I got brand new Athlon 750 + AOpen MB. Weird things, it runs only 1/2 the speed under BeOS. Yes only 375Mhz! I've only once seen it run at full speed, perhaps I'll try every setting in the BIOS someday... Have you checked what Bogomips reports?
Yup, if PHB's had their way, we would all be using punch-clocks. Of course, if we come up with a clever idea in our spare time, they claim they own it, too...
I don't get it, why make microwave ovens faster than light? Why not spaceships? Then we could colonize other planets. Do the aliens really need microwave ovens?
Since the story is getting quite old, I suspect that nobody will read this, but anyway: What I meant was it takes a team of developers full-time working to create stuff like this. Yes, open source developers could do it, if they would get a sponsor to pay for computers/office space/pizzas/toilet papar/etc... But then wouldn't you rather work for some money? :/ J.
I have dropped my IBM c3 (Palm V) a few times, it even has dents in the aluminum case, but still works. (Phew!) My old Palm Pro however has cracked screen after I sat on it at a party. : J.
What's wrong with people here? (well, most of them, anyway) Now, if Xbox would have been made by anybody else but Microsoft, it wouldn't get the shit it is getting here! Please, remove the Microsoft label and what do you see? A fairly powerful gaming machine using cheap but powerful stuff from Intel and nVidia. Microsoft is probably using nVidia optimized DirectX and PIII optimised cut down OS. This is a kind of system that no Open Source zealots [-1, flamebait] could hack to gether. It takes commitment and work (Read: working 8+ hrs a day, 5-6 days a week for few months) from talented and experienced people to design/program a thing like that. No matter how many pies you throw at Bill, I actually can not believe that MS HR department hire only idiots and half-wits! (Let's leave the Laywer/Marketing departments out of this, ok?) Yes, it's obviously aimed at the new Playstation, therefore the vaporware, but do you really think that the people behind this hardware had it ready just waiting for P2 to arrive ("Hey, Sony has a new Playstation, let's conjure something up to compete with it"). Maybe Microsoft should have founded "Scrim Foot" to market it?:) Enough ranting...
I always thought that DVD player manufacturer just decided that the Joe Scmoe didn't need Firewire output. This makes me urge to go to my local hi-fi store and smash the players... *grmbl* J.
Going for the geek familes market, Rowenta unwrapped two new toasters -- a 4 toast QUAD-BURNER and a entry level 2-way energy saving version. "We hope to give all the toaster lovers out there more satisfying experience, from bachelors to large grandma and grandpa and lot of grandchildren type families" said John Williams, who manages the R&D at Rowenta. Company officials also announced their intent to deliver a version of Linux optimized for QUAD-BURNER. "It sure makes sense to use open source OS to make open faced sandwiches," John remarked. Rowenta is based in Standfort Offenbach in Germany. J. (mention Linux and get posted on/.!)
Reading the article I thought that the court had complained that the french couldn't access the auction site or something. Considering when I tried to sign up for Yahoo auctions, and selected 'other' country but was then told that I couldn't register because the cgi program complained that I hadn't filled out the country field, but there wasn't any! : Maybe that's what the court is complaining about?:> oh well, haven't got my coffee yet...
It's too little, too late. It's not very userfriendly and it's a kludge on top GSM (or whatever you are using) 3rd generation mobile systems like GPRS are around the corner, and IMHO we (developers) need to focus on them, rather than that horrible kludge the WAP is. Don't waste your time on WAP... Just my 2c
If I may quote my favorite CEO: "Pursuing the biological simile, observers pointed out another problem caused by Microsoft's monopoly: the lack of genetic diversity in the PC ecosystem. Because PCs and their software are too similar, one noxious automaton can do much more damage than would occur if we had several alternative life forms. This argument deserves closer examination. True, BeOS, MacOS, and Linux users were not infected by the Love virus. Had each system had 25% market share, a single virus could only infect 25% of the population." The ILOVEYOU virus is kindergarden stuff compared to what a real programmer could really do if he/she put their mind to it, but since experienced programmers are (most of the time) fairly matured individuals, but it would only take one fairly good hacker to release a plague on the world...
Books have been around for few centuries now, and are fairly "traditional". No publisher is going to loose sleep over if you lend a book to your friend/brother/dog, it's (IMHO & IANAL) "fair use". Corporates are just becoming more greedy every day, they use legal imtimidation to scare people (FUD tactics). Lend it to your friend and don't loose sleep over some laywer who have to prove it's existance and 60.000USD salary to write crap like that... J.
