I can imagine that the 'real' intel roadmap, the roadmap used by marketing, includes the occasional bug and/or recall just to keep the Intel name in the newspaper.
All a type of hype.
This sure will make the rock solid 2.0+ GHz P4's and merceds look sweet by comparison. will you buy a 1 GHz Celeron now that the x86 core has shown itself to be unstable at high speeds? (alright maybe that's stretching the machiavellian a little, but realistically, the value in the pIII name is going to have to be downgraded in favor of the other chips).
I wonder if the p4 will really swoop in and take the lead at this rate... between rambus and 1.0 GHz problems, the pIII is looking pretty bad in middle age. The p4 will be like a sleek and solid dream machine by comparison.
that was correct ages ago... most corporate computing tasks now have to be reliably standardized across desktop apps, legacy mainframe access and internet/intranet connectivity.
Windose has desktop apps and web browsing 100% in the bag these days, for reliable corporate usage. it's sad to say, but true. Staroffice and corel are the only viable alternatives for office suites, and they both have numerous problems with reliability, compatablility and functionality in a corporate setting. Then there's Lotus, which doesn't appear to be marketting/developing in that direction any longer (besides, weren't those developers responsible for the attrocious ccMail?)
Under the old addage 'you get what you pay for', who in their right mind will make the decision to go with staroffice? when it craps out the umpteenth time, people are going to start complaining. Productivity falling. The directors of corporations have a responsibility to make safe decisions. I remember that lesson from Cryptonomicron (Stephenson). What'd they call it,
...Linux's user base isn't conducive to actual intelligence anymore"
I don't think it was ever 'conducive' to anything. I think 'exclusive to actual convenience' is more apt. who wants to spend 100 hours to learn how to run their gaming machine, anyway?
Re:Turn that cluestick around, techboy
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you want to know about irony? you felt compelled to 'hope that wasn't a troll'.
wow. I guess this story just proves itself on slashdot.
"...and the service missions account for only 2 or 3 out of the 80+ shuttle missions."
what about all the knowledge gained by running a re-usable spacecraft program? what about all the commercial sattelites delivered, providing basic things like GPS, Long Distance telephone relays, DSS systems? I use all three of those examples nearly every day! with the exception of gps, which is only usefull when I go boating. The infrastructure of the US and the entire world has been developed wonderfully by those extra 80+ shuttle missions.
"...political horse-trading that put John Glenn on the Space Shuttle......single septugenarian."
Space travel is not healthy. You dissolve in a matter of days, finding equilibrium with the forces on your body. muscle tone plummets, all the way down to your core, your heart. How many other septugenarians have we observed under those conditions? is that knowledge worthless? Besides the fact that mr. Glenn is a bonafide Hero, an accomplished statesman, and a leader amongst his peers, he is amazingly brave to have requested the mission. And so is Nasa, too, cause it would have been disasterous if he'd died up there.
"...I sincerely doubt we will learn anything truly new from the ISS in this [microgravity adaptation] regard."
Oh yeah? per my above mentioned comment, space travel is not healthy. but science and medicine research are healthy. There are years of tests, experimental treatments, equipment modifications and maturation left before space travel becomes even remotely tolerable for common folk.
And don't forget the zillions of zero-g experiments in medicine, material science, gravity/relativity, etc etc etc.
I choose to parse this as a tongue-in-cheek, self referential stab at linux zealotry, only without the punchline.
And if you were working for micrsoft and actively conspiring to damage it, you'd be a fuckwit. You would've signed plenty of papers prohibiting it, and that would make you the dishonest/evil one. not only that, but you'd also be working to impoversh yourself by driving the stock price down. No self respecting *human* would seek their own destruction like that. moron.
glad I could rise to the flamebait.
-=b
PS, I am a Mac, Be and Linux enthusiast. Zealots make me ill.
oh no! greenpeace will be gunning for my supersonic underwater F-16!!! That is quite a fight, an inflatable dinghy vs. a rocket sub with 20mm gattling guns. Oh, I'm only kidding, I know that political pressure can be an awesome deterrant...
On another note though, the term Aerospace no longer covers the full spectrum of high tech military presence. Nauto-Aero-Orbital-Space maybe? What will the proper term become?
