ornette coleman - free jazz - just an amazing album. this is not easy listening; it's piercing and sweet at different moments, like a drunk schizophrenic uncle... with a knife... who still tells hilarious stories. this might take some repeated listening to fully appreciate it, but i'll never look back.
cecil taylor - unit structures, any of the live albums, with group or solo - maybe the most innovative piano player in the last sixty years. ominous and brooding to sparse and barely there, taylor's playing is all over the place, but it's always perfectly directed. the live solo albums are my personal favorites.
django reinhardt - early recordings or collections - it doesn't matter what you buy here, just get something with music by reinhardt's 'hot club' quintette included. this will make you want to dance. you will dance, and you'll have a good time doing it. beautiful stuff.
john scofield - a go go, oh! - one of the only modern jazz guitarists that i actually like... virtuosity with an unexplainable humility to his music. scofield's been doing some seriously under-appreciated work for years.
looks like you already know about coltrane, mingus and miles, so you're on the right track. look up thelonius monk, too - great jazz of the highest order.
as an aside, i picked up mississippi john hurt's avalon blues: the complete 1928 okeh recordings for $9.99 last week, and it's the sweetest blues that i've ever heard. his guitar playing is absolutely out of this world - the tonality of it never fails to amaze me, and his flow is gorgeous. fahey and kotke both realized a lot of their music by emulating hurt, skip james and the like early on. not incidentally, delta blues is where early american jazz guitar cut its teeth; check out some of the players for roots music to which anyone can relate.
you're missing the difference between art and craft. is a hand-woven basket art? or is it a craft? it's all got to do with utilitarianism and usefullness
i've heard a saying along the lines that craft is something that you can "piss into" (a basket, pottery, etc.) and urine will collect; art is something that if pissed upon will splatter back at the pisser (painting, sculpture, etc.). i'm paraphrasing, of course, and this is utter nonsense, but it does raise the question of art being usefull beyond pure aesthetic value.
but then again, serrano's "piss christ" completely skews the art vs. craft piss test.
i don't think there's any one correct answer to "what is art?" it's simply a matter of taste, and taste, as we all know, is completely subjective. i may not know art, but i know what i like. and i may certainly not know the mediums used, but i know what the outcome look like.
any of the examples you used above (except the f.l. wright - that's art;) have examples and counter-examples of art vs. not art. the volkswagen commercials with the square buildings flashing across the screen until a bug shows up - that's art to me: it's a beautiful commercial, and i don't really care what they're advertising. a 10-10-220 commercial? not art.
anyone who asks the question, "is it art?" doesn't understand the nature of art. when i see a painting i don't like, i don't question if it's art or not, i just don't like that particular painting. what we should be asking is "yeah, but is it good art?" and that's always debatable.
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I managed to get NetBSD run on my old SE/30 awhile back. Well, I guess I don't know about run... more like... limp? Anywho, I found some old 16MB SIMMS and a network card for the machine; I might actually get around to installing them one day when I don't have anything better to do.
Low End Mac has tons of information on maintaining Macs going all the way back to the original SE, Plus, etc. These older little devils might not look like much and the newer machines might look like "dalmations" or "flower power" throwbacks, but they're built like tanks.
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Have you ever heard of the "iMac?" It's a long forgotton computer that apple built many moons ago. The CRT version as well as the first LCD versions both had built in displays capable of only 1024x768. I know it might be hard to believe, but some of us don't like to play the upgrade game - my CRT iMac still works fine, and I'm not going to buy a new machine until it absolutely dies (knock on wood). Tabs are a nice feature to have. I still use Chimera with multiple tabs on my 1600x1200 monitor at work...
saw it in an almost empty theatre with my girlfriend. i still thought it was silly. i know i'll still buy the 180-disk supermondospecialdirectorscut edition just to have it, but i'll probably fast-forward through gollum's externalized internal debate regardless. serkis did a decent job otherwise, but overall it just wasn't as good as fellowship, imnsho...
call me a heretic, but i didn't much like the two towers. don't get me wrong, i love the source material and fellowship of the rings was a beautiful, interesting movie that deserved a nomination. the two towers just seemed overly acted, overly long and, somehow, even more melodramatic than the text it followed. the gollum/smeagol (serkis) debate might be my least favorite scene from a movie last year. i'm just not convinced that it deserved a best picture nod.
what i'm really bothered about, though, is the fact that punch-drunk love didn't get so much as a second look anywhere... it really is one of the most beautiful, sweetest movies that i've ever seen. if you didn't see it or you dismissed it as another pointless adam sandler comedy or as a simplistic look on love and/or relationships then you missed the point. everything in the movie is absolutely pure, and it's ugly and pretty and sweet and overbearing and confusing at the same time. the simplicity belies the fact that it really is a deep, pure movie. to not even get a nod is a slap in the face to p.t. anderson.
adaptation possibly deserved a best picture nomination as well. it's funny, sad and thrilling - it's got everything hollywood loves. i'm surprised not to see it on the list.
