.. it's just linked to the main page now. For something extra-schweet though, try their experimental keyboard-navigable search interface - found it from Mycroft, the Mozilla search bar plugin project.
Sure, you can probably arrest a paedophile or two by monitoring his emails, but drug dealers and organised crime in general will be the first people to move to encrypting *all* their emails.
Which is something even techies cannot do all the time. Why, you may ask. Well, it's simple: most e-mail users out there has no clue whatsoever about using encryption.
When would Outlook Express, Mozilla Mail and Eudora have standard built-in OpenPGP encryption... (yes, I know plugins are available)
Encrypt your mail today!
Large companies like Microsoft do *not* pay much in tax.
Government projects are paid for by taxpayers, mostly individuals and small-to-medium sized companies, and it would be in their interest to have an alternative to Microsoft.
Look at it this way, with their monopoly Microsoft is about the only entity that can reliably squeeze money out of large corporations.
There was a point in time several years ago (1996, IIRC) where Alpha-based PCs seem poised to break into the market.
Digital's FX!32 was a wonderful product, translating Intel Win32 API calls into Alpha ones on-the-fly with caching, that translated code runs at an estimated 70% native speed. Considering Alpha CPUs had a large performance advantage on Intel CPUs at that time (Pentium Pro just came out), the future of Alphas look very promising.
In the end, it is probably a combination of higher cost, lesser mindshare and lack of 64-bit killer apps that did them in. And the Compaq buy-out of Digital, of course.
I'm personally hoping that the Hammer competition forces Intel to start releasing IA-64 CPUs targeted at the workstation/power desktop market. Having had to program in assembly for CISC x86-like CPUs (Z80/Z180) any clean alternative is preferable.
Mac IE is a totally separate product from its Windows counterpart. I'm not too sure about whether it exposes itself as a DCOM component like WinIE, and thus is easily embeddable into other programs, but its rendering engine is definitely different - MacIE passes Mozilla's rendering tests, whereas WinIE does not.
On the other hand, MacIE has incomplete support for certificates - try going to a site with a certificate from an unknown (to IE) provider in MacIE and it would not let you in (in version 5.1 and under at least).
Besides, they already have a browser product that uses Gecko - the one used by their subsidiary, Compuserve. It makes sense to migrate AOL on Windows last, since there is no pressing need.
- gcc is free - granted, probably not very optimised - you don't really need to retrain all your programmers to port the apps, unless you write low-level code
It does work, mind you... don't use a very strong poison, but powdered laxative works wonders.
Friends of mine laced a dozen muffins with it (added a bit of sugar to hide the taste) to deter someone who's been stealing their food, and that night they heard the toilet being flushed every 10 minutes...
I recall an experiment done in California a few months back whereby cars automatically drive themselves on a stretch of a highway equipped with magnetic strips down the centre of the lane.
Since public transport seems to be out of the question for medium-distance transportation in the States (witness Amtrak's plight - and CoachUSA's financial gymnastics of late) automated private transport might fill the gap - provided price can be brought down.
It is really interesting to see what comes out of this. Certainly more applicable in the near future than football-playing robots - or this terrible series in the UK with robots battling each other, armed with saws, hammers and whatnot contraptions..
As other people have indicated, though, testing at 64 kbps stresses the codecs and *are* indicative of their performance when encoding difficult pieces.
It does make sense for them to spend a few millions just to make sure that the experiment does not work, just in case the experiment actually worked and somebody was covering up.
After all, coming up with an application of this research first would yield a rather.. substantial divident.
Surely this is a major set-back for Malaysia's standing on IP issues; Malaysia as a member of WTO should not blatantly declare their willingness to tolerate software piracy.
The fact that this deputy minister is the Youth Chief for the ruling party is rather disturbing - it implies that this probably has the support of many people in high places.
Surely a more appropriate, morally defensible, politically acceptable and strategic decision would be to promote the use of open source and public domain solutions? Even the French and Germans are doing it, and they definitely can afford the price tag of commercial software.
