Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I remember correctly, there was a Dilbert comic recently where Dogbert decided to patent zero-click shopping. Anyone else seen this?
It is to SONY's advantage for the PSX2 to be delayed, assuming it really is as good as they say it is. Let's see some test cases:
SONY releases the PSX2 soon. It sucks. Nintendo releases their cube and it kicks booty. Game over.
SONY releases the PSX2 later. It sucks, but there's the new-fangled-ness of it (assuming it's out after Nintendo's) that causes it to garner significant sales.
SONY releases the PSX2 soon. It is awesome. Nintendo releases their cube, and the fact that it's the "latest and greatest" (whether or not it really is) causes it to sell, perhaps close to the PSX2's sales.
SONY delays the PSX2, and when it finally gets here, it r0x0rs! People will forget about Nintendo's cube and gobble up the PSX2.
So it is obviously to Sony's advantage to delay the PSX2, at least until after Nintendo's release. This way they'll be the latest and the greatest and the thing to have.
And about the DVD drive thing, I doubt it...I just purchased a DVD drive for my brand new desktop system, and my father got one in his laptop about a month ago.
While I don't really know anyone who is a "mystic", one thing I did notice is that, at least back when I was in high school, the hackers and the "mystic" people overlapped. Like I said, I didn't know anyone who believed in mysticism and the like (although there were some atheists), but these people played Magic: The Gathering and other (more in-depth) role-playing games. Many of these were also the "hacker" (and some the "cracker") type.
Me-- well I used to like playing M:TG, am a "hacker", and am also a born-again Christian. So I guess I broke the trend;-)
Ok, maybe this is admitting I'm a dork, but when I was in 4th or 5th grade, I *loved* the movie sidekicks. I guess every boy goes through a martial-arts stage, and I guess that was mine.
Anyway, I can think of many movies worse than Sidekicks that didn't make the list--Titanic and Armageddon for instance.
It failed (IMHO it never *failed*, just didn't live up to its potential) because of Jobs' ego. My father, who still has a NeXT cube sitting on his desk, had a chance to meet Steve Jobs, at a NeXTworld conference or something. He mentioned to Mr. Jobs that it would be a good idea to release a version of the operating system that ran on Sun hardware, which was *the* big thing at the time (circa 1989). Jobs said something to the effect that he wanted to make more money off of the hardware. But just look a couple of years later, and lo and behold, they released versions for Intel and Sparc. However, by that point, Solaris and X had been established as the OS of choice on the Sparc (whereas at the NeXT's launch Sun was floundering about with NeWS and other things), and it was too little, too late.
The only reason Jobs' ego hasn't killed Apple yet is that they've done a better job of marketing to the general public. But don't put it past him to screw up Apple too. (Don't get me wrong, Jobs has done some good things--inventing the NeXT for one, Pixar for another.)
I'm not sure if you can fit a full ATX in there, but certainly a microATX or 2/3 baby AT should fit just fine. In any case, you'll have to install your own power supply. As far as expansion bays, it has two full height 5-1/4 bays, which you can mount a floppy, hdd, zip and cdrom in with no problem (except for cutting holes in the front panel, and you'll need the "mounting rails" that let you put 3-1/2 inch disks in 5-1/4 slots. It wouldn't hurt to cut some cooling holes in the front, as the cube was designed to blow air out the optical slot (it actually flowed through the drive--there was a filter on the back of the drive).
If it runs Linux, does it mean that Octave, Yorick, Gnuplot or MuPad is possible for this thing?
Or better yet, Maple or Matlab. They may be proprietary, but they are excellent tools, and they run under Linux. Forget pressing "the long s"...how about
int(f(x), x=0..4);
?
First of all, let me clarify: I am not flaming, although some may incorrectly think that. I just want to set some facts straight. The fact that I believe in God does not mean I am uneducated or ignorant. Most people my age are still in high school and I am a college sophomore and I have a computer programming job.
Being religious does not mean throwing reason out the window. Looking at the world and its complexity, it is hard to believe that all of that appeared by chance. You see a car and think "someone designed that". This world is infinitely more complex than a car, and yet we insist on saying it everything happened by chance!
However, the main problem with evolution is that it goes against the Law of Entropy, which states, that left to itself, any system will become more degenerate -- it will get worse, not better. The probability is much greater that genetic mutations will be harmful than beneficial.
As far as the Kansas case, they just allowed the teaching of alternative viewpoints in addition to evolution. They did not outlaw the teaching of evolution; they just eliminated the educational monopoly.
Evolution is not an outrageous theory, however. Many parts of it make sense, however there are some parts that do not, and it is by no means an objective fact.
Creationism does have scientific support--there are archaeological digs that show evidence of a flood (not to mention a story of a worldwide flood in just about every culture across the world).