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oh yeah, to reply to my own post... nobukazu takemura (aka child's view) is about as good as it gets for "smart" electronic. even my mom likes the sounds that guy makes...
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grab some marumari, autechre, aphex twin, twine, oval, mouse on mars, microstoria, etc. maybe not exactly "happy-go-lucky," (except for mom;) but still pretty anti-goth.
this is true - if you want true single-sign-on abilities, you'll have to have a kerberos-enabled ssh client. sometimes that's not possible, though:) most (if not all) of our linux/bsd/irix/etc. clients are fully sso; the krb tickets are passed and verified so reentry of passwords is not necessary. very good point though. pam, kerberos and ssh have made my job about 500% easier...
anyone know anything about authenticating linux/unix clients to active directory? i haven't researched it at all, just seeing if someone has done my homework for me! this will be a project coming up in the next few months, so any pointers would be nice.
the client doesn't have to support it - only the server... when you ssh to a host, an encrypted tunnel is created. when you send the password, it's authenticated using kerberos if your ssh server is set up to use it. we're doing exactly this at the place i work, and it's a godsend... there are no plaintext password or shadow files anywhere, only kerberos authentication. very clean and nice.
Unlike the client, the new Mac OS X Server is not based on darwin. I've had a copy of a beta of it for about 2 months now.
Umm, hate to burst your bubble, but the next iteration of MacOS X Server will be based on Darwin. Check out the MacOS X Server FAQ PDF at: Apple's MacOS X Server site.
Directly from the FAQ: "A modern open source UNIX-like foundation--called Darwin--delivers powerful features, including systemwide protected memory, full preemptive multitasking, symmetric multiprocessing, advanced memory management, and the latest in security standards."
Apple has basically plopped AppleShare IP onto the top of MacOS X and Aquafied the tools that they had already created for the original MacOS X Server. And they added some other stuff;)
GL != OpenGL. OpenGL is the "Open Graphics Library." It is cross-platform, and the API is published. It's the replacement for GL. GL is the "Graphics Library," also called IrisGL. It's still found on SGI machines for programs that use it, but it isn't cross platform, the API is harder to program for, it's old and not developed for anymore, etc. There are wrappers that take IrisGL calls and morph them into OpenGL calls, but they don't always work. I don't know if Softimage contains a lot of original GL code, but if it is any significant amount, the port will be that much harder. I think that was what the original poster was talking about. Just have to know a lot about Irix/SGI stuff. ---- Ryan
I help admin a couple Irix labs and four Linux labs. For the Linux labs, we've been using VA's SystemImager.
We basically do a kickstart install of RedHat 6.x, then call 'updateclient' with the proper options to grab the image from our server. SystemImager is a big Perl script that uses rsync to pull files across the network. It's quick and it works 99% of the time. We've done quite a few machines, and we are doing a couple more labs worth in August. I am the 'image builder guy,' so I get to assemble and test an image, break it, bend it, and, when it's ready, I upload it for our labs to share. When the labs are ready, we pull the image down onto a few test machines, and if everything goes right, we do the rest. It's a simple process that is easily scriptable, and you only have to maintain one image for all of the machines.
All of our machines are EXACTLY the same, though, so if your machines are different, you could run into problems. We've had very good luck with it, and I would recommend it to anyone doing a big Linux rollout.
We're getting a boatload of these at the uni. I work for. I and another guy get to build a lab out of them in the coming weeks. I'll most likely write a review and submit it when we've got everything ready. Til then...
So, I know I read somewhere that this wasn't possible with the way Bleem! is currently implemented. As I understood it, Bleem! somehow bypasses the main event loop in Windows and gets into kernel mode/rung whatever, so it doesn't have to 'share' by multitasking; it essentially bypasses the OS. Is this anywhere near correct? I know that this would most likely have to be done in assembly... And I've heard it's simply too hard or not possible with the Dreamcast hardware or OS (the CE compatibility part, anyway). I just don't know enough about this, I guess... Anyone care to comment on the technical possibility of this?
