The U.S. created the Internet - why should we give up control of it to foreigners who have socialist leanings?
Jeebus, why not just call it the USA-net then?
Don't get me wrong, TCP/IP and the prelimary workings of a global free network were a great achievement (and all from DARPA), but don't make the mistake that this network can't be re-done, in a better manner by emerging 3rd world countries.
The question in my mind is are they going to use the full x86-64 extensions, or keep the sparc as the 'real' 64-bit processor and let Solaris x86 remain 32 bit...
I see no need, strategically, Opterons are only scaleable 8-way so far (the 800 series chips), and the article says Sun only plans on making 2 and 4-way boxes.
I think this allows them to "upsell" anyone who wants to keep their Solaris/Linux investment and move into the 16 or higher processor boxes that only the big iron platoforms (not x86) can provide... like SPARC.
Think about how much empty space there is in your box right now, would a processor that's maybe two or three times the size of current processors REALLY be that big of a deal?
One word: Heat.
Considering the bulky apparatus (heatsink, fan) around my *current* work CPU (a nice loud P4 2.4 Ghz), I'd had to see how big that would have to be to accomodate a CPU 2-3 times the size.
Rob's reply was interesting: "I can tell you I can't tell you. I can tell you I'd like to tell you. I can tell you who we don't have. Do we have EA? No."
Jeebus this guy spouts poetry like our esteemed Secretary of Defense... now I'm really scared. Does he know someone named Darl?
Yes, it does. But this is merely on of the first of it's kind.
Tivo is the first of it's kind as a consumer product. This thing is
completely useless to the average home user (as it requires a wifi-compatible device to listen... what joe 6pack has that)
completely useless to the hobbyist/enthusiast, as they can build something similar, *easily* for something liek quarter the price, or get someone to do it (like me) for half the price
Looks like their target market is rich people who can only buy their tech cred (probably by seeing a product placement in Wired or CNET TV).
So here's what I propose. A FPS like Doom II co-op. The developers make a world, let's say, Mars is invaded, you have to fight back the demons. There are several seperate areas in this world that are just packed with AI demons. It is your job and the job of several thousand others to fight and defeat this area. You might secure it but once defeated it will still come under attack so players will always have to stay and keep it secure.
Sounds good, but where's the RPG part of it? I think that's what attracts at least a portion of the large crowd.
The definitive end is good too. Someone else mentioned a possibility of players losing too (even in the final battle). That woould put an edge to the whole thing.
If a dialog box popped up that said, "AOL would like to disable the messenger service on your computer. This will help stop pop-up ads. Would you like to allow AOL to do this? [Allow][Do Not Allow]" then it would be fine. They shouldn't just ASSUME that the user has no use for it.
Heh, if M$ did this, the only option would be [OK].
Is it just me, or are we all so interested to read these documents only because they are "forbidden"
I think it's only you. I see it more of re-affirming the allegations of corruption and bias that this company has.
In fact, I'd say that I would support downloading and mirroing these files even more strongly than what we did for DeCSS... the truth needs to be told if our democracy is under seige from moneyed interests.
The problem comes in when my girlfriend sits down at my computer. First off, I had to get her to belive that Mozilla was a web browser, and that IE was not necessary. That out of the way, she hated it. Having to deal with cookies annoyed her, she didn't care and just wanted it to work. She never even tried the tabbed browsing really. About the only thing about it that didn't annoy her was the lack of pop-ups, and even then some of the sites she went to were the kind that used pop-ups in the design of the page, so she didn't even appreciate that feature that much.
Not too oddly, my girlfriend had the same issues... but she greatly appreciated the lack of popups (when whitelisting came out, it was really usable). So she grudgingly has been using it for the past year or so.
Then one day she was speaking to her friends/colleagues, and they complained about how they laptops would systmatically crash, popups, etc. She proudly told them that she had no such problems with her laptop, and everything just worked. After that, she's been a big fan of Mozilla(Firebird):-D
note: a big part of the difficulty is that the thing is so customizable, and the prefs can be everywhere (themes, extensions, user*.css files, etc), so upgrading when a new version is not easy, and I only do it for her when I know that the new version has something she'd like (popup whitelists, type-ahead find, etc).
