I've found that Tom's seems to run on the ragged edge of falling on its face at peak periods, even WITHOUT slashdot. I've failed to get in with several attempts across a half hour.
Did anyone cache the article? Goggle's cache is from last November.
I can't seem to get to AMD as well. (and) it became available again about midnight.
Perhaps AMD just got hammered by curiosity seekers looking for info on their 1.1 GHz chip announcement? Company makes major PR announcement. Their site falls on its face. This is cliche enough that IBM has a cute TV ad on it ("There are no stupid mistakes, Bob"). It is probably pure coincidence.
One thing that I think needs work is a bit of feedback on the submission rejected process. We toss an article at you, and see it later as "rejected" the next time we go to post a story.
If we knew WHY something is rejected, we would have a better opinion on whether it was being FAIRLY rejected. Rejected articles should show in our status page, and should at least have a checkbox of rejection reasons or possibly commentary by the reviewer.
Then we could decide on whether you were being biased in story selection.
That we've fucked up is not in dispute. That we had the balls to come to New York should also not be in dispute. And, when we succed in our re-engineering and overhaul of our practices we'll expect the same level of coverage of that too.
Your company would gain a great deal of credibility if it would withdraw the projected IPO. If there is no pending IPO on the table, then your people are free to talk about your products and intentions. The "quiet period" is seen by many as a shield. And if there is no pending stock distribution in the works, the Linux community can discuss your technical contributions without speculation each time on whether any particular statement or event is designed to play with stock values.
Your comments make the statement that your company is positively working on rehabilitating itself after a shaky start. We would take the rehab process much more seriously if the IPO were not looming so closely. (could someone tell me if an IPO can be withdrawn without prejudice after the process is started?)
One point that lept out at me from the 1992 debates was:
A point which I don't think everyone appreciates is that making something available by FTP is not necessarily the way to provide the widest distribution. The Internet is still a highly elite group. Most computer users are NOT on it. It is my understanding from PH that the country where MINIX is most widely used is Germany, not the U.S., mostly because one of the (commercial) German computer magazines has been actively pushing it. MINIX is also widely used in Eastern Europe, Japan, Israel, South America, etc. Most of these people would never have gotten it if there hadn't been a company selling it.
I wonder if "betting with/against the net" is why every stockbroker on Wall Street has heard of Linux and has never neard of Minix? Grin
"The Lego test helps identify initiative, leadership and an ability to work in groups"
I don't remember Lego being a team game
Read the link! Most of the comments here seem to be from people who see "Legos" and "not SAT" and compose their reply.
The test apparently consists of a group of people, each of whom gets to look once at the target object by himself. Then the team gets together and tries to build their own copy from memory.
My memory of the robot's eye colour will be different from yours. Which one of us gets to choose the eye colour depends on how you convince me I am wrong. Or vice versa. (combined with my knowledge that I suck at 3-D visualization.)
A team that accepts an incompetant leader, or arbitrates badly between differing memories for other reasons, will produce an inferior copy than a team that contains good leadership skills AND good team-submission skills.
odd there aren't special icons for say intel or cyrix
There is an icon for Intel. Dunno about Cyrix. Has there been anything interesting in the past several years from Cyrix? A me-too chip is not interesting. A new type of chip design is interesting. For those of us who peer under the hood of our PC, Transmeta's design philosophy is different. If something is different, it is news. Athlon was slightly different. It got many stories, and probably has an icon lying around here. Crusoe is very different and indeed constitutes "News for Nerds".
Our interest in the company may have been attracted by Linus, but an article on Phoenix providing infrastructure for companies designing in the Crusoe architecture has essentially nothing to do with Linus.
It is interesting because the technology is different. This story establishes that the significant technology is more likely to be successful. That is news. And it has nothing to do with Linus and little to do with Linux. A company with an innovative CPU happens to use Linux. The story is the CPU, not the OS.