I hope this turns out to be something, so I can play Tenchu in hi-res glory. Other than that, this doesn't help me too much, being a Dreamcast and a Playstation owner;) ---- Ryan
Alright, the decision to use an Arm processor is a good one, but has Palm really thought this all out? They'll have to port PalmOS to an entirely new architecture, and every program available for the Palm 1000 all the way up to the Palm VII will have to be recompiled. Also consider that many coders in the Palm world (especially the 'OS enhancement' people) code in assembler to get to the bare metal and achieve speed increases/bypass the operating system. Assembly language is not especially portable...
Am I worrying for naught? Is Palm going to announce some kind of 'binary compatibility' built into Arm versions of PalmOS? I *very* seriously doubt it; that would be to daunting a task. I personally don't want to have to track down all of the programs that I use on my Palm III if/when I buy a new Arm-based Palm. I wonder if they've considered all of the implications of this decisions...
Having a nice new, fast PalmXVI will be great, but will there be any applications for the beast? I can't see Palm developers dropping support for the huge installed base, and I also can't see them snubbing their noses at a product that might potentially change the way handeld computing/information management works. I guess only time will tell.
So, I bought a PalmIIIe last night. Finally, after using some of my friends just for their PDAs;) I basically got sick of losing notes, writing on my hand, forgetting appointments, etc.. So, I did some research, and I decided on a PDA. I looked at the Cassios and the Compaqs, and basically everything else.
I decided on a PalmIIIe. It's cheap, and it's got all the features I need, and more. I don't predict having to store 6000 addresses in the near future, so I don't really need the extra memory that the higher-end PalmIIIx/xe/c, PalmV or, or PalmVII provide. 2MB is enough. I don't care about OS upgrades, as long as the OS on the PalmIIIe is stable enough. It is.
Those aren't the only reasons why I got the PalmIIIe. I mentioned it was cheap - about $175 with a nice case and some "extras." The PDA itself is only $149. Nice for a poor Sys Admin;) One of the biggest reasons I decided on the Palm was that it works with Linux. KPilot, JPilot, gnome-pilot - the list goes on and on. I downloaded some files last night, and had them up and running on the Pilot in the time it takes to compile JPilot. It's that easy.
I've heard that the handwriting recognition sucks on the CE/Pocket PC machines. The Pilot is easy - easy to learn and easy to remember. I learned just about everything in 5 to 10 minutes. Help is easily available, and if it doesn't recognize your handwriting, just click on the "keyboard dot" at the bottom.
So, would I ever give up on the Pilot? Don't count on it. I've used (never owned) CE devices, and the Pocket PC OS is just an extension of CE, which is most likely (have to see the code...) just an extension of PenWindows. The Palm is easier and faster, and I'm already in love with it. I just wish it had shipped with a damned scientific calculator, although loading the GPL'd EasyCalc was painless enough.
So, like the CNet article says, Palm users, don't jump ship!
I wonder if any of the porn-meisters are going to jump on the Linux bandwagon. I can see it now: linux-nipples.com, scat-linux.net, linux-pron.net... among a host of (much more obscene) others.
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Again, just don't tell my girlfriend...;)
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No problem. I've seen the Vomit Comet, I think it looks amazingly cool, and I'd be willing to do it. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I THINK that I'm still game!
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I, in an effort to further the human race, do volunteer to be one of the "testees" (har) for this noble experiment. I will contribute just about any part of my body that you want in order to help with this interesting, er, thing that you are doing. Just don't tell my girlfriend. Going to Mars, or anywhere outside of Earth for that matter, is a pretty good deal, too. NASA, you can contact me at the above email address. I eagerly await your reply!
Questions: What speed will this debut at? 600 MHz, 800 MHz, 1 GHz? Will it basically just be a PIII with a faster FSB and core speed? Is there anything new in the "P4" architecture?
Alright now that that's out of the way, how about motherboards? Processor configuration - Socket 370, Slot x, something new? I'm really getting sick of Intel doing things like deciding that the new 370 Coppermines won't work in older 370 boards. The processor race has got to drop off sometime...