Finally, let me restate: the Kansas thing was about opening the classroom, NOT outlawing evolution! The public school should be just that: public. A church is a private institution and may set its own guidelines, but a public school should at least show both sides of an issue!
The problem with some people is that they claim to be "open-minded" and insist on forcing you to follow their belief while totally refusing to listen to yours. Check your facts before spewing flames.
I'd hate to have to take on the responsibilities of a sysadmin--being paged at 3 am, etc. But they've got one thing going for them: money. While my programmer's salary keeps me happy, I know that many of the sysadmins (and also the database guys) make a TON of money. I'd just hate to have to work through a 28-hour database outage (which recently happened).
Just one question. Included in the upgrade from 2.0 to 2.2 is a kernel updgrade, right? So don't you have to reboot in order to boot the new kernel? And what about the libc5/glibc thing? Ok, sorry that was two questions.
You apparently have seen my posts on Slashdot, complete with my.sig, which has been in place for about 8 months (which I have changed to give attribution to Abraham Lincoln, who apparently is the originator of it, after being given grief by fellow/.'ers). But it certainly applies to all this Cube stuff.
I guess that I write approx. 20-40.000 lines of code a year
Wow, that's a lot! I probably write 40.000 (or 40.0, or 40.00, they're equivalent) lines in 5 minutes-- how do you write a fractional part of a line?
But seriously, the problem with Pascal is that the language is too restrictive. Java is similar in its strong typing, but it has more elegant syntax --exceptions are good ways of handling problems. And some things are just crazy--why type begin...end when { } suffices?
Another problem is the inability to link to libraries. Sure, there are ways of doing it, but it tends to be extremely proprietary and non-portable.
That's not to say Pascal isn't useful--I grew up on Turbo Pascal (a much better first language than {GW/Q/Visual}-Basic). But then I learned C.
This isn't intended to be a flame. Pascal has its uses, and it's a good learning tool. But I can't imagine anyone in my company (I'm a C++/Java programmer) doing any serious work in Pascal.
This says the Asus board will not have the clock-unlocking features, but what about the Abit KT7 which was so proudly hailed on slashdot a few days ago? Does it still have these features?
Apple's MPW (Macintosh Programmers Workshop) is a
command-line based development environment that can be downloaded...
And what command line would you run it from? I know there's a shell on MacOS X, but what about on OS 9? Surely there are development tools for OS 9, but I've never seen a command line on OS 9.
Hmm... let's see, about 10 different stories sent in by fellow slashdotters, on the same page -- sounds like quickies to me. Why call it Slashback? Is it just a marketing attempt?
Let's see... in 1991, I was in elementary school, most of the computers were either Apple ][ or Commodore or IBM PS/2's (the only one of those that I still use...'cause it runs Linux!), and the question "Do you have an Apple or an IBM?" made perfect sense. Just think, Windows 3.1 wasn't even out yet, and Linux had been started! I'm sure the next thing I'll find out is that Slashdot had been secretly going on since 1993 or so...
Look on freshmeat.net, there are a lot of good mpeg players for Linux. The one I like best is called mtv. Unfortunately the license is shareware, but it sure beats xanim!
7. Why wouldn't prospective purchasers of Windows 2000 need to know the contents of Microsoft's Kerberos specification in order to make informed judgments regarding interoperability in connection with their purchasing decisions?
They wouldn't need to know them, just know to avoid them and use the open Kerberos specifications! (But a good argument nonetheless). It will be interesting to see how this slashdot/kerberos/microsoft fiasco fits into the DoJ's lawsuit...
Ok, I know I'll get flamed for this, but, hey, it's on-topic for a change (not that I post off-topic or anything...). Perhaps the "anonymous coward" is a combination of the "Anonymous" and the "Weenie" Flame-Warriors? And how about adding "troll" to the list?
The fact that the person who wrote libtool (which is used by just about everything) got the most credit and other bogus stats reported in other posts demonstrates one thing: statistics lie. One of my math profs has this book called "How To Lie With Statistics"--the title says it all.
And finally, a word from Harry Truman: "There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics!"
The Motorola 68040 in my NeXT cube (which is the best hardware I've ever owned!) runs at 25MHz. NeXT later relased a 33MHz "turbo" version, and I think there was a "nitro" version in the labs that ran at 50 or 60MHz. Keep in mind the average PC at the time of the NeXT was a 286, or if you're lucky, maybe a 386/25...if only I could run Linux on it!
So what exactly does this mean (if anything) for things such as DeCSS and MP3? Sounds to me like the MPAA has no legal case against DeCSS now (they never did, if you ask me...)--if source code is 1st-amendment protected, then DeCSS is legal!
