Today the Record Industry of Ameria (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) released a joint statement regarding the fair use of Music CDs and Movie DVDs. It states that listening to music CDs using CD players was immoral, illegal and said that people who listen to music are thevies and criminals. Similarly, people to buy motion picture DVDs and the proceed to what them are scum and should be sent to Guantanimo with all the other enemies of the state. The two organisations provide a helpful list of those activities which are considered acceptable and those that are not.
Acceptable ~~~~~~~~~~
Buying CDs and DVDs.
Not Acceptable ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Copying (read pirating) music CDs to MP3 players (especially those f**king iPods!) Copying (read pirating) music CDs and movie DVDs to audio and/or video tape. Lending music CDs and DVD movies to your friends. Listening to CDs. Whatching DVD movies. Downloading divx movies from Limewire. Buying pirated CDs/DVDs.
The RIAA and the MPAA state that all these unacceptable actions help crime and support terrorist organisations such as Al-Queda and must be banned, and the perpiTRAITORS should be shot (preferably by Dick Cheney!)
CorelDraw was ported to Linux using Wine. I had the Beta. It worked OK, but it was rather too slow on my PII @400MHz PC running Linux. At the time, that was a fairly high-spec PC. However, the equivalent Windows version was just fine on a lower-powered PII 266. Since then Wine has come on quite a long way, thanks in part to Corel's efforts and obviously those of CodeWeavers. However, relying on Wine to do your cross-platform development is no substitute for using a "proper" cross-platform toolkit.
You're in serious danger of letting on as to how old you are!
The first computer I owned** was an Acorn Atom. It came partly assembled and I had to plug in some of the chips myself (CPU, Ram, VIA, etc). It was 6502 based. The manual for it was aptly named "Atomic Theory and Practice"! I've still got it (the Atom) somewhere, and I keep the book handy just to show off!!
The Atom was the fore-runner to the famous BBC microcomputer. It was rather limited as far as storage goes, saving to tape at 300 baud. No hard disk. No floppy disk! Mine had the 6522 VIA (versatile interface adapter) and my friends and I did manage to control led's etc. through it. You could program in Atom basic, and switch to assember for speed sensitive computations!
Having said that, the first computer I programmed for was the Sinclair ZX-81. It was owned by a friend of mine. If I remember rightly, he originally had a ZX-80, but that never worked properly and he got it swapped for the ZX-81. That came with a massive 1kB of RAM but he got the 16kB ram pack!! Wow 16k! Now, there's no way anybody could want more than 16kB!!
After that the list of computers I've used goes something like...
BBC Microcomputer
VAX 11/780 / VAX 8550 - University of Sussex
Atari ST 1024 - a whole MEG of ram + 720k floppy drive!!
Sequent Symmetry S81 (6x 386 @20MHz) - Unoversity of Sussex
Solbourn (Sun clone) - again at Sussex
Research Machines 386 - an MCA based PC clone... my first PC!!
Mac Classic - that was my gf's really.
Sun - University of Leeds
sgi 4D/Indigo/Indy - Leeds
Elonex 386's,486's - Leeds
Mac LC II - my first Mac!!
Lac LC475 w/ real 68040!!
UMAX Apus 2000 (C500) Mac clone w/ 603e/240 (no L2 cache:-( )
And since then a whole load of POS 486's, 586's, Pentiums, Pentium Pro's, Pn's etc!!
I now program for Windwoz, and so I've got an HP workstation PC.
** That is, the first computer I bought, rather than in the h4x0r sense;-))
Apple doesn't need sgi, there's not much sgi's got now that Apple could use.
Lets think.
Itanium know-how. I can't see Apple ever using Itanium, no matter how close they get to intel. iAMD64 will rule and Itanium will die. I know this, you know this and Apple knows this (somebody tell HP!!).
Graphics. Apple will continue to use ATi and nVidia graphics. There's no need for "higher-end" graphics in Apple's line-up.
Numa. The "biggest" PC Apple's going to make anytime soon will be a dual-dual (i.e. four cores).
XFS. Apple's file-system _is_ lame..... however, I don't expect Apple to switch filesystems anytime soon. If/when they do there are plenty to choose from.