Guess we need to wait for IBM's high-density 200dpi LCD then:)
It probably would still be useful for beginners - or for people who don't expect a realistic AI, the way a lot of car racing titles these days have an 'arcade' AI setting (ugh)
It would not make any sense for Apple to port OS X to *generic* IA-32 platforms - just as Microsoft now makes most of its money from Office, Apple makes more from selling boxes than selling the OS itself.
What I would like to see is for Apple to roll out a product based on generic IA-32 platforms, but requiring an enabling chip or so (putting product activation key in hardware would be cool) without which OS X would not run.
That way we can even run Linux/x86 on it and run all the MMX/SSE enhanced video apps. Adobe would probably throw a tantrum though, what with all their AltiVec optimized software.
That is the standard definition of 'desktop replacement', though. The one you refer to seems to belong to the subnotebook category.
Even a subnotebook would struggle to stay up for 8 hours on standard batteries though - and the larger battery packs tend to cost quite a bit more.
On the other hand, the original poster was slightly mixing up his terms too. It's really a desktop replacement *portable*, not *laptop*. Even my friend's slim 12.1" Vaio gets really rather warm - would not want it in my laps for too long!
I don't mean to be patronising, and apologies beforehand, but a rather common problem with people who upgrade to RH 7.2/7.3 is that their partitions have not actually been converted to ext3.
This will certainly explain why it fsck'es all the time after reboots - run 'mount' without any parameter and check/proc/mounts (I think - not in front of Linux right now) and see if they both say ext3?
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Sorry, it was under George H.W. Bush - 1989, remember? Bush became President in January 1989, Panama was invaded December 1989.
Ooh where did you get that prototype? AFAIK the product line was discontinued :p
.. it's just linked to the main page now. For something extra-schweet though, try their experimental keyboard-navigable search interface - found it from Mycroft, the Mozilla search bar plugin project.
AFAIK the Mozilla shipped is bog-standard, however, if you want to try fontconfig without too much hassle, I really recommend (null).
Get it from your favourite Red Hat mirror - I personally use rpmfind.net
Cheers,
Michel
Sure, you can probably arrest a paedophile or two by monitoring his emails, but drug dealers and organised crime in general will be the first people to move to encrypting *all* their emails. Which is something even techies cannot do all the time. Why, you may ask. Well, it's simple: most e-mail users out there has no clue whatsoever about using encryption. When would Outlook Express, Mozilla Mail and Eudora have standard built-in OpenPGP encryption... (yes, I know plugins are available) Encrypt your mail today!
pay much in tax.
Government projects are paid for by taxpayers, mostly individuals and small-to-medium sized companies, and it would be in their interest to have an alternative to Microsoft.
Look at it this way, with their monopoly Microsoft is about the only entity that can reliably squeeze money out of large corporations.
My 2 cents,
There was a point in time several years ago (1996, IIRC) where Alpha-based PCs seem poised to break into the market.
Digital's FX!32 was a wonderful product, translating Intel Win32 API calls into Alpha ones on-the-fly with caching, that translated code runs at an estimated 70% native speed. Considering Alpha CPUs had a large performance advantage on Intel CPUs at that time (Pentium Pro just came out), the future of Alphas look very promising.
In the end, it is probably a combination of higher cost, lesser mindshare and lack of 64-bit killer apps that did them in. And the Compaq buy-out of Digital, of course.
I'm personally hoping that the Hammer competition forces Intel to start releasing IA-64 CPUs targeted at the workstation/power desktop market. Having had to program in assembly for CISC x86-like CPUs (Z80/Z180) any clean alternative is preferable.
On the other hand, MacIE has incomplete support for certificates - try going to a site with a certificate from an unknown (to IE) provider in MacIE and it would not let you in (in version 5.1 and under at least).
Besides, they already have a browser product that uses Gecko - the one used by their subsidiary, Compuserve. It makes sense to migrate AOL on Windows last, since there is no pressing need.