And finally, imagine a hybrid fighter that can operate under water, in hypersonic dogfights in the air, VTOL hovering tank killer missions and orbital bombing capabilities all wrapped into one bad ass bird? It would also be all stealthed out and evil looking, designed to operate primarily at night in bad weather. oh, the sci-fi of it all!
yeah, well, the consumer dollar is nothing compared to the IT dollar. your friend might buy a single machine. IT guys will buy 20 at a pop in most places I've worked. Since IT guys are generally more informed than your friend, I will guess they will stick with the Intels. besides, I've never heard of a tech company going with pure AMD or an insurance company buying Athlons. PIII's and Celerons are going to dominate for some time yet in terms of over all sales becuase of all this.
"...they are all about filling a laundry list of features and there's little attempt to pretend otherwise. It's like C#'s real purpose is to kill Java, and any usefulness as a programming language is way down on the list- comparatively unimportant."
Not impressed. You'll trash Microsoft over anythying they do, won't you? It's either they are mucking up Java too much, or they are creating an alternative too much. doesn't really matter what they do, does it? This sort of blind hatred/jealousy leads to witch burnings and McCarthyism. You should be ashamed.
Don't be fooled by the big words and tough talk, moderators (oops, too late).
Please, from now on, do us & yourself a favor and pursue wisdom instead of cleverness... thanks.
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This is a lame argument guys. I for one want the feature available, whether or not I'm going to use it all the time. In fact, I want drop shadows and transparency/translucency built in as well. whether or not I'm going to use it. You can bring up feature creep and bloatware, but I could just counter with modularity...
Oh, wait! osX will do all this and more! maybe X can finally die in peace. I will switch to osX as soon s the x86 port is ready. then this question is doubly moot.
But what I really want to know is why would someone take the time to be so skeptical/critical of a feature unless they 1)wanted to avoid doing the work or 2)wanted to appear real real smart or 3) was trolling all yo asses??
Oh, I know this will just appear inflammatory, so let me try a different tact: It is very easy to tear anything down, how bout contributing some positive and encouraging effort instead of skeptical rants on this message board?
I disagree with your assumptions here. So I'll provide an example to kick things off. Take a look at here and check out the million pound dumptruck. They use electric motors for these beasts, and top speed with a full load is 40mph.
"...much larger per unit mass of fuel than from fuel cells."
Any power plant can run an electric motor. Pure Hydrogen Peroxide could be used instead of gas if it were stabilized. That's a lot more 'power per unit mass' than gasoline. but there are problems with that, right? highly unstable? well gas engines are highly pollutant. Maybe that's below your threshold for toleration, but you'll change your tune when the phytoplankton die off in mass and the oceanic food chain collapses, as well as the flow of oxygen that comes from the seas.
sucker. I'm not even going to finish this, you'll likely claim you were just trolling anyway. I'm off for more Diablo II.
This'll make for a crazy re-alignment of bottlenecks. No longer will the memory bus or the HD access times matter, no longer will the modem suffice. Video frame rate will continue to suffer though, with transmeta integrated video thin clients and set top boxes ruling the scene.
Letting this stuff flow could have some positive effects though:
It will serve to encourage the large scale adoptioin of fat pipes for grandma.
Every user will be easy prey for those of you 133ts that need it. How hard will it be to open a franchise app server? like a quikie mart or a Mc Donalds. Better than banner ads for joe serverman?
This will surely allow for easy 133t h4x0r1n6. Like what's-his-name from Mona Lisa Overdrive hacking the Northern Seaboard Fission Authority's power grid.
Level load times in MMRPG's will include transmission of all graphics, geometry data, inhabitant/inventory data rather than just player state info. Maybe this will open up a million new exploits for me.
This is what happens with LSD, huh? The mind fills in the wrong gaps?
I just wanted to mention that hallucinegics and cybernetic enhancements are soon to be a real experience for some humans. I am blown away by fiction suggesting/directing reality to this extent. That is psychedelic in and of itself. my mind is ah boggle-ing even now.