Purple boxes. I think Apple is probably fairly happy with there while and ali boxes right now;-)
Neat logo? Apple's got one! (however, I still prefer the old multi-coloured Apple logo:-)
A real Unix license? What's one of those?!!?? If Apple wants "real" Unix, then it should wait for SCO to die and buy that. Oh... hold on... the whole point is that SCO doesn't own Unix. Der!! Who does?! Isn't it still Novell???!! I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Seriously, Apple doesn't need anything from sgi.
Actually, who would want sgi? The only people I can think of are Cray. Now that would be ironic... since sgi used to own Cray. Well, as they say, what comes around goes around!
I would say that most perl users on the Windows platform are still very much using ActiveState.
What? both of them!?!
Seriously, I think you're right. I can't see ActiveState surviving for long now. I don't suppose Sophos would have sold them if there was any mileage left.
However, It is a shame that Sophos didn't try to captilise on the "open source movement" to help development of the ActiveState products. I like Sophos products and their generally sensible advice about virus threats, as compared to the over-hyped "sales pitch" from Symantec and McAfee.
Anyway, good luck to ActiveState. I fear they'll need it.
It should be noted that 99.99999....... recurring, is _exactly_ 100.
Proof: Let's take the simpler example of 0.999........
Two numbers are different, there will be a third number, different to both of them which is the average of the two numbers.
Let a=0.999.... recurring, and b=1.0. avg = (a+b)/2 = 1.9999.../2 = 0.9999..... recurring. So, agv = a. The average is not different, so there isn't a number between a and b. This proves that a and b are actually the _same_ number. QED.
Back to question of viruses....
How many Windows viruses are there?? How many of them are "active"? Erm, lots! How many "active" MacOS viruses are there? Erm, 0? How many "active" Linux viruses are there? Erm, 0? How many "active" BSD viruses are there? Erm, 0?
So, it would appear that you're actually correct. Of "PC" viruses, it would appear that all of them are Windows viruses.
Now.... what about phones???!!! I think the situation there is somewhat different. I don't have the facts, but from what I've heard in the "press" there could be viruses for both Symbian and Microsoft Mobile (Windows) phones. Of course, if M$ gets 96% of the phone market as they have done in the PC market, you can be pretty sure that 100% of those viruses are going to be Microsoft Mobile viruses. Happy Days!:-)
I've always suspected that Microsoft has kept some support for Apple going to counter-act any potential monopoly claims.
While Apple appears to provide a competing product Microsoft can always maintain that they don't have a complete monopoly and so are less likely to be the subject of calls to split them up.
This made business sence at Microsoft because Apple wasn't really a competitor... however, I believe Microsoft sees Apple to be an increasing risk (not "risc" ?!) and so is cutting back on Mac products which don't have a revenue stream.
If Apple's move to Intel has the effect of increasing Apple's market share expect Microsoft to withdraw Microsoft Office. Indeed, I expect Microsoft will be painfully slow to release an x86 native MacOffice at all.
Open-source software is not the opposite of capitalism. It's an orthogonal concept.
This is, I think, the best descriptive sentence regarding FOSS I've ever seen! If you don't
object, I might use it as my.sig!
Anyway... to get back onto topic, a big Bravo! to all the Blender developers. Also, while Google continue to sponsers efforts like this, then they should be appauded. Bravo Google!
Sorry to say, but if the acronym you use is not U.N.C.L.E, introduce it before you use it, or you risk leaving your intended audience by the road side.
[...]yet it's too much to expect of yourself to do some of your own legwork and investigation?
Yes, it is.
The whole point of new sites such as slashdot.org, The Register, The Inquirer, etc... is that they should provide enough info to get you to bother to follow the links through to the real info....
If slashdot announces that a new version of vim on steroids has been released, then it might be interesting to know what exactly vim was. At the very least the FA which the article points to should say what it is all about.
I know I could have simply typed "Ruby on Rails" into google and found out exactly what it was... the whole point is that's exactly what I had to do.
This brings a Star Wars quote to mind... "Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
Sheesh! There are some people who have way too much money. They'll be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes! Yeah!, them and those wasters who post to slashdot!
It'll be interesting if Microsoft can follow the success of MSN with thier music service. Unfortunately, alomost everyone I know who uses MSN trashes thier PC within a few weeks. It seems like there's alot of malware floating about out there. Anyway...... it'll also be interesting to see what DRM they're expecting to use. How long before Dvd Jon breaks it?!:-)
Am I the only one who thinks iTMS is too expensive. I don't mind buying my music, and I don't pirate stuff, but when I spend £10 in a shop I get something I can hold in my hand. When I spend £10 in iTMS all I get is lots of 1's and 0's. I know... I can write my tunes to a CD, but it's not the same. If iTunes songs were half the price, I'd bet they'd sell more than twice as many!