I'm thinking of adding an old 2X to my main system because the DVD I have in there cannot read any CDR at all. It can read factory CD's but cannot read any recorded CDs.
If I want to copy a CD, I have to copy the whole thing to disk first.
Compatibility would be nice. My CDRW cannot read DVD (of course), and my DVD cannot read CDR or CDRW.
In passing, what is the expected life of a CDRW under ideal conditions?
] I'll be curious to see the real analysis of the etoy thing. I'd love to think that we really hurt their stock price.
The discussion I saw on it claimed that the price was largely related to a combination of volume problems over christmas, and a freeing of locked-in shares from the IPO (or something like that) that were finally allowed to be sold by people who'd held them for a long time. I forget where I read the discussions about etoys' post-christmas dive into the share-price dumpster, but they rated the feud with etoy to be a distant third to these two factors.
I'd like to see periodic roundup articles on topical things like this. The roundup would basically have a line or so describing the product's publisher, name, and field of application, with a link both to a real slashdot article and to the publisher's relevant web page.
If the product is already known to everyone, then there would be a non-link labelled "established product" instead of the link to the slashdot announcement.
Perhaps one of the Linux sites could (or has already) make this list a permanent page and Slashdot could post monthly discussion seeds about what's new on it.
, and in a year or so you can expect fast desktop Transmeta CPUs (not Crusoes though!).
Nifty names? Perhaps something to cybersquat on?
Friday: Optimized for server Lots of I/O, primitive video and other UI stuff. Power consumption doesn't matter at all. "Crusoe was the most famous person to get everything done by Friday" Robinson: Optimized for multiprocessor motherboards for game hackers. What would the cute name be for a routine desktop unit based on these names?
Suffice to say that running like this may very well decrease performance due to the nature of the translation layer. Furthermore, the flexibility code morphing gives Transmeta greatly outweighs, I think, any small performance improvement that might result from eliminating it.
OK, the translation layer provides advantages, primarily giving TM the right to change the underlying processor hardware without really telling anyone.
But would there be advantages to using an assembly architecture CLOSER to the TM core? I've seen a number of vague questions in the discussion groups about asking for a Power PC translation layer instead of Intel. This would double the amount of translation layer packages that would need to be written for any new chip, but that would be worth it if PPC provides speed advantages. BR> Of course I could be completely off base here. How RISCy is PPC anyhow? And are there structural reasons that TM's ordering and pruning logic might not be as effective for it?
I have an aluminum-air battery in the glove box of my car for emergency use if my startac's miniature battery is dead when I really really want it.
This new announcement is important largely because of the liquid fuel. If the batteries have to be handed back in to the manufacturer to be refilled (say, like toner or ink jet), then there is little advantage over the aluminum ones. If it refills by plastic vials, then it's interesting.
However, CBS News President Andrew Heyward defended the use of such new technology -- something CBS has also been doing recently on ``The Early Show'' in which the network's logo has appeared on buildings and even horse-drawn carriages around the Central Park area where the show is broadcast.
I don't know "The Early Show". Is it news? I make a huge distinction between entertainment and news. Forrest Gump meets several presidents. Big deal. I don't care what f/x they use in my entertainment. If something is presented as news, then I don't want them changing it If a network gets caught changing NEWS images, and tries to shrug it off as nothing special, then I will never trust them again.
This leaves open the question of whether or not the millenium rollover was news. It sounds like Dan Rather changed his mind on whether it's news vs entertainment after the fact. So, CBS showed the millenium live from Metropolis or Gotham City, not New York? Did they ADVERTISE is as New York as opposed to something fictional?
My outrage is based on my view that the millenium was news. If you think of it as entertainment hype, then you can disregard this message.
I disagree with Naureckas's slippery slope. If it's news it should be accurate. If it is fiction, then it should be clear from the context that it is fiction.
