I live in a fairly rural area, but it's about 100 miles from the SF Bay area. We have one, maybe two T1 lines running through the county. The cable TV company that serves the more 'urban' (greater than 500 population) towns here is running semi-test broadband service. But I'm definitely out of the cable modem picture where I live, the dsl technology doesn't allow for sparsely-populated areas. I have great modem (33kbps only) access with several freeISPs as long as I'm running Windoze
The ultra-privitization of the newer telephony tech really does leave a lot of rural folks in the lurch.
Yeh, he's full of prunes all right and RMS is not truly free, by any stretch of the imagination.
Choosing to work on the Gnome project just because one thinks KDE is some kind of legal bad bunch is stupid. RMS needs to get out a more often. He needs to take a bath. He needs to get laid
...that thought that the clones would actually try to grow the market...
The clones DID grow the market.
They were taking massive hits since they were only receiving $150 to $300 per clone sold in licensing fees as opposed to double that if they shipped the computers themselves.
Only an idiot could lose money on a motherboard plus OS for that price, wholesale. Since Apple at the time were run by idiots, they lost money on every Mac clone sold. They also ended up with a warehouse full of unsold 6500s because they thought they were worth $2500 each.
...they couldn't continue to sell upgrades to their OS at $99 a pop if that's the only revenue the OS "division" recieved.
Let's see.... $99 times 1,000,000 = $99,000,000. Gosh! I feel the poverty!
But I also realize that it would be suicide to attampt to go against Micros**t with an Intel OSX. Apple couldn't get very many companies to bundle OSX in the face of the Micros**t monopoly. Only if Micros**t gets broken up will anybody have a chance to break in.
It sucks. TV coverage sucks. The pandering athletes suck. TV keeps showing the tally of medals all through the games and how good My Country is doing.
It is supposed to be a friendly get together, but all it does is put stupid nationalistic pictures trying to stuff a stupid 'my country is best' piece of crap down our throats.
Adolf Hitler was the first idiot to nationalize the Olympics with his 1936 Berlin summer games. It has gotten a lot worse since.
The Olympics is boring and stupid. The corporate sponsorship of them is stupid too. The athletes are saying, "Go ahead! f**k me in the ass! All I want is money and fame!" The olympic committee has been given a special legislative act (in the US) to be a monopoly, and they act the part.
...6100's, can be found for under $50) to G3's -- despite some fairly serious motherboard differences.
Yah, serious in like the 6100s 33mhz memory bus. Whee!
That said, I'm quite happy with my 50mhz bus PowerCurve running a 233mhz i picked up for $23 on ebay sitting in one of those g3 zif cards. But a 50mhz fsb is admittedly too slow. Putting in a p4 designed for a 400mhz fsb would be wasted on present-day 100 or 133 mhz fsbs.
I've been self-employed for about 5 years now and am boggled to read about how the corporate world on the 'outside' has turned into a bunch of good little nazis running around putting their heads up other people's asses. Nothing personal, I could have responded to several other good-little-nazi posts, too.
OK then. I suppose the small black hole simply moved into an area with a lot of stuff to consume. So if a small black hole moved into Betelgeuse, it could consume massive amounts of stuff normally attributable to big black holes with a farther reach when it comes to consuming mass quantities.
A 300 pound opera singer and a 10 year-old boy could conceivably eat pie at the same rate.
My whole take on the X-Box is that it is a proof of concept project for the X-PC.
If Microsoft drops all that hideous legacy crap like isa, pci, agp, all the other expensive stuff that customized PCs have and produce a closed, easy to use system a-la iMac, they will be printing lots and lots of money.
Just imagine how the X-PC fits in with their idea of '.net' and "Optimized for X-PC" sets of Office 2001, etc.
Okay, here is the deal. If Intel can pull of the manufacturing of this thing, the 2GHz chip will not be far off. Meanwhile, I doubt it is possible for the.18 micron Athlon to be pushed up to 2GHz.
But then we have AMD introducing their Mustang in Q4. While on paper the Mustang appears to compete with the Xeon, AMD is going to market it against the p4. Also, AMD appears to be moving to.13 micron faster than Intel. This is all speculation, but so is the release of the p4 at 2 ghz. I wouldn't count on it before summer of 2001.
However, give it something really regular like 3D, and it totally blows the Athlon away.