The key here is that the music industry doesn't want Apple to sell twice as many tracks.... they see every iTunes sale as a lost "real" sale. So, it's not Apple that's holding back the music industry... it's the music industry itself! Just look at the lengths Sony BMG will go to piss people off!!
Although I did RTFA, I didn't proceed to browse around the rest of the site. It would appear that neither the/. article nor TFA actually said what Ruby On Rails was. This is not the first time I've come across this on/. Here's what I know.... Ruby is a programming language. Rails are what trains run on. When things go wrong, things are said to have "gone off the rails".... so is "Ruby on Rails" a programming language which hasn't gone wrong? Alternatively, it's a programming language which should be hung up in a wardrobe (closet)?
I wish the submitters to/. would put a bit more effort into thier posts. Sometimes/. looks like it's a bit like a newspaper with nothing except with all the artcles missing... that must be a copy editors' wet dream! ?
The posts so far would seem to indicate that the ipod page problem is related to the QuickTime plug-in.
For the record, the page was OK for me (Firefox 1.5 on Windows 2000) with QuickTime 6.5.2, but I don't have the QuickTime browser plug-in installed.
I don't like QuickTime and/or Acrobat Reader loading within my browser, so I try never to install the plug-ins (or rather, I try to remember to remove them!).
I have trouble keeping up with all the various
versions of Windows. We don't want more Windows,
we want fewer!
Seriously, this Windows XP N edition is a complete
waste of time, money (truism?!) and energy. If the
organisations which have imposed these rulings on
Microsoft want to have any real bite, then they must
simply ban Microsoft products.
The key here is (I believe) that they don't want their
legislation to have any "bite". They do this to satisfy
pressure to be seen to be encouraging open markets and
free trade while at the same time bowing to pressure
from Microsoft.
And, $40M, what a joke. I bet MS never even has to pay it.
They'll simply do a deal to ignore all those illegal
copies of Windows + Office in South-Koreas government offices!
Expect an announcement of a new multi-million Microsoft purchasing
deal in the very near future.
I was taught that a prime has exactly 2 factors, 1 and itself. One Isn't a prime because it only has one factor: "1". I think it becomes important when we start multiplying primes together. I was never _completely_ satisfied with with distintion myself, so I would like to hear from an maths expert!
Oh, and just for the record, my top post, I _did_ mean to say xbox360. Sorry about the confusion!
I thought the XBox CPU was a three-core jobby. I don't know if all the three cores are the same or whether thre are different sorts of cores for doing different sorts of things. Presumably, as long as you've got the correct glue, and can stick any number of cores on a chip. I don't think there's any need to stick (sorry!) to powers of two. Whether or not it works better efficiently becomes the issue... or rather the ability to market three vs two or four becomes the issue!
The final sentence in the Reg article reads "[...]which bodes well for the Yonah-based laptops expected to be announced by a variety of vendors in Q1 2006." We can assume that all major laptop manufacturers will be working on Yonah based laptops and desktops already. However, Apple's release is certainly going to be one of the biggest announcements. Well, Q1 2006 is not very far away, so I guess we'll find out. And yes, the new Macs are going to kick arse. However, I still think it was a bit perverse to rule-out the use of the Opterons in the PowerMac G6 or whatever they're going to call it. The Dual-Core Opterons are by far the best workstation class processors out there... especially when coupled with Apple's investment in Hypertransport and a 64-bit OS. The assumption I think we can draw from this, is that Intel is planning an iAMD64 extension to the Yonah core(s). We'll have to wait 'til Q2 2006 at least before we know much about that.
I for one, I regularly take Ascorbic acid. I can
honestly say that I don't want to watch my music.
Saying that, I don't watch much TV either. I don't
see the point of men wearing dresses, I suppose.
I do however watch a fair amount to Tele.
Oh, well, that'll be the "acid" taking effect
(or is that affect?!).
Is it? What happens if Microsoft gets off the hook because it's an
"open standard", but then uses IP or Patent to block others from
producing competing products.
Call me a "arbitrary-anti-microsoft slashdot comment" sort of guy, but
that's just how I see it.
Time will tell I suppose.
