We don't do it because it makes sense; we do it because we can. If it doesn't cause problems for you, don't complain, OK? You can have a Palmtop, so why should you stop us from having a server in our pockets?
Re:not all prototypes, japan is selling video phon
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I'm not sure if you mean people using pure data services (i.e. 9600bps packet transfer, etc.) or simply people who have phones capable of that, but if it's the latter, DoCoMo has more than fifteen million subscribers, with a majority able to use their iMode service.
The latest phones are the equivalent of $US80-$US200. Slightly older phones can be had for virtually nothing. (No, I'm not kidding.)
For example, looking at an advertisement in the paper today, a DoCoMo iMode phone with 256-color screen is around $US150. An au phone with 256-color screen and 16-harmonic tone generator is about $US90. A J-Phone model with 256-color screen is ~$US25. A 256-color screen J-Phone model that can display 72 Japanese characters (144 alphanumeric characters) at once is ~$US80.
Looking at another advertisement, we have a Paldio PHS phone 4-harmonic tone generator that can run for 600 hours on one charge (plain LCD screen, though) for 1 yen. That's less than 1 US cent. An Astel PHS is ~$US27. A Tu-Ka digital phone with color screen is $US45.
Sorry, you lose. I can walk down to the local phone shop and pick up any one of a number of phones with color screens. There have been several models with large screens covering nearly the entire face of the phone. There are several phones available now with cameras (and yes, they are about the size of a phone button).
As for not being available in any "significant volume", iMode phones here (many with color screens) have been so popular that DoCoMo actually had to restrict the number of applications they took... about 200,000 a month.
I think you'll find that most of them are actually smaller than most of the phones you see around you. The most popular phones in Japan are those under 100 grams - I don't think these will try and break that trend.
Um... I was there (at least from partway through) and it is definitely genuine.
Of course, the commentary running in #slashdot was also pretty funny... pity it didn't make the log.
Just a thought, but it might be that your BIOS has become corrupted. As several other people have suggested, check your power supply, too - I'd consider 250W a minimum for an Athlon system.
The reason I suspect the BIOS is that Linux doesn't really use the BIOS once the kernel is booted, whereas Windows9x relies upon it for accessing a variety of subsystems, even after booting. If you don't mind the risk, and nothing else seems to work, try flashing the MB's BIOS with the latest version available.
The bedwarmers will be built out of porcelain, so they'll look pretty nice, but the porcelain will be really thin, so if you drop one it'll shatter. Also, you'll only be allowed to use Microsoft(R) Ceritified ActiveHotWaterX(TM) - and you have to return the water when it cools down before you can get a refill. On top of that, you'll need a MSCE to exchange the ActiveHotWaterX(TM).
Transmeta has chips that are kinda slow. But if their burn rate doesn't exceed the speed at which VCs throw money at them, their CPUs will get faster.
SMP's hard, but then I'm an idiot, so what do I know.
Transmeta might try other instruction sets. But they might not work very well.
I have no idea what I'm talking about now, but I'll throw in the term "64-bit" 'cause it makes me look 1337. Oh, BTW, Intel and AMD don't get along. MS will probably make an OS compatible with at least one of them. But I might be wrong and MS might start selling bedwarmers for elderly people. Mmm... bedwarmers.
I believe that Transmeta might make lots of money, but not if they go bankrupt.
Guess what? x86 wasn't a MPU architecture - it was a recipe for lasagna. That makes it hard for Transmeta to emulate. But hey, they say they've got their act together, know where their towels are, and are going to make some insanely great lasagna.
It's not science fiction (well, not really), but for prescience, you should check out a quirky little book called Golf in the Year 2000, which was published in 1892. It predicted television (although it describes it as a series of special "mirrors", the description is meant to be understandable to people in the 19th century - if you think of the mirrors as satellite dishes, it's pretty eerily accurate), digital watches, high-speed trains, and a whole lot of other things that may or may not come about. The writing is typical 19th century flowery language, so it's not to everyone's taste, but it is kind of interesting (the reason I know about it is that the publishing company I work for is putting out a Japanese translation of it next month).
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The point is, there was no original agreement unless you opened the software package and installed the software. The hardware was provided free of charge, without any statement of conditions at the time of the transaction (and in some cases has been mailed without request). This means that under US law (as I understand it) the hardware is YOURS. F'chrissakes, this is like a guy walking up to you in the street and saying, "here's a CD player and a free CD", walking away without saying anything more, and then suing you because you tried to play your own CDs in the player, with the reason for the lawsuit being that there's a message recorded on the CD he gave you saying that you mustn't play any other CDs with the player - even though you've never even listened to the CD!