I play Q3A all the time on my lowly dual PPro 180 with a Voodoo II. I get somewhere between 30 and 40 frames per second normally. Sometimes more. Sounds like your friends video card stinks...
If talking on your cell phone causes genetic damage, why don't we all just start dropping acid like crazy and laying naked in the sun all day long? Same effects, right?
Seriously, though - I've always hated cell phones, and I've never owned one. They come in great in emergencies, but I cringe every time I see some schmuck driving around like a bat out of hell talking to his best bud on a car phone. It's scary.
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Oh, come ON - "No time for love Doctor Jones!" That's one of the best lines in a movie ever...
looks like you already know about coltrane, mingus and miles, so you're on the right track. look up thelonius monk, too - great jazz of the highest order.
as an aside, i picked up mississippi john hurt's avalon blues: the complete 1928 okeh recordings for $9.99 last week, and it's the sweetest blues that i've ever heard. his guitar playing is absolutely out of this world - the tonality of it never fails to amaze me, and his flow is gorgeous. fahey and kotke both realized a lot of their music by emulating hurt, skip james and the like early on. not incidentally, delta blues is where early american jazz guitar cut its teeth; check out some of the players for roots music to which anyone can relate.
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you're missing the difference between art and craft. is a hand-woven basket art? or is it a craft? it's all got to do with utilitarianism and usefullness
;) have examples and counter-examples of art vs. not art. the volkswagen commercials with the square buildings flashing across the screen until a bug shows up - that's art to me: it's a beautiful commercial, and i don't really care what they're advertising. a 10-10-220 commercial? not art.
i've heard a saying along the lines that craft is something that you can "piss into" (a basket, pottery, etc.) and urine will collect; art is something that if pissed upon will splatter back at the pisser (painting, sculpture, etc.). i'm paraphrasing, of course, and this is utter nonsense, but it does raise the question of art being usefull beyond pure aesthetic value.
but then again, serrano's "piss christ" completely skews the art vs. craft piss test.
i don't think there's any one correct answer to "what is art?" it's simply a matter of taste, and taste, as we all know, is completely subjective. i may not know art, but i know what i like. and i may certainly not know the mediums used, but i know what the outcome look like.
any of the examples you used above (except the f.l. wright - that's art
anyone who asks the question, "is it art?" doesn't understand the nature of art. when i see a painting i don't like, i don't question if it's art or not, i just don't like that particular painting. what we should be asking is "yeah, but is it good art?" and that's always debatable.
I managed to get NetBSD run on my old SE/30 awhile back. Well, I guess I don't know about run... more like... limp? Anywho, I found some old 16MB SIMMS and a network card for the machine; I might actually get around to installing them one day when I don't have anything better to do.
Low End Mac has tons of information on maintaining Macs going all the way back to the original SE, Plus, etc. These older little devils might not look like much and the newer machines might look like "dalmations" or "flower power" throwbacks, but they're built like tanks.
Have you ever heard of the "iMac?" It's a long forgotton computer that apple built many moons ago. The CRT version as well as the first LCD versions both had built in displays capable of only 1024x768. I know it might be hard to believe, but some of us don't like to play the upgrade game - my CRT iMac still works fine, and I'm not going to buy a new machine until it absolutely dies (knock on wood). Tabs are a nice feature to have. I still use Chimera with multiple tabs on my 1600x1200 monitor at work...
saw it in an almost empty theatre with my girlfriend. i still thought it was silly. i know i'll still buy the 180-disk supermondospecialdirectorscut edition just to have it, but i'll probably fast-forward through gollum's externalized internal debate regardless. serkis did a decent job otherwise, but overall it just wasn't as good as fellowship, imnsho...
call me a heretic, but i didn't much like the two towers . don't get me wrong, i love the source material and fellowship of the rings was a beautiful, interesting movie that deserved a nomination. the two towers just seemed overly acted, overly long and, somehow, even more melodramatic than the text it followed. the gollum/smeagol (serkis) debate might be my least favorite scene from a movie last year. i'm just not convinced that it deserved a best picture nod.
what i'm really bothered about, though, is the fact that punch-drunk love didn't get so much as a second look anywhere... it really is one of the most beautiful, sweetest movies that i've ever seen. if you didn't see it or you dismissed it as another pointless adam sandler comedy or as a simplistic look on love and/or relationships then you missed the point. everything in the movie is absolutely pure, and it's ugly and pretty and sweet and overbearing and confusing at the same time. the simplicity belies the fact that it really is a deep, pure movie. to not even get a nod is a slap in the face to p.t. anderson.
adaptation possibly deserved a best picture nomination as well. it's funny, sad and thrilling - it's got everything hollywood loves. i'm surprised not to see it on the list.