I am reminded of the character Bill from the book 'When Gravity Fails' by George Alec Effinger. This character was a taxi driver who'd had his left lung replaced by a pharmecutical distillery set to produce some drug like PCP or STP, some horrible hallucinagen he'd become addicted to in some war. Great reading that I recommend.
Anyhow, back on topic, perhaps recordings of the enhanced eyes can be hacked with something akin to the van eyck method... what a bug!!!
holy crap! osm is one of the main reasons I visit slashdot. I was just fleshing out a front end to filter out all the +2,3,4, and 5 posts, just to read the trolling more easilly. If slashdot is really screwin with osm, that will be unforgivable. I already feel like a shmuck for recommending the site, only to have people load up the site and see this crap. i haven't been posting much lately, but that don't mean i ain't hittin banner views... I will "boycott the dot"(c) if any of this turns out to be what I think it is. If they sent a cease and desist to osm, it will be (civil disobedience) war!
Re:Q.) Are we not innovators A.) We are Microsoft
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no one 'round here understands my potato. guess I'm just a fudboy. looking for that real tomato.
the hardware for platform is usually ('ceptin' the 3do machine) a loss leader (that means sold at a loss with the intention of making that cash back with software sales). The more cost they shave on producing the hardware, the more profitable the whole operation becomes.
second, my win98 machine piii 600 + geforce already performs drastically better than the ps2. 45fps in 1600x1200? whatever. converted to TV resolutions, it is even more of an ass kicking platform for 3d games. The Xbox is only going to have better and better hardware than that what I have. Meanwhile, the ps2 is a so-so hype monster with an absurdly exspensive development cost. What does it cost to develop for the psx? $250k or $500k just to buy into the licensing and development kits? I'll be able to develop for xbox for the $600 devstudio costs.
bootleg (btlg) v. bootlegged, bootlegging, bootlegs.
1). To make, sell, or transport (alcoholic liquor) for sale illegally.
2). To produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally: a clandestine outfit that bootlegs record albums and tapes. ... etc. Produced, sold, or transported illegally: bootleg gin; bootleg tapes. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ [From a smuggler's practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots.] -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
catch the irony here? see, Seagrams was founded on a legacy of bootlegging alchohol.
We need to put the smack down on this feeb of a ceo. I'm boycotting hard and fast, too. He reminds me of that curmudgeon T. Herman Zweibel, Publisher Emeritus at The Onion -=b
I realize these security holes can be a serious problem, but c'mon guys... How many of us actually lose data to a virus or nasty script? I for one take the basic precautions, like a virus scanner and a reluctance to open suspicious attachements. the ILOVEYOU was especially virulent, but if I recall, all of the DDOS attacks come from *nix boxes and affect *nix network hardware. I don't remember a " *nix sucks sh*t " rant session over that, though it caused much more fear and probably more damage. and definately deserved it more than this ms hole.
Have you all forgotten the lesson of the early 80's? what, we had 15 platforms to consider, and whoah to those who bought dog systems like the TI/99 4a. Try getting a port of supercalc for that platform. That was one of the few truly useful apps back then, and many could not get ahold of it. All I know is that I want the best features and apps available. Maybe most of you ranters are too young to remember those crusty old days...
Microsoft has the worst job on the planet. They must please everyone, and can barely please anyone. You are not clever for raging about the occasional screw up. Windows happens to support more hardware than linux can claim knowledgable users. and as for software availability and backwards compatability, forget about it. They definatley have thier act together there.
you guys are in the akward position of being high tech savants that cause the most friction and FUD, thus slowing the pace of technological adoption and intimidating normal users like grandma into going without. You seem to suppose you are helping some cause, but all you are really doing is accelerating the entropy of an already flaky system. reminds me of teenagers who pick apart films and TV shows making noises like they are superior to the writers and directors. They are not, they just don't understand what it takes to organize and execute such a large project. To those of you actually doing something to make the world better, as in say contributing to the usability side of Linux, kudos. But the rest of you slackers are starting to piss me off.