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It's not even "encryption". They use base64, which is just a scheme to allow the expression of byte values as ASCII. It's on a level with ROT-13 in terms of security (or pig latin, orfy hatty attermy).
Yes, you do. No, it has no compatibility whatsoever with X11.
Unfortunately, there isn't mention of compatibility issues with "X" applications
That's because there isn't any.
it would seem that since Apple is claiming "Unix-savvy" for this OS, there would be at least some level of compatibility
For someone who nitpicks other people's grammar, your own grasp of the English language seems a little...lacking. Anyway, Apple isn't claiming that OS X is "UNIX-savvy" (whatever that's supposed to mean), but rather that it is (reasonably) POSIX-compliant, which comes from the BSD-based bottom layer of the system (Darwin), which has absolutely nothing to do with what variety of graphic interface they provide with it. Their implementation has ZERO support for X.
But please, don't let your lack of clues stop you from posting...
Well, I'd say decent caching optimization is a little more important than sound for most serious Linux shops. Just because it's high priority for you doesn't make it a big deal for everyone... and if it's annoying you so much, fix it yourself.
Well, you're right in that MS had OpenGL before any other consumer-level OS, but how many consumer-level OSs are there anyway?;)
As I recall, MS farted around for half a year or so before putting OpenGL out for Win95; mainly because they were trying to push DirectX (The really early versions; you know, the ones that make developers laugh at the mention of their version numbers).
As for Mesa (not MesaGL), it works very well, thank you. The artifacts you're talking about aren't so much the fault of Mesa as of the Voodoo2, with its 16bit colour depth (although I find it perfectly usable; certainly not as bad as you make it out to be).
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Um.. by the look of it, you should have read the poster's bio. That's Siqnal11, not Signal11.
We don't do it because it makes sense; we do it because we can. If it doesn't cause problems for you, don't complain, OK? You can have a Palmtop, so why should you stop us from having a server in our pockets?
I'm not sure if you mean people using pure data services (i.e. 9600bps packet transfer, etc.) or simply people who have phones capable of that, but if it's the latter, DoCoMo has more than fifteen million subscribers, with a majority able to use their iMode service.
The latest phones are the equivalent of $US80-$US200. Slightly older phones can be had for virtually nothing. (No, I'm not kidding.)
;)
For example, looking at an advertisement in the paper today, a DoCoMo iMode phone with 256-color screen is around $US150. An au phone with 256-color screen and 16-harmonic tone generator is about $US90. A J-Phone model with 256-color screen is ~$US25. A 256-color screen J-Phone model that can display 72 Japanese characters (144 alphanumeric characters) at once is ~$US80.
Looking at another advertisement, we have a Paldio PHS phone 4-harmonic tone generator that can run for 600 hours on one charge (plain LCD screen, though) for 1 yen. That's less than 1 US cent. An Astel PHS is ~$US27. A Tu-Ka digital phone with color screen is $US45.
Convinced?
Sorry, you lose. I can walk down to the local phone shop and pick up any one of a number of phones with color screens. There have been several models with large screens covering nearly the entire face of the phone. There are several phones available now with cameras (and yes, they are about the size of a phone button).
As for not being available in any "significant volume", iMode phones here (many with color screens) have been so popular that DoCoMo actually had to restrict the number of applications they took... about 200,000 a month.
I think you'll find that most of them are actually smaller than most of the phones you see around you. The most popular phones in Japan are those under 100 grams - I don't think these will try and break that trend.
I think the word you're looking for is bona fide.
Um... I was there (at least from partway through) and it is definitely genuine.
Of course, the commentary running in #slashdot was also pretty funny... pity it didn't make the log.
Do what I do - ssh to your ISP's server and IRC from there ;)
Just a thought, but it might be that your BIOS has become corrupted. As several other people have suggested, check your power supply, too - I'd consider 250W a minimum for an Athlon system.
The reason I suspect the BIOS is that Linux doesn't really use the BIOS once the kernel is booted, whereas Windows9x relies upon it for accessing a variety of subsystems, even after booting. If you don't mind the risk, and nothing else seems to work, try flashing the MB's BIOS with the latest version available.