You have critical data in.mdb files? Either you have nerves of steel, or the brain of a jellied eel.
Not me, amigo, but as a consultant, I can't count on my two hands the number of times I've had to either warehouse data from, or (worse) interface with an existing Access database. Either the company/dept. didn't want to pay the fee for MS SQL (forget about Oracle), or they didn't have anyone with skills enough to be able to work on anything but Access... just because they use Access and MS Office as "enterprise software" doesn't mean they don't deserve my help and skills.
This is a pretty comprehensive study(tho one imagines that it could get out of date pretty quickly). One thought that came up was, what about the areas in the article where OSS comes up short? For example, from the article:
11.6.2. Personal databases held centrally or locally
Ad hoc personal databases are not well supported in OSS. There is no direct equivalent to
Access, nor is one being developed.
Several of the groupware packages do offer some capability in this area using a variety of
OSS SQL databases as a back-end. In some cases (such as NullLogic) ordinary users can
only use pre-defined queries. Some offer the ability to define forms that can be used to store
and access data.
Is there someone who could either rebut this statement, or would want to work on a replacement? Yes, Access sucks and is the bane of any data-warehousing project... but it's utility is the reason there are so many small but completely critical.mdb files out there.
I wish people would get over their nuclear phobias and NIMBY additudes because something needs to be done, and adding more gas turbines and coal plants are not the best solution.
Actually, according to this frontline piece, the french still have a problem with NIMBY for waste containment (they have a solution, but the jury is still out on whether the solution will gain acceptance). Of course, that's a lot better than here in the US, where we have NIMBYism for even the power generation.
Goddamn, I wish the greens would grow up and learn to accept nuclear as less polluting than conventional alternatives... then we might be able to stop the fossil fuel lobby.
It's not implied. The hard evidence shows that they've materially supported the Iraqi dictatorship for years. Up until the very end. French links are all over the munitions and sanctioned materials in Iraq.
Just like the US, pal... maybe it's time we look at our own regime and see if the shoe fits. Ask our esteemed Secretary of Defense.
Yes, but unless you live in a warm area you would have propably used a lot of that electricity to warm up your house anyway.
Contrary to popular belief, the P4's don't spend ALL of their energy generating heat (tho those suckers DO get hot). Original poster mentioned energy usage, not heat radiated... I bet spending the extra 50W on a more efficient heating device might a better idea if you really need the heat, plus as you mentioned, AC costs are increased when dealing with extra heat from the PC.
I spent like 5 minutes browsing and googling before I found the info above... why doesn't the Firebird page have a link to their own release notes for 0.7? Hopefully they'll get around to updating that page.
Is Apple's G5 vastly faster than the competiton? Nope. No way. In fact, it's probably slower than the AMD64 chips at most tasks.
I'd agree with you, the G5 chip might be slower than the Athlon 64, and most definitely slower than the server-class Opteron. However, show me ONE x86 compatible PC that beats a Dual-G5 machine at the same price point. Seriously, I want to find one. Reality is that the dual G5 is a seriously good deal both for an awesome workstation or a cluster node. AMD knows they don't have to compete vs. Apple right now, so they're pricing their Opterons competetively with Intel's offerings (the Itanium and XeonMP), and kicking Intel's ass.
Does it go into hacking the Series 2 TiVo? I'm sick of reading about all these obsolete series 1 hack methods.
Preach it, brotha. Anyone who owns a series 1 probably either
knows how to hack it if they need to or
would never read/.
Get with the times, people! If this book has relevant and interesting information for what I can do with my Series2 (besides the known capacity expansion hacks), the reviewer should have noted it.
Does it seem to anyone else like the GIA program is going to drown in its own chaff? I mean, if it's really supposed to be giving people "insider" information about the government, how are they going to confirm that any submission is true?