Maybe one of you wise guys can explain why it took me 3 hours just to get my wheel mouse (sort of) working under redhat 6.2? or why my stealth II took even longer to setup with xf86config? No, the answer is not that I am an idiot, nor computer illiterate. I did figure it out, but not with any help from ranting zealots. an $80 Linux reference book and much digging through bugzilla eventually got me on my way. But slap this stuff in a windows machine and Blamo! no sweat. This is a respectable accomplishment on MS's part, why no mention of it from the zealots? anyway, as a game developer that is OS ambivilant in theory, but actually trying to make a living in practice, why oh why should I spend any effort on the irrational foggy headed likes of you guys? can anyone answer me? I am not an M$ apologist, but I am interested in getting work done and advancing the state of the art. Can the ranterzealots claim the same?
maybe if you made a port and a conversion utility, say calling it mp3-2-vorb.exe available for winXX this could take off...
note: this is not some sort of pro-M$ post, just practical. most mp3's are traded and stored on windows PC's, and that is the hurdle any alternative format must overcome. -=b
here's a notion- mp3's are the bane of RIAA mostly because the music industry no longer controls the engineered degradation of the format. Consider CD's, they are designed to wear out from scrathes and sunlight after a couple of years, maybe decades if you are extremely cautious. I still have a CD bought in 1986 and it is quite a sight- now it is all scratched up and milky, just from normal use. And I am fairly careful with my CD's. Some may argue this point, but tapes, vinyl records and CD's all have this flimsiness in common while mp3's do not.
Linus would probably be a fry cook if it weren't for the huge installed base of wintel machines. Just remember the win in wintel when you ponder that. I for one am glad not to be paying $5k per lame 68k machine.
What about the pending Microsoft breakup plans? How does this trancend the traditional government?
And if say, Mitsubishi decided to utilize slave labor or sold 'genocide solutions', don't you think they'd be shut-the-fsck-down? I think this article is all hype, little perspective. I am not very afraid of the US going to war with Wal*Mart. I know that isn't the point, but it is the reality.
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I can imagine that the 'real' intel roadmap, the roadmap used by marketing, includes the occasional bug and/or recall just to keep the Intel name in the newspaper.
All a type of hype.
This sure will make the rock solid 2.0+ GHz P4's and merceds look sweet by comparison. will you buy a 1 GHz Celeron now that the x86 core has shown itself to be unstable at high speeds? (alright maybe that's stretching the machiavellian a little, but realistically, the value in the pIII name is going to have to be downgraded in favor of the other chips).
I wonder if the p4 will really swoop in and take the lead at this rate... between rambus and 1.0 GHz problems, the pIII is looking pretty bad in middle age. The p4 will be like a sleek and solid dream machine by comparison.
that was correct ages ago... most corporate computing tasks now have to be reliably standardized across desktop apps, legacy mainframe access and internet/intranet connectivity.
Windose has desktop apps and web browsing 100% in the bag these days, for reliable corporate usage. it's sad to say, but true. Staroffice and corel are the only viable alternatives for office suites, and they both have numerous problems with reliability, compatablility and functionality in a corporate setting. Then there's Lotus, which doesn't appear to be marketting/developing in that direction any longer (besides, weren't those developers responsible for the attrocious ccMail?)
Under the old addage 'you get what you pay for', who in their right mind will make the decision to go with staroffice? when it craps out the umpteenth time, people are going to start complaining. Productivity falling. The directors of corporations have a responsibility to make safe decisions. I remember that lesson from Cryptonomicron (Stephenson). What'd they call it,
...Linux's user base isn't conducive to actual intelligence anymore"
I don't think it was ever 'conducive' to anything. I think 'exclusive to actual convenience' is more apt. who wants to spend 100 hours to learn how to run their gaming machine, anyway?
you want to know about irony? you felt compelled to 'hope that wasn't a troll'.
wow. I guess this story just proves itself on slashdot.
" ...and the service missions account for only 2 or 3 out of the 80+ shuttle missions."
...political horse-trading that put John Glenn on the Space Shuttle... ...single septugenarian."
...I sincerely doubt we will learn anything truly new from the ISS in this [microgravity adaptation] regard."
what about all the knowledge gained by running a re-usable spacecraft program? what about all the commercial sattelites delivered, providing basic things like GPS, Long Distance telephone relays, DSS systems? I use all three of those examples nearly every day! with the exception of gps, which is only usefull when I go boating. The infrastructure of the US and the entire world has been developed wonderfully by those extra 80+ shuttle missions.