The bedwarmers will be built out of porcelain, so they'll look pretty nice, but the porcelain will be really thin, so if you drop one it'll shatter. Also, you'll only be allowed to use Microsoft(R) Ceritified ActiveHotWaterX(TM) - and you have to return the water when it cools down before you can get a refill. On top of that, you'll need a MSCE to exchange the ActiveHotWaterX(TM).
Um, in case it escaped your attention, Digital is now spelt C-O-M-P-A-Q.
I'm calling my lawyer now ;) You'll be getting clueless letters RSN.
Transmeta has chips that are kinda slow. But if their burn rate doesn't exceed the speed at which VCs throw money at them, their CPUs will get faster.
SMP's hard, but then I'm an idiot, so what do I know.
Transmeta might try other instruction sets. But they might not work very well.
I have no idea what I'm talking about now, but I'll throw in the term "64-bit" 'cause it makes me look 1337. Oh, BTW, Intel and AMD don't get along. MS will probably make an OS compatible with at least one of them. But I might be wrong and MS might start selling bedwarmers for elderly people. Mmm... bedwarmers.
I believe that Transmeta might make lots of money, but not if they go bankrupt.
Guess what? x86 wasn't a MPU architecture - it was a recipe for lasagna. That makes it hard for Transmeta to emulate. But hey, they say they've got their act together, know where their towels are, and are going to make some insanely great lasagna.
But then, I might be wrong.
As I recall, all program linking does is pull a copy of the application over the network and run it locally; it doesn't run on the remote machine.
convert just calls mpeg2decode (however, you should be able to find more information in the DVD HOWTO).
It's not science fiction (well, not really), but for prescience, you should check out a quirky little book called Golf in the Year 2000, which was published in 1892. It predicted television (although it describes it as a series of special "mirrors", the description is meant to be understandable to people in the 19th century - if you think of the mirrors as satellite dishes, it's pretty eerily accurate), digital watches, high-speed trains, and a whole lot of other things that may or may not come about. The writing is typical 19th century flowery language, so it's not to everyone's taste, but it is kind of interesting (the reason I know about it is that the publishing company I work for is putting out a Japanese translation of it next month).
UTICA states == New York? ;)
The point is, there was no original agreement unless you opened the software package and installed the software. The hardware was provided free of charge, without any statement of conditions at the time of the transaction (and in some cases has been mailed without request). This means that under US law (as I understand it) the hardware is YOURS. F'chrissakes, this is like a guy walking up to you in the street and saying, "here's a CD player and a free CD", walking away without saying anything more, and then suing you because you tried to play your own CDs in the player, with the reason for the lawsuit being that there's a message recorded on the CD he gave you saying that you mustn't play any other CDs with the player - even though you've never even listened to the CD!
It's not even "encryption". They use base64, which is just a scheme to allow the expression of byte values as ASCII. It's on a level with ROT-13 in terms of security (or pig latin, orfy hatty attermy).
the fact is you still have a video server on OS X
Yes, you do. No, it has no compatibility whatsoever with X11.
Unfortunately, there isn't mention of compatibility issues with "X" applications
That's because there isn't any.
it would seem that since Apple is claiming "Unix-savvy" for this OS, there would be at least some level of compatibility
For someone who nitpicks other people's grammar, your own grasp of the English language seems a little...lacking. Anyway, Apple isn't claiming that OS X is "UNIX-savvy" (whatever that's supposed to mean), but rather that it is (reasonably) POSIX-compliant, which comes from the BSD-based bottom layer of the system (Darwin), which has absolutely nothing to do with what variety of graphic interface they provide with it. Their implementation has ZERO support for X.
But please, don't let your lack of clues stop you from posting...
Well, I'd say decent caching optimization is a little more important than sound for most serious Linux shops. Just because it's high priority for you doesn't make it a big deal for everyone... and if it's annoying you so much, fix it yourself.
Well, you're right in that MS had OpenGL before any other consumer-level OS, but how many consumer-level OSs are there anyway? ;)
As I recall, MS farted around for half a year or so before putting OpenGL out for Win95; mainly because they were trying to push DirectX (The really early versions; you know, the ones that make developers laugh at the mention of their version numbers).
As for Mesa (not MesaGL), it works very well, thank you. The artifacts you're talking about aren't so much the fault of Mesa as of the Voodoo2, with its 16bit colour depth (although I find it perfectly usable; certainly not as bad as you make it out to be).
On what planet? Where I come from, it's called dumb.
Thanks.