Who says that intelligence is the ultimate goal in evolution? Intelligence could be just another evolution dead end just like the dinosaurs. (Remember, the dinosaur s where successful, it took major catastrophic event to end their reign) Technology/science has helped us to live "better" lives since we are more productive. But are are our lifes better. I've heard theories that hunter/gatherer/early farmers "worked" few hours a day, and where are we now? 8hrs+ workdays, stress, no time with our families (remember, families used to work together, the elderly taught the younger). Maybe this is the reason we haven't heard from other life forms, intelligence is a dead end from evolution point of view, but it's early and I havent got my caffeine fix yet, so I'm just rambling...:) J. crap! slashdot is f*cking up my href's! (yes, I did use preview)
Oh, the mighty Steve has finally blessed us with dual PowerPC system. BIG F*CKING DEAL! I remember when we could get QUAD PowerPC systems and they didn't cost arm and a leg (well perhaps only an arm). Yes, I'm pissed, the PowerPC was the only hope of giving the pathetic x86 some competition, but noo, little Steve had to have the PowerMacs all to himself... Ugh, I need my caffine... J.
Great, I'm sick and tired of downloading all those anothersillything.mpg attachments. Attachments are evil, we need a standard way of ftp-ing the attachments to a server and then just posting the url! J.
I quote: Please review this Specification copy only if you licensed and downloaded it from Microsoft Corporations website; if you did not, please destroy this copy, but you are welcome to license the Specification at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/kerberos WTF? I somehow sincererly doubt that this has any legal meaning. So, could I hand out papers on a streetcorner saying: "Please read this only if pay me 20 USD...". HELLO!? Nobody can control what I choose or choose not to read. Sometimes I think that (some) laywers need to relax a little, take a walk in the park, drive out of town and lay down on the grass or spend some time with their friends and families. (Yes I do believe that laywers can have friends and famelies):)
Bump mapping, anti-aliasing, fog, motion-blur etc... I wonder when we'll see "The first video card with full OpenGL support!" ie. with all the fancy 3D effects in real time. Maybe then we can concentrate on the gameplay instead of ooh's and aah's of 3D graphics?
I'm not sure if you want a camere for underwater job (Olympus has a case for the C2000/3000 range) but Fuji makes one, the DS-260HD "Big Job", it is supposed to be water (splash?) proof and sand proof. J.
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I got brand new Athlon 750 + AOpen MB. Weird things, it runs only 1/2 the speed under BeOS. Yes only 375Mhz! I've only once seen it run at full speed, perhaps I'll try every setting in the BIOS someday... Have you checked what Bogomips reports?
J.
Yup, if PHB's had their way, we would all be using punch-clocks. Of course, if we come up with a clever idea in our spare time, they claim they own it, too...
I don't get it, why make microwave ovens faster than light? Why not spaceships? Then we could colonize other planets. Do the aliens really need microwave ovens?
Since the story is getting quite old, I suspect that nobody will read this, but anyway:
What I meant was it takes a team of developers full-time working to create stuff like this. Yes, open source developers could do it, if they would get a sponsor to pay for computers/office space/pizzas/toilet papar/etc... But then wouldn't you rather work for some money?
:/
J.
I have dropped my IBM c3 (Palm V) a few times, it even has dents in the aluminum case, but still works. (Phew!) My old Palm Pro however has cracked screen after I sat on it at a party. :
J.
What's wrong with people here? (well, most of them, anyway) Now, if Xbox would have been made by anybody else but Microsoft, it wouldn't get the shit it is getting here! Please, remove the Microsoft label and what do you see? A fairly powerful gaming machine using cheap but powerful stuff from Intel and nVidia. Microsoft is probably using nVidia optimized DirectX and PIII optimised cut down OS. This is a kind of system that no Open Source zealots [-1, flamebait] could hack to gether. It takes commitment and work (Read: working 8+ hrs a day, 5-6 days a week for few months) from talented and experienced people to design/program a thing like that. No matter how many pies you throw at Bill, I actually can not believe that MS HR department hire only idiots and half-wits! (Let's leave the Laywer/Marketing departments out of this, ok?) Yes, it's obviously aimed at the new Playstation, therefore the vaporware, but do you really think that the people behind this hardware had it ready just waiting for P2 to arrive ("Hey, Sony has a new Playstation, let's conjure something up to compete with it"). Maybe Microsoft should have founded "Scrim Foot" to market it? :)
Enough ranting...
I always thought that DVD player manufacturer just decided that the Joe Scmoe didn't need Firewire output. This makes me urge to go to my local hi-fi store and smash the players... *grmbl*
J.
Going for the geek familes market, Rowenta unwrapped two new toasters -- a 4 toast QUAD-BURNER and a entry level 2-way energy saving version. "We hope to give all the toaster lovers out there more satisfying experience, from bachelors to large grandma and grandpa and lot of grandchildren type families" said John Williams, who manages the R&D at Rowenta. Company officials also announced their intent to deliver a version of Linux optimized for QUAD-BURNER. "It sure makes sense to use open source OS to make open faced sandwiches," John remarked. /.!)