Slashdot Mirror
Today the Record Industry of Ameria (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) released a joint statement regarding the fair use of Music CDs and Movie DVDs. It states that listening to music CDs using CD players was immoral, illegal and said that people who listen to music are thevies and criminals. Similarly, people to buy motion picture DVDs and the proceed to what them are scum and should be sent to Guantanimo with all the other enemies of the state. The two organisations provide a helpful list of those activities which are considered acceptable and those that are not.
Acceptable
~~~~~~~~~~
Buying CDs and DVDs.
Not Acceptable
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Copying (read pirating) music CDs to MP3 players (especially those f**king iPods!)
Copying (read pirating) music CDs and movie DVDs to audio and/or video tape.
Lending music CDs and DVD movies to your friends.
Listening to CDs.
Whatching DVD movies.
Downloading divx movies from Limewire.
Buying pirated CDs/DVDs.
The RIAA and the MPAA state that all these unacceptable actions help crime and support terrorist organisations such as Al-Queda and must be banned, and the perpiTRAITORS should be shot (preferably by Dick Cheney!)
CorelDraw was ported to Linux using Wine. I had the Beta. It worked OK, but it was rather too slow on my PII @400MHz PC running Linux. At the time, that was a fairly high-spec PC. However, the equivalent Windows version was just fine on a lower-powered PII 266. Since then Wine has come on quite a long way, thanks in part to Corel's efforts and obviously those of CodeWeavers. However, relying on Wine to do your cross-platform development is no substitute for using a "proper" cross-platform toolkit.
You're in serious danger of letting on as to how old you are!
The first computer I owned** was an Acorn Atom. It came partly assembled and I had to plug in some of the chips myself (CPU, Ram, VIA, etc). It was 6502 based. The manual for it was aptly named "Atomic Theory and Practice"! I've still got it (the Atom) somewhere, and I keep the book handy just to show off!!
The Atom was the fore-runner to the famous BBC microcomputer. It was rather limited as far as storage goes, saving to tape at 300 baud. No hard disk. No floppy disk! Mine had the 6522 VIA (versatile interface adapter) and my friends and I did manage to control led's etc. through it. You could program in Atom basic, and switch to assember for speed sensitive computations!
Having said that, the first computer I programmed for was the Sinclair ZX-81. It was owned by a friend of mine. If I remember rightly, he originally had a ZX-80, but that never worked properly and he got it swapped for the ZX-81. That came with a massive 1kB of RAM but he got the 16kB ram pack!! Wow 16k! Now, there's no way anybody could want more than 16kB!!
After that the list of computers I've used goes something like...
BBC Microcomputer
VAX 11/780 / VAX 8550 - University of Sussex
Atari ST 1024 - a whole MEG of ram + 720k floppy drive!!
Sequent Symmetry S81 (6x 386 @20MHz) - Unoversity of Sussex
Solbourn (Sun clone) - again at Sussex
Research Machines 386 - an MCA based PC clone... my first PC!!
Mac Classic - that was my gf's really.
Sun - University of Leeds
sgi 4D/Indigo/Indy - Leeds
Elonex 386's,486's - Leeds
Mac LC II - my first Mac!!
Lac LC475 w/ real 68040!!
UMAX Apus 2000 (C500) Mac clone w/ 603e/240 (no L2 cache :-( )
And since then a whole load of POS 486's, 586's, Pentiums, Pentium Pro's, Pn's etc!!
I now program for Windwoz, and so I've got an HP workstation PC.
** That is, the first computer I bought, rather than in the h4x0r senseI would.
;-)
:-)
Apple doesn't need sgi, there's not much sgi's got now that Apple could use.
Lets think.
Itanium know-how. I can't see Apple ever using Itanium, no matter how close they get to intel. iAMD64 will rule and Itanium will die. I know this, you know this and Apple knows this (somebody tell HP!!).
Graphics. Apple will continue to use ATi and nVidia graphics. There's no need for "higher-end" graphics in Apple's line-up.
Numa. The "biggest" PC Apple's going to make anytime soon will be a dual-dual (i.e. four cores).
XFS. Apple's file-system _is_ lame..... however, I don't expect Apple to switch filesystems anytime soon. If/when they do there are plenty to choose from.