I have an awesome idea... They should allow a certain percentage of the users to "Moderate" in a rotating fashion, depending on their usage statistics. Ah, you say... who will police the police? Good question! They should also have a group of "Meta-moderators" that "Moderate" the "Moderators", thus preventing malicious "Moderation"... Wow, this is an incredible way to improve the signal to noise ratio!... I should patent it!
...I am no Intel/Windows apologist - I have been itching to buy an Apple for a couple of years now. Sadly, there's just no way I can justify springing A$3000 for the equivalent of an A$1500 PC.
I've refuted this before, but then again, I'm not sure you've seen my post. It's still valid, even after the Athlon 64 (since that proc is not dual-capable).
"No wider than an entry-level ThinkPad but much thicker and heftier, the $4,500 GoBook MAX is a waterproof, vaporproof, shockproof piece of field equipment."
Hmmm, I wonder why the state wouldn't consider these?
You know, sometimes we just want to pick our noses or read a news story on the web
Or post something on/.? Maybe I'm no super-programmer, but I think pair programming would be great. Often you don't realize critical design flaws until you have code review, and with instant code review, you get that. Plus, maybe you *will* have time to browse/., since pair programming does not mean that you're bound to the same desk, all day.
Dude, MozillaFirebird runs word inside of it's browser shell.... nothing new, or exciting... it's called COM.
Copying and pasting things from IE to Word keeps all formatting and tables and everything.
You do realize that you're getting a lot of cruft and that this operation is one-way, right? Try going back and forth, several times and see if the end result is something you'd be proud of.
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Jeebus, why not just call it the USA-net then?
Don't get me wrong, TCP/IP and the prelimary workings of a global free network were a great achievement (and all from DARPA), but don't make the mistake that this network can't be re-done, in a better manner by emerging 3rd world countries.
You think you're disappointed? Take a look at these guys.
I see no need, strategically, Opterons are only scaleable 8-way so far (the 800 series chips), and the article says Sun only plans on making 2 and 4-way boxes.
I think this allows them to "upsell" anyone who wants to keep their Solaris/Linux investment and move into the 16 or higher processor boxes that only the big iron platoforms (not x86) can provide... like SPARC.
One word: Heat.
Considering the bulky apparatus (heatsink, fan) around my *current* work CPU (a nice loud P4 2.4 Ghz), I'd had to see how big that would have to be to accomodate a CPU 2-3 times the size.
Jeebus this guy spouts poetry like our esteemed Secretary of Defense... now I'm really scared. Does he know someone named Darl?
Tivo is the first of it's kind as a consumer product. This thing is
Looks like their target market is rich people who can only buy their tech cred (probably by seeing a product placement in Wired or CNET TV).
Sounds good, but where's the RPG part of it? I think that's what attracts at least a portion of the large crowd.
The definitive end is good too. Someone else mentioned a possibility of players losing too (even in the final battle). That woould put an edge to the whole thing.
Heh, if M$ did this, the only option would be [OK].
I think it's only you. I see it more of re-affirming the allegations of corruption and bias that this company has.
In fact, I'd say that I would support downloading and mirroing these files even more strongly than what we did for DeCSS... the truth needs to be told if our democracy is under seige from moneyed interests.
Not too oddly, my girlfriend had the same issues... but she greatly appreciated the lack of popups (when whitelisting came out, it was really usable). So she grudgingly has been using it for the past year or so.
Then one day she was speaking to her friends/colleagues, and they complained about how they laptops would systmatically crash, popups, etc. She proudly told them that she had no such problems with her laptop, and everything just worked. After that, she's been a big fan of Mozilla(Firebird) :-D
note: a big part of the difficulty is that the thing is so customizable, and the prefs can be everywhere (themes, extensions, user*.css files, etc), so upgrading when a new version is not easy, and I only do it for her when I know that the new version has something she'd like (popup whitelists, type-ahead find, etc).
Not me, amigo, but as a consultant, I can't count on my two hands the number of times I've had to either warehouse data from, or (worse) interface with an existing Access database. Either the company/dept. didn't want to pay the fee for MS SQL (forget about Oracle), or they didn't have anyone with skills enough to be able to work on anything but Access... just because they use Access and MS Office as "enterprise software" doesn't mean they don't deserve my help and skills.