(I'll ignore for the moment cases of fake-news-as art like the War of the Worlds telecast or the User Friendly April 1 injunction)
In any event, I suspect that most every planet has taken a few really big hits at one time or another
I remember reading an article several decades ago called "Mercury's missing divot". According to the author of that article, Mercury got slammed by a heavy, high-velocity object at what became the Caloris Basin. His calculations of the impact required would produce ricter 22 (iirc?) shock waves that would damp our by only 3 magnitudes or so each time around the planet. His theory claimed that the "Weird Terrain" area opposite Caloris was caused by interference effects when this shock wave met up on the other side of the planet.
I don't grasp exponential scales well. Ricter 22 or 23 is a stupendous amount of energy to apply to a rock surface.
". If I own a resteraunt can I just deny a certain class of people let's just say anyone I want from comming in? Perhaps anyone who has red on that day cannot in any way enter my establishment because I hate red.
No. The analogy is not "anyone wearing red". The boycott is against a particular customer of Usenet. Let's say I have a restaurant. When Bob Jones brings his friends in for dinner, some of them pee in the corner. Bob says that they're his clients and he won't even tell us their names. Eventually, we stop letting Bob bring people into our restaurant.
I wonder what would happen if AOL got the UDP... Mmmm. Happy thoughts. I think that Netcom came within a few hours of the UDP deadline when UDP was called on them.
Slashdot Mirror
For a while I had a poster from a hard drive company (Priam) near my desk at work.
The Wright brothers were not the first people to fly. They were the first people not to crash.
(followed by a bit of small print explaining POWERED flight, followed by their slogan "Just the right distance from the leading edge")
I've found that Tom's seems to run on the ragged edge of falling on its face at peak periods, even WITHOUT slashdot. I've failed to get in with several attempts across a half hour.
Did anyone cache the article? Goggle's cache is from last November.
I can't seem to get to AMD as well. (and) it became available again about midnight.
Perhaps AMD just got hammered by curiosity seekers looking for info on their 1.1 GHz chip announcement? Company makes major PR announcement. Their site falls on its face. This is cliche enough that IBM has a cute TV ad on it ("There are no stupid mistakes, Bob"). It is probably pure coincidence.
I find it fascinating that this press release had 164 words of real meat, and 169 words of stock lawsuit disclaimer. I find that sad.
One thing that I think needs work is a bit of feedback on the submission rejected process. We toss an article at you, and see it later as "rejected" the next time we go to post a story.
If we knew WHY something is rejected, we would have a better opinion on whether it was being FAIRLY rejected. Rejected articles should show in our status page, and should at least have a checkbox of rejection reasons or possibly commentary by the reviewer.
Then we could decide on whether you were being biased in story selection.
North? Wasn't Peter North a famous porn star?
I'm sure many people will apply Freud to your misstep picking "North" instead of "Norton" for the PC software pioneer.
That we've fucked up is not in dispute. That we had the balls to come to New York should also not be in dispute. And, when we succed in our re-engineering and overhaul of our practices we'll expect the same level of coverage of that too.
Your company would gain a great deal of credibility if it would withdraw the projected IPO. If there is no pending IPO on the table, then your people are free to talk about your products and intentions. The "quiet period" is seen by many as a shield. And if there is no pending stock distribution in the works, the Linux community can discuss your technical contributions without speculation each time on whether any particular statement or event is designed to play with stock values.
Your comments make the statement that your company is positively working on rehabilitating itself after a shaky start. We would take the rehab process much more seriously if the IPO were not looming so closely. (could someone tell me if an IPO can be withdrawn without prejudice after the process is started?)
Rehab the company first. THEN sell it.
The UCLA version is dotted already. BR>
Here's a cache.
Cookies off = "HTTProphylactic"
And provides about the same ratio of nuisance value.
Very historic, in Linux terms.
