One slight problem Intel will face when they do the SMP version of the P4 is that, as this will be a major reworking of the core, we're suddenly looking at an untested technology again.
Personally I'd be unwilling to put an early SMP P4-based server into production given the fact that Intel have obviously had enough problems getting it to work to warrant the 'none-SMP' version. The core has to be changed to resolve what is evidently a large problem, the chipset will be new, and it's not entirely confidence inspiring.
Recently ended up digging out Red Alert again and having a play. Curiosity got the better of me, however, and I ended up trying to play it with my 'new toy', a Wacom Intuos Graphics Tablet.
The thing is amazing for RTS, the 'pen' working to select/move units and build things in a remarkably simple way, and with the 'eraser' end set to emulate a 'shift+mouse' trick it made multiple selects so easy. The other hand rested on the Wacom Mouse, a five button+wheel little doobrie I'd set up as a button box
Finally, I can live the intro to Mech Commander in the comfort of my own swivelly chair!
Sure, this things expensive enough to effectively price itself right out of this bracket- but it's a lot nicer than this Commander sounds.
Just curious as to why you see this distinction. I honestly can't see any difference between the printed work, software, and music.
All of them require a certain set of people with certain skillsets to create and produce, all need time to be created and more time to develop to the level where you can even consider it. With Napster and so on music seems to have become a freely-traded item, and with the w4r3z sites and possibly some P2P networks software is in much the same condition.
When someone finally produces a digital reader that's as nice to use as a paperback book expect that e-text piracy will get to the stage where the publishers of the world are faced with the same dilemma as the music companies: Adapt, Control, or Die. Sentimentality for books is not enough to keep them alive, look at the sentimentality over vinyl and the state none-DJ vinyl's in today.
What, exactly, has the Crusoe processor got to do with Open Source anyway?
Yes, Linus is employed by Transmeta, but the processor is nothing to do with Open Source as far as I can tell. Transmeta's a promising company, but IBM not using their processor says nothing about whether they support Open Source or not.
> World Population:
> Earth: 6,106,142,623
> Space: 3
Ooh. If only someone had shown the SETI@Home people this I know a few people who'd have needed slightly less processor cooling...
Let's strap a GPS system to this thing's orbital equivilent of a 'Black box', all take bets on the longitude and latitude of it's crash site, and bring it back home to Mother Earth. Closest guess gets to push the button on the ISS when it's time comes.
Me, my bets are on 38.85 77.04. I don't know why, I just like those numbers.
I somehow doubt that 90% of all musicians have any kind of contract whatsoever, they're local bands doing their music because they want to.
If these kind of bands want their music distributed on the Internet in MP3 format then good for them, I'll listen to it happily. If big bands want their music distributed this way then even better, but give them the option.
Many musicians may want their music to be their livlihood. You can't OpenSource music and make a profit on the 'support', and you can't make as good a living on the touring circuit as people tend to see bands they've heard and that entails a lot of expensive recording time. You may be different, but most people don't work that way.
Music may not be 'property', and it may not have built in scarcity, but I don't see how this takes away from the basic fact that the performer has put effort into it, and the other people (Cover designers, sound engineers, even the management) have put their skills and time in this and as such should have control over who and how this is used.
How would many GPL authors feel if the basic premise of their license was ignored by the US Government 'because they can' and used to help run Carnivore or today's latest (and highly proprietry!) demon?
If you have the skills and time to do the music yourself, and the idealism to want to, then go for it and make a difference that way. Don't break someone else's methods 'just because you can' though.
Hmm.. MS announces the 'Death of the Desktop' and a concentration in Internet-based systems from now on.
Linux has the ailing Netscape browser in AOL's loving embrace, and Mozilla trying to surround it's sleak rendering engine with so much Stuff it's silly
Microsoft has, to be honest, a wonderfully full-featured browser in Internet Explorer.
Now, putting these together wouldn't it make perfect business sense to begin trying to port IE to Linux? With a 'Browser on every desktop' MS can begin to control the flow of development of the Internet to an even more remarkable degree, introducing closed protocols secure in the knowledge that it'll be only the most fervant OpenSource 'zealots' who'll object to them now.. after all, you can see them from the nicely stable Linux desktop you heard so much about before you left Win98..
Control is a wonderful thing. Add spin to taste...
Just curious.. does anyone have any idea if it actually benefits the environment that much to switch from powering webservers (Not many probably, based on the number of sites this company says it hosts) to building huge photovoltaics and batteries for their building?
I guess this'd work for big uptake as the production process would be more efficiently implemented, but for a small amount I'm not yet convinced.
You want to read Pratchett? Get 'Good Omens'. That one book has more well-observed humour, and more enjoyment than the last half of the Discworld series all rolled into one.
Whether this is due to it being based in an identifably 'real-world', or more likely due to the influence of co-author Neil Gaiman (Yes, he of 'Sandman' fame) is debatable. No matter, get thee to Good Omens, leave The Truth on the shelf for another day.
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One slight problem Intel will face when they do the SMP version of the P4 is that, as this will be a major reworking of the core, we're suddenly looking at an untested technology again.