That depends on the graphic card industry, and how well the p4 actually competes with Nvidia's chips, etc.
Intel has the clock-speed advantage in terms of marketing.
True. The press has picked up on this 2ghz demo as if the thing was an announced product!
Most Mac graphics software allows you to quickly load and unload the fonts you need while the app is open and live. Why load hundreds of fonts when you are only going to use a few for your project?
Isn't there an app that does this in Windows? Is Windows still that bad?
I think by 2010 we'll be back to nice, sharp corners and rectangles. All this bulbous, streamline crap is getting old. Do we really need a computer with a low drag coefficient? Will we be really need to be able to throw it farther and faster?
Squares and rectangles (no, I'm not referring to Apple's cube. It is too rounded at the corners), 1984 Volvos, square coffee makers, not those stupid streamlined German ones.
And by 2010, the world will be crying out for understated, nondescript beige. What a great counterpoint to all those candy-colored balloon puters.
Makes me wonder: if the FSF is a non-profit organization, could a software house donate their aging product and thus claim a big tax writeoff in addition to the PR?
Maybe Cowpland left Corel to pursue Linux interests from his jail cell. Isn't he under a lot of heat for insider trading?
Anyway, he's a nut. He made Corel happen in the first place, but he also caused their difficulties. I wish some good software company would buy them out.
... the only people who really care are developers, and I'm sure they're going to wait for Intel's superior offering.
They'll be waiting a long, long time for Intel's 'superior' offering. The Itanium is so late, and so slow, that word is they're abandoning it entirely and moving their development efforts toward McKinley (the CPU that isn't constrained by the idiot grafted on i386 execution unit).
Intel is positioning their 64-bit CPU for the high-end market, negating the original plan for a low-cost unit to migrate the computer world to a general purpose 64-bit environment.
I remember how extreme it was to buy one. I went the 'registered developer' route with my cube. They refused to sell developers one without a hard disk. Having a 300 megabyte hard disk on the cube added more than $1,000 to the price.
Later, my friend and I wanted to sell machines for vertical market (driving imagesetters) and found it was hopeless. The process to get permission to sell their machines completely weeded out anybody of the start-up ilk.
It was a couple of years before I saw any machines for sale at a retail outlet. Jobs is still strangely picky about who he allows to sell his computers.
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The ultra-privitization of the newer telephony tech really does leave a lot of rural folks in the lurch.
blessings,
Choosing to work on the Gnome project just because one thinks KDE is some kind of legal bad bunch is stupid. RMS needs to get out a more often. He needs to take a bath. He needs to get laid
blessings,
The clones DID grow the market.
They were taking massive hits since they were only receiving $150 to $300 per clone sold in licensing fees as opposed to double that if they shipped the computers themselves.
Only an idiot could lose money on a motherboard plus OS for that price, wholesale. Since Apple at the time were run by idiots, they lost money on every Mac clone sold. They also ended up with a warehouse full of unsold 6500s because they thought they were worth $2500 each.
Let's see.... $99 times 1,000,000 = $99,000,000. Gosh! I feel the poverty!
But I also realize that it would be suicide to attampt to go against Micros**t with an Intel OSX. Apple couldn't get very many companies to bundle OSX in the face of the Micros**t monopoly. Only if Micros**t gets broken up will anybody have a chance to break in.
blessings,
It is supposed to be a friendly get together, but all it does is put stupid nationalistic pictures trying to stuff a stupid 'my country is best' piece of crap down our throats.
Adolf Hitler was the first idiot to nationalize the Olympics with his 1936 Berlin summer games. It has gotten a lot worse since.
The Olympics is boring and stupid. The corporate sponsorship of them is stupid too. The athletes are saying, "Go ahead! f**k me in the ass! All I want is money and fame!" The olympic committee has been given a special legislative act (in the US) to be a monopoly, and they act the part.
blessings,
Yah, serious in like the 6100s 33mhz memory bus. Whee!
That said, I'm quite happy with my 50mhz bus PowerCurve running a 233mhz i picked up for $23 on ebay sitting in one of those g3 zif cards. But a 50mhz fsb is admittedly too slow. Putting in a p4 designed for a 400mhz fsb would be wasted on present-day 100 or 133 mhz fsbs.
blessings,
blessings,
I've been self-employed for about 5 years now and am boggled to read about how the corporate world on the 'outside' has turned into a bunch of good little nazis running around putting their heads up other people's asses. Nothing personal, I could have responded to several other good-little-nazi posts, too.