One point that lept out at me from the 1992 debates was:
A point which I don't think everyone appreciates is that making something available by FTP is not necessarily the way to provide the widest distribution. The Internet is still a highly elite group. Most computer users are NOT on it. It is my understanding from PH that the country where MINIX is most widely used is Germany, not the U.S., mostly because one of the (commercial) German computer magazines has been actively pushing it. MINIX is also widely used in Eastern Europe, Japan, Israel, South America, etc. Most of these people would never have gotten it if there hadn't been a company selling it.
I wonder if "betting with/against the net" is why every stockbroker on Wall Street has heard of Linux and has never neard of Minix? Grin
"The Lego test helps identify initiative, leadership and an ability to work in groups"
I don't remember Lego being a team game
Read the link! Most of the comments here seem to be from people who see "Legos" and "not SAT" and compose their reply.
The test apparently consists of a group of people, each of whom gets to look once at the target object by himself. Then the team gets together and tries to build their own copy from memory.
My memory of the robot's eye colour will be different from yours. Which one of us gets to choose the eye colour depends on how you convince me I am wrong. Or vice versa. (combined with my knowledge that I suck at 3-D visualization.)
A team that accepts an incompetant leader, or arbitrates badly between differing memories for other reasons, will produce an inferior copy than a team that contains good leadership skills AND good team-submission skills.
I tried to moderate this one up, but it went in as a negative. Now the system won't let me re-moderate a message I've already ruled on.
Really sorry, Bad Dog.
Would someone please remoderate him back up again?
odd there aren't special icons for say intel or cyrix
There is an icon for Intel. Dunno about Cyrix. Has there been anything interesting in the past several years from Cyrix? A me-too chip is not interesting. A new type of chip design is interesting. For those of us who peer under the hood of our PC, Transmeta's design philosophy is different. If something is different, it is news. Athlon was slightly different. It got many stories, and probably has an icon lying around here. Crusoe is very different and indeed constitutes "News for Nerds".
Our interest in the company may have been attracted by Linus, but an article on Phoenix providing infrastructure for companies designing in the Crusoe architecture has essentially nothing to do with Linus.
It is interesting because the technology is different. This story establishes that the significant technology is more likely to be successful. That is news. And it has nothing to do with Linus and little to do with Linux. A company with an innovative CPU happens to use Linux. The story is the CPU, not the OS.
You think so?
I'm thinking of adding an old 2X to my main system because the DVD I have in there cannot read any CDR at all. It can read factory CD's but cannot read any recorded CDs.
If I want to copy a CD, I have to copy the whole thing to disk first.
Compatibility would be nice. My CDRW cannot read DVD (of course), and my DVD cannot read CDR or CDRW.
In passing, what is the expected life of a CDRW under ideal conditions?
] I'll be curious to see the real analysis of the etoy thing. I'd love to think that we really hurt their stock price.
The discussion I saw on it claimed that the price was largely related to a combination of volume problems over christmas, and a freeing of locked-in shares from the IPO (or something like that) that were finally allowed to be sold by people who'd held them for a long time. I forget where I read the discussions about etoys' post-christmas dive into the share-price dumpster, but they rated the feud with etoy to be a distant third to these two factors.
I'd like to see periodic roundup articles on topical things like this. The roundup would basically have a line or so describing the product's publisher, name, and field of application, with a link both to a real slashdot article and to the publisher's relevant web page.
If the product is already known to everyone, then there would be a non-link labelled "established product" instead of the link to the slashdot announcement.
Perhaps one of the Linux sites could (or has already) make this list a permanent page and Slashdot could post monthly discussion seeds about what's new on it.
, and in a year or so you can expect fast desktop Transmeta CPUs (not Crusoes though!).
Nifty names? Perhaps something to cybersquat on?
Friday: Optimized for server Lots of I/O, primitive video and other UI stuff. Power consumption doesn't matter at all. "Crusoe was the most famous person to get everything done by Friday"
Robinson: Optimized for multiprocessor motherboards for game hackers.
What would the cute name be for a routine desktop unit based on these names?