Purple boxes. I think Apple is probably fairly happy with there while and ali boxes right now
Neat logo? Apple's got one! (however, I still prefer the old multi-coloured Apple logo
A real Unix license? What's one of those?!!?? If Apple wants "real" Unix, then it should wait for SCO to die and buy that. Oh... hold on... the whole point is that SCO doesn't own Unix. Der!! Who does?! Isn't it still Novell???!! I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Seriously, Apple doesn't need anything from sgi.
Actually, who would want sgi? The only people I can think of are Cray. Now that would be ironic... since sgi used to own Cray. Well, as they say, what comes around goes around!
Seriously, I think you're right. I can't see ActiveState surviving for long now. I don't suppose Sophos would have sold them if there was any mileage left.
However, It is a shame that Sophos didn't try to captilise on the "open source movement" to help development of the ActiveState products. I like Sophos products and their generally sensible advice about virus threats, as compared to the over-hyped "sales pitch" from Symantec and McAfee.
Anyway, good luck to ActiveState. I fear they'll need it.
It should be noted that 99.99999....... recurring, is _exactly_ 100.
:-)
Proof: Let's take the simpler example of 0.999........
Two numbers are different, there will be a third number, different to both of them which
is the average of the two numbers.
Let a=0.999.... recurring, and b=1.0. avg = (a+b)/2 = 1.9999.../2 = 0.9999..... recurring. So, agv = a. The average is not different, so there isn't a number between a and b. This proves that a and b are actually the _same_ number. QED.
Back to question of viruses....
How many Windows viruses are there?? How many of them are "active"? Erm, lots!
How many "active" MacOS viruses are there? Erm, 0?
How many "active" Linux viruses are there? Erm, 0?
How many "active" BSD viruses are there? Erm, 0?
So, it would appear that you're actually correct. Of "PC" viruses, it would appear that all of them are Windows viruses.
Now.... what about phones???!!! I think the situation there is somewhat different. I don't have the facts, but from what I've heard in the "press" there could be viruses for both Symbian and Microsoft Mobile (Windows) phones. Of course, if M$ gets 96% of the phone market as they have done in the PC market, you can be pretty sure that 100% of those viruses are going to be Microsoft Mobile viruses. Happy Days!
I've always suspected that Microsoft has kept some support for Apple going to counter-act any potential monopoly claims.
While Apple appears to provide a competing product Microsoft can always maintain that they don't have a complete monopoly and so are less likely to be the subject of calls to split them up.
This made business sence at Microsoft because Apple wasn't really a competitor... however, I believe Microsoft sees Apple to be an increasing risk (not "risc" ?!) and so is cutting back on Mac products which don't have a revenue stream.
If Apple's move to Intel has the effect of increasing Apple's market share expect Microsoft to withdraw Microsoft Office. Indeed, I expect Microsoft will be painfully slow to release an x86 native MacOffice at all.
We'll see.
This is, I think, the best descriptive sentence regarding FOSS I've ever seen! If you don't object, I might use it as my .sig!
Anyway... to get back onto topic, a big Bravo! to all the Blender developers. Also, while Google continue to sponsers efforts like this, then they should be appauded. Bravo Google!
Sorry to say, but if the acronym you use is not U.N.C.L.E, introduce it before you use it, or you risk leaving your intended audience by the road side.
The whole point of new sites such as slashdot.org, The Register, The Inquirer, etc... is that they should provide enough info to get you to bother to follow the links through to the real info....
If slashdot announces that a new version of vim on steroids has been released, then it might be interesting to know what exactly vim was. At the very least the FA which the article points to should say what it is all about.
I know I could have simply typed "Ruby on Rails" into google and found out exactly what it was... the whole point is that's exactly what I had to do.
This brings a Star Wars quote to mind... "Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
Sheesh! There are some people who have way too much money.
They'll be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes!
Yeah!, them and those wasters who post to slashdot!
Bugger.
I thought that was from the Burger King advert?
... it'll also be interesting to see what DRM they're expecting to use. How long before Dvd Jon breaks it?! :-)
It'll be interesting if Microsoft can follow the success of MSN with thier music service. Unfortunately, alomost everyone I know who uses MSN trashes thier PC within a few weeks. It seems like there's alot of malware floating about out there. Anyway...
Am I the only one who thinks iTMS is too expensive. I don't mind buying my music, and I don't pirate stuff, but when I spend £10 in a shop I get something I can hold in my hand. When I spend £10 in iTMS all I get is lots of 1's and 0's. I know... I can write my tunes to a CD, but it's not the same. If iTunes songs were half the price, I'd bet they'd sell more than twice as many!