11.6.2. Personal databases held centrally or locally
Ad hoc personal databases are not well supported in OSS. There is no direct equivalent to Access, nor is one being developed. Several of the groupware packages do offer some capability in this area using a variety of OSS SQL databases as a back-end. In some cases (such as NullLogic) ordinary users can only use pre-defined queries. Some offer the ability to define forms that can be used to store and access data.
Is there someone who could either rebut this statement, or would want to work on a replacement? Yes, Access sucks and is the bane of any data-warehousing project... but it's utility is the reason there are so many small but completely critical .mdb files out there.
Actually, according to this frontline piece, the french still have a problem with NIMBY for waste containment (they have a solution, but the jury is still out on whether the solution will gain acceptance). Of course, that's a lot better than here in the US, where we have NIMBYism for even the power generation.
Goddamn, I wish the greens would grow up and learn to accept nuclear as less polluting than conventional alternatives... then we might be able to stop the fossil fuel lobby.
Just like the US, pal... maybe it's time we look at our own regime and see if the shoe fits. Ask our esteemed Secretary of Defense.
Contrary to popular belief, the P4's don't spend ALL of their energy generating heat (tho those suckers DO get hot). Original poster mentioned energy usage, not heat radiated... I bet spending the extra 50W on a more efficient heating device might a better idea if you really need the heat, plus as you mentioned, AC costs are increased when dealing with extra heat from the PC.
I spent like 5 minutes browsing and googling before I found the info above... why doesn't the Firebird page have a link to their own release notes for 0.7? Hopefully they'll get around to updating that page.
I'd agree with you, the G5 chip might be slower than the Athlon 64, and most definitely slower than the server-class Opteron. However, show me ONE x86 compatible PC that beats a Dual-G5 machine at the same price point. Seriously, I want to find one. Reality is that the dual G5 is a seriously good deal both for an awesome workstation or a cluster node. AMD knows they don't have to compete vs. Apple right now, so they're pricing their Opterons competetively with Intel's offerings (the Itanium and XeonMP), and kicking Intel's ass.
Preach it, brotha. Anyone who owns a series 1 probably either
Get with the times, people! If this book has relevant and interesting information for what I can do with my Series2 (besides the known capacity expansion hacks), the reviewer should have noted it.
I have an awesome idea... They should allow a certain percentage of the users to "Moderate" in a rotating fashion, depending on their usage statistics.
Ah, you say... who will police the police? Good question!
They should also have a group of "Meta-moderators" that "Moderate" the "Moderators", thus preventing malicious "Moderation"... Wow, this is an incredible way to improve the signal to noise ratio!... I should patent it!
Unless, of course there's prior art :-/
I've refuted this before, but then again, I'm not sure you've seen my post. It's still valid, even after the Athlon 64 (since that proc is not dual-capable).
From the article (emphasis mine):
"No wider than an entry-level ThinkPad but much thicker and heftier, the $4,500 GoBook MAX is a waterproof, vaporproof, shockproof piece of field equipment."
Hmmm, I wonder why the state wouldn't consider these?
Or post something on /.? Maybe I'm no super-programmer, but I think pair programming would be great. Often you don't realize critical design flaws until you have code review, and with instant code review, you get that. Plus, maybe you *will* have time to browse /., since pair programming does not mean that you're bound to the same desk, all day.
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Dude, MozillaFirebird runs word inside of it's browser shell.... nothing new, or exciting... it's called COM.
Copying and pasting things from IE to Word keeps all formatting and tables and everything.
You do realize that you're getting a lot of cruft and that this operation is one-way, right? Try going back and forth, several times and see if the end result is something you'd be proud of.
We live in a capitalist society... some or most of the stuff that we have today that wasn't here yesterday is simply here for...
Profit.
No, not yours or mine. Ours. Or theirs. (depending on whether you feel part of the establishment or not).