Suffice to say that running like this may very well decrease performance due to the nature of the translation layer. Furthermore, the flexibility code morphing gives Transmeta greatly outweighs, I think, any small performance improvement that might result from eliminating it.
OK, the translation layer provides advantages, primarily giving TM the right to change the underlying processor hardware without really telling anyone.
But would there be advantages to using an assembly architecture CLOSER to the TM core? I've seen a number of vague questions in the discussion groups about asking for a Power PC translation layer instead of Intel. This would double the amount of translation layer packages that would need to be written for any new chip, but that would be worth it if PPC provides speed advantages.
BR> Of course I could be completely off base here. How RISCy is PPC anyhow? And are there structural reasons that TM's ordering and pruning logic might not be as effective for it?
I have an aluminum-air battery in the glove box of my car for emergency use if my startac's miniature battery is dead when I really really want it.
This new announcement is important largely because of the liquid fuel. If the batteries have to be handed back in to the manufacturer to be refilled (say, like toner or ink jet), then there is little advantage over the aluminum ones. If it refills by plastic vials, then it's interesting.
He is selling the cheque UNSIGNED!
Microsoft might be willing to re-issue the cheque, though. The eBay sale would make it clear that title had passed.
Try clicking on either the guy's rating (the "(11)" ) or try to call up his email address from eBay.
It chokes either way. But it's willing to call up MY user information. I guess various userids are distributed onto various servers.
However, CBS News President Andrew Heyward defended the use of such new technology -- something CBS has also been doing recently on ``The Early Show'' in which the network's logo has appeared on buildings and even horse-drawn carriages around the Central Park area where the show is broadcast.
I don't know "The Early Show". Is it news? I make a huge distinction between entertainment and news. Forrest Gump meets several presidents. Big deal. I don't care what f/x they use in my entertainment. If something is presented as news, then I don't want them changing it If a network gets caught changing NEWS images, and tries to shrug it off as nothing special, then I will never trust them again.
This leaves open the question of whether or not the millenium rollover was news. It sounds like Dan Rather changed his mind on whether it's news vs entertainment after the fact. So, CBS showed the millenium live from Metropolis or Gotham City, not New York? Did they ADVERTISE is as New York as opposed to something fictional?
My outrage is based on my view that the millenium was news. If you think of it as entertainment hype, then you can disregard this message.
I disagree with Naureckas's slippery slope. If it's news it should be accurate. If it is fiction, then it should be clear from the context that it is fiction.
(I'll ignore for the moment cases of fake-news-as art like the War of the Worlds telecast or the User Friendly April 1 injunction)
In any event, I suspect that most every planet has taken a few really big hits at one time or another
I remember reading an article several decades ago called "Mercury's missing divot". According to the author of that article, Mercury got slammed by a heavy, high-velocity object at what became the Caloris Basin. His calculations of the impact required would produce ricter 22 (iirc?) shock waves that would damp our by only 3 magnitudes or so each time around the planet. His theory claimed that the "Weird Terrain" area opposite Caloris was caused by interference effects when this shock wave met up on the other side of the planet.
I don't grasp exponential scales well. Ricter 22 or 23 is a stupendous amount of energy to apply to a rock surface.
". If I own a resteraunt can I just deny a certain class of people let's just say anyone I want from comming in? Perhaps anyone who has red on that day cannot in any way enter my establishment because I hate red.
... Sorry Bob)
No. The analogy is not "anyone wearing red". The boycott is against a particular customer of Usenet. Let's say I have a restaurant. When Bob Jones brings his friends in for dinner, some of them pee in the corner. Bob says that they're his clients and he won't even tell us their names. Eventually, we stop letting Bob bring people into our restaurant.
(Hypothetical names
I wonder what would happen if AOL got the UDP... Mmmm. Happy thoughts. I think that Netcom came within a few hours of the UDP deadline when UDP was called on them.