I'm trying to work out how all this is going to be put together.
I've just looked through the specifications of this thing on his site, and he lists it as having two PCI slots and an AGP slot. On the 'conceptual design' pictures though there's external access to one PCI slot (at the rear), and then immediately next to it is the 'monitor' connection and an ethernet socket.
The problem with this is that it simply doesn't seem to have space to put in the second PCI card, or even the AGP slot. The machine picture gives the nice 'sleek' image which wouldn't be tall enough to have a twin-PCI riser, and there's absolutely no space for a graphics card between the PCI and ethernet let alone a modern one with a stonkingly huge heat-sink stuck on the side.
If this is do-able then I'm guessing the internals are going to be so messy with strange flying PCI cards, and an AGP with a little lead extending to the monitor slot, that they're going to be nightmarish to engineer reliably.
I'd say if you want to see real social interaction go to the local pub. You're far less likely to witness a bunch of people standing stock-still with their pet'o'the week shouting pre-scripted offers, or riding their horses into banks. Also when you experience lag it's usually due to simply drinking too much rather than there being too many people in the pub at once, or you being too far from the pub.
I rapidly got irritated with Ultima Online, does it show?
It's not you having a BFG whilst touring the proposed design that's the problem, it's the other people having them and camping in the spacious reception with natural light and stripped pine floors.
The article mentions that "They were afraid to mention on their website that they offered tours as there were only 3 english speaking employees of the lab". Now this hits Slashdot. Guess they may as well mention it on their site now, since it's already now known in the world of the rabid technophile.
Whilst I agree with most of your points that last analogy is just utterly ridiculous, unless you happen to have evidence of Bill Gates sponsoring killings.
It's with things like this that I wonder whether any of the "big-boys" have thought of somehow helping out the small-fry companies with their legal fees on cases like this, possibly via some sort of non-profit group they themselves can donate too- Similar to the EFF, but more corporately-minded. This may well work since they may end up realising that if they let this go through they are the eventual targets, it is them on the top-level of the pay scale of this penny-ante patent.
Yes, EFF itself would be ideal too, but they're possibly too 'near-the-knuckle' to expect corporations to play nice with them.
It would be amusing to have a patent vulture move against something like MuseumTours, only to get a good Sony/Microsoft/Amazon (Despite 1-click)/AOLTW legal team up against them.
Not all CGIs have question marks in them.. many are designed to look like normal pages and use the URL path as arguments. In an even nastier 'prefetch' example would come CGIs which keep state in cookies or on the server, these would get very confused as suddenly the user is taking impossible (and stupid) apparant routes through their site. Do you really want the 'Submit Order' page prefetched..?
On the plus side, this is all by-the-by since Mozilla doesn't prefetch hrefs. The day anything does though expect to climb into a handbasket, next stop hell!
I'd guess a lot of the reason why Kazaa has more queuing is it serves more varied data than MP3s.. get in line behind a few guys downloading an entire film and be ready for a significant wait. Generally if it's coming off a machine which only does MP3s it seems fine.
Ummm.. if it takes someone with no experience of 3d graphics 'a week, two at the most' to learn enough to be able to notable improve on the stability and speed then the original coders must have been severely lacking in ability.
Also I think saying someone should learn the intricacies of the code behind all the applications they use to be more than a little ridiculous, there's a reason so many people are trying to make open source programs more usable- it's so people will use them. This kind of attitude just doesn't help.
Oh, and the fact something is 'Point and click' is a good thing for most people. Just thought you'd like to know.
It looks like what these people are planning to do is merge with someone who produces a browser and in doing so block the others. All of the others.
Say they were bought out by AOL, and so Netscape/Mozilla were allowed to use the plugin concept, wouldn't this mean Konquerer, Opera et al. were also well stuffed?
Now let's look at the situation with IE. A lot of the plugins most IE people use are either created by Microsoft (ActiveX, various Media Player plugins), or companies such as Macromedia (Flash, Shockwave). It won't take too much to actually turn Media Player into a part of the browser, and it's in Macromedia's interests to let MS incorporate their technology too since not doing so would reduce the amount of people interested in producing content using their development tools.
