoutbreakofcommonsense? A sudden outbreak of common sense would be if the DHS simply stopped searching peoples laptops. It's not like the border is in any way impermeable to unauthorized and unsnooped data anyway. In a way this is just like DRM. It doesn't affect those who know how to get around it, and the rest aren't worth bothering about.
Modded Informative? Wonderful, now not even ./ gets my sarcasm :(
Corelation. Is. Not. Causation.
Since the machine in question isn't even a supercomputer, but simply a cluster of blades, I'd say Cray has nothing to worry about.
...is not actually a "desktop". It's not even "a" computer. It's a cluster, and Cray could definately do better than this. Especially considering Unisys has built computers (no, not clusters) with a lot of processors a long time, many of them Windows Capable. So... Cray builds a cluster, Microsoft gets some free ad space for HPC Server. Hooray!
This is utterly useless. Any good ISP (eg almost any european ISP) will not ever need this, as they have _enough bandwidth to fullfill their contracts_ with their customers.