Doesn't liability insurance cover stupid f*cking email indescretion lawsuits? It covers MINE!
blessings,
blessings,
A 300 pound opera singer and a 10 year-old boy could conceivably eat pie at the same rate.
blessings,
If Microsoft drops all that hideous legacy crap like isa, pci, agp, all the other expensive stuff that customized PCs have and produce a closed, easy to use system a-la iMac, they will be printing lots and lots of money.
Just imagine how the X-PC fits in with their idea of '.net' and "Optimized for X-PC" sets of Office 2001, etc.
blessings,
But then we have AMD introducing their Mustang in Q4. While on paper the Mustang appears to compete with the Xeon, AMD is going to market it against the p4. Also, AMD appears to be moving to .13 micron faster than Intel. This is all speculation, but so is the release of the p4 at 2 ghz. I wouldn't count on it before summer of 2001.
However, give it something really regular like 3D, and it totally blows the Athlon away.
That depends on the graphic card industry, and how well the p4 actually competes with Nvidia's chips, etc.
Intel has the clock-speed advantage in terms of marketing.
True. The press has picked up on this 2ghz demo as if the thing was an announced product!
blessings,
Most Mac graphics software allows you to quickly load and unload the fonts you need while the app is open and live. Why load hundreds of fonts when you are only going to use a few for your project?
Isn't there an app that does this in Windows? Is Windows still that bad?
blessings,
Squares and rectangles (no, I'm not referring to Apple's cube. It is too rounded at the corners), 1984 Volvos, square coffee makers, not those stupid streamlined German ones.
And by 2010, the world will be crying out for understated, nondescript beige. What a great counterpoint to all those candy-colored balloon puters.
blessings,
blessings,
I think there are few who don't have both KDE and Gnome. It is seamless to run either app under either 'desktop'.
blessings,
blessings,
blessings,
Maybe Cowpland left Corel to pursue Linux interests from his jail cell. Isn't he under a lot of heat for insider trading?
Anyway, he's a nut. He made Corel happen in the first place, but he also caused their difficulties. I wish some good software company would buy them out.
blessings,
Since IBM has piss-poor marketing, but the best army of sales oids in the business, I think they could make a go of it.
While they're at it, they could also buy Corel for a song and we could have Novell Word Perfect again.
blessings,
They'll be waiting a long, long time for Intel's 'superior' offering. The Itanium is so late, and so slow, that word is they're abandoning it entirely and moving their development efforts toward McKinley (the CPU that isn't constrained by the idiot grafted on i386 execution unit).
Intel is positioning their 64-bit CPU for the high-end market, negating the original plan for a low-cost unit to migrate the computer world to a general purpose 64-bit environment.
AMD is going to french Intel's fry.
blessings,
Hello, Acme Systems Tech Support.... please hold. (pause) Hello, this is Timmy, may I help you?
I just got a new Luxos Linux IV server and there is a hardware problem with it.
What kind of hardware problem?
It doesn't work.
Well... let's see... Is there anything on your screen?
I'm not sure. I can't install my Mandrake.
Sir, we don't support Mandrake.
Yes, I know. But I've got a hardware failure. The computer isn't working.
(sigh) Well... do any of the lights come on when you push the 'on' button?
I'm not sure what you mean.
Is the machine plugged in, sir?
Yes, I'm not stupid you know!
OK, then. Does the system POST?
What's that?
Hmm... Well, do you get anything at all on your screen? Does the little counter count the memory?
I don't see anything
(sigh) OK, then. You'll have to send it back...
etc. etc. etc.
blessings,
blessings,
Definitely, Apple owns NeXT. They've taken more time to port it (and dumb it down) to Mac than NeXT took to create the whole thing from scratch.
blessings,
And he got filthy rich when he sold NeXT to Apple!
blessings,
Later, my friend and I wanted to sell machines for vertical market (driving imagesetters) and found it was hopeless. The process to get permission to sell their machines completely weeded out anybody of the start-up ilk.
It was a couple of years before I saw any machines for sale at a retail outlet. Jobs is still strangely picky about who he allows to sell his computers.
blessings,