It's no longer a 'plugin', it's integral to the browser. Less flexible, but a lot of end-users won't really notice. They'll stick with IE anyway since it's 'Part of the OS' (And no, I'm not arguing that one way or another here).
Opera, and especially Konqueror, don't have this degree of whack with Macromedia, and don't really have too much money to throw at them. Second tier support, at best, I'd reckon, especially is MS begin to play their "Deal with us, or deal with them. Your choice" card.
Microsoft end up controlling the web technologies that IE supports more so than now, people remain too apathetic to change, other browsers cannot keep up, the Browser War II is a resounding MS victory.
Due to Yahoo! choosing against Perl based on the fact it wasn't originally intended for the web I fully expect them to get all of their electronic computers back breaking WW2 encryption.
They're saying that the matter may be settled for people like the Slashdot crowd, but for most people out there it's still very much open territory. MOst of them don't know yet what P2P is, but that doesn't mean they're irrelevent, it'll be winning a good number of those people over which could finally put P2P beyond any risk.
news about linux should be informative and well-researched... and yet you read Slashdot? How well-researched do you think a site is that can't even be bothered to check if it's already ran the story?
Does this mean all the people who read this article have an expiry date before fifty years are up, or will our memories simply be doctered? What does this man know that I don't? No, I don't mean about networked file system protocols either, although if you could give me an exhaustive and comprehensible list of that I'd appreciate it.
Umm.. that largely depends upon how it's been developed, what level of dependancies it has on other things which may need to be ported beforehand and so forth. There is a reason why so many people seem aimed at cross-platform languages, and that is that porting is not trivial.
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I'm trying to work out how all this is going to be put together.
I've just looked through the specifications of this thing on his site, and he lists it as having two PCI slots and an AGP slot. On the 'conceptual design' pictures though there's external access to one PCI slot (at the rear), and then immediately next to it is the 'monitor' connection and an ethernet socket.
The problem with this is that it simply doesn't seem to have space to put in the second PCI card, or even the AGP slot. The machine picture gives the nice 'sleek' image which wouldn't be tall enough to have a twin-PCI riser, and there's absolutely no space for a graphics card between the PCI and ethernet let alone a modern one with a stonkingly huge heat-sink stuck on the side.
If this is do-able then I'm guessing the internals are going to be so messy with strange flying PCI cards, and an AGP with a little lead extending to the monitor slot, that they're going to be nightmarish to engineer reliably.
Can anyone see how this can be done tidily?
Err.. last time I looked Apple was a hardware company. They simply have their own OS to run on their hardware.
OS X is simply a unique selling point that Apple relies upon to shift more of their machines, it's not their main business.
Welcome to Slashdot, where even random side-threads about car-racing games eventually come down to a discussion of the merits of the GPL...
I'd say if you want to see real social interaction go to the local pub. You're far less likely to witness a bunch of people standing stock-still with their pet'o'the week shouting pre-scripted offers, or riding their horses into banks. Also when you experience lag it's usually due to simply drinking too much rather than there being too many people in the pub at once, or you being too far from the pub.
I rapidly got irritated with Ultima Online, does it show?
It's not you having a BFG whilst touring the proposed design that's the problem, it's the other people having them and camping in the spacious reception with natural light and stripped pine floors.
The article mentions that "They were afraid to mention on their website that they offered tours as there were only 3 english speaking employees of the lab". Now this hits Slashdot. Guess they may as well mention it on their site now, since it's already now known in the world of the rabid technophile.
Whilst I agree with most of your points that last analogy is just utterly ridiculous, unless you happen to have evidence of Bill Gates sponsoring killings.
You may like to read the article. This is a scientific visualization workstation being built with a seriously nice Quatro FX graphics card.
The author even benchmarks UT2k3 on it, and the scores are.. umm.. impressive.
So, all we need to do now is get all the great works of literature converted into Mac OS X commands?
Gutenberg has a more difficult challenge than I'd anticipated.
Unfortunately true.
It's with things like this that I wonder whether any of the "big-boys" have thought of somehow helping out the small-fry companies with their legal fees on cases like this, possibly via some sort of non-profit group they themselves can donate too- Similar to the EFF, but more corporately-minded. This may well work since they may end up realising that if they let this go through they are the eventual targets, it is them on the top-level of the pay scale of this penny-ante patent.