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Space travel is not healthy. You dissolve in a matter of days, finding equilibrium with the forces on your body. muscle tone plummets, all the way down to your core, your heart. How many other septugenarians have we observed under those conditions? is that knowledge worthless? Besides the fact that mr. Glenn is a bonafide Hero, an accomplished statesman, and a leader amongst his peers, he is amazingly brave to have requested the mission. And so is Nasa, too, cause it would have been disasterous if he'd died up there.
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Oh yeah? per my above mentioned comment, space travel is not healthy. but science and medicine research are healthy. There are years of tests, experimental treatments, equipment modifications and maturation left before space travel becomes even remotely tolerable for common folk.
And don't forget the zillions of zero-g experiments in medicine, material science, gravity/relativity, etc etc etc.
It's easy to be a skeptic.
I choose to parse this as a tongue-in-cheek, self referential stab at linux zealotry, only without the punchline.
And if you were working for micrsoft and actively conspiring to damage it, you'd be a fuckwit. You would've signed plenty of papers prohibiting it, and that would make you the dishonest/evil one. not only that, but you'd also be working to impoversh yourself by driving the stock price down. No self respecting *human* would seek their own destruction like that. moron.
glad I could rise to the flamebait.
-=b
PS, I am a Mac, Be and Linux enthusiast. Zealots make me ill.
oh no! greenpeace will be gunning for my supersonic underwater F-16!!! That is quite a fight, an inflatable dinghy vs. a rocket sub with 20mm gattling guns. Oh, I'm only kidding, I know that political pressure can be an awesome deterrant...
On another note though, the term Aerospace no longer covers the full spectrum of high tech military presence. Nauto-Aero-Orbital-Space maybe? What will the proper term become?
And finally, imagine a hybrid fighter that can operate under water, in hypersonic dogfights in the air, VTOL hovering tank killer missions and orbital bombing capabilities all wrapped into one bad ass bird? It would also be all stealthed out and evil looking, designed to operate primarily at night in bad weather. oh, the sci-fi of it all!
yeah, well, the consumer dollar is nothing compared to the IT dollar. your friend might buy a single machine. IT guys will buy 20 at a pop in most places I've worked. Since IT guys are generally more informed than your friend, I will guess they will stick with the Intels. besides, I've never heard of a tech company going with pure AMD or an insurance company buying Athlons. PIII's and Celerons are going to dominate for some time yet in terms of over all sales becuase of all this.
"...they are all about filling a laundry list of features and there's little attempt to pretend otherwise. It's like C#'s real purpose is to kill Java, and any usefulness as a programming language is way down on the list- comparatively unimportant."
Not impressed. You'll trash Microsoft over anythying they do, won't you? It's either they are mucking up Java too much, or they are creating an alternative too much. doesn't really matter what they do, does it? This sort of blind hatred/jealousy leads to witch burnings and McCarthyism. You should be ashamed.
Don't be fooled by the big words and tough talk, moderators (oops, too late).
Please, from now on, do us & yourself a favor and pursue wisdom instead of cleverness... thanks.
This is a lame argument guys. I for one want the feature available, whether or not I'm going to use it all the time. In fact, I want drop shadows and transparency/translucency built in as well. whether or not I'm going to use it. You can bring up feature creep and bloatware, but I could just counter with modularity...
Oh, wait! osX will do all this and more! maybe X can finally die in peace. I will switch to osX as soon s the x86 port is ready. then this question is doubly moot.
But what I really want to know is why would someone take the time to be so skeptical/critical of a feature unless they 1)wanted to avoid doing the work or 2)wanted to appear real real smart or 3) was trolling all yo asses??
Oh, I know this will just appear inflammatory, so let me try a different tact: It is very easy to tear anything down, how bout contributing some positive and encouraging effort instead of skeptical rants on this message board?
I disagree with your assumptions here. So I'll provide an example to kick things off. Take a look at here and check out the million pound dumptruck. They use electric motors for these beasts, and top speed with a full load is 40mph.