Personally I'd be unwilling to put an early SMP P4-based server into production given the fact that Intel have obviously had enough problems getting it to work to warrant the 'none-SMP' version. The core has to be changed to resolve what is evidently a large problem, the chipset will be new, and it's not entirely confidence inspiring.
Recently ended up digging out Red Alert again and having a play. Curiosity got the better of me, however, and I ended up trying to play it with my 'new toy', a Wacom Intuos Graphics Tablet.
The thing is amazing for RTS, the 'pen' working to select/move units and build things in a remarkably simple way, and with the 'eraser' end set to emulate a 'shift+mouse' trick it made multiple selects so easy. The other hand rested on the Wacom Mouse, a five button+wheel little doobrie I'd set up as a button box
Finally, I can live the intro to Mech Commander in the comfort of my own swivelly chair!
Sure, this things expensive enough to effectively price itself right out of this bracket- but it's a lot nicer than this Commander sounds.
Just curious as to why you see this distinction. I honestly can't see any difference between the printed work, software, and music.
All of them require a certain set of people with certain skillsets to create and produce, all need time to be created and more time to develop to the level where you can even consider it. With Napster and so on music seems to have become a freely-traded item, and with the w4r3z sites and possibly some P2P networks software is in much the same condition.
When someone finally produces a digital reader that's as nice to use as a paperback book expect that e-text piracy will get to the stage where the publishers of the world are faced with the same dilemma as the music companies: Adapt, Control, or Die. Sentimentality for books is not enough to keep them alive, look at the sentimentality over vinyl and the state none-DJ vinyl's in today.
What, exactly, has the Crusoe processor got to do with Open Source anyway?
Yes, Linus is employed by Transmeta, but the processor is nothing to do with Open Source as far as I can tell. Transmeta's a promising company, but IBM not using their processor says nothing about whether they support Open Source or not.
> World Population: > Earth: 6,106,142,623 > Space: 3 Ooh. If only someone had shown the SETI@Home people this I know a few people who'd have needed slightly less processor cooling...
Okay...
Let's strap a GPS system to this thing's orbital equivilent of a 'Black box', all take bets on the longitude and latitude of it's crash site, and bring it back home to Mother Earth. Closest guess gets to push the button on the ISS when it's time comes.
Me, my bets are on 38.85 77.04. I don't know why, I just like those numbers.
It could be worse.. this could have been Pentium 95, that's what normally follows V3, right?
I somehow doubt that 90% of all musicians have any kind of contract whatsoever, they're local bands doing their music because they want to.
If these kind of bands want their music distributed on the Internet in MP3 format then good for them, I'll listen to it happily. If big bands want their music distributed this way then even better, but give them the option.
Many musicians may want their music to be their livlihood. You can't OpenSource music and make a profit on the 'support', and you can't make as good a living on the touring circuit as people tend to see bands they've heard and that entails a lot of expensive recording time. You may be different, but most people don't work that way.
Music may not be 'property', and it may not have built in scarcity, but I don't see how this takes away from the basic fact that the performer has put effort into it, and the other people (Cover designers, sound engineers, even the management) have put their skills and time in this and as such should have control over who and how this is used.
How would many GPL authors feel if the basic premise of their license was ignored by the US Government 'because they can' and used to help run Carnivore or today's latest (and highly proprietry!) demon?
If you have the skills and time to do the music yourself, and the idealism to want to, then go for it and make a difference that way. Don't break someone else's methods 'just because you can' though.
Molt
Hmm.. MS announces the 'Death of the Desktop' and a concentration in Internet-based systems from now on.
Linux has the ailing Netscape browser in AOL's loving embrace, and Mozilla trying to surround it's sleak rendering engine with so much Stuff it's silly
Microsoft has, to be honest, a wonderfully full-featured browser in Internet Explorer.
Now, putting these together wouldn't it make perfect business sense to begin trying to port IE to Linux? With a 'Browser on every desktop' MS can begin to control the flow of development of the Internet to an even more remarkable degree, introducing closed protocols secure in the knowledge that it'll be only the most fervant OpenSource 'zealots' who'll object to them now.. after all, you can see them from the nicely stable Linux desktop you heard so much about before you left Win98..
Control is a wonderful thing. Add spin to taste...
Just curious.. does anyone have any idea if it actually benefits the environment that much to switch from powering webservers (Not many probably, based on the number of sites this company says it hosts) to building huge photovoltaics and batteries for their building?
I guess this'd work for big uptake as the production process would be more efficiently implemented, but for a small amount I'm not yet convinced.
Maybe MS have realised the DoJ is right and that an OS is not really an integral part of the Win ME browser... ? -- Leave me alone
You want to read Pratchett? Get 'Good Omens'. That one book has more well-observed humour, and more enjoyment than the last half of the Discworld series all rolled into one.
Whether this is due to it being based in an identifably 'real-world', or more likely due to the influence of co-author Neil Gaiman (Yes, he of 'Sandman' fame) is debatable. No matter, get thee to Good Omens, leave The Truth on the shelf for another day.
Molt