Yes, EFF itself would be ideal too, but they're possibly too 'near-the-knuckle' to expect corporations to play nice with them.
It would be amusing to have a patent vulture move against something like MuseumTours, only to get a good Sony/Microsoft/Amazon (Despite 1-click)/AOLTW legal team up against them.
Wow. That'd really mess up Pulp Fiction..
This is Slashdot. You'll probably see them in a marginally changed form in three days time, with people quoting their rejection queue messages.
Not all CGIs have question marks in them.. many are designed to look like normal pages and use the URL path as arguments. In an even nastier 'prefetch' example would come CGIs which keep state in cookies or on the server, these would get very confused as suddenly the user is taking impossible (and stupid) apparant routes through their site. Do you really want the 'Submit Order' page prefetched..?
On the plus side, this is all by-the-by since Mozilla doesn't prefetch hrefs. The day anything does though expect to climb into a handbasket, next stop hell!
No, there is no step 4. A sale of Napster equipment requiring 'Profit!' would be like a sale of CueCat stuff requiring 'Morals!'.
I'd guess a lot of the reason why Kazaa has more queuing is it serves more varied data than MP3s.. get in line behind a few guys downloading an entire film and be ready for a significant wait. Generally if it's coming off a machine which only does MP3s it seems fine.
Ummm.. if it takes someone with no experience of 3d graphics 'a week, two at the most' to learn enough to be able to notable improve on the stability and speed then the original coders must have been severely lacking in ability.
Also I think saying someone should learn the intricacies of the code behind all the applications they use to be more than a little ridiculous, there's a reason so many people are trying to make open source programs more usable- it's so people will use them. This kind of attitude just doesn't help.
Oh, and the fact something is 'Point and click' is a good thing for most people. Just thought you'd like to know.
It looks like what these people are planning to do is merge with someone who produces a browser and in doing so block the others. All of the others.
Say they were bought out by AOL, and so Netscape/Mozilla were allowed to use the plugin concept, wouldn't this mean Konquerer, Opera et al. were also well stuffed?
Now let's look at the situation with IE. A lot of the plugins most IE people use are either created by Microsoft (ActiveX, various Media Player plugins), or companies such as Macromedia (Flash, Shockwave). It won't take too much to actually turn Media Player into a part of the browser, and it's in Macromedia's interests to let MS incorporate their technology too since not doing so would reduce the amount of people interested in producing content using their development tools.
It's no longer a 'plugin', it's integral to the browser. Less flexible, but a lot of end-users won't really notice. They'll stick with IE anyway since it's 'Part of the OS' (And no, I'm not arguing that one way or another here).
Opera, and especially Konqueror, don't have this degree of whack with Macromedia, and don't really have too much money to throw at them. Second tier support, at best, I'd reckon, especially is MS begin to play their "Deal with us, or deal with them. Your choice" card.
Microsoft end up controlling the web technologies that IE supports more so than now, people remain too apathetic to change, other browsers cannot keep up, the Browser War II is a resounding MS victory.
Due to Yahoo! choosing against Perl based on the fact it wasn't originally intended for the web I fully expect them to get all of their electronic computers back breaking WW2 encryption.
They're saying that the matter may be settled for people like the Slashdot crowd, but for most people out there it's still very much open territory. MOst of them don't know yet what P2P is, but that doesn't mean they're irrelevent, it'll be winning a good number of those people over which could finally put P2P beyond any risk.
Soooo.. it's Hilary's big GUN vs. Richard's big GNU?
So by this arguing the entire staff of Slashdot should be fired?
news about linux should be informative and well-researched... and yet you read Slashdot? How well-researched do you think a site is that can't even be bothered to check if it's already ran the story?
Does this mean all the people who read this article have an expiry date before fifty years are up, or will our memories simply be doctered?
What does this man know that I don't? No, I don't mean about networked file system protocols either, although if you could give me an exhaustive and comprehensible list of that I'd appreciate it.
Err.. are you saying you can't detect the heat from that rather useful orb known as the Sun due to their being a vacuum between you and it?
Umm.. that largely depends upon how it's been developed, what level of dependancies it has on other things which may need to be ported beforehand and so forth. There is a reason why so many people seem aimed at cross-platform languages, and that is that porting is not trivial.