Rowenta is based in Standfort Offenbach in Germany.
J.
(mention Linux and get posted on
Reading the article I thought that the court had complained that the french couldn't access the auction site or something. Considering when I tried to sign up for Yahoo auctions, and selected 'other' country but was then told that I couldn't register because the cgi program complained that I hadn't filled out the country field, but there wasn't any! : Maybe that's what the court is complaining about? :>
oh well, haven't got my coffee yet...
J.
It's too little, too late. It's not very userfriendly and it's a kludge on top GSM (or whatever you are using) 3rd generation mobile systems like GPRS are around the corner, and IMHO we (developers) need to focus on them, rather than that horrible kludge the WAP is. Don't waste your time on WAP...
Just my 2c
J.
If I may quote my favorite CEO: "Pursuing the biological simile, observers pointed out another problem caused by Microsoft's monopoly: the lack of genetic diversity in the PC ecosystem. Because PCs and their software are too similar, one noxious automaton can do much more damage than would occur if we had several alternative life forms.
This argument deserves closer examination. True, BeOS, MacOS, and Linux users were not infected by the Love virus. Had each system had 25% market share, a single virus could only infect 25% of the population."
The ILOVEYOU virus is kindergarden stuff compared to what a real programmer could really do if he/she put their mind to it, but since experienced programmers are (most of the time) fairly matured individuals, but it would only take one fairly good hacker to release a plague on the world...
just my honest opinion...
Books have been around for few centuries now, and are fairly "traditional". No publisher is going to loose sleep over if you lend a book to your friend/brother/dog, it's (IMHO & IANAL) "fair use". Corporates are just becoming more greedy every day, they use legal imtimidation to scare people (FUD tactics). Lend it to your friend and don't loose sleep over some laywer who have to prove it's existance and 60.000USD salary to write crap like that...
J.
Who says that intelligence is the ultimate goal in evolution? Intelligence could be just another evolution dead end just like the dinosaurs. (Remember, the dinosaur s where successful, it took major catastrophic event to end their reign) :)
Technology/science has helped us to live "better" lives since we are more productive. But are are our lifes better. I've heard theories that hunter/gatherer/early farmers "worked" few hours a day, and where are we now? 8hrs+ workdays, stress, no time with our families (remember, families used to work together, the elderly taught the younger).
Maybe this is the reason we haven't heard from other life forms, intelligence is a dead end from evolution point of view, but it's early and I havent got my caffeine fix yet, so I'm just rambling...
J.
crap! slashdot is f*cking up my href's! (yes, I did use preview)
Oh, the mighty Steve has finally blessed us with dual PowerPC system. BIG F*CKING DEAL! I remember when we could get QUAD PowerPC systems and they didn't cost arm and a leg (well perhaps only an arm).
Yes, I'm pissed, the PowerPC was the only hope of giving the pathetic x86 some competition, but noo, little Steve had to have the PowerMacs all to himself...
Ugh, I need my caffine...
J.
Great, I'm sick and tired of downloading all those anothersillything.mpg attachments. Attachments are evil, we need a standard way of ftp-ing the attachments to a server and then just posting the url!
J.
I quote:s :)
Please review this Specification copy only if you licensed and downloaded it from Microsoft Corporations website; if you did not, please destroy this copy, but you are welcome to license the Specification at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/kerbero
WTF? I somehow sincererly doubt that this has any legal meaning. So, could I hand out papers on a streetcorner saying: "Please read this only if pay me 20 USD...". HELLO!? Nobody can control what I choose or choose not to read. Sometimes I think that (some) laywers need to relax a little, take a walk in the park, drive out of town and lay down on the grass or spend some time with their friends and families. (Yes I do believe that laywers can have friends and famelies)
MODERATE THIS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best idea seen here yet!
Jón
What else could I possible say, now we can have quality mp3-ing on all OSes...
:)
sorry, had to!
J.
You can download most of the Oracle products for personal/development work too...
What good will that do?
Thanks, I completly forgot the REAL 3D cards. (bad caffeine/sleep ratio)
J.
Bump mapping, anti-aliasing, fog, motion-blur etc...
I wonder when we'll see "The first video card with full OpenGL support!" ie. with all the fancy 3D effects in real time. Maybe then we can concentrate on the gameplay instead of ooh's and aah's of 3D graphics?
J.
I'm not sure if you want a camere for underwater job (Olympus has a case for the C2000/3000 range) but Fuji makes one, the DS-260HD "Big Job", it is supposed to be water (splash?) proof and sand proof.
J.