Some observations:
- gcc is free - granted, probably not very optimised
- you don't really need to retrain all your programmers to port the apps, unless you write low-level code
It does work, mind you... don't use a very strong poison, but powdered laxative works wonders.
:)
Friends of mine laced a dozen muffins with it (added a bit of sugar to hide the taste) to deter someone who's been stealing their food, and that night they heard the toilet being flushed every 10 minutes...
Works like a charm
AFAIK it uses a binary-only driver for the DVD drive. Sorry :(
Interesting bit of information. Guess it ties in, really.
:)
Must be nice having that kind of job!
I recall an experiment done in California a few months back whereby cars automatically drive themselves on a stretch of a highway equipped with magnetic strips down the centre of the lane.
Since public transport seems to be out of the question for medium-distance transportation in the States (witness Amtrak's plight - and CoachUSA's financial gymnastics of late) automated private transport might fill the gap - provided price can be brought down.
It is really interesting to see what comes out of this. Certainly more applicable in the near future than football-playing robots - or this terrible series in the UK with robots battling each other, armed with saws, hammers and whatnot contraptions..
Curious,
Has anyone tried running Matchbox on such a device, or a smaller screen (Curious,
Michel
As other people have indicated, though, testing at 64 kbps stresses the codecs and *are* indicative of their performance when encoding difficult pieces.
His team looked so enthusiastic mooting AAC audio in their MacWorld NY keynote presentation.
:p
They must be kinda broken-hearted
Ogg in peace,
Michel
Enjoy :)
Michel
Cartman: 'I'm not fat, dammit, I'm just a little big boned' :)
Obelix: 'I'm not fat, I'm just a little chubby'
Michel, who's desperately trying to gain weight
It does make sense for them to spend a few millions just to make sure that the experiment does not work, just in case the experiment actually worked and somebody was covering up.
.. substantial divident.
After all, coming up with an application of this research first would yield a rather
- Michel
Surely this is a major set-back for Malaysia's standing on IP issues; Malaysia as a member of WTO should not blatantly declare their willingness to tolerate software piracy.
The fact that this deputy minister is the Youth Chief for the ruling party is rather disturbing - it implies that this probably has the support of many people in high places.
Surely a more appropriate, morally defensible, politically acceptable and strategic decision would be to promote the use of open source and public domain solutions? Even the French and Germans are doing it, and they definitely can afford the price tag of commercial software.
Appaled,
Michel Salim
Guess we need to wait for IBM's high-density 200dpi LCD then :)
It probably would still be useful for beginners - or for people who don't expect a realistic AI, the way a lot of car racing titles these days have an 'arcade' AI setting (ugh)
Regards,
Michel
I've always wanted to learn kendo, but the nearest club from my university, is, alas, 50 miles away. And I don't have a car.
:p
Would be nice to know that in the future one could just don a VR headset and practice any sort of exotic martial arts
Probably safer for getting initiated into using sharp weapons as well..
Nice,
Michel
It would not make any sense for Apple to port OS X to *generic* IA-32 platforms - just as Microsoft now makes most of its money from Office, Apple makes more from selling boxes than selling the OS itself.
What I would like to see is for Apple to roll out a product based on generic IA-32 platforms, but requiring an enabling chip or so (putting product activation key in hardware would be cool) without which OS X would not run.
That way we can even run Linux/x86 on it and run all the MMX/SSE enhanced video apps. Adobe would probably throw a tantrum though, what with all their AltiVec optimized software.
My twopence,
Michel
Even a subnotebook would struggle to stay up for 8 hours on standard batteries though - and the larger battery packs tend to cost quite a bit more.
On the other hand, the original poster was slightly mixing up his terms too. It's really a desktop replacement *portable*, not *laptop*. Even my friend's slim 12.1" Vaio gets really rather warm - would not want it in my laps for too long!
Michel
This will certainly explain why it fsck'es all the time after reboots - run 'mount' without any parameter and check /proc/mounts (I think - not in front of Linux right now) and see if they both say ext3?
Hope that helps,
Michel