All this stuff sounds really great (especially printing and email), but when will it be available for me to get my paws on? I know, Open-source is "it'll be released when it's ready to be released," but could someone give a ballpark estimate?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I remember correctly, there was a Dilbert comic recently where Dogbert decided to patent zero-click shopping. Anyone else seen this?
- SONY releases the PSX2 soon. It sucks. Nintendo releases their cube and it kicks booty. Game over.
- SONY releases the PSX2 later. It sucks, but there's the new-fangled-ness of it (assuming it's out after Nintendo's) that causes it to garner significant sales.
- SONY releases the PSX2 soon. It is awesome. Nintendo releases their cube, and the fact that it's the "latest and greatest" (whether or not it really is) causes it to sell, perhaps close to the PSX2's sales.
- SONY delays the PSX2, and when it finally gets here, it r0x0rs! People will forget about Nintendo's cube and gobble up the PSX2.
So it is obviously to Sony's advantage to delay the PSX2, at least until after Nintendo's release. This way they'll be the latest and the greatest and the thing to have.And about the DVD drive thing, I doubt it...I just purchased a DVD drive for my brand new desktop system, and my father got one in his laptop about a month ago.
As a matter of fact, I remeber seeing some online store that had black cd-r's and advertised them as "good for copying playstation games." So there.
Me-- well I used to like playing M:TG, am a "hacker", and am also a born-again Christian. So I guess I broke the trend ;-)
Anyway, I can think of many movies worse than Sidekicks that didn't make the list--Titanic and Armageddon for instance.
The only reason Jobs' ego hasn't killed Apple yet is that they've done a better job of marketing to the general public. But don't put it past him to screw up Apple too. (Don't get me wrong, Jobs has done some good things--inventing the NeXT for one, Pixar for another.)
I'm not sure if you can fit a full ATX in there, but certainly a microATX or 2/3 baby AT should fit just fine. In any case, you'll have to install your own power supply. As far as expansion bays, it has two full height 5-1/4 bays, which you can mount a floppy, hdd, zip and cdrom in with no problem (except for cutting holes in the front panel, and you'll need the "mounting rails" that let you put 3-1/2 inch disks in 5-1/4 slots. It wouldn't hurt to cut some cooling holes in the front, as the cube was designed to blow air out the optical slot (it actually flowed through the drive--there was a filter on the back of the drive).
Being religious does not mean throwing reason out the window. Looking at the world and its complexity, it is hard to believe that all of that appeared by chance. You see a car and think "someone designed that". This world is infinitely more complex than a car, and yet we insist on saying it everything happened by chance!
However, the main problem with evolution is that it goes against the Law of Entropy, which states, that left to itself, any system will become more degenerate -- it will get worse, not better. The probability is much greater that genetic mutations will be harmful than beneficial.
As far as the Kansas case, they just allowed the teaching of alternative viewpoints in addition to evolution. They did not outlaw the teaching of evolution; they just eliminated the educational monopoly.
Evolution is not an outrageous theory, however. Many parts of it make sense, however there are some parts that do not, and it is by no means an objective fact.
Creationism does have scientific support--there are archaeological digs that show evidence of a flood (not to mention a story of a worldwide flood in just about every culture across the world).
Finally, let me restate: the Kansas thing was about opening the classroom, NOT outlawing evolution! The public school should be just that: public. A church is a private institution and may set its own guidelines, but a public school should at least show both sides of an issue!
The problem with some people is that they claim to be "open-minded" and insist on forcing you to follow their belief while totally refusing to listen to yours. Check your facts before spewing flames.
But it certainly applies to all this Cube stuff.
But seriously, the problem with Pascal is that the language is too restrictive. Java is similar in its strong typing, but it has more elegant syntax --exceptions are good ways of handling problems. And some things are just crazy--why type begin...end when { } suffices?
Another problem is the inability to link to libraries. Sure, there are ways of doing it, but it tends to be extremely proprietary and non-portable.
That's not to say Pascal isn't useful--I grew up on Turbo Pascal (a much better first language than {GW/Q/Visual}-Basic). But then I learned C.
This isn't intended to be a flame. Pascal has its uses, and it's a good learning tool. But I can't imagine anyone in my company (I'm a C++/Java programmer) doing any serious work in Pascal.
This says the Asus board will not have the clock-unlocking features, but what about the Abit KT7 which was so proudly hailed on slashdot a few days ago? Does it still have these features?
I'm sure the next thing I'll find out is that Slashdot had been secretly going on since 1993 or so...
It plays at 29 fps on a measly P133, not bad...
They wouldn't need to know them, just know to avoid them and use the open Kerberos specifications! (But a good argument nonetheless). It will be interesting to see how this slashdot/kerberos/microsoft fiasco fits into the DoJ's lawsuit...
Why a vacuum cleaner? Is that implying that the quickies suck? I find most of them pretty funny.
And finally, a word from Harry Truman: "There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics!"