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oh yeah, to reply to my own post... nobukazu takemura (aka child's view) is about as good as it gets for "smart" electronic. even my mom likes the sounds that guy makes...
grab some marumari, autechre, aphex twin, twine, oval, mouse on mars, microstoria, etc. maybe not exactly "happy-go-lucky," (except for mom ;) but still pretty anti-goth.
this is true - if you want true single-sign-on abilities, you'll have to have a kerberos-enabled ssh client. sometimes that's not possible, though :) most (if not all) of our linux/bsd/irix/etc. clients are fully sso; the krb tickets are passed and verified so reentry of passwords is not necessary. very good point though. pam, kerberos and ssh have made my job about 500% easier...
anyone know anything about authenticating linux/unix clients to active directory? i haven't researched it at all, just seeing if someone has done my homework for me! this will be a project coming up in the next few months, so any pointers would be nice.
the client doesn't have to support it - only the server... when you ssh to a host, an encrypted tunnel is created. when you send the password, it's authenticated using kerberos if your ssh server is set up to use it. we're doing exactly this at the place i work, and it's a godsend... there are no plaintext password or shadow files anywhere, only kerberos authentication. very clean and nice.
Umm, hate to burst your bubble, but the next iteration of MacOS X Server will be based on Darwin. Check out the MacOS X Server FAQ PDF at: Apple's MacOS X Server site.
Directly from the FAQ: "A modern open source UNIX-like foundation--called Darwin--delivers powerful features, including systemwide protected memory, full preemptive multitasking, symmetric multiprocessing, advanced memory management, and the latest in security standards."
Apple has basically plopped AppleShare IP onto the top of MacOS X and Aquafied the tools that they had already created for the original MacOS X Server. And they added some other stuff ;)
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GL != OpenGL. OpenGL is the "Open Graphics Library." It is cross-platform, and the API is published. It's the replacement for GL. GL is the "Graphics Library," also called IrisGL. It's still found on SGI machines for programs that use it, but it isn't cross platform, the API is harder to program for, it's old and not developed for anymore, etc. There are wrappers that take IrisGL calls and morph them into OpenGL calls, but they don't always work. I don't know if Softimage contains a lot of original GL code, but if it is any significant amount, the port will be that much harder. I think that was what the original poster was talking about. Just have to know a lot about Irix/SGI stuff.
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I help admin a couple Irix labs and four Linux labs. For the Linux labs, we've been using VA's SystemImager.
We basically do a kickstart install of RedHat 6.x, then call 'updateclient' with the proper options to grab the image from our server. SystemImager is a big Perl script that uses rsync to pull files across the network. It's quick and it works 99% of the time. We've done quite a few machines, and we are doing a couple more labs worth in August. I am the 'image builder guy,' so I get to assemble and test an image, break it, bend it, and, when it's ready, I upload it for our labs to share. When the labs are ready, we pull the image down onto a few test machines, and if everything goes right, we do the rest. It's a simple process that is easily scriptable, and you only have to maintain one image for all of the machines.
All of our machines are EXACTLY the same, though, so if your machines are different, you could run into problems. We've had very good luck with it, and I would recommend it to anyone doing a big Linux rollout.
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We're getting a boatload of these at the uni. I work for. I and another guy get to build a lab out of them in the coming weeks. I'll most likely write a review and submit it when we've got everything ready. Til then...
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So, I know I read somewhere that this wasn't possible with the way Bleem! is currently implemented. As I understood it, Bleem! somehow bypasses the main event loop in Windows and gets into kernel mode/rung whatever, so it doesn't have to 'share' by multitasking; it essentially bypasses the OS. Is this anywhere near correct? I know that this would most likely have to be done in assembly... And I've heard it's simply too hard or not possible with the Dreamcast hardware or OS (the CE compatibility part, anyway). I just don't know enough about this, I guess... Anyone care to comment on the technical possibility of this?