"...much larger per unit mass of fuel than from fuel cells."
Any power plant can run an electric motor. Pure Hydrogen Peroxide could be used instead of gas if it were stabilized. That's a lot more 'power per unit mass' than gasoline. but there are problems with that, right? highly unstable? well gas engines are highly pollutant. Maybe that's below your threshold for toleration, but you'll change your tune when the phytoplankton die off in mass and the oceanic food chain collapses, as well as the flow of oxygen that comes from the seas.
sucker. I'm not even going to finish this, you'll likely claim you were just trolling anyway. I'm off for more Diablo II.
Letting this stuff flow could have some positive effects though:
It will serve to encourage the large scale adoptioin of fat pipes for grandma.
Every user will be easy prey for those of you 133ts that need it. How hard will it be to open a franchise app server? like a quikie mart or a Mc Donalds. Better than banner ads for joe serverman?
This will surely allow for easy 133t h4x0r1n6. Like what's-his-name from Mona Lisa Overdrive hacking the Northern Seaboard Fission Authority's power grid.
Level load times in MMRPG's will include transmission of all graphics, geometry data, inhabitant/inventory data rather than just player state info. Maybe this will open up a million new exploits for me.
Just a few thoughts off the top of my head...
...because your brain is filling in the gaps ...
This is what happens with LSD, huh? The mind fills in the wrong gaps?
I just wanted to mention that hallucinegics and cybernetic enhancements are soon to be a real experience for some humans. I am blown away by fiction suggesting/directing reality to this extent. That is psychedelic in and of itself. my mind is ah boggle-ing even now.
I am reminded of the character Bill from the book 'When Gravity Fails' by George Alec Effinger. This character was a taxi driver who'd had his left lung replaced by a pharmecutical distillery set to produce some drug like PCP or STP, some horrible hallucinagen he'd become addicted to in some war. Great reading that I recommend.
Anyhow, back on topic, perhaps recordings of the enhanced eyes can be hacked with something akin to the van eyck method... what a bug!!!
holy crap! osm is one of the main reasons I visit slashdot. I was just fleshing out a front end to filter out all the +2,3,4, and 5 posts, just to read the trolling more easilly. If slashdot is really screwin with osm, that will be unforgivable. I already feel like a shmuck for recommending the site, only to have people load up the site and see this crap. i haven't been posting much lately, but that don't mean i ain't hittin banner views... I will "boycott the dot"(c) if any of this turns out to be what I think it is. If they sent a cease and desist to osm, it will be (civil disobedience) war!
no one 'round here understands my potato.
guess I'm just a fudboy.
looking for that real tomato.
-=b
I know it sounds ridiculous, but will it run on my (um, forthcoming) beowulf cluster by any chance? That would sure make a cluster useful...
-=b
except that you forget two things-
the hardware for platform is usually ('ceptin' the 3do machine) a loss leader (that means sold at a loss with the intention of making that cash back with software sales). The more cost they shave on producing the hardware, the more profitable the whole operation becomes.
second, my win98 machine piii 600 + geforce already performs drastically better than the ps2. 45fps in 1600x1200? whatever. converted to TV resolutions, it is even more of an ass kicking platform for 3d games. The Xbox is only going to have better and better hardware than that what I have.
Meanwhile, the ps2 is a so-so hype monster with an absurdly exspensive development cost. What does it cost to develop for the psx? $250k or $500k just to buy into the licensing and development kits? I'll be able to develop for xbox for the $600 devstudio costs.
Actually, the word to describe the process is BOOTLEGGING
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from Dictionary.com:
bootleg (btlg)
v. bootlegged, bootlegging, bootlegs.
1). To make, sell, or transport (alcoholic liquor) for sale illegally.
2). To produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally: a clandestine outfit that bootlegs record albums and tapes.
... etc.
Produced, sold, or transported illegally: bootleg gin; bootleg tapes.
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[From a smuggler's practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots.]
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catch the irony here? see, Seagrams was founded on a legacy of bootlegging alchohol.