The key here is that the music industry doesn't want Apple to sell twice as many tracks.... they see every iTunes sale as a lost "real" sale. So, it's not Apple that's holding back the music industry... it's the music industry itself! Just look at the lengths Sony BMG will go to piss people off!!
Although I did RTFA, I didn't proceed to browse around the rest of the site. It would appear that neither the /. article nor TFA actually said what Ruby On Rails was. This is not the first time I've come across this on /. Here's what I know.... Ruby is a programming language. Rails are what trains run on. When things go wrong, things are said to have "gone off the rails".... so is "Ruby on Rails" a programming language which hasn't gone wrong? Alternatively, it's a programming language which should be hung up in a wardrobe (closet)?
/. would put a bit more effort into thier posts. Sometimes /. looks like it's a bit like a newspaper with nothing except with all the artcles missing... that must be a copy editors' wet dream! ?
I wish the submitters to
The posts so far would seem to indicate that the ipod page problem is related to the QuickTime plug-in.
For the record, the page was OK for me (Firefox 1.5 on Windows 2000) with QuickTime 6.5.2, but I don't have the QuickTime browser plug-in installed.
I don't like QuickTime and/or Acrobat Reader loading within my browser, so I try never to install the plug-ins (or rather, I try to remember to remove them!).
YMMV
It wasn't even that much! (I'm easily confused!).
Jeez!
I have trouble keeping up with all the various versions of Windows. We don't want more Windows, we want fewer!
Seriously, this Windows XP N edition is a complete waste of time, money (truism?!) and energy. If the organisations which have imposed these rulings on Microsoft want to have any real bite, then they must simply ban Microsoft products.
The key here is (I believe) that they don't want their legislation to have any "bite". They do this to satisfy pressure to be seen to be encouraging open markets and free trade while at the same time bowing to pressure from Microsoft.
And, $40M, what a joke. I bet MS never even has to pay it. They'll simply do a deal to ignore all those illegal copies of Windows + Office in South-Koreas government offices! Expect an announcement of a new multi-million Microsoft purchasing deal in the very near future.
I was taught that a prime has exactly 2 factors, 1 and itself. One Isn't a prime because it only has
one factor: "1". I think it becomes important when we start multiplying primes together. I was never _completely_ satisfied with with distintion myself, so I would like to hear from an maths expert!
Oh, and just for the record, my top post, I _did_ mean to say xbox360. Sorry about the confusion!
Indeed, 2,3,5 and 7 are all prime. Can we expect the AMD of 2009 to have 11 cores then?
:-)
The only problem is that (AFAIK) 1 is NOT a prime number, and most CPU's have 1 core. Oops.
I thought the XBox CPU was a three-core jobby. I don't know if all the three cores are the same or whether thre are different sorts of cores for doing different sorts of things. Presumably, as long as you've got the correct glue, and can stick any number of cores on a chip. I don't think there's any need to stick (sorry!) to powers of two. Whether or not it works better efficiently becomes the issue... or rather the ability to market three vs two or four becomes the issue!
Duh! I just downloaded Firefox 1.5 too! How do I set IE as my default browser again?
The final sentence in the Reg article reads "[...]which bodes well for the Yonah-based laptops expected to be announced by a variety of vendors in Q1 2006." We can assume that all major laptop manufacturers will be working on Yonah based laptops and desktops already. However, Apple's release is certainly going to be one of the biggest announcements. Well, Q1 2006 is not very far away, so I guess we'll find out. And yes, the new Macs are going to kick arse. However, I still think it was a bit perverse to rule-out the use of the Opterons in the PowerMac G6 or whatever they're going to call it. The Dual-Core Opterons are by far the best workstation class processors out there... especially when coupled with Apple's investment in Hypertransport and a 64-bit OS. The assumption I think we can draw from this, is that Intel is planning an iAMD64 extension to the Yonah core(s). We'll have to wait 'til Q2 2006 at least before we know much about that.
I for one, I regularly take Ascorbic acid. I can honestly say that I don't want to watch my music. Saying that, I don't watch much TV either. I don't see the point of men wearing dresses, I suppose. I do however watch a fair amount to Tele. Oh, well, that'll be the "acid" taking effect (or is that affect?!).
Wasn't is also hyphenated, as in Micro-Soft? I'm not old enough to
know for sure!