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I hope this turns out to be something, so I can play Tenchu in hi-res glory. Other than that, this doesn't help me too much, being a Dreamcast and a Playstation owner
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Alright, the decision to use an Arm processor is a good one, but has Palm really thought this all out? They'll have to port PalmOS to an entirely new architecture, and every program available for the Palm 1000 all the way up to the Palm VII will have to be recompiled. Also consider that many coders in the Palm world (especially the 'OS enhancement' people) code in assembler to get to the bare metal and achieve speed increases/bypass the operating system. Assembly language is not especially portable...
Am I worrying for naught? Is Palm going to announce some kind of 'binary compatibility' built into Arm versions of PalmOS? I *very* seriously doubt it; that would be to daunting a task. I personally don't want to have to track down all of the programs that I use on my Palm III if/when I buy a new Arm-based Palm. I wonder if they've considered all of the implications of this decisions...
Having a nice new, fast PalmXVI will be great, but will there be any applications for the beast? I can't see Palm developers dropping support for the huge installed base, and I also can't see them snubbing their noses at a product that might potentially change the way handeld computing/information management works. I guess only time will tell.
So, I bought a PalmIIIe last night. Finally, after using some of my friends just for their PDAs ;) I basically got sick of losing notes, writing on my hand, forgetting appointments, etc.. So, I did some research, and I decided on a PDA. I looked at the Cassios and the Compaqs, and basically everything else.
;) One of the biggest reasons I decided on the Palm was that it works with Linux. KPilot, JPilot, gnome-pilot - the list goes on and on. I downloaded some files last night, and had them up and running on the Pilot in the time it takes to compile JPilot. It's that easy.
I decided on a PalmIIIe. It's cheap, and it's got all the features I need, and more. I don't predict having to store 6000 addresses in the near future, so I don't really need the extra memory that the higher-end PalmIIIx/xe/c, PalmV or, or PalmVII provide. 2MB is enough. I don't care about OS upgrades, as long as the OS on the PalmIIIe is stable enough. It is.
Those aren't the only reasons why I got the PalmIIIe. I mentioned it was cheap - about $175 with a nice case and some "extras." The PDA itself is only $149. Nice for a poor Sys Admin
I've heard that the handwriting recognition sucks on the CE/Pocket PC machines. The Pilot is easy - easy to learn and easy to remember. I learned just about everything in 5 to 10 minutes. Help is easily available, and if it doesn't recognize your handwriting, just click on the "keyboard dot" at the bottom.
So, would I ever give up on the Pilot? Don't count on it. I've used (never owned) CE devices, and the Pocket PC OS is just an extension of CE, which is most likely (have to see the code...) just an extension of PenWindows. The Palm is easier and faster, and I'm already in love with it. I just wish it had shipped with a damned scientific calculator, although loading the GPL'd EasyCalc was painless enough.
So, like the CNet article says, Palm users, don't jump ship!
I wonder if any of the porn-meisters are going to jump on the Linux bandwagon. I can see it now: linux-nipples.com, scat-linux.net, linux-pron.net... among a host of (much more obscene) others.
Again, just don't tell my girlfriend... ;)
No problem. I've seen the Vomit Comet, I think it looks amazingly cool, and I'd be willing to do it. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I THINK that I'm still game!
I, in an effort to further the human race, do volunteer to be one of the "testees" (har) for this noble experiment. I will contribute just about any part of my body that you want in order to help with this interesting, er, thing that you are doing. Just don't tell my girlfriend. Going to Mars, or anywhere outside of Earth for that matter, is a pretty good deal, too. NASA, you can contact me at the above email address. I eagerly await your reply!
Questions: What speed will this debut at? 600 MHz, 800 MHz, 1 GHz? Will it basically just be a PIII with a faster FSB and core speed? Is there anything new in the "P4" architecture?
Alright now that that's out of the way, how about motherboards? Processor configuration - Socket 370, Slot x, something new? I'm really getting sick of Intel doing things like deciding that the new 370 Coppermines won't work in older 370 boards. The processor race has got to drop off sometime...
I play Q3A all the time on my lowly dual PPro 180 with a Voodoo II. I get somewhere between 30 and 40 frames per second normally. Sometimes more. Sounds like your friends video card stinks...
If talking on your cell phone causes genetic damage, why don't we all just start dropping acid like crazy and laying naked in the sun all day long? Same effects, right?
Seriously, though - I've always hated cell phones, and I've never owned one. They come in great in emergencies, but I cringe every time I see some schmuck driving around like a bat out of hell talking to his best bud on a car phone. It's scary.