We need to put the smack down on this feeb of a ceo. I'm boycotting hard and fast, too. He reminds me of that curmudgeon T. Herman Zweibel, Publisher Emeritus at The Onion
-=b
I realize these security holes can be a serious problem, but c'mon guys... How many of us actually lose data to a virus or nasty script? I for one take the basic precautions, like a virus scanner and a reluctance to open suspicious attachements. the ILOVEYOU was especially virulent, but if I recall, all of the DDOS attacks come from *nix boxes and affect *nix network hardware. I don't remember a " *nix sucks sh*t " rant session over that, though it caused much more fear and probably more damage. and definately deserved it more than this ms hole.
Have you all forgotten the lesson of the early 80's? what, we had 15 platforms to consider, and whoah to those who bought dog systems like the TI/99 4a. Try getting a port of supercalc for that platform. That was one of the few truly useful apps back then, and many could not get ahold of it. All I know is that I want the best features and apps available. Maybe most of you ranters are too young to remember those crusty old days...
Microsoft has the worst job on the planet. They must please everyone, and can barely please anyone. You are not clever for raging about the occasional screw up. Windows happens to support more hardware than linux can claim knowledgable users. and as for software availability and backwards compatability, forget about it. They definatley have thier act together there.
you guys are in the akward position of being high tech savants that cause the most friction and FUD, thus slowing the pace of technological adoption and intimidating normal users like grandma into going without. You seem to suppose you are helping some cause, but all you are really doing is accelerating the entropy of an already flaky system. reminds me of teenagers who pick apart films and TV shows making noises like they are superior to the writers and directors. They are not, they just don't understand what it takes to organize and execute such a large project. To those of you actually doing something to make the world better, as in say contributing to the usability side of Linux, kudos. But the rest of you slackers are starting to piss me off.
Maybe one of you wise guys can explain why it took me 3 hours just to get my wheel mouse (sort of) working under redhat 6.2? or why my stealth II took even longer to setup with xf86config? No, the answer is not that I am an idiot, nor computer illiterate. I did figure it out, but not with any help from ranting zealots. an $80 Linux reference book and much digging through bugzilla eventually got me on my way. But slap this stuff in a windows machine and Blamo! no sweat. This is a respectable accomplishment on MS's part, why no mention of it from the zealots?
anyway, as a game developer that is OS ambivilant in theory, but actually trying to make a living in practice, why oh why should I spend any effort on the irrational foggy headed likes of you guys? can anyone answer me? I am not an M$ apologist, but I am interested in getting work done and advancing the state of the art. Can the ranterzealots claim the same?
-=b
damn, meant to hit preview 'stead of submit. be merciful. -=b
It is my understanding that the Dreamcast does not contain a traditional OS in a ROM, but rather, loads the OS and drivers at boot time. you can check it out at this old page I found The point is, any OS can be used for development, a game can ship with the latest drivers, etc.
maybe if you made a port and a conversion utility, say calling it mp3-2-vorb.exe available for winXX this could take off...
note: this is not some sort of pro-M$ post, just practical.
most mp3's are traded and stored on windows PC's, and that is the hurdle any alternative format must overcome.
-=b
here's a notion- mp3's are the bane of RIAA mostly because the music industry no longer controls the engineered degradation of the format. Consider CD's, they are designed to wear out from scrathes and sunlight after a couple of years, maybe decades if you are extremely cautious. I still have a CD bought in 1986 and it is quite a sight- now it is all scratched up and milky, just from normal use. And I am fairly careful with my CD's. Some may argue this point, but tapes, vinyl records and CD's all have this flimsiness in common while mp3's do not.
Is this a tremendous insight or old news?
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Linus would probably be a fry cook if it weren't for the huge installed base of wintel machines. Just remember the win in wintel when you ponder that. I for one am glad not to be paying $5k per lame 68k machine.
idiots.
refer to: your own form of idiocy.
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What about the pending Microsoft breakup plans? How does this trancend the traditional government?
And if say, Mitsubishi decided to utilize slave labor or sold 'genocide solutions', don't you think they'd be shut-the-fsck-down?
I think this article is all hype, little perspective. I am not very afraid of the US going to war with Wal*Mart. I know that isn't the point, but it is the reality.